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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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Yup
The dems are in favor of child trafficking
Wow.
Click on the Drudge headline and read the Yahoo “news” report. The disinformation and propaganda there reads like something out of cold war Russia.
Same Alinsky tactic they always use. Blame it on the Republicans during a Republicans term. Spin and isolate and pick on that issue till it resonates.
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. Totally agree Jim.
.... Because of this the Left and Never Trumpers are in full panic mode and needed to create a new "Crisis" for the nation to rally around while at the same time portraying the current administration as Evil, Wicked, Mean and Nasty Demons that have no heart or soul. They are trying to rally their base to salvage the Mid Terms.
And they are responsible in an even more insidious way. They have actively encouraged, no PROMOTED, the illegal crossing of our border. They have actively induced and encouraged these illegals to drag their children into dangerous situations.
This is such typical and cynical leftist BS and why I think we should just drop the pretexts and get to the hot Civil War II. They fill the dumpsters, light the fires, dump in more trash and then stand agape, shocked, and outraged when they don’t like how we are putting out THEIR fires.
All I hear on the TV news is it’s Trump’s fault, Trump’s fault, Trump’s fault.
Here’s an idea. Trump should deport every last one, their cousins, their hairdressers and their dog walkers immediately.
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Why is that a task for the US (where govt will slow-walk, if it can speed-up the process at ALL)? Send ‘em back to their country of origin and let THEM sort it out
If you are in the country illegally,(with kids or not) everything that happens after that is your own fault. Of course, to the libs and the drive-bys, (redundant, I know) even though obama/soetoro/whatever his real name is did the same thing, it is POTUS Trump’s fault.
Thank you, Jim!
Thanks for pinging to this important piece...
Because now they hope to turn people against Trump by digging up anything that they could use that would make him look bad.
And they were probably hoping nobody would notice that they themselves did the very same thing.
They are deluded beyond anything that can be reasonably explained without inferring demonic deception.
Thanks for the post
As I said in a tweet to that twit, “Laura, you sat by idly on the sidelines for 8 years watching the decimation of the Obama administration of our laws and our country and you said NOTHING and now that someone stands up FOR America, AGAINST illegality, you want to speak out? You’re doing this because he beat your brother in law. You have blood on your hands.”
The Bushes should be treated as treasonous if they continue to support open borders. Period. George P. better watch out when he goes to the next family function because he DARED to speak out in favor of the President.
“If they don’t want to separate families who cross the border illegally, don’t let them cross the border illegally.”
Exactly! Build the wall and then this won’t happen.
If I took my son along while I committed a crime, like robbing a bank, we wouldn’t be sharing the same jail cell.
If you want to keep your children with you, don’t commit crimes.
If children are separated from their parents, it the parents fault.
Senator Schumer voted for it!
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