Those Poor Immigrant Children

Photo courtesy - Associated Press / Ross D. Franklin

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I cannot believe that a US President would order his MINIONS to place children, innocent foreign children into detention centers here in America!  I am shocked, horrified, and embarrassed for my country that these innocent cherub-faced tikes have been made to be pawns of an evil administration in the White House!  Who the heck does HE think he is?!?!?!

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We haven't seen this level of hatred for a group of people since Adolph Hitler and his Nazi henchmen put children into death camps, awaiting the fiery furnaces of the concentration camps!  Where is the humanity?

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More photographic evidence of this outrageous mistreatment of foreign children on American soil! 

Detainees sleep and watch television in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children were being processed and held at the CBP Nogales Placement Center on June 18, 2014.

Photo Courtesy - Associated Press/Ross D. Franklin

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How can ANY Administration continue to speak about the sanctity of human life when it commits such atrocities?!?!?!

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Okay, enough of this foolishness.  For the benefit of the uninformed (like me), the above images were taken in 2014, and not in 2018.  In 2014, the President would have been, um, what's his name, yes, President Barack Obama.  And who was the President of the United States when this dastardly act sentencing innocent young children to incarceration was passed into law?    (Go ahead, think for a moment, I'll be back when you're ready to guess...)  In the meanwhile I'm going to kitchen for a glass of Black Cherry Seltzer - let me know if you want one and I'll bring you one too!

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Okay, you ready to take a stab at it?  Wow, was this a really unfortunate choice of words when talking about state-sponsored child abuse - sorry.

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So who signed this horrible legislation into law?

 

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So what happened between 1997 and TODAY?  Two things:

One:  There is no longer a Democrat in the White House, 

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and,

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Two:  President Donald Trump has elected to enforce the law based upon the interpretation of his US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.

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What does the law say (versus what you're hearing on TV, online, Social Media, and USAToday publications?  Here's a unique idea, let's actually look at the law as written:

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 

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SEC. 303. APPREHENSION AND DETENTION OF ALIENS (REVISED SECTION 236).

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    "(1) CUSTODY.-The Attorney General shall take into custody any alien who-
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"(A) is inadmissible by reason of having committed any offense covered in section 212(a)(2),
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"(B) is deportable by reason of having committed any offense covered in section 237(a)(2)(A)(ii), (A)(iii), (B), (C), or (D),
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"(C) is deportable under section 237(a)(2)(A)(i) on the basis of an offense for which the alien has been sentence to a term of imprisonment of at least 1 year, or
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"(D) is inadmissible under section 212(a)(3)(B) or deportable under section 237(a)(4)(B), when the alien is released, without regard to whether the alien is released on parole, supervised release, or probation, and without regard to whether the alien may be arrested or imprisoned again for the same offense.
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    "(2) RELEASE.-The Attorney General may release an alien described in paragraph (1) only if the Attorney General decides pursuant to section 3521 of title 18, United States Code, that release of the alien from custody is necessary to provide protection to a witness, a potential witness, a person cooperating with an investigation into major criminal activity, or an immediate family member or close associate of a witness, potential witness, or person cooperating with such an investigation, and the alien satisfies the Attorney General that the alien will not pose a danger to the safety of other persons or of property and is likely to appear for any scheduled proceeding. A decision relating to such release shall take place in accordance with a procedure that considers the severity of the offense committed by the alien.

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Section 305
    
"(g) PLACES OF DETENTION.-

"(1) IN GENERAL.-The Attorney General shall arrange for appropriate places of detention for aliens detained pending removal or a decision on removal. When United States Government facilities are unavailable or facilities adapted or suitably located for detention are unavailable for rental, the Attorney General may expend from the appropriation 'Immigration and Naturalization Service- Salaries and Expenses', without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5), amounts necessary to acquire land and to acquire, build, remodel, repair, and operate facilities (including living quarters for immigration officers if not otherwise available) necessary for detention.

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Bottom line (MOOS DISCLAIMER: the following is an English-based summary of what I believe I just read without getting deep into the quagmire of lawyer-speak - if you've read anything I've written in the past, you know that I am NO lawyer - So help me God), when it comes to illegal entry into the country, the Attorney General of the United States has discretion to determine who is imprisoned, under what conditions they may be imprisoned, where they are placed into detention, and under what circumstances they will be released from such detention.  

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Personally, I don't know a LOT about 'detention' as I never did any 'detention time' while I was in high school.  Well, at least if I did, I don't REMEMBER it - it was a long time ago.

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More recently, however, I know for sure that I never entered Mexico without benefit of a large AeroMexico jet, a Passport, a Birth Certificate, US-issued driver's license or other required official documentation for passage into the country.

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Yes, I'm 100% sure that I have never entered Mexico (or Canada) in violation of that country's customs-related legal requirements.

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Unlike some folks who decry the treatment of illegal aliens on Social Media, wanting us to HATE everyone who supports this president, I suggest they contact their local elected officials because if Democrats and / or moderate Republicans want to change the immigration conditions we have, they can do so by created new laws which will restrain the Trump Administration from doing 'Mean things'.  You know, like treating illegal aliens pretty much exactly as they've been treated in the past by Democrats and Republican Administrations alike since 1996.  At last count, this is something like 22 years if my math is correct.

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And before you go there about my BIASED post / opinions only showing one side of the story, I am including a photo from this month, illustrating the incredibly unfair conditions in which these aliens find themselves.  OMG - what have we come to as a Nation?

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Ya'll just need to relax and stay offline.  Keep your outrage for topics worthy of it, like why Nancy Pelosi does not want the President to refer to MS13 Gangs as 'Animals'.  Yes, we can probably muster some outrage for this, I would think...

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Yes, Nancy, you sure can pick them...  From Suffolk County, NY, less than 25 miles from where I grew up:

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Nothing was left of 20-year-old Michael Banegas’ face after he was killed by MS-13 members.
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His killers had forced him to kneel and tied a plastic bag around his head. Suffocation was the cause of death.
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But Banegas’ mutilated body, found with those of three other young men in a Central Islip park in April, told a story of the gang’s savagery.
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Hacked with a machete, his face had no nose, no lips, no cheeks; it was just a mass of bloody tissue and broken bones.
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It’s unclear if Banegas was butchered before or after he died.

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If we refuse to stand up to to people like this - perhaps we are the animals?