As Casey said, Andrew, "You could look it up."
I did:
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Deportations haven't hit the high point reached during the early years of Obama, but one difference stands out in the first year of Trump: ICE arrests of unauthorized immigrants with no criminal record surged 146 percent in one year, to 37,734 from 15,353 over the same period". The point is to get this wretched situation under control.
Which Trump could do in a minute IF he wanted to!
Question: 6 months ago, prior to the so called zero tolerance, were as many kids being separated from their parents, the same or less? Look it up. What changed? Sessions under Trump ordering this new zero tolerance action in April. Trump could order Sessions to go back to the behavior Trump himself was abiding by with a phone call.
He refuses to do this. Then he lies that this is the fault of the dem's when the facts are clear; that order* by Sessions caused this situation to what what it is today. At a massive cost to you and I as taxpayers too. Look up the cost to house the children separately per day, versus housing them with their parents which was the norm less than 4 months ago. What changed? This zero tolerance mandate*.
Now yes, we DO need to follow the law! However think about being pulled over by a cop because you were driving 56MPH in a 55MPH zone. That's what such a zero tolerance mandate ends up doing. I suspect you wouldn't be too happy about getting a ticket for going 1MPH over the speed limit. Yet you broke the law. Further these people being arrested face a mere misdemeanor! For that, we separate kids from their parents and pay nearly 2X to house them for how long, at what expense to their future behavior? It's simply unacceptable and unnecessary. And utterly un-American. The fix is easy too.
Want to put a bet that the upcoming bills in the House that are 'supposed' to fix this will not happen of if they do, the senate will fail to pass a bill? Or if they do actually manage to pass a bill in both houses, Trump will sign it? All this could stop today IF Trump wanted it to stop; he started it without altering the law. Bush and Obama didn't have this zero tolerance mandate, Trump does, by his own action. Do you really believe that it would be better to wait on the one branch of Government to write a new law than just have Trump tell Sessions to back off from what HE started a few months ago, all while more kids get separated from their parents? They can't even produce an emergency bill that solely addresses what to do with kids with parents who face this misdemeanor.
The political will to fix this doesn't exist with the people in power. The people who produced this awful situation in the first place.
From everything I read, Trump's trying to do that.
Are you serious? Maybe you need to read other resources.*
Do you not know the history of what started this in the first place and who started it, a few months ago? Trump is a liar, can you accept WHO started this process of separation/when? He's trying how? Certainly not telling his AG to go back to the previous actions that AG, under Trump applied to get this mess going in the first place.
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-zero-tolerance-policy-criminal-illegal-entry*
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/06/19/the-facts-about-trumps-policy-of-separating-families-at-the-border/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.633714ff9b09I'm sorry if these facts ruin your day.
