Posted on 06/23/2019 9:58:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Vice President Mike Pence made his rounds on cable television on Sunday morning. One of the issues that repeatedly came up was crisis along our southern border.
CNN's Jake Tapper grilled Pence on the inhumane conditions detainees are facing, including lack of toothbrushes, blankets, showers and other basic necessities. Pence, however, said it is Democrats who have withheld funding to address the situation.
"That's why the president has continually called on Congress. He's said, 'let's give them another two weeks before we engage in the deportation effort,'" Pence explained, referencing President Trump's last minute decision to put a deportation sting on hold. "Let's reform our asylum laws and get additional humanitarian support so we can deal with the influx of illegals."
"Aren't toothbrushes and blankets and medicine basic conditions for kids? Aren't they a part of how the United States of America, the Trump administration, treats children?" Tapper asked.
"Well of course they are, Jake," Pence replied.
Tapper referenced a clip he played of a DOJ lawyer in court earlier this week saying the administration doesn't need to provide those basic necessities.
"Well the lawyer was arguing-" Tapper said.
"I can't speak to what that lawyer was saying," Pence replied. "It's one of the reasons we asked for more bed space-"
"Right," Tapper replied.
"-when we were negotiating with Congress during the government shutdown," Pence explained. "Democrats in Congress refused to expand the bed space and the capacity for us to detain people."
"But this is going on right now," Tapper said.
"That's one of the reasons we continue to call on Congress to give DHS, Customs and Border Protection additional resources at the border. But again-" Pence said.
"This is the wealthiest nation in the world. We have the money to give toothpaste and soap and blankets to these kids in this facility in El Paso County. Right now we do," Tapper said.
"Of course we do," Pence replied.
"So why don't we?" Tapper asked.
"My point is it's all about the appropriations process. Congress needs to provide additional support to deal with the crisis at our southern border. But we've got to get to the root causes," Pence explained. "We've got to close the loopholes that human traffickers, as we speak, are using to entice vulnerable families to take the long and dangerous journey north."
CNN’s Jake Tapper grills Vice President Pence on conditions at migrant detention centers, asking if children there should have toothbrushes, blankets and medicines. “Of course,” says Pence. https://t.co/TzFZ0GcUzp pic.twitter.com/uiw2kiU5Do— CNN (@CNN) June 23, 2019
CBS' Marg Brennan asked Pence why President Trump decided to announce the hold to the deportation sting that was schedule for Sunday.
"We have a crisis on our southern border. We are on track to have more than a million people come across our border and, for the first time ever, the vast majority are families that are bringing children with them to exploit what we understand our loopholes in our asylum laws. If people come across our border, make the claim of asylum, we can detain them for only 20 days and then they're released into the United States," Pence explained.
"The truth is 90 percent of those claims are denied and the vast majority never show up for their hearing a year or 18 months down the road. So the president is doing his job. We both took an oath to faithfully execute the laws of this country," Pence explained. "He set into motion an internal enforcement effort to remove people who have been given due process of law, who have been adjudicated, through a court order deported, but the president, talking with Speaker Pelosi, and other Democrats, made the decision to delay two weeks and to call on the Congress, once again, to close the loopholes that human traffickers are using to entice families."
.@VP Mike Pence tells @margbrennan the conditions in U.S. immigration facilities are not acceptable. “It is heartbreaking to see what you see,” he says, “If Democrats in Congress will simply step up...we can solve the crisis.” pic.twitter.com/QKGwXKAf8K— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) June 23, 2019
Border Patrol agents have backed up what the Trump administration is saying. People are no longer coming to our country to seek asylum. They know about catch-and-release so they walk across the border, find an agent and ask to see an immigration judge. They know they'll eventually be released into the United States. They're given a court date but have no incentive to show up for it. After all, they'd be facing deportation. Why show up when they can hide in plain sight?
Border Patrol and ICE resources are overwhelmed by the influx of illegal aliens. They need more money for basic necessities, like the toothbrushes, beds and medication Tapper referenced. They can't receive said money unless Congress passes legislation that allocates money to the agencies. The Trump administration's hands are literally tied. Democrats are upset by what they see yet they do nothing to combat the issue. They sit on their hands and want the Trump administration to fix things. Then, when President Trump declares a national emergency to get the funding Democrats won't give him, the Left is, once again, upset that they were circumvented.
You can't have it both ways, Democrats. Time to pick your poison.
The illegals, mostly from Central America, had to travel 1200 miles across spanish speaking Mexico to get to the USA. Why didn’t they complain to Mexican authorities about blankets and toothbrushes? Why doesn’t Jorge Soros buy them the supplies along with the bus tickets?
CNN is ATT
ABC is Disney
NBC, MSNBC are Comcast
There’s the Truth Bomb
Where does that bastid, Tapper, get the gall/nerve to grill Mike Pence.
The Left really has NO SHAME, do they.
Rhetorical.
Needs relentless repeating !!!!
“Only in America can you break into someone else’s home, plant your ass on the couch, and then complain about the “inhumane” conditions when the owner doesn’t give you a bed and a toothbrush.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah. “
Needs relentless repeating !!!!
Send in the Dentists they give away free toothbrushes. But who is going to make sure the toothpaste cap is replaced
Put it right back in their laps.
“If the Dem-controlled Congress won’t appropriate funds for these concerns, Jake, why don’t you and your ilk pool, oh, how about 80% of YOUR OWN money? Then you could get a personal connection by purchasing and distributing the supplies. Maybe you’ll even take a few home and sponsor them.”
Jake Tapper was licking Obama’s boots from the moment the Kenyan Usurper went......global.
Jake Tapper is a smarmy moron who only appeals to liberal fools.
That decision concerns Asylum Seekers, not the typical Illegal Invader that sneaks in here.
When seeking Asylum, the person is supposed to do it in the first Country they enter. They aren’t supposed to travel through other Countries until they hit the Lotto.
Tha is gor this post. This deserves repeating.
“Border Patrol agents have backed up what the Trump administration is saying. People are no longer coming to our country to seek asylum. They know about catch-and-release so they walk across the border, find an agent and ask to see an immigration judge. They know they’ll eventually be released into the United States. They’re given a court date but have no incentive to show up for it. After all, they’d be facing deportation. Why show up when they can hide in plain sight?
Ugh. Sorry. My eyes are disastrous right now.
It’s a pretty cheap shot to attack the one person who probably has the least power in the entire city. Pence is not the POTUS and he only gets to vote in the Senate if there is a tie. But note that in his argument, Tapper is conceding there is a crisis. The media had been pushing the “manufactured crisis” argument for most of the last year.
Now if Tapper were sincere, he would be grilling all these Dem Senators who want to become POTUS why they aren’t rushing emergency legislation to get blankets, toothbrushes, food and medicine to the border. It is the humane thing to do but the Dems in Congress are being obstructionist at every turn.
If the Dems were sincere they would be doing a lot of things.
The truth of the matter is that the Dems are not sincere, they are not more moral, they are not more humane. By their constant obstruction they show that they prefer millions of people suffer rather than give POTUS any kind of political victory. On the border issue, on DACA, on the need for supplies they have constantly obstructed. The Dems say they want prison and sentencing reform and POTUS agrees but the Dems don’t put any legislation out there.
The Media plays for the Dems and not for righteousness, fairness, justice, or humanity. They attack the side that is asking for help while deflecting for the side that is obstructing. It is a sick inversion of what is true and real. It’s as if they have no conscience - while they claim to stand for righteousness their actions show them to be the opposite. The Democrats always choose party over principle and partisanship over policy.
We don’t need anyone who is so stupid they didn’t pack their toothbrush.
Got that right.
Even if he said: Hey look are you going to allow me to answer a question or is this interview over?
“.....Aren’t toothbrushes and blankets and medicine basic conditions for kids?........”
Then why don’t they have them? Did not the parents of these kids supply them with any of the basic conditions necessary for their great adventure? Didn’t the parents of these kids inform them the necessity to maintain such personal hygiene materials at all times. Really!?
Why is it my fault as other than a Democrat that these people are in such conditions the Democrats consider unsatisfactory, but won’t do anything to fix other than pass the blame to somebody else who had nothing to do with creating the unsatisfactory to them condition they created.
Where are the liberals? They can’t run to the dollar state and pick up a couple toothbrushes and bars of soap. They’d rather complain to the media about the conditions.
Pretty sure at this point anyone who wants to understand the issues has got the message.
The real problem is about 40% of the American people SUPPORT open borders, and SUPPORT illegal immigration. No matter what they are told or how they are told they will still support it. They have been brainwashed by socialists for decades.
That means each one of us that does not support open borders and illegal immigration better stand up and make our voices heard. Tweet, email, call, post, send smoke signals to Congress, media that we don’t want this. Hold media’s feet to the fire to stop using the term “immigrant” and not identifying if they are referring to an illegal. We have to blast them when they write nonsense and tear jerk stories to brainwash more supporters. We have to do everything we possibly can to fight this and it is a fight. We have to get the voters out and can’t elect any more that support open borders and illegal immigration for any office, even dog catcher.
I assumed the ones who went up to the border patrol without any fear WERE the ones seeking asylum. They seem to be taking them in and releasing them into the country.
They still have to be initially processed if they are asking to apply for asylum or to have an immigration hearing. After they do the applications they are released back to Mexico to wait for their hearing instead of being held here or released here due to overcrowding.
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