these are asylum seekers, parents and kids escaping oppression.
Who are "these"?
Who are being "oppressed"?
Last I heard, Mexico is not a country that oppresses its people. Are we going to accept everyone simply because their husbands or significant others are abusing them? Should we accept every rape victim from Central America as asylum seekers?
Every year thousands of children get raped, abused, and sold. Right here in America. Many of these kids are immigrants, and a key tactic traffickers use is to pretend that they are their parents.
BTW, These migrants from Central America claim that the chaos in their home countries amounts to “persecution.†If so, then
by international law they must seek refuge in the “first safe country.â€
That was Mexico, which didn’t offer them asylum, but shipped them north to us.
We have two choices when it comes to border security and interior enforcement. We can continue telegraphing the message that when you come here with children you are home free. This will continue fueling the drug crisis, growing MS-13, enriching the drug cartels, inducing sex trafficking and terrible crimes at the border, encouraging illegals to kidnap children to gain admission, and causing death and mayhem on both sides of the border.
Or we could finally deter this behavior by announcing an end to any immigration requests not processed in a controlled environment through our
embassy or our
LEGAL port of entry ( why does Jazzhead keep ignoring this key word by the way ?)
And a word about separating kids from their parents. MOST OF THESE SOB STORIES ARE BALONEY.
Rght now — 10,000 of the 12,000 — were
sent here alone by their parents. That is when they were separated. THAT's 80% OF CASES !!!
So somehow we’ve conflated everything. But there is two separate issues.
10,000 of those currently in custody were sent by their parents with strangers to undertake a completely dangerous and deadly travel alone. We now care for them. We have high standards. We give them meals, we give them education, we give them medical care. There is videos, there is TVs.... And you worry about the optics? WHY? Oh because you want to give credibility to the press that hates Trump.