The Democrats are playing politics with the immigration laws. Their motivation is political—with their eye on the 2020 elections—they are determined to avoid handing President Trump any wins on policy—even if their inaction harms the nation. So in the fraught area of immigration they persist in their intention to avoid any actions to amend -the 1980s era “Flores settlement” (and court interpretations of same) — which in its present form incentivizes illegal immigration, human trafficking, and lands innocent children in often mortal danger. This now outdated law as presently interpreted states that a family unit—-i.e. a person accompanied by a child— once they enter the USA they can not be detained and can not be returned to his/her own country without a judicial review of his/her claim of asylum. According to the Flores interpretation, asylum seekers are arrested then within a short period released—-ostensibly to return for a hearing regarding their claims. Most asylum seekers are not fleeing for their lives, or fleeing from tyranny, or from political oppression. . Most are economic immigrants seeking a better job and a better life in the USA.
The current law is the legal loophole that is used by the drug cartels, the coyotes, human traffickers, child abductors and tens of thousands of poor unemployed and disadvantaged South American migrants —and now others crossing our porous southern border from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East) seeking jobs and better living conditions in the USA. All these folks need is a small child to come with them as they cross the border. One need not be too imaginative to see how such a legal requirement could be misused to the danger and harm of youngsters.
The NY Times* recently (June 26, 2019) published a gruesome picture of the bodies of a man and his 23 month old child laying face down in the muddy water of the Rio Grande. The two who drowned attempting to cross from Mexico into Texas.
According to his wife, the drowned man, Alberto Martinez, had been waiting on the Mexican side of the border for a chance to claim asylum and enter the USA. He grew impatient, said his wife. Leaving her behind, he took his innocent 23 month old child Angie, who he placed on his back, slipping her under his shirt and entered the river. He used little Angie as his “ticket’ across the border as he attempted to swim to the US side.
He didn't make it. His calculation was simple—- he needed little, innocent 23 month old Angie with him in order to avoid a long detention or being sent back into Mexico. He—like so many others took advantage of innocent children —and was lured on by the legal morass of US immigration laws that would permit him at the moment he set foot on US soil with his daughter in his arms to remain in the USA,. The only requirement his guillible, easily duped “captors” make is that he promise to reappear for his court date. He like ten of thousand of others were set free to forget about court proceedings and meld into the illegal immigrant communities— established and growing in every state in the Union.
The out-dated immigration laws and legal interpretations which incentivize these migrants to make dangerous and foolhardy decisions are the real culprits. But more culpable are the politicians—the Democrat in the US Congress— who will not even admit that there is a crisis on our southern border, and then even worse refuse to address these problem with a simple revision of exiting immigrant laws. The Democrats in Congress who sit on their hands and warm a Congressional seat are to blame for these two deaths (and for the many hundreds of others who die annually). Were they to act—they could end the crisis.
*Perhaps the Times remembering the electrifying though tragic picture of another little migrant —-5 year old Syrian (?) boy, Alan Kurdi who drowned during an attempted Mediterranean crossing and whose tiny body washed up on a European beach. That picture elicited a wave of sympathy for migrants—though that emotion was short-lived. The sympathy encouraged immigrants to attempt dangerous crossings and many more died in these crossing attempts. Mrs Angela Merkel’s guilt ridden Germany was to welcome about a million Arab migrants. Today after the realization of the difficulty of settling people who were unprepared culturally, linguistically or economically for life in Europe—that sympathy has evaporated, The borders have closed. The migrant movements have decreased to a trickle.
It is the Democrats with their leader Nancy Pelosi who are to blame for this tragedy.
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