Posted on 06/22/2018 9:55:39 PM PDT by John Semmens
After a week of hounding President Trump for continuing former President Obama's occasional practice of separating the children of illegal immigrants from their parents, they now are howling over his executive order allowing these children to stay with their parents in detention centers.
Aspiring 2020 presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif) called Trump's effort to keep immigrant children with their parents "inhumane. When we demanded that children and parents not be separated it was our hope that both would be released. ICE could give the parents instructions to return for a court hearing on whether they can stay and release them from custody."
What Harris demands is the infamous "catch and release" option that was frequently used during the later years of the Obama Administration. The flaw in this approach was that hardly any of these illegal immigrants show up for their court date. Nevertheless, Harris professed herself "unconcerned. Wanting a better life shouldn't be illegal. The benefits available in the countries these immigrants are fleeing are minimal to nonexistent. Their governments expect these people to take care of themselves. Here the government will ensure that they are fed, housed, healthy and educated. Coming here is smart. We shouldn't be punishing people who make the effort to grab the benefits America has to offer. Welfare shouldn't be restricted to only those lucky enough to be born here."
Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has filed suit against Trump's executive order claiming "it is illegal. The Ninth Circuit Court already ruled that detaining children for more than 20 days is not permitted. Trump's order violates that by allowing detention for an indefinite period while the parents' case is being adjudicated. The only legal option is 'catch and release.'"
"Adjudication" is only necessary for the 85% of the illegal immigrants who are claiming "refugee" status, i.e., alleging that they face a serious threat to their health and/or safety if they stay in their country of origin. While this claim may be true, the reservoir of persons living in countries that threaten their health and safety is in the billions. Rich as America is, there is no way it can support the hordes that would crash our borders if the Democrats' open border policy prevails.
While leading Democrats are adamant that these illegal immigrants have a right to live in the United States, they are not so eager to have them live in their neighborhoods. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has already expressed fear that the immigrants bused to his city "may be infested with lice and bed bugs."
How the Democrats' posturing on this issue will affect their chances in the November elections remains to be seen. Polls show that only 30% of Democrat voters support the "catch and release" option, while 49% favor the approach laid out in Trump's executive order. Whether the Party's media allies will be able to generate propaganda sufficiently persuasive to overcome this deficit is unknown.
Meanwhile in Mexico, presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared free migration a human right and vowed to "send tens of millions more north after I am elected to take back the land stolen from us by Yankee aggression in the 1800s."
In related news, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned Trump's immigration policies, calling them "malicious" and praised "the UN's decision to expel the United States from its Human Rights Commission." Meanwhile, Khamenei profusely praised the Iranian Guidance Patrol's vigilance after they viciously beat a handful of burka-clad girls for dancing at their graduation ceremony.
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