Border Separations and the Misinformation Campaign

I have become increasingly frustrated by the MSM coverage of the immigration crisis which varies from misleading to outright lies. The crisis has been caused not by President Trump but by the waves of people intent on entering the country illegally. Period.

On the issue of separating minors from adults who are charged with illegal entry I would like to point to one article by NBC which typifies the biased coverage. Fact Check: Did Obama Separate Families.

Notice that title, Fact Check. The article has very little in the way of facts. Instead what NBC has done is interview Obama era officials that deny, obfuscate, then minimize whatever detentions there might have been.

"Once custody concerns were resolved, "there was pretty immediately reunification," Gilman told NBC News. "There were not 2,000 kids in two months — it’s not the same universe," she added."

Of course there wasn't 2,000 kids in two months. There's a Republican President now and this immigration tsunami has morphed into another riotous left-wing protest movement. Look deeper into what Denise Gilman, Director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas Law School is saying. "...there was pretty immediately reunification."  Twenty days is the maximum for detaining minors that arrive with an adult. That's the law and there is nothing to suggest that administration officials have done anything other than follow the law.

Remember this is not a fact or sworn testimony but an interview with a left leaning news organization. So that I'm not accused of taking Gilman out of context let me add that she said that maybe once every six months they might come across a separated family unit. Well Director Gilman I would remind you of your own words, "it's not the same universe."

Let me direct your attention to a article by CBN News that you can read here.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security reports a 325 percent increase in "unaccompanied alien children" and a 435 percent increase in "family units" entering the country illegally.

Many of us have come to accept that liberals are adverse to facts. The NBC article, despite its title, has zero facts. Denise Gilman's comments absent the facts of the current situation are meaningless.  Look at the numbers. Trump did not create those numbers or the current crisis. Now another quote from the CBN article.

Nielsen adds that in the last three months, her office has seen a spike in illegal immigration that has exceeded 50,000 a month.

I'm just a dumb, out of work truck driver but I have a question, have we increased the manpower at the border 435 percent?

'Prison-like' migrant youth shelter is understaffed, unequipped for Trump's 'zero tolerance' policy, insider says

The good old LA Times, they're just trying to be helpful. There's no bias at all, you see. This is all the fault of Trump's zero tolerance policy. Let's check in with The Daily Caller and find out what that curmudgeon from Alabama, Jeff Sessions, has been up to.

“Sessions is talking to congressional members and is hoping for a legislative fix. The AG wants an immigration policy that is just, fair and enforceable. They talked about making sure that these really are the parents of these kids,” Perkins said. 

Working with congress ... diabolical!!! That quote from The Daily Caller story is from Family Research Council President Tony Perkins.

He continued, “They are looking at how to use DNA tests in the field to verify they are parents and not traffickers. The reality is if American parents put their kids through what these immigrant parents have done to their kids — they would be charged with child abuse.”

When you consider that most of these people arrive at our border undocumented doesn't this seem like a prudent course of action? The Radical Left seems to be advocating that not only should we step aside and let these people in but that we should also close our eyes. 

 Jeff Sessions considers forcing asylum-seekers with sons and daughters in tow to take DNA TESTS to prove children are theirs

That headline from the UK Daily Mail. 

Jeff Sessions didn't force these people to come here without identification. I can't say what sort of expectations these legions of illegal entrants may have had upon arriving here but I certainly expect the Attorney General of The United States of America to enforce existing law.

I can also see that with so many unaccompanied minors headed to our borders that there would be adults who would take advantage of the situation and claim to be a parent expecting it to make their own entry easier. Gaming the system happens all the time. And if we don't make every effort to ensure these minors aren't being trafficked then there will be a trafficking problem. If DNA testing in the field can be done then it should be for the sake of the minors the Left-wing propaganda outlets claim to be so worried about.

I began by talking about facts and in the last paragraph I suggested that unaccompanied minors may be taken advantage of by adults looking to more easily enter our country by claiming to be a parent. I found another interesting story from a Colorado NBC affiliate 9news and you can check that out here.

Did the Trump administration really lose 1,500 children?

Not in the way it’s being portrayed by some people.

Here's what happened: ORR tried to contact 7,635 kids it placed with adult sponsors, but 1,475 them didn’t answer.

That doesn’t mean the agency lost them. Some of those kids forgot to respond, didn’t get the message or chose not to because someone in their household is undocumented.

Let's also speculate that we're letting people in who simply drift off into the shadows and off the grid. When we talk about minors the majority are teenagers who may have ties to Central American gangs. Those youths may not wish to remain where we can monitor them.

The much maligned zero tolerance policy simple means that anyone caught entering the country illegally will be arrested. Did we have a policy before of arresting some and not others? That wouldn't make sense to me.

Let me get back to some of the very dubious coverage of the family separations at the border. USA Today brings us the story of Lester Morales from Guatemala. If his story is to be believed, and I don't know how it could have been verified, Morales left Guatemala with his family on what became a 18 day journey to the United States. According to him he lost his wife an infant child along the way. He arrived here and upon finding out that he might be separated from the toddler he brought with him said, 'I thought we'd be safe here.'

I think the people at USA Today might have picked the wrong human interest  story to highlight. For all any of us know this man might have waylaid a woman and taken her child and now upon finding out authorities might want to verify his story is having second thoughts. In any case, this story should strengthen the case that separations are needed to ensure the safety of children arrivals and that DNA testing would indeed be helpful in ascertaining the validity of a claim.

Another story from Business Insider brings together the Tweets of a Texas Immigration attorney recounting an exchange he had with then President Obama.

"I'll tell you what we can't have," Obama said, according to Free. "It's these parents sending their kids here on a dangerous journey and putting their lives at risk."

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