tRump continues to LIE about the practice of separating children being Democrats faults or a "Democrat Law," which is a DAMN lie. beauregard Sessions implemented a zero tolerance policy, and tRump co-signed that so he can throw raw meat to his deplorable base. tRump can stop separating children from families if he wanted to in a quick second, but he won't. Like I said, he owes THAT to his base of deplorables. tRump and beauguard and that thing Sanders loves what's happening to these children--the thing and beauguard justify it with biblical passages. tRump just loves blaming it on Dems for this whole thing. He can continue his
zero tolerance policy which is seen as a "wonderful" thing by him/his deplorables (Yeah, throw those brown #$@^&%$@! into cages, seperate 'em. Arrest 'em) while blaming Dems for it. He sees it as a win-win situation.
‘Zero-tolerance’ policy.
JUSTICE NEWS
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, April 6, 2018
Attorney General Announces Zero-Tolerance Policy for Criminal Illegal Entry
Attorney General Jeff Sessions today notified all U.S. Attorney’s Offices along the Southwest Border of a new “zero-tolerance policy” for offenses under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a), which prohibits both attempted illegal entry and illegal entry into the United States by an alien. The implementation of the Attorney General’s zero-tolerance policy comes as the Department of Homeland Security reported a 203 percent increase in illegal border crossings from March 2017 to March 2018, and a 37 percent increase from February 2018 to March 2018—the largest month-to-month increase since 2011.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-zero-tolerance-policy-criminal-illegal-entry
The Trump administration has justified the policy by pointing to an increase in southwest border apprehensions.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said an "escalated effort" was needed to address a crisis at the southwest border.
So Sessions directed the implementation of a new "zero-tolerance" policy to prosecute all illegal entry referrals from the Department of Homeland Security.
When an adult is referred for prosecution, a child traveling with the adult is turned over to the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. That agency is responsible for placing the child with a sponsor as the child’s immigration case is resolved.
From May 6 to May 19, 658 children were separated from their parents due to the zero-tolerance policy, Richard Hudson, an official with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said during a May 23 Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing.
Prosecutions were rare prior to the Trump administration, partly because they cost a lot of money and are time-consuming, Margulies said. "Previous administrations felt broad use of the 'prosecute-first' option was needlessly harsh," he said.
The fact that previous administrations did not broadly prosecute all illegal entries contradicts Trump’s claim that "we have to break up families."
Some have also conflated the "zero-tolerance" policy with reports of nearly 1,500 immigrant children "lost" by the administration. The government said that in late 2017 it had been unable to reach 1,475 children after placing them with sponsors. But these were children who came alone, not with their parents, and officials said some sponsors are here illegally and don’t want to be contacted by authorities. (We sort out those facts in this story.)
Pres. Obama DID "technically" separate children from their families.
HOWEVER:
There's a HUGE difference between sheltering and holding
unaccompanied children (Which numbered in the thousands), or
children who you feel are being abused, which is what happened during the Obama administration. They also never to my knowledge
LOST any children as what has happened under this current administration. What's happening during this current tRumputin administration is that they're separating children from in tact families, which we know will scar these children/families for life. There are children who haven't seen their parents for very long periods of time and vice versa. tRump can stop scarring these children/their families, but he won't. He continues blaming Dems,
and keeping his fellow deplorables happy.
In fiscal year 2013, under the Barack Obama administration, the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) had as many as 25,000 unaccompanied children in its care across 80 shelters, according to a July 2014 article in Mother Jones.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/child-migrants-surge-unaccompanied-central-america/
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