That's literally the point! I suppose that if you're okay with the system as-is, then sure, they need to have the hearing or cancel it. Personally, I think the

That's literally the point! I suppose that if you're okay with the system as-is, then sure, they need to have the hearing or cancel it. Personally, I think the whole thing is horrific and Kafkaesque: the form is just a salient example of it. For example, they could have left the grandmother and child together, reunited them when the grandmother was released, or at least let the grandmother make legal decisions on the kid's behalf. For unaccompanied minors, there ought to be people representing them on staff, like the Dept of Child Services/Children and Families/etc have in other situations. In a world where we spend tens of millions of dollar so the president can go golfing, this seems....incredibly doable.