Anyhow, the law is the law. First their parents came here illegally, then they chose to commit a crime, any crime. If you want them to be subject to our laws, then they should be subject to the ones that separate a parent from their child if the parent commits a crime.
NOPE!
1) Those coming here seeking refugee asylum, are not coming here illegally.... it's the law, they have a legal human right to seek asylum in another nation if they fear for their life or the life of an immediate family member.
2) That right is their right, whether they cross the border at a crossing, or swim across the rio grande, as long as they turn themselves in to border patrol once on our soil, and tell them they are seeking asylum....which begins the process for the asylum seeking refugee...and they get a court date for a hearing on whether they qualify for asylum....
What the administration did, was decide they would charge refugees with illegal border crossing...., if they did not cross through the border crossing gates....which was NEVER DONE by previous administrations....
but this administration, PURPOSELY short handed the border crossing ports, knowing the caravan of refugees were on their way up here...
Which backed up, and the wait to cross through the gate was 9 days instead of the hour you arrive... mothers with children feared for their children waiting the 9 days in the sun and heat and found means to cross right outside of the border port and waited under shaded trees to then turned themselves in to border patrol.
THEN the administration, PURPOSELY short handed the Courts....taking months for their refugee status hearings...all in their cruel and unusual punishment for these people's legal right to seek asylum
The court ruling that said kids can not be held/interned with their parents longer than 10 days, and the very long waits to see a judge in court for their legal 'due process' gave Sessions an excuse to steal their children from them and send them to 17 different states at the $750 bucks a child,
the same system UNACCOMPANIED MINORS crossing the border are put in...and they start the process to steal their kids, by stating their parents abandoned them....BUT THEY DIDN'T abandon them!!!!!!!!!!!! And they try to place them in Foster care, until their court dates...again, their due process.....but they are kids and parents have no one fighting for them in court....
What Bush and Obama did was not charge asylum seeking refugees from central america with illegal border crossing, and set them up with a court hearing, and released them until their court date because they did NOT WANT TO SPLIT these mother and fathers from their children and do to the refugees what Trump has done with his zero tolerance policy change.
Obama started a test program, and put ankle bracelets on them so they would not just disappear within the country, while waiting for their refugee status hearing.... and the ankle monitoring program, had 100% compliance.... not a single one missed their court hearings, no one disappeared in to the grey....and families were kept together....
if the court ruled they did not qualify, they were deported as a family unit.
if the court ruled they qualified as refugees, then they got to stay and their asylum process began...
NOW the admin has decided that they will build internment camps for them, to keep them together while they wait trial/court date.... but GUARANTEED, that is illegal as well because it still calls for the kids being locked up, basically, longer than 10 days, only in an internment camp.
what the admin should do, is staff for the mass crossing, and fill the courts with more immigration judges to speed up the process of deportation, and issue monitoring ankle bracelets and let them free, with family, until their court date....
we really don't appreciate how great our country is....
