#T-rump targeting peaceful immigrants

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  *** On Friday, Judge Sabraw ordered the Justice Department to supply a preliminary list of young children who could possibly qualify for reunification, along with any explanation of obstacles to reunification.    The T-rump administration has “mapped” 86 parents to 83 children under age 5 who remain in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Justice Department attorney Sarah Fabian said during the court meeting Friday.    Of the 86 mapped parents, 46 remain in federal immigration detention, 19 have been deported, 19 have been released, and two have a criminal history that could potentially disqualify them from reunification, a Justice Dept attorney said.  It isn't clear how much the federal government knows about the whereabouts of "unmapped" parents for nearly 20 children under 5. ***

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  *** Families Belong Together, protest in June 2018, in Lynnwood, Washington, USA.  Few in number, strong in spirit.   *** Kids don’t belong in cages.   *** Baby Jesus was an undocumented immigrant.   *** Speak up, rise up, be heard.   *** Reunite the families.   *** Return the children now! ***    (((Domestic terrorism by any other name still is terrorism.)))

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 *** The pres-ident’s immigration policies, long a point of contention with his critics, have drawn extra scrutiny in recent weeks amid the controversy over the Trump administration’s policy of referring all illegal border-crossers for prosecution, a practice which resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents.    After initially, and falsely, insisting that the separations could be ended only by Congress, T-rump signed an executive order last month, ending the practice. It remains unclear how quickly separated families are being reunited.   Even after the pres-ident’s executive order, protesters marched last weekend in Washington and around the USA in opposition to the administration’s immigration policy, which critics have lambasted as heartless. ***

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((( Immigrants who sought asylum from U.S. were threatened with losing their children. They reportedly were told to turn back, else their children would be seized and put up for adoption by U.S. families.  Not refused entry with their parents -- but babies taken away from parents. )))

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*** Some of the service members say they were not told why they were being discharged. Others who pressed for answers said the Army informed them they'd been labeled as security risks because they have relatives abroad or because the Defense Department had not completed background checks on them.    Spokespeople for the Pentagon and the Army said that, due to the pending litigation, they were unable to explain the discharges or respond to questions about whether there have been policy changes in any of the military branches.    Eligible recruits are required to have legal status in the U.S., such as a student visa, before enlisting. More than 5,000 immigrants were recruited into the program in 2016, and an estimated 10,000 are currently serving. Most go the Army, but some also go to the other military branches.***

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  *** Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told lawmakers last week that 2,047 separated minors were in the care of the agency’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). But when TIME reached out to HHS to see how many separated minors are still being cared for in HHS-funded facilities on Monday, a spokesperson would only say how many minors remain in their care, generally. ... “Currently, there are more than 11,800 minors in our care.”  That number includes “unaccompanied minors” who crossed the border without their parents.    Efren Olivares of the Texas Civil Rights Project, says it’s evidence that the T-rump administration had not established a plan to reunite parents and kids when they started separating them at the border. ***

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  *** Health and Human Services uses about 100 shelters in 14 states. In congressional testimony in May, Steven Wagner, acting assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, told a Senate subcommittee that children have spent an average of 57 days in custody during fiscal year 2018. After that, minors are placed with a sponsor, who could be a parent, another relative or a non-family member.  ***

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   *** Overnight, the president suffered yet another setback, and this time, it's his "zero tolerance" policy that's in trouble.    A federal judge in San Diego ordered immigration agents on Tuesday to stop separating migrant parents and children who have crossed the border from Mexico and to work to reunite families that have already been split up while in custody.    U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by an anonymous woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo and backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which pursued it as a class action as U.S. authorities began a "zero tolerance" policy in early May.    It's been a week since T-rump signed an executive order on family separations, but as part of this case in California, the administration's attorneys conceded that the government has not yet reunited roughly 2,000 families. In fact, there are still questions about whether the administration is fully aware of where the isolated children are. ***

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   ((( SCOTUS clearly overturns ruling in *Korematsu v. US,* pertaining to illegal internment of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent.  But Crooked Donald’s blatant animus against Muslims is, what, acceptable?  WTF with the SCOTUS? )))

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 *** The girls knew that the U.S. Supreme Court would soon decide whether pres-ident T-rump’s ban on entry into the United States by citizens of seven countries, five of them majority-Muslim, including Yemen, would stand. They knew that the ruling would determine whether they and their mother — whose visas were granted on the eve of the ban and then revoked — could finally join their father, a U.S. citizen, in America.    Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling felt like a hammer’s final blow to Almansoob’s lingering hopes. For him and the thousands of other American citizens and permanent residents who have been waiting anxiously for the court’s word, the justices’ decision to uphold the ban presented a verdict not just on the fate of their families, but also on what it means to be American. ***

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*** The White House has struggled to display a unified response to a self-imposed crisis that appears likely to dominate the national agenda for a third straight week. Sunday offered a fresh signal that immigration would continue to overshadow other issues as Republicans gear up for a tough midterm election in November.Trump ratcheted up his demands on immigration, saying that people who “invade” the U.S. illegally should be deported immediately without trial or other normal judicial processes.“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country,’’ Trump said Sunday on Twitter  ***