Should There Yet be Public Outrage?

   I find myself wondering if instead of fading, the family separation story shouldn't have gotten bigger.
   As in, what is this about how some were deported before they could be reunited? Is it fair to ask if they were sent packing in hopes that they would no longer count among those being detained who needed to be reunited? Was the Trump Administration trying to escape its responsibility to reunite them? Was it trying to escape accountability?
   And, of those deported, did some decide to go of their own accord? Why would they do that? Was it in anger and disappointment with the U.S.? Did they realize their hopes were futile -- that most refugee applications are denied and theirs would be, as well? Was that argument pitched by federal authorities in hopes of dissuading them from staying?
   Yes, shouldn't this story of family separation have gotten bigger? And, there is another angle that might persuade you it should be bigger. Shouldn't it have gotten bigger,  as in what is this about some parents signing statements renouncing their right to be reunited with their children -- saying they don't want to be reunited? There is word they were forced to sign the statements, and did so under duress. Isn't that scandal? Yes, we must also wonder if they were not the true parents of the children, but were just using them to get across the border, and therefore didn't care to be reunited. But if, rather than that, they signed under duress to not be reunited with their children, isn't that as big as the original story of family separations?
   Most of the roughly 500 who have not been reunited fall in the already-deported category. But, if you have a CIA and an FBI good at tracking people down, couldn't we have located them by now? A friend points out that they might have been using false identities when they came to the U.S., making it difficult to track them down. I don't know. Could that be the case?
   So, part of me wonders if there should not be more public outrage. It has been just more than two months since Trump signed the executive order ending the family separations. It has been just less than two months since the judge ordered them to be reunited within thirty days. Time is up, and time is up twice. Why have they not been reunited? Why not at least stories explaining why there's a hold up?
   Were is the public's sense of outrage? If we were upset with the family separations in June, why no longer? Five-hundred children still separated from their parents two months after the courts ordered them to be reunited? I see reason for more mass protests. Where are they? If the Trump Administration can show us why they haven't been reunited -- if there is just and good cause -- then, don't protest. But, if there is not good reason, we should take to the streets and demand better treatment of those coming to America expecting at least fairness and justice.
    Whether we deport them or not, let us at least treat them right.