Posted on 06/28/2019 9:28:18 AM PDT by jazusamo
Video at link.
"But you just cannot say -- and there’s a disagreement -- that anybody coming across the border is breaking the law. Not until there’s been a determination as to whether they can stay or not. But just because they’re coming across the border, they don’t."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) volunteered her opinion, when a reporter asked her about the photograph of a man who drowned with his little girl at the U.S.-Mexican border.
"What was your immediate reaction when you saw that photo and who do you hold responsible for it? Is there anybody to blame for that?" a reporter asked Pelosi.
Here is her full answer:
Can you just imagine: the father put the little girl on the shore to go back to get the mother and the little girl wanted to be with her father, and she got back in. And then he couldn’t – he couldn’t save her, and then he couldn’t save himself. This is such a tragedy.
I think it’s not a question of blame. It’s a question of being prayerful and understand the consequences of policy. I’m sure that nobody who decided to have a policy would say, ‘And I don’t care if something like this happens,’ but it does happen.
And I’ve visited the border so many times over the years, not just in recent years. The Rio Grande has a personality. This is not just a little river that you swim across. It has its moments. So, I can just imagine how that happened, and I just think it’s such a shame for that to be the face of America around the world.
So, let’s just step back from it, from a policy standpoint. This is one of those metered situations where people who have -- who come to our country and want to be admitted have to meet certain standards. That’s the way it is.
But it isn’t -- I have this conversation with my Republican colleagues frequently. It shouldn’t be a crime to have a visa – to have a status violation. If somebody commits a crime or is guilty of a crime, and they’re in our country, prosecutorial discretion would warrant that they, or justify, that they be sent away.
So, nobody’s saying if people are -- but if you overstay your visa, or you’re coming in, as this family would have been coming in, but they had narrowed the number of people coming in through the ports of entry, so they were coming in not through the ports. And, that’s not unusual. You know, I’ve seen -- I’ve physically seen that happen there.
And, again, enlarge the issue, weigh the equities. We’re talking about human lives. And let’s just subject people to the laws. But we also have to recognize that everybody in America has rights. Everybody in America has rights. And we’re trying to make people aware of their rights once they’re in our country.
But you just cannot say -- and there’s a disagreement -- that anybody coming across the border is breaking the law. Not until there’s been a determination as to whether they can stay or not. But just because they’re coming across the border, they don’t.
Now, we all want to have border security and do what we need to do, protect our borders -- North, South, East, West, Gulf Coast, whatever – we have to do that. But we don’t have to undermine our -- who we are as a country by saying it’s a crime to engage in an internationally-recognized opportunity to make your case to come into a country, any country. Any country.
But it is - she should go on record to change the law.
But it is a crime
Nancy P should take a course on lawmaking
God save us from these senseless corrupt people
Get rid of your gates and take the front door off your house Nancy.
That's like saying jokes shouldn't be funny.
Pelosi is a special kind of stupid!
Nancy please. You’re smarter than that.....right?
“But you just cannot say — and there’s a disagreement — that anybody coming across the border is breaking the law. Not until there’s been a determination as to whether they can stay or not. But just because they’re coming across the border, they don’t.”
Makes sense. Kind of like robbing a bank. There needs to be a determination whether they get to keep the money or not. Until then, it would be very mean spirited to jail people, and separate them from their kids.
Wrong.
And if they were turning states red, you know Nanzi would be the strongest supporter of the wall there could be.
Oh Nanzi, i guess when people climb over your mansion walls, it shouldn’t be a crime to cross into your land and home either.
With liberals, there are no borders.
With liberals, there is no common sense or logic.
With democrats, it’s all about feel-good politics. Feel-good politics can be very dangerous; therefore, democrats are very dangerous to the country.
Ends justify the means.
Thats what socialists follow. Its their only “moral” code.
Gawd, is there no end to these idiots, fools and treasonous SOBs?
IIRC, she’s also opposed checking illegals when they attempt to legally acquire firearms.
Clinton sent a Kid back to Communist Cuba (by Gunpoint) after his Mother died escaping with him to get to the United States.
Exactly...That's where it's at with her and the vast majority of Dems.
Unless they have a valid visa, they are illegal aliens, fraudulently documented foreigners, interlopers, trespassers, invaders, pillagers, plunderers, marauders, intruders, encroachers, assaulters, VIOLATORS!
We owe them nothing.
But it should be a crime not to pay for Obama Care. What a piece of garbage.
Is it a crime to cross through the doorway into her house without her express permission?
Fight crime. Legalize illegality. (Dem 2020 platform)
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