Gee, Dolly, What Are You Going To Do About All Those Kids?
avatar By Bob Dane August 31, 2021
The federal judge who has enforced a longstanding requirement that migrant children be released from detention within 20 days seems to have turned philosophical. That ruling (which could be overridden by Congress, if Congress were capable of doing anything useful) has served as a magnet for both unaccompanied children, and the surge of family units entering the country illegally.
Where U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee summarily rejected Trump administration efforts to flex the rules as “Kafkaesque” in 2019, she passes off the current crush at overwhelmed detention facilities as a dinner party with too many guests.
Amid record numbers of unaccompanied minors entering the country, and more languishing in detention-center limbo, Judge Gee’s newly adopted laissez-faire detachment is an ironic absurdity that Franz Kafka would surely appreciate.
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/08/31/judge-gee-migrant-children-immigrationreform-com/
