Has not anyone who is involved in this story or read about it contemplated its "Heart of Darkness" aspects.
How many are parents who have sat with a seriously -also slept in very uncomfortable furniture- child. It is a very hard experience even in the best of circumstances.
For a legal entity - mostly likely male - to even see this mother as a flight risk is demeaning at best beyond the pale - the historical aspect of that phrase- at worst.
That the Bishop didn't express outrage and was happy for a meeting show his ignorance of the enormous horror of her and her child's lives as they are forced to live it.
Any well versed Oediatric professional would be outraged and in light of the child abuse laws consider calling the hotline for child abuse by legal action.
The government and ICE and the DOJ folks can do so much better than this.This is not what Emma Lazarus - a a Social Worker ever would have condoned.
Please folks think and do better.