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Immigration Crisis I

Right from the gitgo let me state that I do not like to see parents and children separated for just about any reason. (Not counting when abuse or neglect is involved, when this separation is often imperative and for the good of the children.) I do not like seeing the separation of parents and children that is occurring at the border. No one, including those on the political right, likes to see children crying when they are being separated from their mommy. However, I stopped reading the newspaper accounts and stopped watching the T.V. reports on “the immigration crisis at the border,” because I do not know which reports are actually true. I am not alone.Before this “crisis”, according to Gallop a clean majority of 62 percent believe the “traditional news media” is biased. A full 44 percent believe the media is inaccurate, and another 39 percent believe the media spread misinformation.

Recently the media had a field day citing a child with Down syndrome who was separated from her parents on the border supposedly because of Donald Trump’s zero tolerance policy. But there was a big problem with that claim, considering that the child was not separated from her mother while crossing the border, she was instead separated and sent to an aunt after her mother found herself as a witness in a smuggling investigation.                                                                                                          In recent days, a picture of a small child appearing to be trapped in a cage while crying has been spread around the internet. It went so far that even some left-wing news outlets have used the photo to show how evil President Donald Trump is in their eyes.But there’s only one problem with the picture. It doesn’t show what the left is claiming it does.After the picture went viral, it was uncovered that the picture was taken at a pro-illegal immigration protest, and the child was being used in the protest.

And to top it off, apparently the crying little girl  on the cover of Time Magazine was never separated from her mother . . . this according to the father of the little girl!
As anticipated just about all of the Democrat politicians were up in arms about this “separation crisis,” even though this had been the policy under Barack Obama. Why?Because Donald Trump was the bad guy on the other side!
However, vicious innuendo should not have a part of this debate. Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal likened America’s zero-tolerance immigration policy to the “cattle cars of Nazi Germany,”
“Really, Senator Blumenthal? Either you have a short and deluded memory or you are just lying to score political points!”
Instead of pointing out how atrocious Blumenthal’s comment was,  pundits and politicians on the left have echoed that sentiment.
However, David Tuck, a Holocaust and an Auschwitz survivor, felt compelled to speak out against those who have so vehemently compared America’s immigration detainment facilities to history’s worst atrocities. Tuck said that seeing many Americans, including members of the political class – who should know better – nonchalantly embrace the term Nazi to describe their opponents is deeply disturbing to him.
 “I don’t believe it when I heard it,” Tuck said when he heard Blumenthal’s statement. 
”They know nothing of the Holocaust. They are politicians, looking to get paid,” he said, repeating that those who make the comparison “know nothing.’ When asked to compare the American border detainment facilities to actual concentration camps, Tuck responded, ‘“ is a country club. I was given a piece of bread in the morning. A piece of bread in the evening; I had to survive with my life. I have a number on my arm to prove it — from Auschwitz.”                                                                                                                          
 
 So let’s ignore Blumenthal the Blowhard, and get back to the basics of this “immigration crisis,” and the present family separations. Is there anybody who believes that this current emotional frenzy is not purely political?
As a criminal defense attorney pointed out in a recent letter to the Wall Street Journal, “ [I] can say with confidence that hundreds if not thousands of minor children are separated in this country every day by the criminal justice system. What is happening at our southern border is routine.”
Under Obama, when illegal border crossers were put into the criminal justice system, and families were separated. The Obama administration prosecuted half a million illegal immigrants and similarly separated families in the process. This policy of prosecuting immigrants for crossing the border illegally has been in place for multiple administrations, including the Bush administration.
Neither Democrats nor the media apparently cared about family separation back then. So why all the uproar now? What has changed, other than the president?  Donald Trump insisted that he was complying with and enforcing the law, which is his constitutional duty and responsibility. Despite the hubbub from the left, he was doing just that. Was Mr. Trump also playing a bit of politics here before he changed his position because of public outcry? Was this all just a part of “The Art of the Deal?” Yes, of course. In my opinion he was sending a message to the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Central Americans that might contemplate a similar excursion to the U.S. border in the future. If you think that I am exaggerating with these numbers, make sure that you read Part II of this series.

Stay tuned.

 

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