The recent announcement by President Donald Trump, following hundreds of people, mainly from Nicaragua, turning up at the United States border with Mexico, was his decision to split families, from their children, who were then separately detained.
It drew an outpouring of condemnation by people in the US, and around the world, especially when media footage showed the children, some as young as seven, in the separate wire-fenced containment area, many crying for their mothers.
“No tolerance” to illegal immigrants, President Trump insisted, although he later, changed his mind following the outcry, even including his own wife, and members of his own political party, and agreed to families being reunited with their children.
Although there is still imprecision about what happens to them afterwards.
One of the legacies of policy on the run and by tweet.
Interestingly, the “No tolerance” policy, was one espoused by the current media adviser to President Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, formerly the Mayor of New York City , who in 1994, told the NYC Police Commissioner, Bill Bratton, to enforce the order from the mayor to clear up crime in the city.
Reclaim the streets.
Bill Bratton, hmmm, there’s a name, that rings a bell, and a bill!
Why, he is the one who was temporarily engaged to help resolve “troubles on the streets” of Bahrain in 2011.
Lots of ideas no doubt, necessary payment for advice, and presumably a written report and recommendations.
Or an extensive briefing and the usual taking of notes?
So where is the report, what did it say, and how is Bratton’s advice being implemented?
Then too, there was the expensive engagement of the Prague University academic, Mitchell Belfer, who visited Bahrain on a number of occasions before 2014, interviewed many people and again, presumably, made a report to pass to his ”employers?”
If so, what were his recommendations, and how was that advice assessed and “utilised?”
Or is it a case of read my book, “Small State; Dangerous Region, A Strategic Assessment of Bahrain.”
Available in hardback, from Amazon, for a price of $38!
Then again, there still seems to be a long way to go in relation to Amwaj Gardens and the ever malingering case of Marina West, with a sale auction for Amwaj, now listed for a sixth time, as the last “buyer” was judged unable to meet the required initial payments.
As for Marina West, according to a Real Estate spokesperson, Off the Plan purchasers would be unlikely to get all their deposits back, surely unacceptable to purchasers.
Where is any report on what the committee looking at unfinished structures expects will happen to Marina West, beyond putting the side up for auction?
There too, the “owners” of properties purchased off the plan, have had independent assessments the structure can be completed, as the buildings remain structurally sound.
Any response done by the committee to, the owners by the independent engineer’s report, which surely would have been passed on?