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"We need more judges, we need more case workers and we're going to need a lot more funding for the facilities," @MHowellTweets says.

"It was the Trump inspector general of homeland security that did two different reports and found that if there is a case manager, 99% of the people show up at their hearings. It is the Trump administration that canceled this program," @SenJeffMerkley says.

"The point of the matter is if you get released into the interior, you're not going back right now," @MHowellTweets says.

"It's in line with exactly what the Obama administration tried to do," @MHowellTweets says of the elimination of Flores agreement rule.

"If you want to describe this in a phrase, this new regulation is a child imprisonment regulation," @SenJeffMerkley says.

In the early 2000s, >1 million apprehensions, "routinely," @mollymotoole says.

"Deterrence clearly has not been an effective strategy," @mollymotoole says. She breaks it down: "Since 1994 ... the primary policy of both Democratic and Republican administrations has been deterrence." But also since 1994, there have been massive spikes in apprehensions.

"Their motivation has been to use the poor treatment, trauma against children, as a political weapon, and this is just not acceptable under any moral code, any religious tradition," @SenJeffMerkley says.

"For our government to try to strike down basic human standards for the treatment of children says a lot," @SenJeffMerkley says.

"Can the government be entrusted with the power to indefinitely detain families and to do so humanely? Given that — we have many examples, they have a very mixed record when it comes to providing even the required standards of care for children," @mollymotoole says.

"In 60 days, although the implementation would likely take longer, they essentially terminate the terms of the Flores agreement ... the agreement saying the government needs to release children as soon as possible," @mollymotoole explains.

"The idea that these three samples are the first that the city has known about, the scope and the magnitude, that is just not accurate," @NRDC's Dimple Chaudhary says.