Posted on 05/09/2018 2:29:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the toughest situations for our Customs and Border Patrol officers is when they are forced to deal with two categories of illegal aliens: unaccompanied minors and what immigration officials refer to as Family Units (FUs). The Family Unit designation applies to multiple, related illegal aliens including minor children. Contrary to the monstrous picture of our immigration enforcement officials painted by Democrats, nobody wants to see innocent children displaced or split up from their families. Unfortunately, in order to comply with our own laws and ensure the safety of minors, that’s what winds up happening all too often on the Mexican border.
But who is really to blame for that? The law enforcement officials who are following the rules or the parents who choose to knowingly break the law by bringing or sending their children across the border illegally? When Attorney General Jeff Sessions had the question put to him recently he delivered a stiff dose of harsh reality. (LA Times, emphasis added)
All immigrants who cross the border illegally will be charged with a crime under a new “zero tolerance” border enforcement policy, Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions said Monday, launching a crackdown that could overwhelm already-clogged detention facilities and immigration courts with hundreds of thousands of new cases.
Sessions also said that families who illegally cross the border may be separated after their arrest, with children sent to juvenile shelters while their parents are sent to adult detention facilities. Until now, border agents tried to keep parents and their children at the same detention site…
“If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law,” Sessions said earlier Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz. “If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.”
As the kids like to say these days… Boom!
I’ll confess that I’ve been waiting a while to hear some common sense like this coming from the executive branch of our government. Crossing the border illegally is a crime. When people commit other crimes such as robbery, assault or murder, the perpetrators who are sent to prison sometimes have families, including children. You don’t hear anyone demanding they get a pass so they won’t be separated from their kids. To borrow a line from the Baretta theme song, don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. (Some of you younger readers may have to go Google that one.)
Sessions went on to remind any potential visitors that our border is not open and if you desire entry, “Make your claim. Wait your turn.” He finished up with another bit of cold, hard truth, telling the audience that we cannot take everyone on this planet who is in a difficult situation.
I continue to hear media talking heads suggesting that Sessions is on the way out or moaning about why President Trump hasn’t fired his Attorney General yet. There’s your reason in a nutshell. That’s precisely the language Trump was using on the campaign trail and Sessions is turning those words into actions. The President clearly likes results and good headlines, and Sessions continues to deliver both.
Nice tawk.
Suppose I failed to pay my taxes and I owe the IRS tens of thousands of dollars and am unable to pay, what do they do to me?
I guess I would have to do jail time. THAT is separation from my family and my kids.
Where’s the sympathy for someone like me?
Suppose I failed to pay my taxes and I owe the IRS tens of thousands of dollars and am unable to pay, what do they do to me?
I guess I would have to do jail time. THAT is separation from my family and my kids.
Wheres the sympathy for someone like me?
You are a citizen.
Our representatives don’t care about U.S. citizens, only fraudulently documented foreigners.
I agree.
I thought we didn’t have debtor prisons here. Are taxes an exception? If there’s no fraud?
Wouldn’t they “just” make you homeless by seizing all your assets and garnishing your wages to collect on the debt?
Cruel heartless publicans... /s
How cute. Somebody woke the AG, wound him up, and sent him out in public for a couple of hours.
He must be exhausted.
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Fake Post
Which part?
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But you are an American, you dont count. /lib speak
made up and not true
LOL!
Sessions is still stupid at best or a deliberate traitor at worst, any Freeper on this forum could make the same statement on illegals and their kids.
made up and not true
Which part specifically?
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I have no sympathy for families that are forced to split because the decision to split is their decision, not the US government’s decision.
If a parent or parents are deported, they can easily take their children with them and if they are good parents, they would take them. Of course we know, they are NOT good parents which is why they illegally crossed into the USA in the first place.
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