I think it's a good idea to ignore posts by people who don't want anything more than to see the worst in others and to find things they can fight about. I'm going to ignroe 'the usual suspects'.

Skarpi, I feel like there's an active attempt by our current administration to reduce our contact with citizens of other countries. It's hard to get into the US and US citizens must now have passports to get into places we never previously needed them. It might be about terrorism, but I believe it goes farther than that. I hope I'm wrong.

This case though illustrates how incompetent bureaucracies are at dealing with situations that aren't 'business as usual'. Kids who need a place to stay because mom is hospitalized get the exact same treatment as kids that are put into foster care because their crack addict mom gets busted and sent to jail. I understand WHY it happened - inflexibility - but I don't believe it's right. Why the intake procedures are so inflexible is another whole discussion.