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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's minions are creating a border/immigration crisis in effort to change asylum/immigration laws
Something Ive been noticing has been Trumps mouthpieces circling questions about the separation of children from parents by saying its an issue with immigration laws and that Congress needs to act to change the laws. They are doing this from every quarter even when it is evident that this is a new policy change from them, not continuing application of existing law.
Heres an example of Giuliani doing this. Note the way he interjects comprehensive immigration reform into his answer.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017496807
This is classic Shock Doctrine: create or use a crisis to get changes you wanted all along. It is being done in the most cynical and callous way possible. They have not been successful at getting the draconian changes they have wanted, so they are trying to force a reopening of legislating the comprehensive issue. They rip children from parents, then argue that the existing law is forcing them to do this so they can create a way to reintroduce substantive changes in the law.
The New Yorker has an excellent article which includes people identifying the underlying (and lie filled) process:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-trump-administration-is-completely-unraveling-the-us-asylum-system
Just a month after it was announced, the zero-tolerance policy is giving rise to a full-blown crisis at the border. This may give Sessions the pretext he needs to institute further changes. In El Paso, as Texas Monthly reported earlier this month, officers are intercepting asylum seekers travelling from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, before they can cross the bridge that separates the two cities. Elsewhere in Texas, asylum seekers are being told there isnt enough room to process them on the American side of the border. They are using that tactic as a way to push people out and deny people asylum, Ruben García, who runs a migrant shelter along the border, told the Los Angeles Times.
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On Thursday, ice, the federal agency most directly associated with immigration enforcement, directed five medium-security federal prisons in California to take some sixteen hundred people into custody while they wait for a final determination in their civil immigration cases. An agency spokesperson cited a surge in illegal immigration as a reason for the demand for more space, but border crossings are actually at relatively low levels. In fact, much of the crowding at immigration detention centers is a consequence of the new zero-tolerance policy, which calls for the arrest and detention of people who, in the past, would have been released pending the outcome of their cases. The government is manufacturing a border crisis as a way of saying, This is why we need to change our asylum laws, Brané, of the Womens Refugee Commission, said.
magicarpet
(14,113 posts).... that the only way to improve the situation is to build the 50 foot trDump wall coast to coast. Then during the midterms trDump and the Rethugs can say see we we're right from the outset - we needed the wall to stop the rapists, criminals, and drug dealers. Vote Rethug - be safe - be a patriot and love America.
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(12,232 posts)Mc Mike
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(9,111 posts)And the swine repugs always had their nazi loving faction, and those birchers took over the party, entirely, over the last decade.
Boomerproud
(7,938 posts)In the New Yorker to get these facts out. I"m in a very sour mood today.
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(12,232 posts)Lars39
(26,104 posts)undermining Social Security. Undocumented immigrants contribute a lot to Social Security. A major shortfall might result if those contributions stop.
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(12,232 posts)Solly Mack
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(90,758 posts)Takket
(21,525 posts)drumpf says this can be stopped if congress just sends him a bill to stop it AND fund the wall. that is what this is about. he created this situation and can stop it any time he wants........ but he's using the hostages to get the wall and media should call it what it is.
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(12,232 posts)Trek4Truth
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(12,232 posts)Imperialism Inc.
(2,495 posts)The Houses compromise immigration bill doesnt ban family separation it just allows kids to be detained like adults.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/15/17467490/children-separated-parents-bill-congress
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The Republican bill doesnt outlaw family separation. It doesnt stop the Trump administration from choosing to prosecute asylum seekers who enter the US between ports of entry (official border crossings) for illegal entry, which results in parents being sent into criminal custody without their children. And it doesnt even force the government not to separate parents who do present themselves legally for asylum from their children something that has also been happening, though isnt as widespread.
What the House bill does is get rid of the extra legal protections that children and families have in immigration detention: a requirement that children be kept in the least restrictive conditions possible, and that they not be detained any longer than necessary. This means that if the family is kept together, their parents must be released with them. The Trump administration calls those protections loopholes, and blames them for forcing the administration to keep asylum-seekers in custody by separating families.
If the House bill passed, the Trump administration probably would stop separating families. Instead, it would be able to keep children and parents in ICE detention until their cases were resolved that is, they could be in held in detention indefinitely.
The House bill allows kids and families to be detained by ICE indefinitely which is what Trump has wanted all along
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(12,232 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/democrats-intensify-fight-for-immigrant-children--and-bludgeon-trump-and-republicans-ahead-of-midterms/2018/06/17/151266d2-7239-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.af203331c1ec
Appearing on Meet the Press, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) likened the presidents demands to extortion.
What the administration is doing is, theyre using the grief, the tears, the pain of these kids as mortar to build their wall, Schiff said. Its an effort to extort a bill to their liking in the Congress.