Flashback: Obama in Political Bind Over Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors (2014)

TIME ^ | July 8, 2014 | Michael Scherer

[yesthatjallen]

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Under current law, unaccompanied minors from Central America are automatically referred to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, which works to place them with family members already residing in the United States while they await a court date. Unaccompanied minors from Mexico, however, are treated differently, and can be screened for immediate return to their home country by U.S. Border Patrol if they do not present human trafficking or refugee concerns. “There isn’t really a policy rationale for treating them differently,”a second White House official said Tuesday, arguing that the current system is allowing too many children to stay in the U.S. for extended periods of time. “The number of kids removed is not large enough. That is why we are seeking to make this process more efficient.”

The White House request for $3.7 billion in emergency funding for 2014 is also significantly higher than the “more than $2 billion” estimates senior Administration officials offered reporters last week. It includes $1.6 billion for enhanced deterrence and enforcement on the border, $1.8 billion for Health and Human Service programs for the youth, and $300 million for international programs to aid Central America.

[yesthatjallen]

The Obama administration did little to solve this problem.

[Verbosus]

BookMark

[mulligan]

Obama is and was always blind about everything. He is just one evil person.

[shanover]

BS, the only question is how it hurts Republicans and benefits Democrats. Everything is political.

[butlerweave]

Obama invented Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors

[TBP]

If we detained the kids with the parents, the same people would complain about that. Their outrage is completely manufactured and phony. They’re outraged because someone told them to be.

Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. They should stop pretending to care. It’s offensive.

[HollyB]

I think the argument is not about unaccompanied minors, but minors who come in accompanied by their parents and then separated.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I think the argument is not about unaccompanied minors, but minors who come in accompanied by their parents and then separated."

Yes, but it's still not clear to me if Trump's policy of separating the kids from their parents is a new policy, or a continuation of the same policy that existed before.

But no one in the media wants to talk about the thousands of "unaccompanied minors" who cross the border; aren't THEIR PARENTS to blame for that? Aren't these families "ripping" their OWN children away from their mothers?