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Enough With the Faux Outrage Over Illegal Alien Family Separation
Townhall.com ^ | June 18, 2018 | Arthur Schaper

Posted on 06/18/2018 12:37:12 PM PDT by Kaslin

I regret to inform you, the mainstream media is at it again.

The liberal press is hammering the Trump Administration because executive departments, at the behest of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, are separating parents and children when apprehended crossing the border illegally. The headlines give the whole gamut:

Why the US is separating migrant children from their parents

Trump separating migrant kids from parents sparks national outrage

Why the Trump administration bears the blame for separating children from their families at the border

Pelosi: Trump administration policy separating parents and children at border 'barbaric'

President Trump and his allies have pushed back against the unjust uproar over this policy. The simple refrain is “It’s the law.” Yes, the administration is correct. It’s codified in federal immigration statutes that individuals are not allowed to break into the United States. 

It’s common for adults on trial to be separated from their children during court proceedings, too.

The idea that law-breaking parents are never separated from their kids flies in the face of reality. When Americans commit crimes in the United States, they are arrested, tried, and if found guilty, convicted. If they are parents, they are separated from their kids due into incarceration. During the trial process, if they cannot afford bail or are not given the option, then they are separated from their kids as well. In more severe cases, they lose custody of their children even after they completed their sentence.

But still, the press jumped all over Sessions for quoting the Bible to enforce the nation’s laws. They write that AG Sessions was using Scripture to justify specifically the separation of migrant children from their law-breaking parents. Here’s the verse: “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” (Romans 13:1) Sessions’ broader argument focused on full and equal application of the law. 

Of course, there’s no verse that states “separate children from their parents.” But then again, there are no verses which teach that countries have to open their border to anybody who comes knocking. Most Liberals would not realize that though. They only resort to Scriptural arguments to try and shame conservatives for having points of view which they disagree with, not because they believe it is the word of God. 

What is truly maddening, however, is that even some conservative pundits along with the liberals are condemning these actions. Consider AG Sessions’ interview with Hugh Hewitt, in which the SoCal conservative asked Sessions to imagine what it would be like if his grandchildren were separated from him. Sessions is a citizen and he hasn’t placed any member of his in danger or lawless inconvenience. Sessions beat down these unfounded claims of compassion, reminding Hewitt that the United States has a right to secure borders, and that the citizens have a right to full enforcement of the law. Simply put, a country without a border is not a country. Thus, with no United States then all of us would be lost.

President Trump has rebuffed the media’s faux outrage by blaming the Democrats for the “family separation” legislation. Once again, “It’s the law”, but leaders in Washington and across the country are still not reverting the blame back to where it belongs: the illegal alien parents.

And yet another part of this debate is missing. The chattering classes wail about the separation of illegal families, but what about the American parents who have been separated from their families and can never reunite with them? 

Kate Steinle’s parents will never have their daughter back. Nor will Don Rosenberg ever see his son Drew. What about Angie Morfin, Sabine Durden, or Mary Ann Mendoza? The closest thing to reunification for grieving parents like Agnes Gibboney? A visit to her son’s grave (see picture above) in Glendora, CA. Ronald De Silva was murdered by an illegal alien gang-banger who had been previously deported.These and many other American parents have lost their children—forever—because of illegal alien crimes.

But no, instead of those dead children, the left-wing lamestream media spends its time lying that illegal alien minors are pining away in cages. The truth is that they are receiving adequate food, shelter, clothing, and an education. The parents face prosecution for illegal entry but the children receive basic care, probably better than what they had received in their home countries. Which begs the question - American taxpayers are footing the bills for these kids but shouldn’t underprivileged American children access these resources, not foreign nationals?

The media’s contrived angst over the separation of families is purely for political purposes. Represent the facts, respect the law, and if the press is so worried about separated families, then they should tell illegal aliens to stop breaking into the United States." 




TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: illegalimmigration
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To: Kaslin

Many, if not most Democrats, are evil through and through.


21 posted on 06/18/2018 1:09:41 PM PDT by mulligan (EeThe)
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To: Kaslin

“The state’s attorney general, Kamala Harris, said, ‘a child going without education is tantamount to a crime,’and had taken steps to treat it as such: In 2011 she implemented new measures that could result in fines of up to $2,500 or a year in jail for parents of truant kids.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/121186/truancy-laws-unfairly-attack-poor-children-and-parents


22 posted on 06/18/2018 1:14:12 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kaslin

I don’t care much what happens to any illegals caught entering the country as long as they are deported in a timely manner.


23 posted on 06/18/2018 1:22:05 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: CaptainKip

Captain Kip,

I want to use this statement you made: “This policy ... and was endorsed by First Lady Laura Bush when her husband was president.”

However, I need a source to cite for this part of it: “was endorsed by First Lady Laura Bush....”

Thanks,
G-F


24 posted on 06/18/2018 1:23:43 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: CptnObvious

“Maybe they’ll raise our taxes for them too!”

That is already done.
“Illegal immigration costs our country more than $113 billion a year.”
— Donald Trump on Wednesday, August 31st, 2016 in a speech in Arizona


25 posted on 06/18/2018 1:25:27 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Kaslin
No kidding. There were liberals that celebrated the acquittal of Kate Steinle’s murderer.These people are ghouls that celebrate the worse in life and only use children as props for their agenda.
26 posted on 06/18/2018 1:29:58 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: kaehurowing

It’s all a distraction, been going on for years.


27 posted on 06/18/2018 1:52:39 PM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Kaslin

Why didn’t Obummer CHANGE the rules if they were so bad?????


28 posted on 06/18/2018 1:56:16 PM PDT by buffyt (So donÂ’t unborn babies also have the Spark of Divinity????????)
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To: CaptainKip

Amen to that!

“Mr. Trump has spent the majority of his presidency forcing people and departments to follow existing laws.”


29 posted on 06/18/2018 1:57:05 PM PDT by buffyt (So donÂ’t unborn babies also have the Spark of Divinity????????)
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To: Kaslin

The Norht Korea summit went very well. (It’s very early yet, but it went well.) The IG report, as much as he tried to sugar coat it, is a disaster for the Dhimmicraps. So they need this phony story because they weren’t getting any from Stormy Daniels.


30 posted on 06/18/2018 4:19:34 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Kaslin
But then again, there are no verses which teach that countries have to open their border to anybody who comes knocking...no kiddin' - someday somebody might explain why people coming from as far south as Nicaragua and Honduras, and maybe even farther, get to journey completely through other countries including Mexico and are finally given "asylum" in the USA - Mexico is a hellhole in some regions, but in most areas it is peaceful and serene - anyone really trying to escape violence and danger in his own country could surely find safety in any number of places before coming here - there's not reason we have to take them all - a simple law saying no one seeking asylum whose country of citizenship is farther away than the country next to us will be admitted should end the problem......
31 posted on 06/18/2018 4:30:09 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: CaptainKip

“Mr. Trump has spent the majority of his presidency forcing people and departments to follow existing laws.”

I agree with that statement.


32 posted on 06/18/2018 5:11:14 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Kaslin
The idea that law-breaking parents are never separated from their kids flies in the face of reality. When Americans commit crimes in the United States, they are arrested, tried, and if found guilty, convicted. If they are parents, they are separated from their kids due into incarceration. During the trial process, if they cannot afford bail or are not given the option, then they are separated from their kids as well. In more severe cases, they lose custody of their children even after they completed their sentence.

Let's get real on this, shall we? These people are charged with a misdemeanor. If they were Americans then they would have been released on bail, probably on their own recognizance. If the penalty for their crime was a fine of between $50 and $250, as with illegal immigration, then they wouldn't be go to jail at all. And even if they did, their kids would go to foster care or family member and not a detention center.

There are any number of valid reasons for the government taking the actions that they are. But comparing it to what Americans would face under similar circumstances is flat idiotic.

33 posted on 06/18/2018 5:22:41 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: RightGeek

Good tweet.

Who wants children in detention centers?


34 posted on 06/18/2018 5:26:21 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: kaehurowing
Great point.

I stopped watching FOX because I got sick of hearing the babble about illegal alien families.

What about our families broken by divorce and many other factors? The broken families in the ghettos?

35 posted on 06/18/2018 5:26:57 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Brian Griffin

Every American Child killed by an Illegal Invader is separated from their Parents FOREVER.

The Parents of those Dead American Children did not commit a Crime by crossing a Sovereign Border knowing full well what they are doing is Unlawful.

The only Crime was committed against them, their Dead Children and the agony the Family endures every second of their lives.


36 posted on 06/18/2018 5:34:17 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Kaslin
Of course, there’s no verse that states “separate children from their parents.” But then again, there are no verses which teach that countries have to open their border to anybody who comes knocking.

Exodus 22:21 ("Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt."); Exodus 23:9 ("Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt."); Leviticus 19:34-35 ("The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.").

37 posted on 06/19/2018 11:48:48 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Kaslin

Paul Manafort was sent to prison last week, cruelly separating him from his two daughters. Where is the outrage?


38 posted on 06/19/2018 11:50:42 AM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao
Paul Manafort was sent to prison last week, cruelly separating him from his two daughters. Where is the outrage?

Aren't families separated by all the daily murders in Chicago?

39 posted on 06/19/2018 11:54:50 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Kaslin
Trump is trying to cut off the supply of child sex slaves ordered by the democRats.
40 posted on 06/19/2018 12:10:12 PM PDT by deadrock
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