Translation from government-speak: in order to end the “catch and release” of undocumented adults who arrived with minor children, their kids would be separated, classified as “unaccompanied” (even though they arrived with their family), and transferred to ORR, where they would be sheltered as refugees while their parents went through the United States criminal justice system. The thought was that word of the separations happening would deter other migrants from coming at all.
