Trump Watch 20180620

Today on the Trump Show, Donald Trump signed an executive order that he claims will keep families that try to cross the border at non-designated locations together while they are being tried for criminal offenses.
Thing is, it doesn't.  Now, to be fair, the legal system has created a weird box for this problem.  Trump has pretty much exacerbated it though, and has complained about Democrat intransigence without managing to propose, or drum up support for any sort of solution.

The problem is that we have a refugee problem at the border.  We don't want to call them refugees, and that can depend on your definition of refugee I guess.  Their countries of origin are not in a state of war.  However, their situation in their country of origin is bad enough that they are willing to travel great distances to try and enter the United States illegally.  Now some of the problem could be that they don't even understand the legal process.  Part of it of course is that if they tried to do so using the legal process, they would never make it in.  The heart of the problem is the question of how many people you want to allow in, and who should get a priority?

Bottom line though, is that you have these people showing up at the border.  There are people that believe simply in open borders.  That's pretty much a minority.  There are people that believe we should have a wall, and not let people in at all.  A lot of those people are Trump's political base.  But even his political base has trouble with the messy reality that people do show up at the border, and there are definitely a lot who are there with a story that basically paints them as refugees.  When they come with children, it gets more difficult to turn them away, and since we don't have enough judges or facilities, and Trump doesn't want to allow more refugees into the country, the question becomes how do you process them?  "Prison," "Holding facility," Internment camp," whatever you want to call them, they want them to be cheap, and they want them to hold everyone.  Another problem though is that if they hold children too long, they run afoul of a court ruling (the Flores V. Reno ruling) that says they can't keep children in adult facilities for longer than 20 days.

Just how this gets implemented, and whether the Trump Administration can manage to get around the Flores V. Reno ruling remains to be seen.  Honestly, it remains to be seen if this changes much at all (the wording of the executive order is filled with a lot of "to the extent possible" sorts of comments, so it may turn out that "the extent possible" may not be very far, but I expect that this will be a situation that continues to be monitored, mainly because I think the Democrats smell blood here, and elections are coming up).

But wno knows?  What suprising or exciting twist or turn will come up on the next DAY of the TRUMP SHOW!

• Stormy Daniels
• Trump Charity lawsuit by New York Attorney General
• FBI investigation (it keeps being called a Russian Collusion investigation, but I'm pretty sure there's more to it than that at this point
• North Korea
• The Space Force
• The Border Wall
• Alien Children Detention/family separation
• Presidential Pardons
• Civil War Monuments
• Muslim Travel Ban
• China Tariffs/Trade
• Canada-G7 Tariffs/Trade
• NAFTA

Survivor White House watch.  Nothing really new today.

Giuliani still there as Lawyer
John F. Kelly still there as Chief of Staff
Jeff Sessions still there as Attorney General
Sarah Huckabee Sanders still there as Press Secretary, rumors continue to be denied.
Mike Pompeo - Secretary of State

John Bolton - National Security Advisor
Marc Short - White House Legislative Affairs Director - no denial of plans regarding his departure prior to the 2018 midterms.
Kirstjen Nielsen - Homeland Security Secretary
Joe Hagin - White House deputy Chief of Staff is resigning.- reported June 19th