Posted on 06/19/2018 9:40:56 AM PDT by pgkdan
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen called on Congress to change laws she said force the government to separate immigrant children from parents who cross the U.S. border unlawfully and called Democrats who say the Trump administration is using the controversy for political leverage “very cowardly.”
Nielsen both defended President Donald Trump’s family separation policy at a White House briefing on Monday and maintained that it wasn’t his creation, but rather a consequence of the government’s prosecution of immigrants apprehended illegally crossing the border.
"So I want to be clear on a couple of other things," Nielsen said. "The vast majority, vast, vast majority of children who are in the care of H.H.S. right now — 10,000 of the 12,000 — were sent here alone by their parents. That is when they were separated. So somehow we’ve conflated everything.
"But there is two separate issues. 10,000 of those currently in custody were sent by their parents with strangers to undertake a completely dangerous and deadly travel alone. We now care for them. We have high standards. We give them meals, we give them education, we give them medical care. There is videos, there is TVs, I visited the detention centers myself — that would be my answer to that question."
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Tell me again who's barbaric and inhumane.
Nancy Pelisi, Chuck Schumer, the entire CNN news team and all rhe other crtics should immediately open their homes to these kids
Liberals aren’t interested in the kids; they just to weaponize them against Trump.
The fact they aren’t really separated from their parents in this country is of no interest to them whatsoever.
And I wonder how many of those minors are 17 going on 27?
If Democrats created a law that paid illegals five thousand dollars IF they crossed a field that was a known rattlesnake pit area... AND then Democrats CRIED for the dead children would we really accept their tears?
NO.
END INCENTIVES THAT BEING ILLEGALS HERE.
NO CITIZENSHIP EVER FOR ANYONE WHO ILLEGALLY ENTERS THE COUNTRY.
PERIOD.
Good point. Conversely millions of babies are to be given to the satanic liberal cult of abortion. Abortion is a weapon also. Thus none of this is about children. It's all about power. It does not get any more sick than that.
We know the media doesn’t want facts, they want emotion and lies to push their liberal agenda. Nothing more, nothing less.
Repatriate the kids with their parents ===> BACK HOME :(
BookMark
If we detained the kids with the parents, the same people would complain about that. Their outrage is completely manufactured and phony. They’re outraged because someone told them to be.
Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. They should stop pretending to care. It’s offensive.
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