Posted on 06/18/2018 4:42:09 PM PDT by Starman417
There is a great amount of bleeding heartism going on right now regarding the border policy of separating children from their families. Even Laura Bush has joined the chorus.
In an unusual break from her political retirement, former first lady Laura Bush condemned the Trump administration’s practice of separating parents and children while their parents are prosecuted for illegally entering the country.As usual, this is an issue which is being misrepresented and thrust into the spotlight only because Trump is President and nothing else is sticking. The hysteria is rampant. Migrants are being separated for their own safety in areas divided by chain link fences which liberals refer to as "cages."“I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart,” she wrote in a Washington Post article published on Sunday.
It was obama's "catch and release" program which fueled rising illegal immigration.
Border Patrol agents have seen their mission become more difficult over the past eight years, largely due to the Obama administration’s policy of releasing illegal immigrants apprehended at the border into the U.S., according to the leader of the Border Patrol agents’ union. “The single biggest factor driving our illegal immigration right now is our catch and release program,” Brandon Judd, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, explained in written testimony prepared for a hearing Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest.There is no sign of abatement. The number of illegals using children as the ruse for entry has skyrocketed:When illegal immigrants are detained at or near the border, Border Patrol interviews them and, in many cases, must release them into the U.S. All the illegal immigrant must do, Judd wrote, is claim he or she has been in the U.S. since 2014, and agents release them.
“If you are an unaccompanied minor we will not only release you, but will escort you to your final destination. If you are a family unit, we will release you. If you claim credible fear, we will release you. If you are a single male and we do not physically see you cross the border and you claim that you have been in this country since 2014, we will release you,” he explained, adding that the illegal immigrants are not required to offer proof.
The number of illegal aliens at the U.S.-Mexico border who are using minors to gain entry to the country has increased more than 300 percent since last year, White House officials say. In a briefing to the media on Tuesday, White House officials — including President Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller — revealed that the number of illegal aliens using children to enter the U.S. at the southern border has increased about 315 percent between October 2017 and February 2018.And at least 33% fail to show up at their hearings. ON one day in July 18 of 20 failed to show.Through a series of legal loopholes, minors are smuggled through the southern border with illegal aliens posing as family units in order to eventually be released into the country through the “Catch and Release” program.
Catch and Release allows foreign nationals to be released into the U.S. while they await immigration and asylum hearings through these legal loopholes.
IMO failure to show for a court hearing should result in absolute forfeiture of remaining in the US and should lead to immediate deportation. This shows a total lack of respect for US laws and we need no more of that.
The current hysterics distract from some inconvenient facts about what the obama regime was doing- keeping it quiet.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) claimed in an interview Saturday that the Obama administration tried to cover up the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the United States’ southern border. “It was kept very quiet under the Obama Administration. There were large numbers of people coming in. The Obama administration was trying to keep this quiet,” the Texas Democrat told CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield on Saturday.And in 2014 hillary clinton wanted all those unaccompanied minors sent back:According to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, nearly 70,000 unaccompanied minors crossed the southern border in fiscal year (FY) 2014—the period between October 1, 2013, to September 30, 2014.
Cuellar’s comments come after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed Friday that nearly 2,000 children had been separated from their guardians at the U.S. border in the past six weeks. The agency revealed the number of children being separated as the Trump administration began its “zero tolerance” policy in prosecuting illegal aliens.
“We still see the numbers,” Cuellar said. “Not all of them are being separated. Some of them are coming alone.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that unaccompanied minors who crossed the border illegally in a massive influx over recent months “should be sent back” to their native countries, but also that they should be reunited with their families — which sometimes requires them to stay in the United States.Who was it that separated all those kids from their families? That was so way back before Trump was President. No one cared because obama. Ironically, the obama regime separated kids from their families too:“They should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families are, because there are concerns about whether all of them should be sent back,” the potential 2016 presidential candidate said in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “But I think all of them who can be should be reunited with their families.”
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Prescott Bush helped start Planned Parenthood. The Bushes have been all in ever since.
and yet none of those kids even understand the English words on the signs they are holding. The brazen signs in Spanish is appalling considering they are illegals and still making demands???
Then this is what you might see when they grow up
“And in 2014 hillary clinton wanted all those unaccompanied minors sent back”
Tucker just has that clip on. Typical.
Progressives are trying (as usual) to gain power by manipulating feelings cuz they would lose in the arena of ideas.
We know damn well if there were ANY pictures of infant, toddlers or little girls, they would be shoving them in our faces.
How about sending these kids to the detention centers with their folks??
Of course they will be in the mix with gang bangers and child molesters but they would be with Momi and Popi.
Actually, now that I think about it, watching the progressive spin on that has the possibility of being a real hoot! But we can’t do that to real kids.
Laura Bush offed her old boyfriend in a very strange “accident” so I’m uncertain she is the sweet liddle lady she makes herself out to be.
Looks like one could get well off if’n he had the shoe,
black socks and blue/black shorts monoploy
Yes, that was a weird “accident.”<P.
L. Bush has NEVER defended fellow AMERICANS as she is now defending illegal aliens and the d’rats.
L. Bush’s clan has lost their glow and are now so severely tarnished that the entire clan is irrelevant.
Bronx cheer to L. Bush
PERIOD
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I don’t recall Laura Bush’s heart breaking over the breakup of the many families in this country - through divorce, death, desertion, illness, job/military requirements.
Nor do I
Just another phony baloney is L. Bush
Neither she nor her husband gives a damn about the citizens of this nation or this nation itself.
Once respected, she has now been scratched
I have been greatly offended and will NEVER forget this.
Are YOU listening L. Bush?
This is nothing but a distraction by the Marxist State Media Pimps and Whores to divert attention away from the IG’s report on the corruption and illegal actions by the DOJ/FBI. Real people down here want the border wall, immigration laws enforced and for the Progressive pimps and whores to just shut up.
They do not see themselves as illegals, they are taught from birth that we stole the whole Southwest and then some from them. They see themselves as taking what is theirs. That is why they have no respect for our country, our laws, or we the people.
Those that come here legally generally have a different perspective, better educated so have a better grasp of history and reality. Many of the illegals- especially those that protest believe this country is mostly theirs.
The groups that support them encourage them to think this is rightly theirs, and to protest and demand things.
“I used to respect Laura Bush”
That was a mistake. She was a bleeding heart liberal.
The bush family is defective .
I just saw an activist, on NBC Phoenix TV, say ‘the United States is responsible for these people coming here, because of what we have done to their countries’. Not kidding. The USA is what is called ‘an attractive nuisance’. So the illegal immigrants deserve to come here and we have to take them in, no matter what. This attitude comes from the breakdown in our schools.....children being indoctrinated into Socialism, cradle to grave. Other countries are responsible for their own situations, period. We all know that, but upcoming generations are being force fed the point of view of the Dems. This must be reversed!
The more I learn about the Bush family the less I like them. They are in the leftist category at this point. I haven’t made it a secret what I think of leftists.
But President Trump is working for and doing the will of the people, and that's got both the swamp and the left SO ANGRY! When I was young, I often wondered what a conniption was. POTUS Trump is allowing us to see exactly what conniption fits are, on at least a daily basis!
Mark
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