So what you’re saying is, not only did you not read the article, you didn’t read any of the posts in this thread. Awesome
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NYT: How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families (Because of Stephen Miller)
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So what you’re saying is, not only did you not read the article, you didn’t read any of the posts in this thread. Awesome
none of this true. America's birthrate is fine, and we allow in over a million legal immigrants per year. We don't "need" illegal immigration at all. America has a labor surplus. Not a shortage
Panda1
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Oh sorry I did not know that it was not a troll post! If you want to play these stupid games I can too, we have real issues with kids dying! not being put in care facilities and given food. Surely if you care about children of the world you would have been posting and making a lot of noise on the subject of kids atually dying right.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Alan_Kurdi_lifeless_body.jpg?1529228439563
Oh but because they are Mexican they get more priveldge than the rest of the world - well done you racist fucks
We pass a tax bill that raises taxes on the poor in the long run while cutting taxes for the rich permanently. Additionally, we eliminate many aspects of the safety net intended to help these citizens. We combine that with trashing the aca without a worthwhile replacement, and finally top that with gerrymandering and other nefarious voting restrictions so that most of these people can’t do anything about their situation.
Oh, and we’re also negotiating funding for a stupid wall that most experts say is a giant waste of money and we’re separating families at the border and using that as a bargaining chip while blaming democrats.
Facts > feelings
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JORMBO
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I voted for Trump. One of the things I like about him is his hard stance on border protection. I believe border security is very important.
I do not agree with the taking of children from their parents when their parents are asylum seekers. They are not breaking a law in these situations. It is done to stop people from flooding into a system we can't process fast enough due to the amount of people. Surely they can come up with a better solution then seperating families.
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-take-action-address-asylum-backlog
I do not agree with the taking of children from their parents when their parents are asylum seekers. They are not breaking a law in these situations. It is done to stop people from flooding into a system we can't process fast enough due to the amount of people. Surely they can come up with a better solution then seperating families.
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-take-action-address-asylum-backlog
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Panda1
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The solution for the crisis is obvious to have border control, but what will be even better is to add to it and make things worse for all the families so they can really stick it to Trump!
Panda1
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When you need to listen to an expert to understand common sense you have failed. Why do you Americas want public healthcare like Europe and free university education yet do not think that every other countries border controls are legit! Its hilarious - you need to read an expert opinion to understand what a wall does! You probably needed expert opinion to tell you Hilary will win the election when every Trump rally was packed and hers were empty! I learnt a long time ago that common sense was not that common, you school systems have failed you heavily.
Yeah me and my brother were arguing over this and he was like you should never threaten to separate families and we as America should be better than this but I kind of felt when you break certain laws you can lose your kids even when your a legal citizen so why do illegal immigrants get a free pass. I'm aware that this is a simple but cold view on a rather complex issue with immense ramifications to the family's life.
dragonfart28
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Take it easy, Pepe.
JORMBO
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When people seek asylum they show up at the border, fill out paperwork and wait for their case to be heard. Nothing illegal is happening in these situations. Laws are not broken. What is new is that their kids are being taken and held elsewhere while these people are waiting for their case to be heard.
If a person comes across illegally once it is considered a misdemeanor. Not something worthy of taking a child away from a parent over.
If a person comes across illegally more the once it is considered a felony, which would lead to a child being taken from a parent while the case is processed - simliar to how things would occur for an American citizen.
They are ilegally entering the country so yes they are breaking the law. You can aslo seek asylum in your country. Here is the thing. You can not just make exceptions for families because this would send a message that they can come here with no problems. The same issue is Europe facing. With the way to lax rules and decisions you made the way free for mass immigration. Because of this families will now think twice trying to pass the border. You have to be strict here no matter what.
If they are doing this in the USA you have already tresspassed and broken the law. If you do it before and do not enter before than its not agaionst the law.
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You've lost me but I'm okay with everything you've said. I would say agree but I'm not knowledgeable on the three country entry options.
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Dr.Guru of Peru
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Christ, you actually think you’re clever.
None of that proves we need illegal immigration. Like I stated earlier, America allows in a million legal immigrants per year. Also your concern over our birthrate is laughable. A one year blip means we now have to open our borders? Stop this nonsense.
Their are a myriad of things America could do to fix those problems (that aren't really problems) before we endorse illegal immigration.
Claiming asylum isn't a guaranteed entry ticket into the country, and sneaking into the country, getting caught and then claiming asylum isn't exactly legal either.
This is the bullshit illegal immigration advocates always try to pull. It's beyond tired.
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IF you do it OUTSIDE of the country yes if you do it IN the country you have broken the law. Its pretty easy to understand.
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Quote where I claimed this?
I didn't say you are claiming that. I am starting a fact that claiming asylum isn't a guarantee of anything.
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So, I havent read through the thread yet but I'm guessing these tired arguments are being used as always?...
1. They bolster the economy!
2. Our population is dwindling!
This asylum stuff is BS also. What are these political activists? Nah, these are people going "Hey, my town has gangs and crime!"
Welp, so does Chicago...we cant seem to fix that so I don't think we should be saving every migrant from Juarez.
I'm sorry, I give ZERO fucks about Mexicans, Syrians, etc.. Cause first and foremost I'm thinking about Chicago, St Louis, New Orleans.
I'd rather see every dollar/social benefits spent on immigrants instead spent on American towns and cities where our own Americans needs it.
Every day Americans are on the struggle bus and the pool is full.
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1. They bolster the economy!
2. Our population is dwindling!
This asylum stuff is BS also. What are these political activists? Nah, these are people going "Hey, my town has gangs and crime!"
Welp, so does Chicago...we cant seem to fix that so I don't think we should be saving every migrant from Juarez.
I'm sorry, I give ZERO fucks about Mexicans, Syrians, etc.. Cause first and foremost I'm thinking about Chicago, St Louis, New Orleans.
I'd rather see every dollar/social benefits spent on immigrants instead spent on American towns and cities where our own Americans needs it.
Every day Americans are on the struggle bus and the pool is full.
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DESTROYA
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As a immigrant myself that works a lot with the immigrant community ( I came here legally and I am now a American citizen ) most immigrants who claim are fleeing gang violence and crime are not entirely telling the truth because they know it’s a easy way in.
I’ve had many personally tell me this, now that’s not saying none are but it’s a little hard to prove.
I’ve had many personally tell me this, now that’s not saying none are but it’s a little hard to prove.
This post...my god...just...encapsulates everything that is fucking wrong with internet discussion these days: unwarranted partisanship via random jabs at Hilary, smug anti-intellectualism and a staggering amount of ignorance. I'm not going to even bother discussing why the wall is a stupid idea with you. Look it up if you want to actually know if it is going to work. Don't just spout some simpleton caveman logic like "hurr durr build a wall cus it stops things." That's how you end up wasting stupid amounts of money.
As for your jab at experts. Essentially, experts are generally people who have accumulated a whole lot of common sense on a specific subject. For example, if you pick some guy off the street and ask him to solve a problem, he might pick a method of doing it via "common sense." If it works, then he has knowledge on how to solve it. If it doesn't work, he'll do something else. With enough similar problems to solve, he'll become an expert due to all the experience he has.
This is how society has worked since like...forever. Generally, you want to listen to people who are experts in their subject matter because they can prevent you from making mistakes they have made. Or, they might have some insights into solving an unrelated problem that you might find useful. But somehow, we've gotten to the point that listening to experts is a bad thing?
Also, fuck off with name-dropping Hilary for whatever fucking stupid reason. Stop that partisan shit. It's annoying, toxic and literally has nothing to do with this thread or what I even said. Seriously. STOP. THAT. DUMB. SHIT.
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What you quoted describes what an asylum seeker is, not the legality of it (other than the obligation the US has, in this case).
Coming into the country illegally and then asking for asylum when caught, is obviously illegal.
Presenting yourself at an official port of entry (like a border crossing) and seeking asylum as you enter is not illegal. It’s literally following our official policies.
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DunDunDunpachi
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If these laws were so heinous, why weren't they touched during the last 8-year administration?
Got any more pictures from 2014 of "children left at the border by Trump"?
Meanwhile, American children still suffer in impoverished cities. Where are the helping hands from our Holy Knights of Liberalism from New York or California when it comes to Flint and Chicago and Detroit?
Got any more pictures from 2014 of "children left at the border by Trump"?
Meanwhile, American children still suffer in impoverished cities. Where are the helping hands from our Holy Knights of Liberalism from New York or California when it comes to Flint and Chicago and Detroit?
TheShadowLord
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but it also seems the current administration is taking on a harder stance aganist asylum seekers and not just those who enter illegally. imo that is .
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/13/us-rolls-back-protections-asylum-seekers-again
Sakura Doritos
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The real injustice is Sessions war on reclassifying what you can ask for asylum for. Sexual abuse and physical violence is off the table now.
It goes against the legal traditions of past AGs but also the the current Department of Homeland security’s recommendations.
People, including myself, want secure borders. But if we are robbing Peter to pay Paul in terms of policy then I feel current political thought processes on both sides are ill equipped for the coming decades.
I don’t have much to say about separating children from their families when you get caught in an illegal act. I am not one to take away the consequences for your actions from any individual. I am also not one to call illegal immigration seeking asylum. However, reducing the scope of legal asylum is reprehensible. If Sessions cannot see this then he should step down.
I think many people in here need to self check their emotions and draw a clear boundary of what immigration, asylum and dehumanization mean.
It goes against the legal traditions of past AGs but also the the current Department of Homeland security’s recommendations.
People, including myself, want secure borders. But if we are robbing Peter to pay Paul in terms of policy then I feel current political thought processes on both sides are ill equipped for the coming decades.
I don’t have much to say about separating children from their families when you get caught in an illegal act. I am not one to take away the consequences for your actions from any individual. I am also not one to call illegal immigration seeking asylum. However, reducing the scope of legal asylum is reprehensible. If Sessions cannot see this then he should step down.
I think many people in here need to self check their emotions and draw a clear boundary of what immigration, asylum and dehumanization mean.
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Right. That’s what people are saying is inhumane and indefensible.
equippedwithtowel
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A bunch of really confident law and order types in this thread who don't know the first thing about their own countries refugee policy and how recent developments have ate away at it.
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At least we know where they are now..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...33a4d31bcc8_story.html?utm_term=.7d1250c14d05
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The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers, a Senate investigation has found.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, failed to do proper background checks of adults who claimed the children, allowed sponsors to take custody of multiple unrelated children, and regularly placed children in homes without visiting the locations, according to a 56-page investigative report released Thursday.
And once the children left federally funded shelters, the report said, the agency permitted their adult sponsors to prevent caseworkers from providing them post-release services."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...33a4d31bcc8_story.html?utm_term=.7d1250c14d05
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The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers, a Senate investigation has found.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, failed to do proper background checks of adults who claimed the children, allowed sponsors to take custody of multiple unrelated children, and regularly placed children in homes without visiting the locations, according to a 56-page investigative report released Thursday.
And once the children left federally funded shelters, the report said, the agency permitted their adult sponsors to prevent caseworkers from providing them post-release services."
Sakura Doritos
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It is. The problem I have with people is that when they think the administration of a government is monolithic. This can Fracture the core discussion.
The Whithouse wants to make good on the concerns of its people and let us be clear, the constitutional obligation of secure borders.
The AG sees only one immediate solution to have an impact and his office is having pressure applied to it. The path chosen is morally reprehensible and dangerous.
Other departments have disagreements and see it for what it is. They are Trumps administration too. Focusing on a monolith will only jump the shark.
There is a wide range of conflic in politics and NORMALLY that is good because it spawns debate and compromise. Asylum for rape victims isn’t one of those things I would never consider debateable or something we should compromise. A country can tell another country to sort its shit but it can also take in those who are desperate and at the edge.
I can also understand why the AG doesn’t want to focus on it because private crimes may go unreported or uninvestigated. That may make asylum process over budget and hard to corroborate. So I am not going to call the man a white devil. But I am going to say TOUGH FUCKING SHIT YOU TOOK THE JOB BITCH to the AG. Immigration is the problem to solve. I think they, the politicians, forget themselves and their place in all of this.
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TrainedRage
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...ok Dragonfart
TrainedRage
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Christ, you actually think you're clever.
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rokkerkory
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I am with Laura Bush on this one.
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Why do you assume this is all he is doing? Does posting here mean you can't do other things?
TrainedRage
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No, he said he donated to the ACLU, so I got my answer. He was the one who said, "why don't you do something"? I responded, then asked what he was doing about it.
pramod
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The immigration laws in this country are such a gigantic mess. Like the OP said you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. You can't even try to enforce the laws because it will result in these inhumane things happening. We really should just build a wall and be done with it.
ruvikx
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Indeed. The agenda driven 'outrage' which originates from liberal media is so evident. It's all part of the plan to do away with the USA's borders almost entirely. It's psychotic emotional manipulation of the masses via selectively choosing issues to be offended by... in order to push a liberal 'solution'. They've been operating in this manner for decades.
I mean reality check @ everyone: tragedies, injustices & horror are occurring all over the world & notably within the USA. Yet, people only look where they (media & their side of the culture war) want people to look. The entire "be a good person & open your borders!" schtick is almost a religion in & of itself now. If people think that'll solve misery, poverty & the reasons 'why' these people are flocking to the USA they're either sorely mistake or actually malevolently intentioned via deliberately attempting to socially engineer a democrat majority via mass immigration, i.e. importing voters, basically.
Panda1
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Lets not waste money by allowing unlimited people to come and then have to process them - are you being completely trolling by saying that you think illegal immigration is free and does not cost the country BILLIONS! If you cant work that out there is no point continuing to more advances issues.
How would you define expert in this matter? Please give me your criteria to see if you actually believe the nonsense you type. As for partisan shit - I am not American and give zero fucks about Trump or Hilary but dont tell me this is not 100% partisan issue that has been going on for decades and yet as soon as the IG report lands no one had this on their top 1000 things of things to bitch about and wow suddenly every bullshit outlet is pushing it - dont be fucking muppet and think this is not 100% to do with being able to get votes.
You also ignored actually answering anything and and you had to define what an expert meant since you dont even understand that and telling me why experience and knowledge is important. Please can you let me know if water is still wet. I need to be patronised more by, and I assuming that, a privilege white male showing what a great guy and how much you are a decent person, but ignoring 80% of cases are child abuse as defined by USA law!
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rokkerkory
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This is a clusterfuck in the making if not already all self-inflicted by this administration. It's not moral, unethical and not American do take kids away and put them in cages, let them eat off the floor, etc. This did not need to happen.
The statue of liberty is probably hiding its face right now as we are no longer the beacon of light for rest of the world.
The statue of liberty is probably hiding its face right now as we are no longer the beacon of light for rest of the world.
Max Legroom
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It’s the inevitable result of Trump’s inability to do anything but pander to the salted hams with legs that constitute his base. The 2016 playbook is all he knows.
Rudelord
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Careful, wouldn't want to have to report you to the UK police force for hate speech.
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What do you think the cost of building and maintaining a 2,000 mile wall will be in a country that can barely keep its roads and other infrastructure together? It's not like you're going to save any costs in terms of staff monitoring the border. Plenty of people will still make their way through whatever wall may get built. It's untenable.
Vicetrailia
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There's no need to worry about pepole defending this, they are the loyalists.
Only 55% of Republicans support all this, the rest do not, and the vast majority of Democrats and moderates do not support this.
That's still a lot of people supporting this, but the other side wins the popularity contest by far, and Republicans will start backing away from it.
Only 55% of Republicans support all this, the rest do not, and the vast majority of Democrats and moderates do not support this.
That's still a lot of people supporting this, but the other side wins the popularity contest by far, and Republicans will start backing away from it.
Cato
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You are 100% correct. Few people actually support this on either side.
So therefore it would be VERY easy for the Senate to legislate a fix very quickly and solve it once and for all.
Sadly, on both sides, I think the politicians are more interested in using he current situation as a weapon to bash the other side than to actually fix it.
That is the sad story. Both sides basically want the situation to continue since they feel they can gain some political benefit out of it.
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