There is a lot of media misinformation going on about the detention centers full of migrant kids. The narrative would have you believe that 100% of the time, jackbooted ICE thugs are yanking children out of the arms of crying mothers and locking them up.
This is not true. There are many kids who are coming with no parents or guardians, known as unaccompanied minors. There are also a lot of kids who are being brought over by adults who they are not related to so the adults can falsely claim refugee status.
The issue that getting most of the attention is the Trump enforcement of a “zero tolerance” policy for illegal immigrants.
In short, the law says that children can be separated from their parents under certain circumstances, including criminal behavior of the parents. The zero tolerance policy of Trump says that any illegal entry into the US is criminal and therefore will result in separation. It is used as a deterrent.
In years past the policy was to give illegals a summons for a court date and let them go, wherein they would promptly disappear.
Migrants to come to a port of entry and claim refugee status, and exhibit no other criminality are not separated.
This policy, if somewhat extreme, has been implemented because illegal immigration is up. A good economy and low unemployment is a magnet for illegals.
In all of this there is room for discussion about what to do, what policies should be, how do deal with trafficked children, unaccompanied minors, people with criminal histories, false applications for asylum, etc.
However, the Democrats and the Far Left have made all of that impossible.
We’re done. Done. The Rubicon has been crossed.
They have made every possible parallel between child detention and Nazi concentration camps or the Holocaust.
MSNBC analysts claim that the Trump administration is currently operating concentration camps. pic.twitter.com/FziiJpO00q
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 15, 2018
Other governments have separated mothers and children pic.twitter.com/tvlBkGjT0h
— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) June 16, 2018
Dem CT Sen Blumenthal: This policy of family separation reminds us of the cattle cars of Nazi Germany when children were separated from their parents and marched to supposed showers..it reminds us of all the darkest periods in American history..it should be stopped right away.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 18, 2018
I feel pity for Trump stooges who lack the character to oppose his heartless policy that rips babies from their mothers’ arms and sends children to showers and then disappear. https://t.co/tkRygCMRMK
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 16, 2018
This is disgusting. Where are the crematoriums? Where are the gas chambers. Where are the forced labor camps? Are these children being starved to death? Where are the doctors sewing migrant Twins together or vivisecting children. Where can you buy a Mexican kid skin lamp?
Oh, that’s right, none of that has happened. Kids are being kept in what amounts to a secure school where they are clothed, fed, and given medical care until their parents are processed through the courts.
This is not the Holocaust.
Also, note how not one Democrat has brought up time when FDR interred the Japanese, which would be a lot closer to this situation given that it happened in America and were not death camps, but they want to bury that embarrassment hard.
A subset of this Holocaust idea America as the worlds worst human rights violators.
We are already among the worst abusers of Human Rights on this earth. And we are inches away from being investigated by the Hague for our newly formed Fascist ways. All ths in the 510 days of his twisted regime. https://t.co/rqcvLaHqyE
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) June 18, 2018
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Sierra Leon, Syria? Nope, those are all less bad than we are.
Then there are those who think The New Colossus is Federal Law.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door pic.twitter.com/xIYBIL5phe
— Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 18, 2018
"The statue of Liberty is weeping," says @gayleking on what she's witnessed in McAllen, Texas pic.twitter.com/lCPiBFMTQO
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) June 18, 2018
Keep in mind that The Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island which is next to Ellis Island. The image of The Statue of Liberty in the American conscience is if immigrants passing by Lady Liberty on their way to Ellis Island which was one of America’s largest and most famous ports of entry, from 1892 to 1954.
The Statue of Liberty was a welcoming sign for immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees entering the United States legally.
There are no stories of people remembering passing the State of Liberty as they swam across New York harbor and hopped a fence in the dead of night.
This, if thought about critically, is the exact opposite of their point. We welcome people who come here in accordance with our immigration laws and arrive at a port of entry with paperwork in hand.
But when you are deliberately and emphatically misrepresenting the truth, calling illegal immigrant detention centers “concentration camps,” calling ICE agents Nazis, and suggesting that there is no difference between illegal immigration across a river and legal immigration trough a port of entry, while saying America is worse than nations that gas their own people to death, there is no way to have a rational discussion with that.
I keep saying it is time for an amicable national divorce.
This is just another example of why.
When the debate breaks down this far and one side is so far from the facts that they can’t see reality over the horizon, there is no way to bring unity back to that conversation.
It’s time to go our separate ways. Let those who think that stopping people who hop a fence is tantamount to the Holocaust form their own nation and let unguarded, open boarders be their law. The rest of us will have a reasonable debate about what to do to keep our nation safe.
Your first link about unaccompanied minors just goes to the Shannon Watts twitter post from your prior post.
Fixed. Too much stuff in my clipboard.
Funny how when this was goin on during obamas rien all you heard was crickets….and anyone mentions it libs say well we dont want to go there..
One problem with the divorce … Many states which would like the rule of law, are on the border.
California can be the open boarders gateway to the Democratic Socialist Republic of North America.
This will come to a head sometime in the near future.
Mothers and fathers are separated from their children by the courts every day.
Woman gets arrested for selling a couple bags of dope, and ends up doing three years in prison, her kids end up in foster care (most likely much worse than the “gulags” that Trump is running), and no one bats an eye.
Woman commits the illegal act of entering the country without proper clearance, and gets separated from her children, and the Democrats are all weepy about it. (And, as curby noted, this was going on during a Democrat Presidential administration, but no one noticed it then…)
Let’s face it. The problem isn’t that families are getting separated. The problem isn’t immigrants.
The problem is that someone on the right side of the political aisle is doing something. No, let me clarify. The problem is that someone is on the right side of the political aisle.
[…] Earlier today I said how the how the immigration situation was going to lead us to a national divorce. […]
Funny how the left mourns for the illegal kids, yet crickets during operation Pedro Pan as families voluntarily sent their kids here to get away from communism, and it was all done legally.
There will be no national devorce, the rot has been left ignored to long and is to widely spread. Its like going to replace some decayed boards on your deck only to realize most of the boards have go soft with rot or are infected to some degree. And in this case the left would favor it as it would just give them a base to spread their rott and intentionally split off one piece of the united states at a time untill we have nothing left. The entire united states would fall apart over every little issue.
With regard to the concept of a “national divorce”: as Aesop has mentioned on Racounteur Report, there are the problems of (a) those “red” Americans (our team) left behind “behind enemy lines” (which is an abhorrent thing to consider), and (b) to paraphrase Aesop’s turn of phrase, he, and many, many others are (to understate it in the extreme) reluctant to give any land other folks risked (and lost) their lives to protect, into the hands of verminous scum.
As was highlighted, the horrific attempt to suggest moral equivalence between legal and rationale actions (i.e. our immigration laws) and evil Nazi Germany is not easily forgiven.
Likewise, their efforts to suggest that all firearms owners are just about to murder someone is almost as noxious.
Leftists, Democrats, Progressives lack a moral compass. They celebrate murder by abortion, sexual perversions, rule of man, illegal immigration over citizens, soft coups, illicit drugs, euthanasia, and so on.
I don’t want a national divorce. Instead, I want them to conduct a violent attack on us so we can unleash the “pimp hand” of real Americans to bitch slap them silly.