Obama did enforce the law for awhile, and he did take some heat for it. Political expediency won out under him though, he used his pen and phone to practically gut enforcement. Trump's admin is simply returning to enforcing the law. Fact is that there should only be negative consequences for illegals entering the country, not incentives. That's been a big part of the problem.
Unsurprisingly you have it completely wrong. Obama tripled ICE’s budget and deported more people than any other president in an effort to cut a deal with the right on immigraion, which will be a stain on his legacy.
There is no law mandating that children be separated from their parents at the border. It is a “zero tolerance” policy change that was initiated in April. The Trump admin is being as cruel as possible to pressure democrats to give him a friendly immigration deal. Keep justifying 10,000+ migrant children held in cages not knowing when they will see their parents again, it’s a great look.
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Applying for assylum isn't a crime dumbass.
And we're not talking about people going to jail, we're talking about them going into holding facilities where they await their applications being processed.
It's a completely worthless argument, but not surprising considering the source.
Those being separated are not applying for asylum. They are illegally entering the country by crossing the border somewhere other than a border crossing. Many with children not their own. So you think it's OK for people to risk a child's life sending them through the desert etc. with Coyotes and possibly strangers or maybe friends? Oh and 80% plus are not eligible for asylum.
I don't feel like peeling through all the misinformation only for you to hit me with more misinformation so I'll be brief.
Senator Ben Sasse posted the best synopsis of the situation I've seen so far. Really interested to see what kind of solution he presents.
Many Nebraskans this weekend asked me about the kids at the border. Here’s a short version of what I told them. This is a bit over-simplified, but these are broad brushstrokes of how I understand the situation at present:
1) Family separation is wicked. It is harmful to kids and absolutely should NOT be the default U.S. policy. Americans are better than this.
2) This bad new policy is a reaction against a bad old policy. The old policy was “catch-and-release.” Under catch-and-release, if someone made it to the border and claimed asylum (whether true or not, and most of the time it wasn’t true), they were released into the U.S. until a future hearing date. Many folks obviously don’t show up at these hearings, so this became a new pathway into the U.S.
3) Catch-and-release – combined with inefficient deportation and other ineffective policies – created a magnet whereby lots of people came to the border who were not actually asylum-seekers. This magnet not only attracted illegal immigrants generally, but also produced an uptick in human trafficking across our border. (We now also have some limited evidence of jihadi recruiters spreading word about how to exploit the southwestern border.)
4) Human trafficking organizations are not just evil; they’re also often smart. Many quickly learned the “magic words” they needed to say under catch-and-release to guarantee admission into the U.S. Because of this, some of the folks showing up at the border claiming to be families are not actually families. Some are a trafficker with one or more trafficked children. Sometimes border agents can identify this, but many times they aren’t sure.
5) Any policy that incentivizes illegal immigration is terrible governance. But even more troubling is that catch-and-release rewarded traffickers, who knew they could easily get their victims to market in the U.S.
6) This foolish catch-and-release policy had to be changed. But changing from catch-and-release does not require adopting the wicked family separation policy. The choice before the American people does not have to be “wicked versus foolish.”
7) The administration’s decision to separate families is a new, discretionary choice. Anyone saying that their hands are tied or that the only conceivable way to fix the problem of catch-and-release is to rip families apart is flat wrong. There are other options available to them. The other options are all messy (given that some overly prescriptive judges have limited their administrative options), but there are ways to address this that are less bad than the policy of family separation they’ve chosen.
8) There are many senior folks in the administration who hate this policy, and who want to do something better.
9) But some in the administration have decided that this cruel policy increases their legislative leverage. This is wrong. Americans do not take children hostage, period.
So what happens next? Obviously the Congress is broken and clearly bears much of the blame for a broken immigration system. We have many different problems clustered together: The border is too porous. Our asylum and refugee polices are too subject to executive branch whim, rather than clear legislative debate before the American people. We don’t have any coherent policy for dealing with kids who were brought here as minors but who have never known any home but the U.S. And more broadly, we have no long-term agreement about what levels of legal immigration we should want, or what kinds of workers we should prioritize. The Congress clearly bears much of the blame.
But neither the horrors of family separation nor the stupidity of catch-and-release should be about leverage for a broader debate. We should start by tackling the specific problem before us in the narrowest way possible.
The President should immediately end this family separation policy. And he should announce to the Congress the narrowest possible way problems like the FIores consent decree and related decisions (which bias policy toward release into the U.S. within three weeks after capture) can be resolved.
I am also working on a possible solution with James Lankford of Oklahoma, a man of integrity who has been pouring great energy into addressing this human tragedy at the border.
But he’s not going to do anything about it because he’s afraid of being primaried from the right
I hope you're wrong.
We'll see.
The fact he's not up for reelection until 2020 gives him a little more leeway than the House reps.
Are these people asylum seekers? Where in the Americas do you have to be from to get asylum? It isn't Mexico
Most of the Central American countries that the Reagan admin helped turn into a slaughterhouse in 80’s and still haven’t recovered
Irrelevant
I was legitimately asking.
There's gotta be at least one or else the policy for asylum wouldn't exist. It's not like war torn africans are fleeing to the Mexican American border.
Trump is taking the shit storm to get congress to do their fucking job
So do it already
It’s neat how you’re making Trump a passive actor in this like he isn’t the head of his party that controls congress and it isn’t his administration’s choice to inflict trauma on these children
I have no problem with them holding the kids without their parents who came without parents. No one's complaining about that.
It's the ones who did who have been separated that is the issue.
Still waiting ...
The question is irrelevant. Could be zero. Probably isn't. I have no idea. It doesn't matter, we don't have to do this, we're doing this to be dicks. It's unnecessary and needs to be stopped. The end.
Here's the DHS Secretary talking in March about how he's considering it (it was then enacted in May). He clearly states these are Central Americans coming through Mexico and that they're going to enact it as a deterrent.
It's a change in policy (hello @sledong!). They're not doing it because they have to they're doing it because they want to.
I have no problem with them holding the kids without their parents who came without parents. No one's complaining about that.
It's the ones who did who have been separated that is the issue.
Still waiting ...
The question is irrelevant. Could be zero. Probably isn't. I have no idea. It doesn't matter, we don't have to do this, we're doing this to be dicks. It's unnecessary and needs to be stopped. The end.
Here's the DHS Secretary talking in March about how he's considering it (it was then enacted in May). He clearly states these are Central Americans coming through Mexico and that they're going to enact it as a deterrent.
It's a change in policy (hello @sledong!). They're not doing it because they have to they're doing it because they want to.
Trump is taking the shit storm to get congress to do their fucking job
So do it already
It’s neat how you’re making Trump a passive actor in this like he isn’t the head of his party that controls congress and it isn’t his administration’s choice to inflict trauma on these children
I am?
I said he is willing to take the shit storm aka enforcing the law
I don't want this to just be a photo op for the open border dems. I want the world to see you are fucking stupid to dump your kids trying to get here illegally
Trump won the election promising to do this. If you want dreamers or any amnesty at all you have to give in on the wall and enhanced security and deportations
No more catch and release wink and nod and we don't make public policy based on sob stories. The whole fucking world wants to come here.
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We'll see.
The fact he's not up for reelection until 2020 gives him a little more leeway than the House reps.
Were ripped from their mother at legal points of entry.
I'll await your answer.
I was legitimately asking.
There's gotta be at least one or else the policy for asylum wouldn't exist. It's not like war torn africans are fleeing to the Mexican American border.
Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala are the main ones.
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It's the ones who did who have been separated that is the issue.
So do it already
The US can't save every single soul who had the bad luck to be born in the wrong place.
Here's the DHS Secretary talking in March about how he's considering it (it was then enacted in May). He clearly states these are Central Americans coming through Mexico and that they're going to enact it as a deterrent.
It's a change in policy (hello @sledong!). They're not doing it because they have to they're doing it because they want to.
We can do better.
The end.
I said he is willing to take the shit storm aka enforcing the law
I don't want this to just be a photo op for the open border dems. I want the world to see you are fucking stupid to dump your kids trying to get here illegally
Trump won the election promising to do this. If you want dreamers or any amnesty at all you have to give in on the wall and enhanced security and deportations
No more catch and release wink and nod and we don't make public policy based on sob stories. The whole fucking world wants to come here.