If a Child Is Jailed and No One Is There to Hear Him Cry

[G_j]

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/08/trump-administration-unveils-new-family-separation-rule/596587/


New Trump-administration rules stand to block the public from knowing anything about the treatment of migrant children in America’s detention facilities.

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For months at a time, the detention of migrant children seems to fall off the national radar, somehow fading to the background, behind the daily dramas of scandals big and small. And then suddenly, news will erupt: The children don’t have soap. They are freezing. The food is rotten.

Where this information comes from is not primarily from journalists but monitors—lawyers and advocates who regularly visit the nation’s detention facilities and border-patrol facilities to document the conditions. They do so not because these sites request the monitoring, but because that monitoring is allowed by what’s known as the Flores settlement, a 22-year-old consent decree that governs the care of migrant children in custody.

But with new rules that the Trump administration is expected to publish this week, even that single, infrequent geyser of information could go away. As part of a sweeping proposal to scrap the Flores regulations—including a change that would enable the Trump administration to detain migrant children in secure facilities indefinitely—the administration will lose the existing monitoring requirements entirely, according to two lawyers familiar with this area of law. The result will be that the long-term detention of migrant children would carry on out of view from advocates, the American public at large, and the entire world.

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[FiveGoodMen]

1. Blocking Americans from knowing what their government is doing.

COMPLETELY incompatible with democracy (which we clearly don't have).

[G_j]

2. and yes,

it is called fascism.