Posted on 07/07/2018 1:39:56 PM PDT by Starman417
It’s time we all faced a cold reality: no one actually “cares-cares” about those kids separated from their families at the border. Oh, we all feel the emotions: sickening sadness, sympathy, national embarrassment, frustration, and anger. Those feelings, however, aren’t really because “kids are kept in cages,” but rather because Trump put kids in cages.
Look, the reason we study history is so that we can learn from it. Our 21st Century history tells us that 99.999% of the American people don’t freak out whenever kids are kept in cages or separated from their parents. It’s happened for centuries. Almost every President has done it, and rarely does Congress ever care. Political parties like to blame each other, but…that’s what politicians do. We, the American people, look the other way because that’s what we do.
Every year millions of American kids are separated from their parents. It happens when their parents have broken the law. If mom and dad are arrested for opiods, and relatives aren’t available, the kids are separated. They go through a different system, but a kid separated is a kid separated. Any caveat about how their treated differently in different situations is largely moot if one believes that the issue is kids being separated. A Honduran kid and a kid from Chicago are both going to be more focused on their parents than on the rhetoric about whichever policy and law has pulled them apart.
During the Obama years tens of thousands of kids were held in detention facilities. No one cared. It certainly wasn’t 24/7 coverage on CNN for weeks. Hell, they gave more coverage to that missing Malaysian airliner than they did to those kids held by the Border Patrol during the Obama years. Democrats didn’t freak out over it either. Nancy Pelosi even held a press conference demanding that the issue not be politicized (Like Pepperidge Farm, YouTube remembers). Republicans didn’t say much either back in the day. The Pope didn’t say anything. Did you care? Do you even remember it?
Again, the political/media counter-talking point is that back in 2014 kids were kept in cages for this reason or that, but…kids were still kept in cages. Anyone who has ever had a conversation with a 9yr old knows that the kid doesn’t care about this policy or that law, and instead just wants to know what they did wrong and/or where their parents are. That’s what matters-not the caveat of policy and law debates. Wrong is wrong, bad is bad. Do we dare own up? Does the media? Do politicians still say we shouldn’t politicize it, or is the new meme, “Resist Trump, and vote Democrat….for the children!”
Obama’s policies were different, and the effect of those policies should be the real national sense of shame. He let the kids who came across with adults go free. More than 300,000 were never heard from again. If that doesn’t sound too bad, then either you don’t know or don’t want to remember why kids are separated: crime. While many illegal immigrants are great people, there are also many who are not. Child trafficking is huge. So too drug smuggling, the child sex trade, and a long list of horror stories that even CNN’s Brooke Baldwin had to force herself to look past (see also her interview with a border patrol agent who told her where the real child tragedy lies-in the desert).
President Obama had a choice: separate the kids from the adults they were caught with by the Border Patrol, or just blow it off in full knowledge that mixed in with the hundreds of thousands of good immigrants, hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands would be let go with the portion of child traffickers, drug smugglers, and sex trade participants. President Obama let them go, we all did, and 300,000 were never heard from again. Can you imagine the Hell some of those kids went through? Do you care? Do you feel 150x as sad as for those kids vs. the ones who Trump separated? Democrats and Republicans didn’t care then, and don’t now. Mass media only reports the 300,000 as a caveat to the 2000.
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You’re right.
I don’t give a Shiite.
Legal? WELCOME!
Illegal? Get the Eff Out!
Least of all their parents.
The judge has refused to allow more time to return these kids to their parents. I would love to see them load up all the kids and deliver them to the judge along with a list of incarcerated parents. Then remind the judge it will be the courts responsibility to make sure the parents are in fact parents and not child sex traffickers, drug smugglers etc.
DITTO
If only we had an impenetrable barrier that would keep unwanted, illegal people out of the country.
I feel that most of Americans really dont give a crap about these kids or the parents.
Americans are concerned about their own kids, health education and well being.
The only ones that “say” they care and say is the operative word, are the LEFTIES looking for votes to keep them in power and the MSM tooting that horn for them.
“About the children” mantra has been worn out just as the term racist.
Good cause I for 1 was and still are sick of hearing it
Yup, build that wall. Patrol it with BIG dogs. Interesting that they are doing dna on the kids to match them with parents, since the story came out some of the illegals came with kids not their own to facilitate staying here. Where will those kids end up???
Yup, build that wall. Patrol it with BIG dogs. Interesting that they are doing dna on the kids to match them with parents, since the story came out some of the illegals came with kids not their own to facilitate staying here. Where will those kids end up???
Thanks Starman417. If the lawless grandstander who just won the election in Mexico plays ball, there should be no more problem. Otherwise, besides the border wall, we need to take over a chunk of Mexican scrubland and hire illegals (illegal in Mexico as well as the US) to throw up better-than-local-standards housing for about 15 million (to start) and assign it to all comers. In every local village square there'd be a Trump statue.
Their parents are so eager to hand them off to sex traffickers. Who doesn’t care now?
leftists ride to power on the corpses of people they caused to die.
Its the lefty way.
No, the leftists wish there were far more casualties.
I personally believe that lots of Americans care, which is why Americans send donations when people in other countries are in need. That said, I think Americans are tired of being manipulated by those motivated not by ‘caring’ but by their desire to shift demographics so as to obtain and keep power.
The question that should be asked is ‘why do these poor children have to leave their countries of birth in order to have good lives?’. If children from the US were being taken by their parents (or other adults) to foreign countries in order to have better lives, there would be an enormous outcry about America failing its citizens and its children. Why is a similar outcry not being directed at countries like Mexico, Honduras, etc.?
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Nobody cares...That includes the Mexican government, which helps to enable their parents or minders to get them into the sad situation.
Nothing else makes any kind of sense.
What used to not be a crisis, became a crisis because democrats need an issue to bash republicans over their heads heading into the elections, but mostly, it became a crisis because Trump is the president, while when Obama was president, the same issues regarding the kids and families, weren’t issues at all.
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