Posted on 06/23/2018 5:27:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
It's no surprise that Democrats and everyone in the liberal media are blaming President Trump personally for the crying immigrant children at the border.
He gets blamed for everything their hysterical minds can think of.
But it's not up to him to fix what's wrong with our messed-up immigration policies. It's up to Congress.
The problem is, as Americans can see for themselves every day, Congress is broken and crawling with spineless politicians.
Our senators and representatives can't or won't come up with an immigration reform bill and send it to the president's desk any time soon - just like they couldn't or wouldn't do so when Bush II and Obama were presidents.
Both parties are at fault.
For more than 30 years, no matter which party controlled Congress or the White House, they did nothing significant to fix our illegal immigration problem - which now should be more accurately described as "an illegal invasion problem."
House Republicans today can't even get their act together to pass an immigration bill and send it to the Senate, where they'd never get it passed anyway.
Meanwhile, cynical Democrats prefer to continue using footage of crying children as propaganda weapons in their 24/7 war against Trump and anyone bearing his name.
When Melania Trump flew down to Texas this week to see firsthand how illegal immigrants and their children are being treated at the Mexican border, some creepy media people made fun of her.
But she deserved applause, not laughs. She did something I bet 95 percent of the members of Congress have never done.
She actually went to find out what madness our border security people have to deal with every day.
No one with a heart likes to see kids crying or suffering behind chain-link fences (except the anti-Trump media who weaponize the image).
But children of illegal immigrants caught at the border have been separated from their parents for years.
It happened while Obama was president, though the liberal media didn't notice or get hysterical about it or his other strict, Trumpian policies.
Now everyone in the media is appalled because it's occurring under Trump?
I get it.
No one expects fairness or historical perspective from the liberal mainstream media when it comes to Trump. Like so many other issues, on this one the president was doomed no matter what he did.
When he told Congress that immigration was its job to fix, he was correct.
But Congress and the liberal media begged him: "Please, Mr. President. You can solve this tragic separation problem simply with your signature."
So Trump did a 180.
He signed an executive order to cease his own administration's practices and allow families (or alleged families) seeking asylum to be detained together until they were vetted or processed.
And what was his reward for his change of heart? People whined that it wasn't enough or that it would make things worse.
Meanwhile, since spineless Congress isn't going to touch immigration reform this year or in 2020 or maybe ever, what should we do?
There are no good or easy answers.
But if we really want to make sure kids and their parents from Honduras or Guatemala are kept together after we catch them trying to break into the United States, I've got a cheap and sensible idea we could try.
We should immediately put them on a nice bus and send them home. Actually, I stole the bus idea from Barack Obama.
In 2014 he told George Stephanopoulos on TV that he had a tough message for the families of Central America who were thinking of sneaking their kids into the USA: "Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they'll get sent back."
Maybe President Trump should ask Obama if he has any other good advice.
Our immigration system is not broken - it needs to be enforced after 25 years of being ignored.
....and balless.
They are not spineless. They are corrupt. It's different.
“They are not spineless. They are corrupt. It’s different.”
You took the words right out of my mouth. The rotten asses in Congress “want” us to think that they’re spineless...
Millions upon millions have crossed our Southern border...good grief, isn’t it time to shut the door.
Congress is cabal complicit, not spineless. Need new R reps.
Congress isn’t broken, it’s corrupt to the core just like the DOJ, FBI, ATF, DHS, IRS.
They’re all fasict members of the NWO looking tp enslave Americans.
Congress, House and Senate, has become our very own House of Lords.
My Revolutionary War ancestors are spinning.
Just curious, what did DHS do (or not do) to make your list?
They are not spineless. They are corrupt. It’s different.
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Yes. People need to stop calling them spineless and cowards and stop saying that they’re stupid. As you said they’re corrupt and paid off globalists.
Our system of government as designed has completely broken down, and, at least if history is any guide, is going to change, and right soon.
There have been too many laws made by the President and by the courts, all unconstitutional, of course, to be undone by a righteous President and righteous judges (if we ever get any). "Combinations too powerful to be suppressed" have arisen to defend this enormous body of non-constitutional and extraconstitutional law, and the border displays a perfect example.
To begin:
Our immigration laws are not Obama's laws, or Trump's laws. THEY ARE THE PEOPLE'S LAWS. Passed by both Houses of Congress, signed by Presidents - if self government is possible in the United States, these laws are as close to perfection as we can get.
But what do we see?
These laws are opposed by powerful secular and religious interests, The reasons they are opposed are familiar and do not require restatement.
The People could change these laws at any time by simple legislation - BUT CONGRESS CANNOT ACT, because it is paralyzed by bribes and by threats.
So the pressure to undo our perfectly valid, legitimate legal structure flows through the White House and the courts, and our laws (again, made by the People's representatives) crumble under the onslaught.
The situation on the border is repeated over and over, in environmental "law", in race relations, in our schools, in relations between the sexes, and so on and so on.
The idea of a national Legislature representing the People and the States to reconcile diverse interests has failed, and failed decisively.
Our Sulla, our Cromwell, or our Franco, our Pinochet, has not appeared - but he's been born and has probably reached adulthood.
Change is inevitable - but we probably won't like it.
When Melania Trump flew down to Texas this week to see firsthand how illegal immigrants and their children are being treated at the Mexican border, some creepy media people made fun of her.
But she deserved applause, not laughs. She did something I bet 95 percent of the members of Congress have never done.
She actually went to find out what madness our border security people have to deal with every day.
Your error is that you believe that if they just knew what goes on they would do something.
You need to lift the scales from over your eyes. Congress knows what goes on at the boarder. Everyone "knows."
They are paid off by their wealthy donors not to do a thing about it. And they obstruct doing anything about it at peril of office and jail.
You really need to contemplate the deep meaning of McCain and Kerner (his former aide) using the IRS against the Tea Party and then Kerner becoming counsel at the Office of Special Counsel.
There is no spinelessness there. There is no ignorance there. It is all of a set piece, one pieces of a vast well organized [corrupt] enterprise to undermine the will of the voters.
Spineless my butt.
Congress is primarily islamicommunist.
Are we ready for our Caesar?
You must be a Congressman/woman.
Another country heard from.
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