ms-demeanor:

eanholt:

wetorturedsomefolks:

kinda nuts how we just never got any resolution on the ‘kids in cages’ thing. biden never even like put out a statement saying they were going to get the kids out of the cages but it was going to take a while or anything. liberals just all instantaneously stopped caring about immigration issues at all the instant biden got elected because they figure something good must be happening on it

It did take a couple weeks, but

Executive Order on the Establishment of Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families | The White House

More info at:

Family separation – a timeline

Like, it’s not like we fixed immigration, or reversed the damage, but the thing you’re saying didn’t happen actually did happen.

Friend, I’m sorry, did you not look at your own sources?

This is the final section of that SPLC report:

Saying “yeah, we fixed it after a couple weeks” and then linking this article assuming that things are still cool because of an EO *about a resolution to form a task force* from 2021 is kind of doing what the original post is describing.

That SPLC update is from January of this year. Here’s Detention Watch Network from March of this year:

Arguing that this state of things means that the problem of kids in cages is “resolved” seems to be at the very least an overstatement of the actions that have been taken.