Democrats Blame Trump for Obama-Era Photo of Children Separated from Parents at Border

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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight Or Cluster Friggin' Fake News!!!!


http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa...daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20180528
Democrats Blame Trump for Obama-Era Photo of Children Separated from Parents at Border
28 May 2018

"Democrats attacked President Donald Trump over the weekend for a photo of migrant children being detained by immigration enforcement — even though the photo was actually taken in 2014, druing President Barack Obama’s term.".....

 

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa...daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20180528
Fake News: Top Liberals Blame Trump for ‘Awful’ Photos of Obama’s Migrant Detention Centers
by Joshua Caplan
28 May 2018

 

[dennishoddy]

Isn’t it grand when the media gets caught with their pants down around their ankles?
Sadly, the targeted audience won’t see the retraction.

 

[TerryMiller]

Media and Democrats (not much difference between the two) tend to be hypocritical. However, I really love it when they get caught in a lie, especially when they are attacking conservative values.

 

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[AKJ20]

Stay away from the %*#% border!

Problem solved !!!!!

 

[dlbleak]

I saw a pic of a young mother holding her baby the other day on the news. She was holding a sign that say 'stop tearing families apart'.
I would love to ask her if she would take her child to a place where that might be a possibility?

 

[Glocktogo]

With all the fake news and manufactured crisis around this topic, I did some research. First, this entire mess centers around the Flores Consent Decree of 1997 (FCD). The FCD isn't a law. It's a stipulated agreement between the U.S. and the plaintiffs, headed by alien minor Jenny Lisette Flores and certified as a class action suit.

Here it is in all its glory:

https://www.conservativedailynews.com/2018/06/flores-consent-decree-of-1997-full-text/

The FCD doesn't require the U.S. to separate detained unlawful entrant families. It does however implicitly ALLOW doing so, should the entrants refuse voluntary deportation as a group and file for temporary or permanent status in the U.S. It also demands the release of all minors "without unnecessary delay". So if the proceedings require the detention of the adult unlawful entrants to facilitate prosecution or otherwise adjudicate their status, the U.S. will have to separate the minors from the adults to process them for release.

Under what terms does that happen?

VI GENERAL POLICY FAVORING RELEASE

14. Where the INS determines that the detention of the minor is not required either to secure his or her
timely appearance before the INS or the immigration court, or to ensure the minor’s safety or that of
others, the INS shall release a minor from its custody without unnecessary delay, in the following order of
preference, to:

A. a parent;
B. a legal guardian;
C. an adult relative (brother, sister, aunt, uncle, or grandparent);
D. an adult individual or entity designated by the parent or legal guardian as capable and
willing to care for the minor’s well-being in (i) a declaration signed under penalty of perjury
before an immigration or consular officer or (ii) such other document(s) that establish(es) to
the satisfaction of the INS, in its discretion, the affiant’s paternity or guardianship;
E. a licensed program willing to accept legal custody; or
F. an adult individual or entity seeking custody, in the discretion of the INS, when it appears
that there is no other likely alternative to long term detention and family reunification does not
appear to be a reasonable possibility.

President Trump ran on and is delivering on his promise to enforce our immigration laws. He's also repeatedly asked the legislature to overhaul the immigration laws. How does the FCD factor in? It sets up a "Catch 22" that actively discourages enforcement of immigration law in applicable cases. If we enforce the law, we incur detention costs and processing costs to house and care for both the adults and minors. It forces us to separate the families and release the minors, in most cases into the U.S. It creates a compelling emotional case for those driven by their emotions over the facts and rule of law. This is what the Democrats and the media are utilizing to punish the Trump Administration for enforcing immigration law. The only way the Trump Administration can avoid this appearance of so-called "cruelty" and "internment camps", is to stop enforcing the law and release the unlawful entrants into the U.S. without bond or oversight.


Oh, and remember that manufactured crisis about the Trump Administration "losing nearly 1,500 kids" that had been taken from their parents? Refer back to the above quote and order of priority A. thru F. Now read this:

http://time.com/5296637/trump-administration-lose-immigrant-children/

Specifically this portion:

Recent attention to the issue began at a Senate subcommittee hearing in April, when Steven Wagner, an official at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), testified that his agency had checked up on 7,635 migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on their own and were then placed with adult sponsors in the U.S. The agency found that 6,075 children were still living with their sponsor, 28 had run away, five had been deported and 52 were living with someone else. The rest–the 1,475 lost children–were unaccounted for.


The children in that tally arrived in the U.S. without their parents, so they were not separated from their families by federal officials. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns about their safety; abusive homes and human traffickers are just two of the worries. It’s also possible that sponsors may choose not to answer calls from federal officials to avoid deportation–for the children or themselves. Either way, HHS has argued it is not legally responsible for what happens to the children after they leave its custody. But Senators from both parties have called on the agency to improve its monitoring. “These kids, regardless of their immigration status, deserve to be treated properly, not abused or trafficked,” Republican Senator Rob Portman told the subcommittee in April.

Those "sponsors" are an important point because:

15. Before a minor is released from INS custody pursuant to Paragraph 14 above, the custodian must
execute an Affidavit of Support (Form I-134) and an agreement to:

A. provide for the minor’s physical, mental, and financial well-being;
B. ensure the minor’s presence at all future proceedings before the INS and the immigration
court;
C. notify the INS of any change of address within five (5) days following a move;
D. in the case of custodians other than parents or legal guardians, not transfer custody of the
minor to another party without the prior written permission of the District Director;
E. notify the INS at least five days prior to the custodian’s departing the United States of such
departure, whether the departure is voluntary or pursuant to a grant of voluntary departure or
order of deportation; and
F. if dependency proceedings involving the minor are initiated, notify the INS of the initiation of a
such proceedings and the dependency court of any immigration proceedings pending against the
minor.

That's right, the FCD that proponents of unlawful immigration forced the U.S. into back in 1997, mandates that the U.S. allow people in categories A. thru F. to sign for the release of those minors (making them legally liable for those minors) and swear they'll follow the requirements above, which they did not do in the cases of those "missing" 1,475 non-U.S. minors. Understand that many unlawful entrants to the U.S. with minors are very well aware of the FCD, and have been exploiting that loophole since 1997.

Tl;dr, 21 years ago, illegal immigrants won a stipulated settlement from the U.S. that discouraged enforcement of immigration law. Trump delivers on his campaign promise to enforce immigration laws. Histrionic hyperbole and manufactured crisis ensues from the left. Democrats in the legislature refuse to work in a bipartisan manner to fix the broken immigration law, because that would close the FCD loophole benefitting illegal immigrants and rob them of a glorious P.R. weapon against Trump.

Feel free to discuss or provide counterpoints.

 

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