I think the ruling is specific to cases where the family status has been determined. This is done through DNA testing.
Once the DNA tests confirm a family relationship, then the ruling would apply… in the case in question, I believe the family relationship had been established…
So the natural thing would be to reunite the family at the detention center until the family’s “refugee” status could be determined. Since we have different policies for unaccompanied children that cross the border illegally.
Preferable would be to keep the families together in Mexico, since they have already arrived at a country willing to allow them political refugee status so there is no need to seek political refugee status in America and doing so insures the family stays together at refugee camps in Mexico.
If families want to permanently immigrate here then they should enter through a recognized port of entry where their application can be considered in light of others that wish to come to this country. If they want “permanent” refugee status then we have a quota that they can apply to be part of. If they want temporary refugee status then they can remain in refugee camps in Mexico.
What no US citizen should ever want is to corrupt our laws as established by our elected representatives concerning immigration. Remember one of the primary reasons illegal immigrants come to this country is because the laws of their own country are failing… we don’t want to be like those countries… We can see in Portland, Oregon today that the US can rapidly deteriorate to the lawlessness of other countries when we fail to enforce our laws.
