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Even is some third world countries women serving time for crimes are allowed to have their children with them. Couldn't we at least accommodate these boarder crossers in the same manner until their cases are adjudicated? We're talking about a simple humanitarian gesture to innocent children.
I'm surprised that a person who has children would say these things, that is disappointing to say the least.
If one is told they are moving to another country wouldn't you read up on the laws? Would you read on the proper way to move to said country so you 1) don't violate their laws and 2) don't violate your current countries laws?
Be surprised all you want. There are right ways to do things and wrong ways also.
I think we should put all the children in jail with their mothers for now. Not only undocumented, but also Americans, that way they can be with their mothers. We can introduce training programs to teach them domestic trades and then that will solve a lot of our labor shortages.
Really? I'm calling B.S. on that statement <bold>. I'd believe there were people who had kids with them who couldn't PROVE that they were related to said kids, were then deported without said "supposed" relative kids (reported fact).
I'd believe that these people who had kids with them were themselves dirtbags and/or had issues that precluded them from being a "safe" person to release kids to and so the kids were kept in protective custody as happens on a daily basis in our court system.
Look, nobody who has any kind of heart would support separating kids from their custodial adults if it wasn't actually necessary. Here's the rub, these people are entering the country ILLEGALLY dragging their children along, OR sometimes using kids as a shield believing that it will get them a free pass OR they are being paid.
What do all you hand wringers suggest we do with all these people who clearly violate our laws? Had they just gone to a port of entry they'd be processed and kept together either allowed entry or deported TOGETHER.
Noooooo,nope,no way, that's no bueno as the "catch and release" policies of the past several administrations has been advertised world wide as gospel, just get your feet on U.S. soil and you'll be forgotten about after a mild harassment by LEO's and allowed to worm or weasel your way in wayyyy ahead of all those fools who are stupid enough to go the legal route.
So, c'mon all of you people who are complaining,crying and hand wringing about the evil,mean and horrible administration and those people that see the logic and legal reasoning in what's going on what is YOUR solution?
Do we empty out Texas and just make that a holding area? How's about Alaska? Do we just erase our border and allow all who want to enter to just walk in and get on the welfare gravy train?
Have you honestly missed that the administration is forcibly separating ALL children from their parents at the border?
Really?
Some reality for you:
"Sandweg's warning contradicts White House messaging that the separation of women and children migrants under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy is only temporary.
While a parent can quickly move from detention to deportation, a child's case for asylum or deportation may not be heard by a judge for several years because deporting a child is a lower priority for the courts, Sandweg explained.
"You could easily end up in a situation where the gap between a parent's deportation and a child's deportation is years," Sandweg said."
This policy could actually be creating more wards of the states where these children are housed.
More mouths to feed, more kids in the foster care system, more angry young adults when they age out of that system.
Win-win, right?
"On the afternoon of their second day in detention, two male agents entered the cell. “They didn’t say anything,” Rivera told me. “They just walked over and grabbed Jairo. It felt like my son was stuck to me. He clung to me, cried and screamed. They had to pull him away.”"
Thank you for your post. I'm glad to see more moderate republicans speak out against this completely inhumane policy. I am all for regulating our border and overhauling our immigration system. This does not mean we should punish the most vulnerable and most innocent - young children who are ripped from the arms of their parents. Such a policy is the antithesis of everything the US is supposed to stand for. We do not need to become barbarians to make our border safe.
Instead, we need to go after people such as the poster above who advocates for his need of cheap labor. Any employer who knowingly hires undocumented laborers should be subject to the full penalties of the law. The people who deserve to be put in cages are those who would play the system in this manner - not small children.
Thank you very much and well said! Trump seems to be a conservative after all, believing that people should be held responsible for their own actions. He seems to believe that teaching law breakers that their actions have consequences, it will be a deterrence to other law breakers.
I could not disagree more. The only solution is to open the border.
There is NO policy or precedure in place to re-unite children with their parents after they are separated. NONE.
There are many cases where parents have already been forcibly deported, not knowing where their children are and the children having no idea where their parents are, and no way to re-unite them.
Yesterday during the White House briefing, one of the reporters asked Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen where all the little girls are being kept. She had no idea where they were.
Thank you for your post. I'm glad to see more moderate republicans speak out against this completely inhumane policy. I am all for regulating our border and overhauling our immigration system. This does not mean we should punish the most vulnerable and most innocent - young children who are ripped from the arms of their parents. Such a policy is the antithesis of everything the US is supposed to stand for. We do not need to become barbarians to make our border safe.
Instead, we need to go after people such as the poster above who advocates for his need of cheap labor. Any employer who knowingly hires undocumented laborers should be subject to the full penalties of the law. The people who deserve to be put in cages are those who would play the system in this manner - not small children.
That's a great sentiment and I agree. But the "poster above" is full of it and is just trolling. I know plenty of small business owners and contractors who have illegal workers (usually via subs so they can skirt the e-verify law). They don't pay them $5 bucks an hour. All of them pay more than minimum wage which is 10 bucks plus here and usually a lot more. They hire them because they can't find enough legal workers. We have a major labor shortage in low skilled and trades positions in the boom cities and states and illegal labor is absolutely necessary to be able to stay in business.
Or maybe they stop this atrocity now and work out a procedure for re-uniting parents with their children before this goes any further.
So typical of the Trump administration.
Act first, think later.
Everything is crisis management. They have NO IDEA what they are doing.
This, exactly.
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