But What About The Children Already Taken?

     After insisting for weeks that his hands were tied to end the directive he himself authorized and blaming the Democrats for his own cruel policy of separating migrant children from their parents, today Donald Trump finally signed an executive order ending that policy, at least temporarily.
     But Trump's executive order doesn't apply to the children already taken, the  ones we've been seeing in the heart-wrenching photos,

​...and who we've heard crying inconsolably for their parents on a recording smuggled from a detention center.

   These children and their parents, the very ones whose plight has united our country in horror and rage, the ones all the pressure on Donald Trump was intended to save, will not be saved by Trump's act today.
      Nothing will change for them because the order Donald Trump signed today applies only to migrant families crossing the border in the future, and not to those who've already been separated.
     According to an article published earlier today by the New York Times:
   The president’s order does nothing to address the plight of the more than 2,300 children who have already been separated from their parents under the president’s “zero tolerance” policy. Federal officials said those children will not be immediately reunited with their families while the adults remain in federal custody during their immigration proceedings.
“There will not be a grandfathering of existing cases,” said Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Wolfe said the decision about the children was made by the White House, but he added, “I can tell you definitively that is going to be policy.”  (1)
     "We're gonna have a lot of happy people," Trump smugly boasted this afternoon as he signed his  practically useless piece of paper, his two consiglieres at his side.

     So who, I'd like to know, are all these people Donald Trump thinks will be so happy?
     Not the over 2,300 children still separated from their parents, not the babies in pens still crying for their mothers,

...not the migrant mothers in detention recently visited by Representative Pramila Jayapal who were told by officials that "they needed to briefly leave their children to be photographed or see a judge, only to return and find the children had been taken away...They were forced to leave their children in this room, and then when they came back, the children were gone, and not a single one of them was able to say goodbye.” (2)
    And surely not the parents who've already been deported with their young children left behind in American detention centers.
    I ask again, who are all these happy people?

   And what about the children already taken?

    I can't shake the feeling that God's going to punish us for this.

References
(1) nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-children-executive-order.html

(2) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/politics/trump-immigration-separation-border.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/immigration-deported-parents.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-order-address-separations-no-clear-answers-happens-children-shelters-now-214127748.html