"I wanted to touch on the fact that the country has an established immigration and naturalization process that these migrants are disrespecting, trying to effectively jump the line. I respect the heck out of legal immigrants who go through the process and prove their loyalty to our country and its Constitution- heck, I married one. These folks deserve every good thing that our country can offer, all the opportunity and the American Dream. These folks are doing the right thing. But the people being separated from their kids are not that. These folks are the ones who are committing misdemeanors (for one offense) or felonies (for two offenses) by trying to sneak in and get around the process. Now, as a libertarian leaner, I am in general in favor of fewer laws- and only laws that make sense. That said, our immigration system needs to serve the interests of OUR country. It cannot be just a free for all of anyone who wants to come here without any loyalty to our country. That's why the process exists. Now, the process and the rules themselves need reform; but the law of our country needs to be respected. If any parent who is a citizen breaks the law bad enough, that parent will get separated from their kids. Why should non-citizens get treated any differently or better? If they want to stay together, and for sure everyone wants them to, why not just stay at home and stay together? Make your country a better place, work for the change you seek." Steven Thomas
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"Remembering that everything leftists say is either a mischaracterization, a false equivalence, or an outright lie, the left and their media lapdogs have spun into overtime to attack the president for the policy of enforcing immigration laws which thanks to some pre-Trump legislation sometimes leads to child separation from the parents with whom they illegally crossed the border. First of all, child separation is not the policy–the policy is enforcing existing laws... there has been no change to the policy that even Obama had in place. The administration is merely taking kids from adults who the U.S. government feels is falsely claiming the children to be their own. This policy was also in effect during the Obama regime. The change is that where Obama just relented and let many of these liars through, anyway, the Trump policy is to prosecute every case it sees. It IS the law, after all. Also, in most cases these kids are held for only a short time.. Next, the law is actually written so that the U.S. government may hold such children for up to 20 days. Again, it is a law that has been around since 1997, not Trump's sudden new policy.
"Then there is the increase in illegals using kids to try and force entry into the U.S. Illegals using kids (often NOT their own) as a shield to get into the U.S. is up 315 percent since last year. And the reason for this is because Obama told Central America that if they had kids with them it was an automatic pass. Finally, we must remember this above all: these illegals are the ones putting kids in danger, not the U.S. government. The trip these illegals make is fraught with danger. Lack of food, water, and shelter, predation from human traffickers and criminals, threats of rape and murder, not to mention the weather conditions and rough topography they have to cross to get from the Central Americas, through hostile, drug gang-infested Mexico, and to the U.S.A. These illegals — many who aren't even these kids' real parents — THEY are the ones putting these kids in danger. Not Trump." Warner Todd Huston and Jeff Dunetz
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"Since 2014, to name one example among many, at least half a million Central Americans who came here illegally have been released inside of our borders. Did anyone vote for that? Who's going to pay for that? Not the people you've been watching on television today. Their kids go to private school if they have them. Their neighborhoods look like they did in 1960. No demographic change at all, just like they like it. There is no cost to them. The cost is entirely on you, but don't complain or else they will call you Hitler." Tucker Carlson
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"Made to order, this manufactured crisis, somehow that [President] Donald Trump is heartless, that Republicans are heartless, that they want to bust up families. Let me tell you who's been busting up families: The Democrats. The Democrats have been literally subsidizing single motherhood in the black community for decades. It used to be called AFDC. You could also say that Planned Parenthood is excelling at separating families, couldn't you? You want to talk about separating families, look no further than the abortion mills of Planned Parenthood." Rush Limbaugh
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"The Trump administration currently faces two options: Either release every family that crosses the border and claims asylum and know that most of them will never show up at their immigration court hearing; or release the child as required by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' interpretation of the Flores settlement while holding the parents while awaiting trial. A third, better solution is to fix the loophole created by the 9th Circuit with regard to Flores and improve the asylum process to discourage frivolous asylum claims, while also better serving those with legitimate asylum cases." David Inserra, a homeland security policy analyst for The Heritage Foundation
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We need to think it through, the rational and thoughtful about it. We want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it. People who want economic migration for their personal financial benefit and what they think is their families benefit is not a basis for a claim of asylum." Attorney General Jeff Sessions
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"It seems that when immigration enforcement policies made President Obama look bad, they were swept under the rug. Now that the same border problems that have existed for decades can be used against Donald Trump, however, liberal journalists have miraculously found the backbone to cover the story. The reality is that border and immigration issues are tough, and children are unfortunately caught in the middle. Just as it's heartbreaking but necessary for police to make an arrest when children are witnesses, or for Child Protective Services to step in when a family situation turns ugly, the presence of minors doesn't mean that we stop enforcing national laws. This would only encourage law-breakers to use children as "legal shields" as they commit more crimes. Reality isn't always pretty. There are no easy or magic answers on how to enforce U.S. border laws while being humane and compassionate to innocent kids dragged into the chaos by adults. It's a difficult situation from any angle. Trump's administration is doing its best to deal with a problem it inherited from past presidents — but the fact that the mainstream media barely said a word about much worse treatment of migrants should be a giant red flag about the real agenda being pushed by liberal journalists now." Benjamin Arie
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"They're obstructing [Democrats in Congress]. They're really obstructionists and they are obstructing," Trump said Monday at the White House. "The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility. It won't be. If you look at what's happening in Europe, if you look at what's happening in other places, we can't allow that to happen to the United States—not on my watch." President Donald Trump
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"This is a very serious issue that has resulted after years and years of Congress not taking action." Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
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"...It was kept very quiet under the Obama administration. There were large numbers of people coming in. The Obama administration was trying to keep this quiet. And I don't know which image you're using, but I released some photos that I had done about those young kids who were kept there. And keep in mind, when they talk about putting some of the young kids in those centers, not all of them are being separated. Some of them are coming alone … some of them are coming on their own. So it's not a matter that every single child that we have in those centers are being separated because some of them are coming alone. Keep in mind that under the law, you can separate a child if that person, the adult, is not the real parent or the custodian because sometimes we see situations where they'll bring a child because they know of the policy that we have over here with children." Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas on CNN
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"White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Laura Bush: "Frankly this law was actually signed into effect in 2008 under her husband's leadership. Not under this administration" pic.twitter.com/PFxfi5eFtU
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 18, 2018
The law she was referring to, assumedly, was the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, which requires formal deportation hearings for child immigrants who aren't from Mexico or Canada and don't have family in the United States." Cillian Zeal
"Do we really want to encourage the whole of Central America, then South America, to start the dangerous trek, complete with kids, through drug-cartel-controlled territory? Across raging rivers and impassable deserts? That's what we'd be doing if we rewarded every survivor with free passage into our country. Since 147 million people seek admission to America, the body count will be high. Quite a price to pay for cheap grace and cheap labor. Much better to embrace the "tough love" Jeff Sessions is offering. He spoke as a faithful citizen and a good Christian when he said: If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don't like that, then don't smuggle children over our border." CHQ
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"Tugging at the heartstrings of our fellow citizens allows Democrats to sidestep what they're doing: effectively advocating open borders for illegal immigrants who cross with children. Solving the issue takes congressional courage, which is noticeably lacking. Democrats have their own perverse incentive in regards to this policy — do nothing and use emotional appeals to fire up their base heading into the 2018 midterm elections. In this game, children are merely fodder for the process." Dave Brooks
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""This is what I would say to all of you. You want America to be open, fine. I would argue, give your addresses out and tell the people who come to this country, 'you can come to my house. You can come to my house and you can stay here as long as you want. I will pay for your education. I will pay for your health care.'" Rick Santorum, former Republican presidential contender and Pennsylvania senator, on CNN
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"There is hypocrisy in many ways. The total disregard for American families ripped apart because of illegal criminals, the total lack of concern for children in the U.S. being raped in North Carolina by illegals at disgusting numbers (some months over 400 child rapes by illegals), no concern [for] homeless American children or Veterans who would do anything to have what's provided [to] these children. Yet, our politicians call it inhumane treatment. Would they rather these kids coming across our borders stay with the adults who aren't their biological parents but have kidnapped them to get across the border as a 'family unit?' Worse things happened to these kids was Obama was president and [the media] was crickets. In closing, the fact that my son was collateral damage and totally disregarded to support their agenda is hypocrisy at its best. My dead son, a fellow American, is nothing to them! This isn't worth their time because it would disprove their theory that we need illegal aliens here and we don't need a border wall." Mary Ann Mendoza
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"The hypocrisy is astonishing. The MSM has ignored many of us victims of illegal alien crime for so long. They avoid us like pests. If it weren't for President Trump, no one would even know much about us. He gave my son a voice that was taken by an illegal. And I'm forever thankful to him for that and for bringing the issue of illegal alien invasion to the forefront. It's deeply hurtful to see how MSM now 'cares' so much for children separated from their parents while continuing to ignore thousands of us separated by death, forever. Not one of the Dems has reached out since they heard about my son's death. Not one spoke publicly about American victims of illegals. Their fake grandstanding for children is for show and absent of compassion because they didn't do any of this during Obama's presidency. We have 1.6 million homeless children, inner cities destroyed and American children in need, homeless veterans and mentally ill people all on their own. No word about them from the left.
"Yet they stumble over each other to get to a detention center with their camera crews behind them. They yell and show outrage over illegal aliens who placed themselves in this position. They call them immigrants, which is insulting to true immigrants like me. They don't go to jails and prisons where Americans who committed a crime are separated from their children. They didn't go run and shown outrage when Obama had illegal alien kids in cages. The Dems are losing their voting base and need illegals to fill those spots. They are willing to step over dead Americans to get their amnesty. They continue to put out the welcome mat for more illegals to come by creating Sanctuary cities and states." Sabine Durden
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Background: In 1997, the Clinton administration entered into something called the Flores Settlement Agreement, which ended a class action lawsuit first brought in the 1980s.
The settlement established a policy that the federal government would release unaccompanied minors from custody to their parents, relatives, or other caretakers after no more than 20 days, or, alternatively, determine the "least restrictive" setting for the child.
In a separate development, in 2008 the Democrat-controlled Congress approved bipartisan legislation to combat human trafficking and President George W. Bush, a Republican, signed it into law.
Section 235 (g) in that law, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, states that unaccompanied minors entering the United States must be transferred to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement rather than to the Department of Homeland Security.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit expanded the Flores settlement in 2016 to include children brought to the country illegally by their parents.
For consistency between the provision of the anti-trafficking law and the 9th Circuit's interpretation of the Flores agreement, children who came into the country illegally with parents had to be taken into HHS custody Source: Fred Lucas
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