“Dropped a digit, there are 416 children who have been taken from their mothers.”
Correction. They have been taken out of an environment deemed dangerous to their wellbeing. In the hands of their mothers in the FLDS the children were NOT safe.
The children were removed under Texas administrative law, for protection of children.
All the women went voluntarily. I assume the Texas judge has legal authority to take away the cell phones, as a condition for them remaining voluntarily.
It is along the lines of the state protecting battered children (and women), from their abusers.
I guess the alternative would be that the state does NOT have authority to protect battered children and women?
It looks like Texas is doing what Utah and Arizona failed to do for over 50 years; namely break up this illegal organization.
Jeffs made a big strategic miscalculation thinking Texas would sit still.
Utah I understand, because of the tie back to traditional LDS times.
Arizona is stretched to administer the “strip” as it is called, north of the Grand Canyon. For Arizona authorities to get to the Utah/Arizona border takes several hours driving, or helicopters. IOW it is isolated from the rest of the state.
The twin towns were carefully established to allow the lawbreakers to quickly go across the state line.
That may be true, but they were still taken away from their mothers, were they not? Some or most of them anyway.
So an addition perhaps, but not a correction.