Posted on 06/19/2018 7:54:08 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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Word of the Trump administration’s new “zero tolerance” policy, which calls for prosecuting everyone who crosses the border illegally, has been traveling along the migrant trail that winds through Mexico and Central America. People learn of it by television, by social media and, mostly, by word of mouth.
While the policy has stirred controversy in the United States, with lawmakers from both parties calling for its end in the face of defiance from the Trump administration, it has sowed confusion for the migrants bound for the United States, who are struggling to make sense of what it means for the rest of their journey.
Some, like Ms. Flores, are now considering staying in Mexico.
Some are pausing their trips to see if the separation policy is reversed; on Tuesday evening, Republican senators in Washington moved to try to defuse the crisis and find a way to end the policy.
Others are weighing the risks of an illegal crossing against the chances of success with an asylum petition.
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Until the announcement of the zero tolerance policy, and under previous administrations, adults traveling with their minor children were generally exempted from criminal prosecutions.
This was a well-known policy throughout Mexico and Central America, and was often part of the calculus for migrants: Those traveling with their children knew that if they were detained and put into deportation proceedings, they would most likely be released quickly, sometimes with an ankle monitor, to await their day in court.
That was what Ms. Flores understood, until she was told of the new approach.
“I had thought that if a mother like me had gone to the border with a child, I’d be allowed to leave detention,” she said
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So many lies of omission. But they’re still lies.
Hold the line!
Making America AMERICA again.
The fact that the NY Times is sympathetic to these Mexican leeches and the sense of entitlement to break our laws, shows how twisted and out of touch theirlogic is.
Sensible solution.
That’s why I can barely watch Hannity.
I gave up on his radio show years ago for that reason and the fact that Hannity interrupts his own good guests, to insert his own ideas.
Trump will defeat all these politicians. They just don’t know it yet or they are trying to survive. Trump owns this issue and the President will not shrink from a fight for what is right the country.
Stay the hell out!! Habla?
We wouldn’t have these problems if the LEFT voted to build the wall. It is on them.
there not illegals...they’re simple “migrant” workers now...next they’ll be refugees and then saints.
For Families in Mexico, Threat of Separation Puts ILLEGAL INVASION Plans in Doubt
“The invaders may include children, but it is an invasion nonetheless.”
Children are their weapons.
And Honduras, El Salvador and many other countries. Not only Mexico. To them, it’s the most frightening possibility. Aid volunteers have been beaten to death by mobs in some of those countries over nothing more than rumors that children would be taken.
Winning!
Geraldo, the guy who thinks illegal aliens come into the US to pick bananas. (I heard him say it)
Very interesting. Is NYT’s actually on Trump’s side?
Let Mexico and South American countries take care of their own poor. Wedon’t have the means, nor do we have any obligation to take care of other countries’ problems.
Our government also should not enable human trafficking.
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.
Crooked Hitlery Clinton.
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