Re: Possibility of housing unaccompanied children in hotels instead of emergency temporary shelters...Ah yes you're right there are issues that need to be sorted out with the hotel plan...
You are of course assuming that there actually are solutions to the problems I raised with your little "hotel plan".
...so I guess it's better to leave them locked in shipping containers in the middle of the desert, surrounded by barbed wire and fencing and looked after by a shady contractor.
Ah yes, a combination of a straw man combined with an appeal to emotion.
No, the kids are not "locked in shipping containers". From the description given in the earlier reference, it sounds like kids have freedom of movement, open recreational activities, etc. And it is true that the camps are isolated from population centers. But since these are kids in a foreign country with no guardian present, I suspect you would want to avoid situations where the headlines of the day become "Unaccompanied immigrant children living in the city abducted by serial killer".
Look I get these things take time to fix. But continuing with the same approach as the previous administration
Except of course they are not 'continuing with the same approach'.
First of all, the Biden administration is actually working on stopping the problems of unaccompanied minors... they are working to re-unite families, ending the use of criminal proceedings as a deterrent, etc. In fact, if it wasn't for Covid, they probably wouldn't need these temporary shelters.
Secondly, we have seen pictures of some of Trump's detention centers... things like former wal-marts converted to house immigrants. The camp (as described in your reference) is a far cry from such a facility.
The U.S. has had to deal with unaccompanied child immigrants for years (long before Stubby McBonespurs) became president. They have experience housing them in common shelters. Why exactly do you think its necessary to "re-invent the wheel"?
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