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The Patriot Post Digest 6-21-2018
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Jun. 21, 2018 · https://patriotpost.us/digests/56702-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” —John Adams (1775)
IN TODAY’S EDITION
It’s no surprise the Trump’s EO on illegal minors didn’t satisfy Democrats.
Beware viral photos of detained immigrant children.
This whole episode is a despicable hate-fest ginned up for the midterms.
Ireland will mandate even Catholic hospitals perform abortions.
Is ObamaCare repeal back from the dead?
The Census Bureau’s citizenship question is “racist”?
Daily Features: Top Headlines, Memes, Cartoons, Columnists and Short Cuts.
FEATURED ANALYSIS
Resolving the Alien Minor Separation Issue1
Thomas Gallatin
As pressure mounted nationally under the strategic Democrat- and mainstream media-fomented conniption fit2 over the practice of separating minors from parents who have illegally crossed the U.S. border, President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday halting the practice. Trump said that the U.S. needs to have a “very powerful, very strong border … [while] at the same time we have compassion.” He added, “We want to keep families together. It’s very important. … I don’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated.”
In his executive order, Trump noted that while the families will not be separated, they also will not be released. The order reads, “It is the policy of this Administration to rigorously enforce our immigration laws. It is also the policy of this Administration to maintain family unity, including by detaining alien families together where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources. It is unfortunate that Congress’s failure to act and court orders have put the Administration in the position of separating alien families to effectively enforce the law.”
Did Trump’s action assuage Democrat and MSM “moral” objections? Nope. Before the ink was even dry on Trump’s EO, Democrats began voicing their objections. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-2020) complained, “This Executive Order doesn’t fix the crisis. Indefinitely detaining children with their families in camps is inhumane and will not make us safe.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-VT) harangued, “Trump’s executive order merely replaces one inhumane act with another. In response to the overwhelming public outrage at his policy of tearing children away from their parents at the border, this administration thinks the appropriate response is to indefinitely detain families.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) lamented, “It’s extremely troubling that the president’s executive order would require immigrant families with children to be detained indefinitely. The order appears to be the next step in the Trump administration’s larger agenda to eliminate basic protections for asylum seekers.”
Clearly, Democrats favor open borders and want to see the reinstatement of Barack Obama’s catch-and-release policy that amounted to nonenforcement against illegal immigration. It’s a despicable hate-fest ginned up for the 2018 midterms3.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) quickly called out the Democrats, tweeting, “Some Democrats now even using the disingenuous ‘indefinite detention’ term. They know full well that those who unlawfully enter the U.S. are not held indefinitely… Just heard Senate colleague on floor say U.S. detains immigrant children ‘indefinitely & indiscriminately’. That is just PATENTLY FALSE. They are entitled to due process hearing so not indefinite. And only applies to those who enter the U.S. unlawfully so it’s not indiscriminate.”
But it was Trump himself who dealt the most devastating blow with a video of Democrat leaders4 advocating tough immigration enforcement. You know, back before they could bash him for actually doing it.
Now for a few important details the mainstream media is deliberately not telling you.
Of the 12,000 immigrant minors in Health and Human Services custody, 10,000 crossed the border without a family member, and 2,000 are in custody because their parents entered the country illegally.
Mark Alexander argues that “these minors in HHS custody are now safer, more comfortable and better cared for than at any other time in their lives.”
As HHS Secretary Alex Azar notes: “The vast majority of these kids are teenagers, over the age of 13. We have a few who are under the age of 13 and keep them in separate facilities with separate protocols. These kids are getting the full range of services. America is a generous nation, and America takes care of these kids even though they should not be in the country. We provide them with education, we provide them with meals, they get medical care, they get dental care, vision, they get athletic time, entertainment, they get psychiatric care. We’re providing excellent care for these kids. … Each child costs taxpayers hundreds of dollars per day … more than most U.S. parents can afford to spend on their children.”
Azar notes further, “The simple fact is, the way you prevent separation, the way you prevent your children from coming into our care — don’t come into our country illegally. Go and present yourself at a legal border crossing with permission to come into the country, or make your case why you legally should be allowed to enter. If you break our laws, you will be prosecuted. If you’re prosecuted, you may have your children given into our custody.”
Listening to hysterical media coverage, you might be amazed that it’s so simple. But it is.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56696-resolving-the-alien-minor-separation-issue
Those Viral Immigrant Children Photos — Caveat Emptor5
Mark Alexander
As part of a cynical political ploy2 to undermine Trump administration policy success ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, Democrat Party6 leaders have executed a successful campaign appealing to their Latino constituency. The centerpiece of that appeal has been a viral social media firestorm promoting images of children in cages7, claiming they have been “ripped from the arms of their parents by Donald Trump” and comparing Trump to Hitler.
Fact is, the most widely circulated of those viral photos were taken in 20148 when Barack Obama was setting immigration policy.
By extension, as the Left correctly calculated, these images of caged children generated a lot of “heartfelt emotive compassion” across its other constituencies and across the political divide. (For the record, the vast majority of these detained minors separated from one or more parents who entered our country illegally are between the age of 13-18, not young children.)
The resulting public outcry prompted Donald Trump9 to sign an executive order1 attempting to resolve the issue, while Congress endeavors to reach a consensus on competing immigration reform bills. But because of Left-judiciary rulings regarding immigrant minors10, the government may have no option but to release these minors with their families into the American heartland, where they will then never return for a deportation hearing. In effect, it’s an open-border invitation to more illegal immigrants.
So pervasive are these viral images, ostensibly of detained children, that in a report on the Demo response to Trump’s executive order on Fox News’s “Special Report With Bret Baier,” his reporter on the hill, Peter Doocy, included a “tragic” viral social media image in his coverage.
To put it mildly, it’s unfortunate when you have to turn to CNN to dispel Fox’s errant description of this photo as one of those children “ripped from the arms of their mother” by Trump administration policy. But CNN reported11 days before the Baier report that this was a staged photo.
To his credit, before the end of his show, Baier did apologize for using that fake image. However, when it comes to emotive viral photos of children, pushed by the Left to bolster its statist political agenda, caveat emptor!
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56700-those-viral-immigrant-children-photos-caveat-emptor |
