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Gee, maybe we should start planning to erect a "big beautiful wall" on our northern border, eh?
Illegal border crossings from Canada quietly rising
More than 960 people crossed into the US illegally from the northern border with Canada last year, according to data released from CBP.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-shows-n981131
Thousands of immigrant children have been separated from their parents. Thousands of those children were subjected to sexual abuse and harassment while they were in detention centers. Can things get any worse for them? Unfortunately, yes.
2,200 quarantined over mumps outbreak at immigration centers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2-...ers/ar-BBUGBeW
Emperor Trump's hateful, bigoted, anti-immigrant, white nationalist "Make America hate again" campaign continues to work its wonders.
Immigration officials snatch 9-year-old US citizen heading to school, hold her for two days
"I was scared. I was completely by myself," says sobbing fourth-grader.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/julia...b0a6329e177fbb
This boy, one of many thousands of migrant children forcibly separated from their parents, was given powerful psychotropic drugs without parental consent and was sexually assaulted by another detainee. Yes, our nation should have a "zero tolerance" policy -- but it should be a zero tolerance of Donald Trump and his bigotry, his white nationalism and his hateful rhetoric against immigrants, Democrats and the news media.
Lawsuit: 10-year-old Guatemalan boy was drugged, sexually assaulted in US custody
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/26/us/mi...uit/index.html
Donald Trump knows that if immigration reform was enacted, he would no longer be able to spew his hateful, racist, bigoted, anti-immigrant rhetoric to stir up his immigrant-hating base. Well.....yeah, he probably would continue to do so -- but his rhetoric would no longer have much power or effect.
Trump has no interest in addressing border issues or immigration reform
Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times, Apr 1 2019 1:25 PM
The Trump administration is right about one thing: The US immigration system is broken and the surge of desperate migrant families from Central America arriving at the US-Mexico border threatens to overwhelm the resources the government has deployed there. But President Trump’s inane responses not only won’t solve the problems, they will in all likelihood make them worse. Some of the policies — such as forcing asylum seekers to wait in often squalid conditions in Mexico while their claims proceed — are inhumane and probably illegal.
And if Trump follows through this week with one of his favorite threats — closing the border if Mexico doesn’t stop the human tide — he would cause significant economic damage to the US. About $1.5 billion in goods, much of it crucial to supply chains for American manufacturers, crosses the border daily, as do an estimated one million people. The President argues that a spike in the number of families seeking asylum at the border has created a national emergency. It hasn’t. In fact, the number of migrants apprehended at the border in recent months has increased over the last couple of years but remains a fraction of the 1.5 million a year during the Clinton administration.
Then, the majority of people caught entering the country without permission were young Mexican men seeking work. Increasingly, those apprehended now are families or unaccompanied minors seeking asylum and they pose a very different challenge. Most are fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries and addressing those so-called push factors is crucial to reducing the number of people hitting the road.
Yet the President has ordered a freeze on more than $500 million in humanitarian aid to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala because those governments, he says, have failed to keep migrants from leaving. But the freeze doesn’t punish those governments. That aid money primarily goes to nonprofit organizations working to combat violence, create jobs and stabilize communities so that fewer people feel compelled to leave. Shutting off the aid will worsen the problem the President complains about.
Further, under US law and international agreements, people have a right to seek asylum by presenting themselves at the border and filing a claim. What the Trump administration has been unable to do is marshal the necessary resources to handle the requests. Is this a border crisis? No. This is an administrative and management failure. The administration doesn’t seem to have a real desire to fix immigration. If it did, it would be working with Congress on comprehensive reform.
This is one of the most anti-immigrant administrations in recent memory. The President’s policy goal is to allow fewer people into the country and eject as many people here without permission as his agents can round up, oblivious to the damage that causes to families, communities and local economies.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/ente...401-story.html
In declaring that our nation should scrap the asylum system and get rid of immigration judges, our immigrant-hating Emperor is taking his hatred of immigrants to a new extreme.
Trump: Congress needs to 'get rid of the whole asylum system'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...tem/ar-BBVENKE
"We've had some very bad court decisions," Donald Trump declared today. "The Flores decision is a disaster. I have to tell you, Judge Flores, whoever you may be, that decision is a disaster, a disaster for our country, and we're working on that."
The 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement set national standards for the detention, treatment and release of children in immigrant detention centers. It was named for Jenny Flores, a 15-year-old who had fled El Salvador, which was engaged in a civil war, and sought to live with her aunt, who was already living in California.
In other words, our Ignoramus-In-Chief addressed a "Judge Flores" who does not exist. Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Kindness. Fairness. Compassion. Caring. Understanding. Empathy. Decency. Donald Trump has none of those qualities. I'm surprised anybody would want to come to the United States while Trump is President.
Trump mocks asylum seekers at the border, says they 'look like they should be fighting for the UFC'
https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...em-scam-2019-4
The judge did not issue an opinion on whether sending asylum seekers back to Mexico is wise or humane -- it isn't -- but he has temporarily halted the policy because Trump failed to follow "administrative law" in implementing it. We all know Trump makes his own laws.
US District Judge halts Trump policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-...ico/ar-BBVJX6A
Letter from Catherine Watson of La Cañada Flintridge in today's Los Angeles Times:
"Reading about President Trump's visit to the section of border wall in Calexico, I was surprised and disturbed to learn there is a plaque mounted on the barrier proclaiming the structure 'the first section of President Trump's border wall.' This plaque implies ownership by Trump of a US government asset. Is this even legal?
The recently constructed wall is, in fact, an upgrade to an existing section of fencing. The upgrade was planned under his predecessor's administration and paid for by taxpayers. Did taxpayers cover the cost of Trump's vanity plaque as well? It is an astounding act of narcissism and egotism that Trump would stamp his brand on this section of fence as if it were one of his hotels."