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.
This looks like the Left seizing on a very narrow form of something that’s supposed to be dear to the Right, and twisting the hell out of it. This isn’t about balance, this is about crazy distortion.
It should seem to be easy enough to beat this by keeping a level head and being patient and making a case, but at the same time the Right is developing its own squirreliness. It develops its own little litmus tests and can’t even agree on a hierarchy of desiderata. No wonder the Left gets away with it. It’s fighting something equally shallow.
Loved Kellyanne Conway's comments - especially the one that went, "Nobody likes to see children ripped from their Mothers' arms, or their Mothers' wombs, frankly........"
Slapped them where it hurts....
Because that is what demo_rats do. They cause problems and when people notice, they immediately project and blame others for what they did.
Leftists are horrible people.
JoMa
Don’t see what the big deals is. Haven’t parents sent their “Unaccompanied” children here before? If it was okay to separate themselves back then, why not now?
p.s.
the media is making a BIG deal about this. If you are so inclined,
go vote on wusa9.com/vote
to show those trying to excuse illegal crossings that it is not okay.
Criminals aren’t responsible and many never stop until they are incarcerated or eliminated.
It takes some criminals to raze a republic.
LOCK THEM UP!
I’ve been watching the left separate children from their mothers and families for damn near as long as I’ve been alive. If they survive not being separated before birth then they do it as soon as they hit public schools.
“signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1997, followed by then-President Barack Obama’s decisions and policies”
What I been saying all week to these lefty wackos on Twitter AND it got me permanently BANNED by the way. That website is so bias against conservatives it’s insane. All week reading every curse word in existence by lefties and that’s perfectly OK. It seems the only reason they don’t ban Trump is because their bias would be utterly blatant for everyone to see, instead they ban the little guy.
“The Democrats and never-Trumpers are milking this situation for all its worth. I even heard Laura Bush condemn it.”
The powers that be are attempting to generate a frenzy,
a crisis, in an effort to accomplish their goals: open borders and amnesty.
They think that the spear point to use that can accomplish this is “the children” and get all Americans all mushy about the children.
One would think that the Trump administration is calling for more abortions to really, really “rip” kids from their parents. Or, the word “tear” kids from their parents is used quite often.
Yes, Trump is ripping, tearing, kids. Trump is a ghoul. This is said so often in an effort to drown out the kidnappings, rape, of kids being brought up illegally.
The supposed parents must not think it is ghoulish or they would not be bringing children as shields to enter the country.
It reminds me of the terrorists in the Middle East hiding behind their children as shields.
If we could only convince the Left that the illegals would vote Republicans, the Democrats would be down on the border gunning them down as they come and installing minefields.
Thanks for the ping , Jim.
Criminals who are apprehended are always separated from their children.
For my part, I’d offer limited amnesty. Any illegal who has not committed another crime, can pack his children up and get a free bus ticket to any country south or the border as long as he promises not to come back - ever.
The powers that be are attempting to generate a frenzy,
a crisis, in an effort to accomplish their goals: open borders and amnesty.
They think that the spear point to use that can accomplish this is “the children” and get all Americans all mushy about the children.
One would think that the Trump administration is calling for more abortions to really, really “rip” kids from their parents. Or, the word “tear” kids from their parents is used quite often.
Yes, Trump is ripping, tearing, kids. Trump is a ghoul. This is said so often in an effort to drown out the kidnappings, rape, of kids being brought up illegally.
The supposed parents must not think it is ghoulish or they would not be bringing children as shields to enter the country.
It reminds me of the terrorists in the Middle East hiding behind their children as shields.
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ol bill clinton just can’t wriggle out from anything anymore
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The Homeland Security Act 2002, passed by the Dem Majority Senate on Nov 19, 2002. This law contains the language that tells DHS how to deal with the kids. Detained parents can’t care for their kids, so their kids are “unaccompanied”. @SenSchumer vote~YES~ #PassedByDemocrats
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On this Father’s Day I’m thinking of the thousands of children separated from their parents at the border. These children should not be a negotiating tool. And reuniting them with their families would reaffirm America’s belief in & support for all parents who love their children.
a MSNBC CNN Kool aid swallower told me yesterday that the issue is that there are so MANY being ripped from their mother’s arms.
So many. Pain only counts when Trump does it.
I just finished reading Ryan Murphy’s SMU study on the prevalence of psychopaths in our states and, though it could not be counted as an actual state, the very greatest concentration was in Washington D.C. It is this kind of underhanded denial and transfer of their own decisions and actions to others which defines the leftist, Democratic party in the US. They are just the opposite of the Democratic party I knew in my youth and the Baby Boomers have put that change on steroids. They stop at nothing to turn inside out and upside down all of their own behaviors in their attempt not to own anything they have done and they do this, sometimes in the face of what everyone knows they have done. I know politics is a dirty business and, may be an environment that few good men and women can stand for long. However, it does seem to attract those who see an opportunity to gain riches quickly without resorting to a mafia membership. And, when we do discover how they have robbed us, they hardly ever lost their government perks and hardly ever received any real punishment. In fact, the books they write make them richer than ever. This is NOT the kind of system our Founders intended.
Exactly, if your child is with you when you’re arrested then the kid goes to the police station and waits for another family member to pick them up, if there is no other person to get the kid it goes into foster care.
Democrats created this situation.....a magnet of welfare benefits so tantalizing, parents willingly send their children across the border for free food, shelter and education.
The enforcement of the border laws or a wall would drive up the cost of narcotics.. That's what keeps the dimocraps in office.. Every dead body in the US and Mexico needs to be put right at the feet of the democratic party.. They are responsible for all of it.!!
qaz123...You have genius insights! Your post reveals the real nature of the left as they protect their perch at the top of the heap, or, at the top of the ladder after they have removed the rungs so that no one else can challenge them. Think of Harvard and it’s racism against Asians, for example. Is that not, along with the immigration issue, just another spoke in their wheel of dictatorship over the “common” man or “serf.” Everything this small number of exceedingly rich people do is oriented to one thing and that is the wielding of power over this nation through our government. It remains to be seen whether they can actually ruin the country before the majority of people, native and immigrant, realize what they are up to.
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