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Seriously, many of the asylum seekers that were able to get on the list to eventually have a court case, were sent back to the other side of the border, to wait, in Mexico.  They are in closely packed hovels of camping tents, in very unhygienic conditions (including people just using open areas to relieve themselves of pee and crap – with crap and toilet paper lying out in open spaces).  They have almost nothing.  Some of them are doubtless going to die from the poor conditions while waiting indefinitely for their case.  For many perhaps that court date may never come.

A common theme for the T rump administration, in regards to asylum seekers, has been to expose them to terribly aversive conditions (including the worst condition of having young children absconded with by the US govt).  This has all been the primary strategy, all along, that is, to make their experiences so intolerable, that other potential asylum seekers will find out and not come to the US to begin with. If this strategy requires that some of them die while trying to gain asylum, I think that the T rump administration is secretly okay with this.  Maybe not just okay with it, but hoping for it.

On another note:

I saw where the T rump White House Halloween celebration which had children visiting, had a craft area available, called “Build a Wall”  where children could pretend with craft work, to Build a Wall.

This is much like, when the Obama administration had children that visited the White House for a special occasion, to play a game where they pretended to provide affordable health care.  (Oh wait! That never happened.  If it had, Republicans would have been having steam blowing out their ears.)