KFI: The Trump administration is looking to arrest parents and other relatives who authorities believe smuggled their children into the United States.
Of course immigrant advocates say this move would send fear through immigrant communities. The initiative’s goal is to dismantle human smuggling operations, by identifying and arresting adult sponsors of unaccompanied minors who paid coyotes or other smugglers to bring their kids across the border.
This is a drastic departure from the way the Obama administration handled things. Remember a few years ago when tens of thousands of young people fled violence in Central America and ended up in communities across the United States.
Scare them back to their homeland!
They’re not immigrants, they are ILLEGAL aliens.
Wow. Give them a deal to escape prison time: Renounce their citizenship and be deported to Mexico, too.
Parents who smuggle in their children knew this was a possibility when they did it.
It hurts their feelings, BOO HOO!
They’re not immigrants, they’re criminals using children!
That’s the worst!
Sentence them to work on the wall.
If you’re good you get the water the same time as the bread.
One can understand why a parent would want their children to be in a better place. However, that does not give them the right to endanger their children’s lives and break the law in another country.
We cannot take everyone into this country. We cannot continue to take those who cannot support themselves and their families. And this is not being mean or racist. It is being practical. Resources are not unlimited and the resources in this country should go to the citizens of this country. Our vets should benefit from the money that goes to support all the illegals.
How sad that their own countries are so bad that they can’t stay.
DHS/DOJ need to aggressively search for and prosecute/deport the “illegals in the shadows ” operating as travel agents, advising and funding family members to cross our borders. The brazenness of these grifters is the result of decades of the “wink & nod” policies of both parties.
Based on comments, this NYT piece is further proof the media support for illegal immigration is a losing proposition and the republican pols better get on board with Trumps policy, or seek other employment in 2018/2020.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/world/americas/honduras-migration-border-wall.html?referer=http://www.drudgereport.com/
i recall cruz and beck taking teddy bears to the poor children.
4-5 years back i got into this discussion with a friends daughter when we were being inundated with ‘children’. Shes hispanic, bi-lingual, lives in AZ and her best friend is illegal, and was pissed at me because “the children”. She shut up when I asked her what was best for them, to be with their parents or unaccompanied here in the states? All this illegal crossing border crap must stop. (her dad and mom voted Trump. First time ever voting republican i think.)