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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Most care more about these kids in Thailand than they do about S and Central American kids infiltrating our country, illegally
It’s the parents, or other adults, responsible for these kids being in a foreign country illegally. Not the kids.
OH well, its the old kids as pawns routine.
Including their parents.
I am strongly in favor of closing the border to illegal entry, and don’t think being born in America should automatically result in citizenship. That said, I think children are treated shabbily in many contexts, including in that socialist hellhole Venezuela. We should be holding corrupt Central and South American countries accountable for the suffering they cause.
LOL Good one!
whatever, buh bye
I care. I care a lot. I care that they’re here illegally and wasting our tax dollars and resources. Their parents don’t care much about them or they wouldn’t be using them as shields to get in themselves or sending them over with sicko pervs.
Have a great rest of the weekend. No offense meant.
um...No, we all do not feel those emotions.
I’d wager that a good number of those good parents SOLD a lot of their kids because they couldn’t feed them. That is not uncommon in sh!thole countries.
The problem is that it is not the people in power (elite Democrats and Republicans) giving amnesty to illegals who are affected but the Americans, mostly poor and middle class, who are affected.
Shouldn’t those affected have a say in it?
Also, why not help true legal Americans first?
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