Immigration Crisis is Overblown and Why it is Exactly What Politicians Want [video]

Immigration Crisis is Overblown and Why it is Exactly What Politicians Want

By Bob Shanahan

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Here’s the easiest solution to the current controversy regarding illegal immigrant children being separated from their families: don’t enter the country illegally, don’t break the law, don’t try to sneak into America. If you don’t do that, you won’t take the risk of being torn apart from your families and children won’t be crying for all of us to see so we can signal our virtue.

Don’t like what President Trump is doing? Change the law! He is not embarking upon some dark-rooted quest to destroy families and keep children apart from their parents. He is merely enforcing the law and defending our country from criminals. These laws were passed by both Democrats and Republicans.

No human being is illegal, you say? I respond with borders, language, and culture. If you don’t have those three things, you don’t have a country. But you don’t want that anyway because you hate America and all we stand for, right? All other countries in the world have strict immigration laws. They adhere to low immigration quotas and implement a merit-based system, only allowing in people who will significantly contribute to their economy and support themselves. The open borders experiment is crumbling across the European continent as we speak.

Enough of the outrage over children being separated from their families. It’s not happening like you think. This whole story that broke last weekend is full of half-truths, misinformation, and Fake News. It is being blown out of proportion and the Democrats are using it to their advantage in an attempt to take back the House this November and uproot Donald Trump from the White House in 2020.

I’m sorry my lefty friends, but that tactic ain’t gonna work. You can only call Republicans heartless racist so many times. Americans really care about safety and immigration, craving a country with impenetrable borders, a shared language, and a thriving culture.

Oh yeah, and guess what? Obama did it too. Barry O was regularly hailed as the deporter in chief and while responding to a spike in illegal border crossings, he stepped up enforcement and children were regularly separated from their families. But of course this was never covered to the extent that Trump’s enforcement of current federal law is today by our biased, hypocritical, and lying mainstream media.

Since 2008, the U.S. has had a policy known as the Alien Transfer Exit Program (ATEP), which focuses on detaining male migrants of Mexican descent. Once an illegal alien is detained crossing the border, they are flown or bused elsewhere in the country and sent back across the border at another point of entry, usually thousands of miles from where they first entered.

Although Obama barely used it over his first few years, his administration stepped up its use of ATEP by 2011 as Mexican nationals poured over the border. Many male Mexican nationals detained at the border often come with their families. When ATEP is used, the men are taken away from their families, while the wives and children are placed in detention centers. The men are eventually released into some other part of Mexico far from home while their families are likely to be deported to where they originally entered.

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A few stories about the family detention centers the wives and children were held in were written during the Obama era. However, the mainstream media was blind to it, to no one’s shock. In fact, dozens of stories about the Nogales Placement Center were written by journalists at Shadowproof. Never heard of them? Yeah, me neither.

Senior White House advisor Stephen Miller blames Obama and the Democrats for the current immigration crisis. However, both parties are certainly culpable.

As the White House is trying to secure the border and enforce federal immigration law, it is blaming former President Obama’s catch and release policies and other legal loopholes promoted by Democrats in Congress as children continue to pour across the border because we fail to detain them and almost always let them stay in the country without any consequences, despite the fact that they are breaking the law.

Here’s what Miller had to say:

“When you want to talk about what’s cruel and what’s inhumane, we should talk about the consequence of loopholes that make it almost impossible to remove individuals showing up in our country illegally, therefore driving massive numbers to take the dangerous trek, leading to more instability in sending countries; leading to more instability in receiving communities; and contributing to the rise of very dangerous transnational smuggling organizations.”

That’s one point to mention, the coyotes who smuggle these immigrant children across the border are very bad hombres. They regularly rob, rape, and kill. They’re all either working for the drug cartels or financially indebted to them. The Clinton-Bush-Obama policies that failed to enforce the laws as are written have resulted in this out of control calamity we are witnessing today across our southern border.

Therefore, the Trump administration is poised to do away with the Obama era loopholes that have only encouraged more children to dangerously make the trek into America.

Here are the statistics the White House claims to back up their current strategy to curtail illegal immigration:

• From 2008 to 2016, asylum requests surged 1,700%. Just 20 percent were granted.
• Illegal entry attempts have tripled as immigrants have tried to get into the U.S. before a new effort to stop them can be implemented.
• Apprehensions of illegal immigrants are up 50,000 for the second month in a row.
• There has been a 315% one-year increase in illegals using children to pose as family units to gain entry into the country.

Let’s keep this in perspective, these are not undocumented workers, these are not Dreamers, these are not immigrants, they are illegal aliens and they are breaking the law and using its loopholes to their advantage. Increasingly, children come across the border without their real parents and claim that their human traffickers are their family so they can gain entry into the U.S. I’m sorry if this all sounds harsh, but it’s reality. If we don’t disincentivize illegal immigration we are only encouraging more of it. Interestingly enough, with Trump’s tough talk on immigration, it appears that the rush of illegals coming across the border is surging again as they fear a real change of in the law might be soon coming down from Washington.