Posted on 06/18/2018 12:01:15 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Crocodile tears are flowing from Democrats and their allies in the Democrat Media Industrial Complex (DMIC) over the Trump administration’s enforcement of immigration laws signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1997, followed by then-President Barack Obama’s decisions and policies.
Immigration laws are a function of every country on the planet. Otherwise, why have borders? Which is something Democrats would apparently prefer not to have — or enforce. Because they want a recurring wave of new underclass voters, dependent upon the state for all their needs. Illegal aliens fit that description perfectly.
The latest salvo in the immigration imbroglio stems from illegal alien children flooding across America’s Southern border being separated from their parents.
The 1997 law that Mr. Clinton signed says minor children who enter the United States illegally must be separated from their parents who are sent to jail because they crossed the border illegally. Because children cannot accompany their parents to jail, they are separated and sent elsewhere, either shelters or foster homes.
A Friday Wall Street Journal story says nearly 1,500 young immigrant boys are being sheltered inside a converted Walmart supercenter in Brownsville, Texas, about six miles from the border with Mexico. The shelter opened last year with a capacity of about 1,200. It expanded last month and had fewer than 50 beds to spare Wednesday afternoon.
The shelter, said the story, is one of 100 such facilities in 17 states run by contractors for the government. “It is the largest licensed child care facility of its kind housing immigrant kids sin the country.”
Currently, the story continues, “most of the boys at the center, who are age 10 to 17, came to the U.S. without their parents, according to Alexia Rodriguez, vice president of immigrant child services and legal counsel for Southwest Key.”
The boys, some teenagers, will “likely spend around two months living, studying and adjusting to the U.S. at the shelter, living in dorm style rooms with up to five beds.”
They meet at least once a week with a therapist, occasionally take field trips to church, parks or the beaches of South Padre Island. And inside the structure, life is “highly structured, with meal times choreographed in two-hour blocks and outdoor time on a playground or basketball courts limited to just two hours a day. The boys’ nearly every movement is monitored by staff members.”
As of Wednesday, says the Department of Health and Human Services, the government was caring for 11,351 illegal alien children. A spokesman said they remain in the government’s care in a foster home or groups shelter for about 56 days. They leave when placed with a sponsor, either a parent or other relative willing “to promise the government they will take care of the immigrant children and make sure they attend immigration court proceedings.” Having announced plans to open tent cities to house the illegal alien kids, HHS officials are considering housing the alien children on military bases.
Though it’s unclear how many families have been separated since the zero-tolerance policy was enacted in early May, the U.S. Border Patrol said it arrested nearly 9,500 illegal aliens traveling as part of families, and “separately nearly 6,500 child immigrants traveling alone were arrested after crossing the border.”
Writing that Democrats created this entire situation, Ed Straker, senior writer at Newsmatchete.com, says Democrats allied with the courts “created a magnet of welfare benefits for illegal aliens who entered the country. It was so tantalizing that’s some families south of the border sent their children across, knowing they would get free food, shelter and education.
“Secondly, Obama expanded the definition of ‘asylum’ to include people who claimed they feared ‘crime gangs’ or even feared abusive husbands. They incentivized illegal aliens to make up stories of persecution and to flood the border, creating another magnet that drew in all these illegal aliens — and their children.
“Thirdly, Obama largely stopped prosecuting illegal aliens criminally for crossing the border.”
The Trump’s administration enforcement of the law has enraged Democrats and the DMIC. Which is ridiculous.
“But if you look at what caused the children to be here in the first place,” says Mr. Straker, “it was Democrats. Democrats expected the parents, and their kids, to be able to walk across the border, be given a court date many years in the future and be free to melt into the population — in effect, be given a ‘get out of jail free’ card. People south of the border, knowing this, have flooded across by the millions.”
Those decrying the Trump’s administration enforcement of Mr. Clinton 1997 law should consider the American taxpayers’ cost of providing health care and housing to illegal aliens and then education to their children. Along with more costs, public and private, of enforcing laws broken by illegal aliens.
Entering Mexico illegally is a felony that can net years in prison. In the U.S., illegal aliens can protest under their nation’s flag. In Mexico, no foreign resident can demonstration against the government.
If those entering America illegally don’t like America’s laws, if they find them cruel, they should stay home. It’s past time for America to enforce her laws and to take the unsustainable flow of illegal aliens, created by Democrats, seriously.
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