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RETURN TO SENDER/ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
(05-27-2018, 08:21 AM)Maggot Wrote: The policy has been in place for years just not enforced much until recently. It was still enforced though. It's not a policy invented by Trump although the media seems to believe it is.

From the reports I've read, the media has primarily been responding to Trump's lie that a 'horrible' Democrat law gave him no choice but to significantly expand the separation of children from parents.

Here's the truth:

-It's is not a law. It's a policy which allows discretion by those in charge.

-The discretionary policy was not initiated by a Democrat. It was initiated during the GW Bush administration (though it was used sparingly during the Obama administration when there was high risk of repeat familial illegally entry attempts).

-It was Trump's call to subject significantly more people to the inhumane practice. His own Chief of Staff publicly announced that the policy application was being expanded in order to deter illegal immigration.

-Until recently, families that illegally crossed together generally faced deportation proceedings in civil court. Trump, through AG Sessions, has changed the application of the policy to require that authorities send parents to jails run by the U.S. Marshals Services, take their children away, and send the children to the same detention centers as minors who came to the U.S. without their parents. Trump's change applies to children accompanied by parents who proactively turn themselves in to request asylum.

It's my opinion that Trump changed the policy application in order to rally his "Build That Wall!" base ahead of the midterms, following a recent spike in illegal border crossings and considering that his own party refuses to fund that wall.

I think that lying about it by falsely blaming it on the opposing party is most likely Trump's attempt to avoid alienating too many Independents and moderate Republicans.
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RETURN TO SENDER/ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - by Duchess - 07-02-2014, 03:57 PM
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