Obviously, the Democrats are using the separation of illegal alien kids as a wedge issue going into the 2018 mid-terms. They sure didn’t care when the same was being done quietly under Obama, such as when the media took a tour of a facility back in 2014
The media doesn’t want you to see things like that. But, now, Dems and their pet media are Concerned. Because it also helps deflect from the potential denuclearizing of North Korea and the Inspector General report on FBI misconduct. And now we get
Report: Diane Feinstein’s Immigration Bill Would Prevent Almost Every Federal Arrest
Every single Senate Democrat has backed a bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that would effectively prevent authorities from arresting illegal aliens within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
In the words of moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Feinstein’s “Keep Families Together Act†would “essentially prevent arrest within 100 miles of the border, even if the person has committed a serious crime or is suspected of terrorist activities.â€
For that reason, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has called Feinstein’s bill the “Child Trafficking Encouragement Act,†since it would create incentives for illegal aliens to cross the border with children to evade arrest by authorities.
If you’ve lost super-squish Collins, you’ve lost all Republicans.
A new analysis by Gabriel Malor of The Federalist points out an additional problem: thanks, he says, to sloppy drafting, the bill would effectively prevent federal law enforcement from arresting anyone in most of the U.S.
Every Senate Democrat has now signed on to cosponsor a bill written so carelessly that it does not distinguish between migrant children at the border and U.S. citizen children already within the United States. The bill further does not distinguish between federal officers handling the border crisis and federal law enforcement pursuing the ordinary course of their duties.
With the GOP in control of the Senate, there’s no way this passes, and will most likely never make it out of committee (Mitch McConnell would actually be wise in bringing it to the floor quickly, putting Democrats on record as supporting this abomination).
I was gobsmacked when I actually dug into the Democrats' bill to address family separation.
Their bill actually prohibits separating any child (including U.S. citizens!) from a parent almost anywhere in the U.S. by any officer of DHS, DOJ, or HHS. https://t.co/ugPw0BiLAZ
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 19, 2018
But, really, Democrats do not want it passed. Sure, there’s a possibility that this was just a poorly crafted piece of legislation put together in a hurry. Most likely, they know exactly what’s in it, and will grandstand on it. They know the finer nuances of the legislation will not be explained in the media, and that most people will only see that it stops the separation.
Schumer doesn't want to help the kids he says are living in a concentration camp. https://t.co/Pp6qJ5rODg
— Dan ???????? (@danieltobin) June 19, 2018
Schumer doesn’t want the duly elected legislative branch to debate and pass law. Weird, eh?
Not again.
Great info! Ammo!
We are in the midst of a propaganda war.
We already know that illegal immigrants are kidnapping children to use as shields in their crossing attempts. If they knew we had a rule like this, there would be a child rental service with convenient branches all along the border.
We already know that really bad people import minors to be sex slaves in immigrant communities, where such third world practices are still considered an OK way to make a living.
The only way to protect children is to separate them from the adults they are with until their paternity and identity can be established.
The really amazing thing is how so many democrats and their followers are blindly supporting child exploitation and human trafficking, then just a few years ago, they claimed they were universally against it. What has changed to get so many democrats to completely forget they had this core value such a short time ago?
— Hillary (The Heifer) 2014
— Loose Shoes
The previous administration did not separate children from parents. They DID detain them as families. And even if the previous administration DID (they did not) would that make it acceptable for the current administration?
If you support the US government taking children from border crossers as a deterrent, just say so.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/fact-check-did-obama-administration-separate-families-n884856
The current president has taken 2000 children from their parents in just over 1 month. Although he is a master manipulator of both the media and the people, this may be a political miscalculation on his part. Folks are blaming him for abusing these children – they are not blaming Congress.
The administration’s new policy was to separate the children from their parents to 1) deter future border crossings (admitted) and 2) force Congress to accede to his wishes wrt immigration (obvious).
Incorrect. Again.
https://lawandcrime.com/immigration/obamas-immigration-agencies-separated-children-from-their-families-too-2/
Learn something.
No, Jeff, you are lying again. Obama did separate families and the pictures that you see are most from 2014. The child behind a cage is from a protest. The children that are not with their parents for the most part were picked up at illegal border crossings, like in the desert. These are children that are being trafficked. You have been coming here for several years, it would seem that you would know that the people who read this blog are informed, make yourself informed as well and quit lying.
Families are not separated unless the adults are being adjudicated of a crime, status as the child’s parent/guardian cannot be determined, the ‘adult’ poses a danger to the child or the ‘adult’ is suspected of engaging in human trafficking.
So either Obama policies did, in fact, separate families until they were sure it was safe for the children to be reunited with their parents or his admin was just releasing these people into the country with the children they arrived with and very likely putting those children at serious risk. You may be OK with this, but I would much rather make sure these children are really with their parents and that being with them will not put them in danger.
In you little screed, you left out one very important word: ILLEGAL. These policies are designed to discourage ILLEGAL border crossings. It was Obama’s Catch and Release policy that exacerbated this problem. When people found out that they could cross the border illegally with a child, if they were caught, they would likely be released. This just opened to door for more human trafficking, drug dealers, gang members and incentive for parents to sell their children to border crossers.
Want to talk about what is more inhumane? Compare simply catching and releasing illegal crossers not knowing if the children they are with will be safe or hold these people in a safe facility where they have food, water and health care until it can be determined that they will be safe with the adult they came with.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/politics/el-salvador-father-reunited-son/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-06-19T23%3A55%3A00&utm_term=image
This guy had heard that if he and his son illegally crossed the border. If caught, they would be released and he would be living in the US. Instead, he was detained. They processed him while his son was housed in a facility with others his own age. This guy spent $6000 to a smuggler to come to the US. The good thing is, that he and his son were reunited within 36 hours and the were sent to Florida while waiting for his asylum request to be processed. He wasn’t charged with illegal entry and was released with his son because he has no criminal record and this was his first time entering the US illegally.
He could have saved himself and his son a lot of trouble and money by simply going to a port of entry and asking for asylum. He would have been processed, vetted and allowed entry and have his son with him the whole time.
If he had any brains at all, and a clean criminal background, he could have got a tourist visa, a first class ticket on Delta and traveled in style for a lot less money, then just overstayed his visa.
Or, after doing that, just request asylum when he got to that legal port of entry.
For those who wish to learn.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/06/18/myth-vs-fact-dhs-zero-tolerance-policy
It’s all moot… for now.
Trump just signed an Executive Order ending his separation policy.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-did-president-trump-reverse-course-on-family-separation/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/trump-signs-order-temporarily-ending-family-separation-policy-days-falsely-blaming-democrats/
Did Sessions and DHS Sec Nielson enact the policy without Trump’s knowledge, or did he bow to political pressure? Did the GOP persuade him that this was poison for November?
Yikes. Trump, the far-right,
PravdaFOX, and the administration spend a week defending snatching immigrant kids from their parents, and then Trump kneecaps his supporters with an Executive Order.If it was good policy, why stop it?
It was a good policy. But now, by keeping ‘families’, if they really are families, together the very real possibility that we will be leaving children in the clutches of abusers, traffickers and predators is now much greater. Sad that you and your ilk wished for this and will now celebrate this as a win. Then, 6 months to a year from now, when children are being abused, raped or sold into sexual slavery, you will be blaming Trump again.
If it was such a good policy, why did Trump eviscerate it? Do you feel betrayed?
Eviscerate???
Apparently, little Jeffery Keene of St. Louis, MO. hasn’t read Trump’s EO or does not understand the meaning of eviscerate.
Thank you! That’s what we were after. Don’t stop now.
What’s that you’re after?
An explanation of Trump’s EO or the meaning of eviscerate?
Maybe you could clarify?
Very telling that you focused on Trump’s EO and shaming him instead of the very real danger that this puts these children in. Again, you guys don’t give a shit about these kids. All you care about is getting your little victories over Trump. So what if a few kids get hurt/killed/raped/prostituted in the process right?
Maybe the little guy has a spot for this little genius there at Galera. She seems to have the proper socialist credentials.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/20/unstable-activist-allison-hrabar-who-threatened-dhs-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-is-a-federal-employee-within-the-doj/
I’m not a lawyer, so can someone point out the language in the text of the proposed bill where the authorities are prevented from taking children from parents anywhere in the US or where it prevents authorities from arresting presumed criminals within 100 miles of the border or anywhere in the US?
Thanks.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/3036/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22S.3036%22%5D%7D&r=1
Yep, you’re right.
You are not a lawyer.
TEACH:
Can you point out in the proposed bill where it Would Prevent Almost Every Federal Arrest?
Thanks
Can somebody point to me why the Dems didn’t “fix†the the immigration problem as they saw to it by law, not executive order, when the had super-majorities in Congress? Whoops, they didn’t, so the rest is all hypocrisy. Nothing new