George Rebane
Now that the just released IG report about Russian collusion and Hillary’s emails took the wind out of Democrats’ sail, their next bag of hot air is blowing across the land from a timely pivot to blaming the Trump administration for separating illegal alien kids snuck over the border by their illegal alien parents who are now criminals according to longstanding US law.
When you are caught sneaking across our border with your kid(s), you are not an “immigrant” – now no longer adorned even by the politically permuting adjectives ‘illegal’ or ‘undocumented’. You are simply an apprehended illegal alien fugitive. That you broke our laws does not entitle you to an automatic smorgasbord of benefits and special treatment.
Having your offspring in tow does not suddenly make you exempt from the laws that prescribe how our native criminal parents are dealt with when they are taken into custody. We don’t put their children in jail with them, and we don’t give adults a ‘get out of jail free’ card just because they have children. What we do is take their kids and put them into appropriate foster care until their parents’ legal situation is resolved according applicable laws. On any given day there are almost a half million children in foster care across America, and the turnover in that population is high. Here is a summary of data on that from the Dept of HHS, ‘The AFCARS Report’.
Today, as part and parcel of the spread of national dumbth, progressives (and even some light thinking conservatives) are hyperventilating about Trump having invented a new policy for ripping children from the loving arms of parents who really did nothing wrong other than leave their shithole country, illegally transit other benign countries, and sneak across our border to live the American dream. All they want is asylum, jobs and/or US govt checks, and amnesty. What’s so bad with that?
The details of the applicable laws, the history of their enforcement, and the current situation is more complex than can be explained to attention-deficit audiences with other things on their minds. All that they need to hear from lamestream outlets is that Trump is “cruel and immoral” and doing something never done before to jailed people, be they American citizens or illegal aliens. Such reporting should keep the leftwing’s 'Resist Trump' pot boiling.
For a more measured and complete analysis of what’s really going on here, I recommend reading Rich Lowry’s ‘The Truth About Separating Kid’.
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