The catch

So, if Flores prevents housing them together, how were they being handled before Sessions & Trump instigated the "zero tolerance" policy that started taking the children away from their parents?  (A policy which, you might remember, was tossed out by John Kelly when he was at DHS.)

In June 2017, the administration ended the Family Case Management Program, which allowed families to be placed into a program, together, that connected them with a case manager and legal orientation that ensured they understood how to apply for asylum and attend immigration court proceedings.

The program had a 99.6 percent appearance rate at immigration court hearings for those enrolled in the program. It’s not only a more humane alternative to family prisons; it’s far less costly for taxpayers.

Despite that success, the administration chose to end this program only a few months after it was first reported that Kelly — then-Secretary of Homeland Security — was considering family separation as a deterrent strategy.

  ACLU

Keep that in mind when the monsters among us clamor for Flores enforcement.