Posted on 06/20/2018 12:17:33 PM PDT by Red Badger
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that he says will keep migrant families together during detention on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The president will not abandon his "zero tolerance" policy of criminally prosecuting all adults who cross U.S. borders illegally.
Earlier, he signaled he would sign a measure to stop his administration's splitting of migrant families.
"I'll be signing something in a little while that's going to do that," he told reporters during a White House event after saying he wanted families to be kept together. "I'll be doing something that's somewhat pre-emptive and ultimately will be matched by legislation I'm sure."
Trump added: "We're keeping families together, but we have to keep our borders strong. We will be overrun with crime and with people that should not be in our country."
The order is expected to allow families to be housed together even while adults in the family are being detained or prosecuted for crossing the U.S. border illegally or for seeking asylum at the border outside of a designated border entry point.
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True and in the meantime he has breathing room to reject any bad plan submitted by Ryan.
True and in the meantime he has breathing room to reject any bad plan submitted by Ryan.
Trump basically validated the media’s version of events, which was complete BS.
What ever happened to the “Caravan”?
CNN: “IN A JADED AND CYNICAL POWER-PLAY, TRUMP ILLEGALLY MODIFIES IMMIGRATION LAW WITH EXECUTIVE ORDER:
NYT: “President Trump ordered a change in border treatment of children, forcing even the victims of sexual and physical abuse to stay in their troubled families.”
MSNBC: “Today, Trump showed the highest level evil and twisted motives, insisting that even children be prosecuted for illegal border crossings — along with their entire family. Trump is HITLER!”
Now they will say the President is ‘Lawless’ and ‘reigning like a Despot’ issuing Executive Orders contrary to the laws of the US!...................
How does this MAGA?
Trump blinked, and we’re all going to pay for it.
Now they are together but in a detention center outside our boarded.
Talk about your all time back fires.
Having illegals on US soil was half way there to Democrats.
LOL
Trump started this by giving the nod to have a zero tolerance policy. The libs countered by flooding the gates with so called parents with children. Trump met their move and stayed firm. The libs next pulled the crying children card which is very successful on the emotions. Trump counters by ending the separations.
At every step on this policy, Trump has been in control and the libs are reacting.
Well that was pretty quick. I’ve already seen “Too little too late. What about the kids already relocated far from their parents.”
Executive Order Text is up:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of this Administration to rigorously enforce our immigration laws. Under our laws, the only legal way for an alien to enter this country is at a designated port of entry at an appropriate time. When an alien enters or attempts to enter the country anywhere else, that alien has committed at least the crime of improper entry and is subject to a fine or imprisonment under section 1325(a) of title 8, United States Code. This Administration will initiate proceedings to enforce this and other criminal provisions of the INA until and unless Congress directs otherwise. It is also the policy of this Administration to maintain family unity, including by detaining alien families together where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources. It is unfortunate that Congress’s failure to act and court orders have put the Administration in the position of separating alien families to effectively enforce the law.
Sec. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this order, the following definitions apply:
(a) “Alien family” means
(i) any person not a citizen or national of the United States who has not been admitted into, or is not authorized to enter or remain in, the United States, who entered this country with an alien child or alien children at or between designated ports of entry and who was detained; and
(ii) that person’s alien child or alien children.
(b) “Alien child” means any person not a citizen or national of the United States who
(i) has not been admitted into, or is not authorized to enter or remain in, the United States;
(ii) is under the age of 18; and
(iii) has a legal parent-child relationship to an alien who entered the United States with the alien child at or between designated ports of entry and who was detained.
Sec. 3. Temporary Detention Policy for Families Entering this Country Illegally. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary), shall, to the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations, maintain custody of alien families during the pendency of any criminal improper entry or immigration proceedings involving their members.
(b) The Secretary shall not, however, detain an alien family together when there is a concern that detention of an alien child with the child’s alien parent would pose a risk to the child’s welfare.
(c) The Secretary of Defense shall take all legally available measures to provide to the Secretary, upon request, any existing facilities available for the housing and care of alien families, and shall construct such facilities if necessary and consistent with law. The Secretary, to the extent permitted by law, shall be responsible for reimbursement for the use of these facilities.
(d) Heads of executive departments and agencies shall, to the extent consistent with law, make available to the Secretary, for the housing and care of alien families pending court proceedings for improper entry, any facilities that are appropriate for such purposes. The Secretary, to the extent permitted by law, shall be responsible for reimbursement for the use of these facilities.
(e) The Attorney General shall promptly file a request with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to modify the Settlement Agreement in Flores v. Sessions, CV 85-4544 (“Flores settlement”), in a manner that would permit the Secretary, under present resource constraints, to detain alien families together throughout the pendency of criminal proceedings for improper entry or any removal or other immigration proceedings.
Sec. 4. Prioritization of Immigration Proceedings Involving Alien Families. The Attorney General shall, to the extent practicable, prioritize the adjudication of cases involving detained families.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented in a manner consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 20, 2018.
“Wait till we see all the kids that don’t know their parents in lock up.”
I have been hearing that 10,000 of the 12,000 kids in detention were smuggled into the U.S. without their parents. In other words, their no good parents turned their own children over to the smuggling cartels. These are parents who let their kids get locked into the trunk of a car and smuggled across the border. And Trump is the bad guy!? WTF!
Throw Tantrum = get your way
Brilliant.
Strategy & Tactics....
So, in the usual case the kids and “parents” are separated and sent to different facilities
Or they dissappear into the system and refuse summons etc.
So by keeping the “family” together it will be much easier to ascertain whether or not they actually are related, say by a DNA test
They come in together and they can leave the same way, as a family
Game, Set, Match
And if the Dims want to change things they need to change the law
Just deport the whole law breaking family altogether.
[ He just yanked the issue out from under the democrats. Good move. ]
This is like the upteenth time he has done this and dumb chucky keep falling for it
Just deport the whole law breaking family altogether.
Now maybe Geraldo “How Dare You” Rivera won’t embarrass himself again tonight!
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