Trump just set in motion another slow-rolling humanitarian and political disaster:

"Right as Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that clearly intends to allow indefinite jailings of entire families, he boasted of his new initiative: "Ok, you're going to have a lot of happy people." Not to shock anyone here, but Trump lied. Or should we say, he made a false claim that significantly overestimated the worth of his own actions.

Tragically, this national nightmare is nowhere near over for a very long list of reasons. Think about it like Trump's original Muslim ban, which was truly remarkable for how poorly conceived and executed it was and—even after the administration reworked it two more times—remains tied up in litigation today.

Unfortunately, Trump's colossal family separation failure is going to take many many months—if not years—of cleanup even as the administration tries to implement a new policy that is minimally more humane at best and equally as under-resourced and ill-conceived as the first effort.

Let's touch on a just a few of the upcoming challenges:

1. When Attorney General Jeff Sessions and DHS Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen began implementing their separation horrors, they put in place no mechanism whatsoever for tracking the separated children and reuniting them with their families. That contention was reaffirmed in the press call immediately following Trump’s EO signing."

URL: [dailykos.com]