06-18-2018, 11:07 PM
In 2014, a lot of migrant kids were bused from the Texas border to Nogales, Arizona due to capacity issues. There were upwards of 40,000 Central American unaccompanied minors (mostly teens) crossing the border at the time and Arizona had more space and experience to handle the influx.
Some unaccompanied minors from other various border crossing locations were also bused to facilities throughout the United States to be housed while awaiting immigration hearings; there were tens of thousands of them fleeing to the U.S. There were also some migrant parents with accompanied minors on those buses.
And, there was outrage alright; outrage from the far right, dipshit bigots, and fearful locals who didn't want 'those people' coming to their towns. Screaming adults -- some of them politicians -- hurled insults and worse at buses full of migrants who had fled gangs and violence seeking shelter in the U.S. It was ugly shit. We covered it plenty upthread.
Once again: what's happening now is not the same as what was happening then. Families crossing together as the norm is a new trend; it has only overtaken unaccompanied minor border crossings in the last couple of years.
This has been repeatedly stated in this thread recently -- it's a fact and is not a difficult concept to grasp Gunnar and Maggot.: THE POLICY THAT TRUMP AND SESSIONS PUT IN PLACE IN APRIL 2018 IS NEW, IT'S A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY WHICH CAUSES THE REMOVAL OF CHILDREN WHO CROSSED THE BORDER WITH THEIR PARENTS ('ACCOMPANIED MINORS') BECAUSE THE PARENTS ARE NOW BEING SENT TO FEDERAL JAILS. SEPARATING ACCOMPANIED MINORS FROM THEIR PARENTS AT THE BORDER IS THE RULE NOW, NOT THE RARE EXCEPTION IT WAS IN THE BUSH II AND OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONS.
Trump has taken parent-accompanied minors and turned them into unaccompanied minors. Kids as young as 4 years old are being forcibly taken from their parents and sent to detention centers previously reserved for kids (mostly teens) who crossed the border alone.
During the Bush II and Obama administrations, migrant families were almost always kept together. Kids were not taken from their parents in the vast majority of cases because it was deemed cruel. Most migrant parents who crossed illegally were not sent to federal jails to await prosecution on the misdemeanor charge; that typically only happened when the migrant parents were repeat offenders or criminals. NOW, mandatory jail and prosecution for all is the rule.
Until April of this year, accompanied kids were deported with their parents, or the parents and children went to immigration court together. Again....separating migrant children from their parents was previously the exception, NOW it's the rule.
Some unaccompanied minors from other various border crossing locations were also bused to facilities throughout the United States to be housed while awaiting immigration hearings; there were tens of thousands of them fleeing to the U.S. There were also some migrant parents with accompanied minors on those buses.
And, there was outrage alright; outrage from the far right, dipshit bigots, and fearful locals who didn't want 'those people' coming to their towns. Screaming adults -- some of them politicians -- hurled insults and worse at buses full of migrants who had fled gangs and violence seeking shelter in the U.S. It was ugly shit. We covered it plenty upthread.
Once again: what's happening now is not the same as what was happening then. Families crossing together as the norm is a new trend; it has only overtaken unaccompanied minor border crossings in the last couple of years.
This has been repeatedly stated in this thread recently -- it's a fact and is not a difficult concept to grasp Gunnar and Maggot.: THE POLICY THAT TRUMP AND SESSIONS PUT IN PLACE IN APRIL 2018 IS NEW, IT'S A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY WHICH CAUSES THE REMOVAL OF CHILDREN WHO CROSSED THE BORDER WITH THEIR PARENTS ('ACCOMPANIED MINORS') BECAUSE THE PARENTS ARE NOW BEING SENT TO FEDERAL JAILS. SEPARATING ACCOMPANIED MINORS FROM THEIR PARENTS AT THE BORDER IS THE RULE NOW, NOT THE RARE EXCEPTION IT WAS IN THE BUSH II AND OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONS.
Trump has taken parent-accompanied minors and turned them into unaccompanied minors. Kids as young as 4 years old are being forcibly taken from their parents and sent to detention centers previously reserved for kids (mostly teens) who crossed the border alone.
During the Bush II and Obama administrations, migrant families were almost always kept together. Kids were not taken from their parents in the vast majority of cases because it was deemed cruel. Most migrant parents who crossed illegally were not sent to federal jails to await prosecution on the misdemeanor charge; that typically only happened when the migrant parents were repeat offenders or criminals. NOW, mandatory jail and prosecution for all is the rule.
Until April of this year, accompanied kids were deported with their parents, or the parents and children went to immigration court together. Again....separating migrant children from their parents was previously the exception, NOW it's the rule.