Over the weekend, the media
went insane over the supposed Trump administration policy of separating illegal
immigrant parents from their children. According to the media, Trump could with
one quick fix simply prevent the separation of children from their parents; according
to the media, all Trump has to do is wave his magic wand, and all will be well.
This is a lie.
More specifically, it’s
several lies.
1. Trump Created Separation
Of Children From Illegal Immigrant Parents. This is plainly false. In
1997, the federal government made an agreement in a case called Flores not
to keep unaccompanied illegal immigrant children in custody beyond 20 days. The
settlement said nothing about accompanied illegal immigrant children – children
who crossed the border with their parents. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
then ruled that accompanied children also could not be held in custody under
the terms of the settlement. This meant that the government either had to
release whole families, or that the government had to separate parents from
children.
2. Immigrants Seeking
Asylum Are Being Punished For Seeking Asylum. This is plainly untrue
as well. Immigrants who come to points of entry to seek asylum aren’t actually
illegally in the country – they’re not arrested. They’re processed through ICE,
and their children stay with them. If, however, illegal immigrants cross the
border illegally, the Trump administration now treats them as criminals. If
they choose deportation, they aren’t separated from their kids; if they choose
to apply for asylum, they stay in the country longer than 20 days, and their
kids have to be removed by operation of law.
3. The Trump Facilities Are
Awful Thanks To Trump. They may be awful, but they were just as awful
under President Obama. These are pictures from Brandon Darby of Breitbart circa
2014:
Re: “Cages” —- The chainlink partitions in the holding facilities at border are the exact same ones we showed you during the Obama Admin. Why didn’t you care then? Cc @joelpollak— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) 18 de junho de 2018
Image #2 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/5s31QgL9sH— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) 18 de junho de 2018
Image #3 we showed you in 2014 pic.twitter.com/m2Pjy59FR4— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) 18 de junho de 2018
The big mistake made by the
Trump administration here came courtesy of Stephen Miller and John Kelly, both
of whom reportedly stated that the administration was separating kids from
parents as a sort of deterrent. That’s idiotic. The deterrent is arrest and
deportation, not separating children from parents. That’s why the House is
attempting to pass some sort of fix here to keep kids with their parents.
But with that said, the media
coverage of this issue has been patently irresponsible. Trump isn’t forcing
children away from parents. He’s enforcing the law on the books. The
legislature can fix that law at any time. The facilities he’s using are the
same facilities Obama used. Pretending that this is Japanese internment (as
Laura Bush suggested) or the Holocaust (as General Michael Hayden suggested) is
ridiculous. This policy ought to be fixed. But lying about it isn’t designed to
fix it. It’s designed to prevent a fix by allowing Democrats to play political
football with children, believing they’re winning a victory by holding Trump’s
feet to the fire with pictures of crying children.
Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire, June 18, 2018
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