First a tip to Frank Vyan Walton’s diary with video documenting the DHS arrest of a father in front of his children as he was dropping them off for school. You certainly got a bad dude there guys.
Add to that word that the Department is now giving serious consideration to a new policy for dealing with parents who are caught at the Mexican border with children. Separating them and putting the kids in the custody of Health And Human services.
Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U.S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to three government officials.
Part of the reason for the proposal is to deter mothers from migrating to the United States with their children, said the officials, who have been briefed on the proposal.
The policy shift would allow the government to keep parents in custody while they contest deportation or wait for asylum hearings. Children would be put into protective custody with the Department of Health and Human Services, in the "least restrictive setting" until they can be taken into the care of a U.S. relative or state-sponsored guardian.
Sometimes, there just aren’t any words. DHS has essentially been given full rein to operate as a quasi Gestapo. No questions about access to legal counsel, reasonable rights of search and seizure, whether individuals who have been here 20 years (as was the case of the father arrested at school) have any rights, demanding the phones of American citizens and searching their contents, arbitrarily denying entry to visitors based on ????, demanding the IDs of everyone on a DOMESTIC flight, creating false documents demanding that arriving immigrants with proper documentation give up their rights to enter the country and never return, treating a well known Australian writer of children’s books so badly that she has become a bull horn advising the rest of the world to stay away from our shores.
Congress gave the agency many of these powers because of fear that doing less would leave them open to charges of making us all less safe. In so doing, they are clearly beginning to give away the heart of our democratic form of government.