"Like many Americans, I have about had it with this issue. Our country needs to be secure. We need secure borders. We need better controls on our immigration system. No more chain migration. No more lottery. The time to fix this is now. Thank you President Trump, for having the guts to do it."
It was just a year ago. Joyce Anderson could not take it anymore. Her three kids (by two now absent dads) needed a better life. Working two jobs, one at a factory and the other being a server at a local greasy spoon on the weekends was not cutting it. This was so unfair, she often thought. So, she made her mind up to change the playing field.
Year's ago, one of the short order cooks at the diner had an old snub nosed .38 he was selling - cheap. Joyce did not have a permit, nor any gun training. But she thought that gun could afford her and the kids some margin of safety. So, she bought it - off the books.
She called in sick on a Thursday. She now had a plan. She was going to take that .38 and go the pawn shop located about three miles from her home. She was going to disguise herself and take all the money the pawn shop had in their safe. A friend of hers once told her that Thursdays were always the day that stores like the pawn shop had the most in the safe. Being old school, the pawn shop only make one weekly deposit - always on a Friday.
To make a long story short, Joyce was caught just minutes after attempting to rob the pawn shop. She did get some money, but not much. The story about only weekly deposits was not true. She was arraigned, and then charged with one count of armed robbery. Since she had previous offenses of shoplifting (three times) in her twenties, the judge came down hard on her. Ten years, with no less than seven to be served.
This story is fictional, but happens more than it should. Joyce went to jail, and her kids were taken from her. Why? Kids are innocent. They don't belong in jail. The courts would then try to find family members or foster homes for the kids to live with until Joyce was done with her sentence. How could Joyce have kept her family together? By not doing the crime. But she did, and her family is now divided.
Right now, on our southern border, we have thousands of people who are willingly breaking the law. Some have their kids with them, some have other people's kids with them, some are only kids. When caught illegally crossing our border, kids and adults are separated. The kids are then being put in very nice "holding facilities". Three meals a day, two snacks, a safe place to sleep, plus soccer and video games. Complements of the US taxpayers. However, according Lefty nut balls like Mike Hayden, this is the same thing as the Nazis did when they separated Jewish families before gassing them.
The Left is also crying foul that these poor people are just amnesty seekers. They come here only seeking help and then find jail time and separation instead! Please, grow up! Most are not real asylum seekers. We are wise to this game, as it has been going on for years. If the governments of the countries from which they are escaping were that broken or dysfunctional, they were to have been given amnesty in the first normal country they escaped to. That would have been Mexico. But since Mexico is complacent in this scheme, Mexico only offered them safe passage until they got to the US border.
The paper this morning excoriated President Trump for his cruel handling of these poor people. My feeling? Build the wall and do it soon. We have a process for legit amnesty seekers, which does not include fence jumping or law breaking. If Congress continues to fiddle around with funding the wall - shut the southern border down until the wall is finished.
Like many Americans, I have about had it with this issue. Our country needs to be secure. We need secure borders. We need better controls on our immigration system. No more chain migration. No more lottery. The time to fix this is now. Thank you President Trump, for having the guts to do it.
Zero tolerance, especially towards immigrants, isn’t just a policy proposal to this president and his allies — it is the ideology that animates the entire Trump phenomenon, and a defining characteristic of the world as they want it to be.
ReplyDeleteYou need to "google" the 1996 "Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act" signed by Bill Clinton.
DeleteThe Flores Consent Decree from 1997 says that unaccompanied children can be held only 20 days. A ruling by the Ninth Circuit extended this 20-day limit to children who come as part of family units.
DeleteCongress can change the rules so the Flores consent decree will no longer apply, and it can appropriate more money for family shelters at the border.
This is an obvious thing to do that would eliminate the tension between enforcing our laws and keeping family units together.
Ll The Trump administration is throwing as many resources as it can at the border to expedite the process, and it desperately wants the Flores consent decree reversed.
Despite some mixed messages, if the administration had its druthers, family units would be kept together and their cases settled quickly.
The missing piece here is Congress, but little outrage will be directed at it, and probably nothing will be done.
And so our perverse system will remain in place and the crisis at the border will rumble on.
Immigration Reform has been a facade for Democrats since 1986. Democrats promised President Reagan border security then and failed to deliver on that promise. President Reagan relied on the Democrat's promise when he granted amnesty. So yes, border security, i.e. the WALL, comes first...
ReplyDeleteSeparation of children from parents may end up being DJT's Vietnam, with energized opponents protesting like in the late 60's. When word gets back to s...hole countries they may quit bringing their kids. That would be good.
ReplyDeleteNo way is this going to be "DJT's Vietnam."
DeleteYou are correct, I over-reached.
DeleteThis is going to be DJT's Katrina!
Jeff Sessons didn't quote the appropriate verses: I will....
ReplyDeleteMatthew 25:40-45
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Love Matthew 25! And also Matthew 28. Agree?
DeleteRight on!
DeleteMay as well blow up the statue of liberty poem
ReplyDeleteNot like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “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-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
That's all you've got, Bible verses and poetry? How about common sense and the rule of law? If these parents commit any crime in the US-- robbing a bank, for instance-- they go to jail and their kids are "separated" from them. The ONLY reason this is an issue is because it is the only thing the Democrats can use to impugn the President and Republicans generally, while stubbornly refusing to actually address the problem in Congress and the law. Build the Wall, and the problem goes away. What's wrong with that?
ReplyDeleteYes, that's all I've got. I'm already tired of the non-stop news coverage of the kids crying. I hope something happens that will replace it. Maybe another mass shooting or a govt shutdown or a trade war or rising gas prices. Or possibly a legislative fix (not).
DeleteIsn't the Flores Consent Decree still in effect. If so, by rule of law, these kids have to be released after 20 days, then what? Or maybe this is one law Homeland Security folks are ignoring?
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