@Nonilex

"#Families have begun to arrive in recent days at a #detention facility in South #Texas"

Wondering what temperatures are going to be like in south Texas in July?

Not that #Trump or #StephenMiller would worry about some trifle like that

#Families have begun to arrive in recent days at a #detention facility in South #Texas, & #immigration lawyers are expecting more to be brought in the coming days. A second detention center…is being readied for families.

Each of the facilities is being set up to hold thousands of people. At one site, lawyers say, multiple families are being detained in rooms with 4 to 8 bunk beds & shared bathroom facilities.

For decades, detaining undocumented immigrant #families has been a contentious enforcement tactic. Critics of “family detention” have said young #children suffer in #confinement. Proponents say that locking #families up while they await likely #deportation sends a *stark message* about the consequences of entering the United States illegally [#TheCrueltyIsThePoint].

Now, after falling out of use under #Biden, family #detention is being resurrected by #Trump.

Now, activists say, the #USAID cuts have put them at even greater risk, with shelters underfunded, hundreds of individuals unemployed & many more facing #discrimination & #violence. Vital #medical supplies remain scarce, while members of #LGBTQ groups increasingly report feeling depressed or suicidal.

The #Biden admin ended #family #detention in 2021. #CoreCivic managed the facility from 2014 through Aug 2024, when the company said #ICE terminated funding for the contract & the facility remained dormant.

#CoreCivic, the corporation that operates the facility, announced that it had reached an agreement w/ #ICE to reopen the South #Texas #Family *Residential* Center in #Dilley, TX, w/room for up to 2,400 people, making it one of the largest #detention centers in ICE’s portfolio.

CoreCivic spox Steve Owen said “it’s our understanding that this will be housing families again. It’s a family residential center.”

In other words, Justices Samuel #Alito, #ClarenceThomas, #NeilGorsuch & #BrettKavanaugh don’t believe in the power of the #judiciary, their own power, or the #SeparationOfPowers.

They believe that the president is in fact above the #law — as long as that president is #Trump.

Here is the order, Alito’s self sabotaging dissent starts on page 2.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a831_3135.pdf

Judge Ali should consider "the feasibility of any compliance deadlines," #SCOTUS added.

4 conservative justices dissented from the denial of the application, w/Justice #Alito writing that Ali did not have "unchecked power to compel the government to pay out ... 2 billion taxpayer dollars."

"I am stunned," Alito added.

The other dissenters were Justices #ClarenceThomas, #NeilGorsuch & #BrettKavanaugh.

#SCOTUS on Wednesday backed a federal judge's #power to order the #Trump admin to pay $2B to #USAID contractors but did not require immediate payment.

In doing so, the court on a 5-4 vote rejected an emergency application filed by the #DOJ after #US District Judge Amir Ali issued a series of rulings demanding the government unfreeze funds that Trump put on hold with an #ExecutiveOrder.

#USAID supported #humanitarian & development projects in >120 countries & worked to prevent the spread of #disease & eliminate #poverty.

The #State Department said the eliminations followed a review of foreign assistance designed "to ensure taxpayer dollars were used to make America stronger, safer, & more prosperous."

Contractors were notified of the termination in a memo sent from #USAID's office of Acquisition & Assistance, according to one such letter obtained by NPR. The memo stated that Secy #MarcoRubio & #PeteMarocco "have determined your award is not aligned with Agency priorities & made a determination that continuing this program is not in the national interest."

In his statement to the lower court, #PeteMarocco, who is performing the duties of the dpty administrator of #USAID, said each of USAID's grants had been reviewed & Secy of #State #MarcoRubio decided to eliminate about 92% worth of the agency's grants. The State dept also cut around 4,100 grants. The [#Trump admin is claiming]…a total savings of nearly $60B dollars.

The announcement came just hours before [what was]… a court deadline for the #Trump admin to restart payments on those grants. The govt still owes >$1B for work done BEFORE Trump's foreign #aid freeze. But late Wed the admin asked #SCOTUS to vacate the lower court order to start funding those programs again, saying that it could not make the payments on the deadline set by the judge.