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.
I voted for Donald Trump because I'm sick of having @ssholes like them run my country into the ground.
The left are funny, no? Fifty years of trying to tear apart the traditional American family by pushing the notion marriage is an evil patriarchal system and pushing feminism and emasculating men, also by pushing various state and federal programs that basically encourage women to have kids out of marriage and keep dad out of the house or picture.
Yet we’re supposed to believe they give a damn about breaking up families of illegals?
GMAFB
They want open borders. Period.
I have repeatedly posted how seriously this is enforced in Mexico to no avail. The media here will not adequately report about our government's failure to act against illegsl alien protestors.
There are thousands of minor black children being raised without a father because Dad got busted for weed. Why is this OK for a US citizen but not OK for an illegal alien child?
Oh, that's right. The Bush family pretends to be Republican.
“I say put the kids to work in sweat shops- make good use of their time here in the states illegally.”
I’d guarantee that there are lawns to be mowed and shrubbery to be trimmed and pools to be cleaned - heck, Democrats in Congress created this mess - they may as well take advantage of it!
*SMIRK*
The kids are being treated better than when they were in Mexico.
And there you have the entire explanation. We cannot stop the immigration express because it richly rewards some crony capitalists. Look at who are the owners of these contracting companies and how they support the deep state.
This is the new “Republican War on Women”.
Every democrat and media outlet have been emailed and faxed the talking points, and I expect this story to go supernova this week.
“Kids kept in cages” is the lie of the week, and started under Obama, but if the media doesn’t tell you that, and the democrats only accuse Trump and Republicans, you can see that they have, what they consider, the perfect $hit storm to push.
Soccer moms and Jimmy Kimmel dads everywhere go nuts.
Strange, if illegals didn’t try sneaking across the border with their children, they would still be in South America with them today.
“but at the same time the Right is developing its own squirreliness. “
Half the Right or better are part of the cabal too. Surely no one thinks they are going to let the republican party not be controlled any less than the dimocrats.
Anyone that thinks we are not and have not been ruled globally for some decades probably should take a closer look.
Shouldn’t we all find it amazing how they’ve taken over so many aspects of our lives? Education, Judiciary, Government, and now Corporate America. And in so doing, they’ve created laws and policies, out of thin air, to protect and insulate themselves, which is why it’s damn near impossible to hold any accountable. Your analogy about removing the “rungs on the ladder” is perfect. Although they have a lifeline for their buddies and those like them, so they can continue feeding at the trough. When you realize that a government job, especially federal jobs, pay as much or more than their private sector counterparts and they get a pension. That’s only done one way. They’ve taken control and granted themselves decision making power and there’s seemingly nothing we can do about it.
Lots of folks like to credit FDR about the perils of public sector unions, in a speech he made. The speech, or portion thereof, was spot on. However, it was JFK that granted federal employees arbitration rights, which was the catalyst for all the unions.
If people knew just how much waste, fraud and abuse, all legal due to contract stipulations, that federal employees commit, they’d be sick.
The Democrats' purpose is obvious: to destroy President Trump and import as many pro-Democrat voters as possible.
The Democrats and their henchmen are trying to nullify President Trump's heroic victory in denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
The Party of Slavery, Hate, Racism, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, Infanticide, the Destruction of America, and (de facto) Nuclear War is trying to find some sort of moral victory for itself now that it is in the pathetic position of opposing President Trump's unprecedented victories.
Hoards of Democrats and their henchmen, including lawyers, are at the Border developing ways of importing as many immigrants as possible for the purpose of packing the USA with pro-Democrat voters.
"Separation of Families" has become a propaganda tool for them.
There is no reason why families should be separated: Allow NO ONE to immigrate into the USA. Children remain with their parents. Those who come to the US-Mexico Border without their parents are not admitted to the USA and remain under Mexican jurisdiction and protection.
The USA should fortify the Border immediately, with the US Military, halting ALL immigration--i.e. halting this invasion. That includes adults and children. Those who gather on the Mexican side of the Border are in Mexico. The problem is that of the Mexican Government.
The left has gone bonkers on this. Sure They care about the children. Yeah right.
Exactly. Read the report from the liberals own ACLU - https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-obtains-documents-showing-widespread-abuse-child-immigrants-us-custody
There is a TV program called The Guardian that is set in Pittsburg. It is about a wealthy young lawyer convicted of drug charges that has to perform 1500 hours of community service as part of his sentence. The services are rendered at a community legal services agency.
Observation:
An ongoing theme is child services taking away a child from the mother for any of many reasons handed down by a judge who actually does that for a living. Although he and his collegues strive mitghtly to save the family, many perhaps most times the old woman from child services precvails.
Conclusion:
Taking kids from mothers is an everday occurance in progressive American cities
The RATS and their media mouthpieces (including Fox and Friends, which has been blathering on about this all morning) are truly vile.
Find some issue - ANY issue - that can be spun to reflect negatively on the administration (deserved or not) and go with that 24/7 non-stop.
And, of course, the liberals don’t really care about the children at ALL, in spite of all their crocodile tears - only how they can exploit them for political gain.
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