So your hero stops aid to those countries and splits up mothers, fathers, and their children. Some families will never get reunited. Trump is creating this "crises" as over 70% of immigrants show up for their trial and even more who claim asylum. Republicans like you don't want to solve the problem but they need something to hate.
A SPOTLIGHT ON MISINFORMATION Posted by Benjamin Johnson | May 7, 2019 | 0
On April 26, President Trump reached a disturbing milestone: according to the Washington Post fact checker, he uttered his 10,000th false or misleading statement since assuming office. Not surprisingly, many of these falsehoods revolve around immigration, particularly the situation along the U.S.-Mexico border. In fact, the very next day, at a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the president blew past the 10,000 mark in part through a distorted portrayal of immigrants at the border. Among his more flagrant deviations from the truth were the following: “Last month alone 100,000 illegal immigrants arrived in our borders, placing a massive strain on communities and schools and hospitals and public resources like nobody’s ever seen before.”
In fact, the number of unauthorized immigrants coming to the United States each year is at a 25-year low. The 92,607 southwest border apprehensions that Trump refers to include not only unauthorized immigrants, but large numbers of asylum seekers as well. Yet the two are far from being the same.The asylum seekers who Trump is calling “illegal” are not attempting to cross surreptitiously into the country; rather, they are presenting themselves to border-enforcement agents and requesting safe haven—which is their legal right. Most hail from the Northern Triangle of Central America—El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala—where horrific levels of violence perpetrated by gangs, as well as security forces, is driving people from their homes. It is telling that apprehensions in March included roughly 9,000 unaccompanied children and 37,000 “family units”—neither of which fits the stereotype of unauthorized immigrants as lone men trying to sneak over the border in search of jobs. Sadly, the Trump administration’s border enforcement strategy remains largely unchanged even as the nature of the challenge has changed dramatically.
“We’re building the wall, by the way, we’re going to have over 400 miles of wall built by the end of next year.”
In truth, none of Trump’s much-touted concrete wall has been built. Congress forbade that any funds appropriated for border enforcement be used to build the wall. Rather, appropriated funds can be used only for new stretches of fencing of the types already in use, or to replace existing fencing. Trump used existing funds from the Pentagon and Treasury Department to build about 83 miles of fencing. Added to the 175 miles built by Congress, that amounts to 258 miles of new fencing, which Trump rhetorically transforms into more than 400 miles of “wall.”
“Obviously open borders bring tremendous crime.” More than a century’s worth of research shows that immigration is not associated with higher crime rates and that immigrants are less likely than the native-born to commit crimes. This is true both of immigrants in general and unauthorized immigrants in particular. For instance, a 2018 study from criminologist Michael Light and his colleagues found that, between 1990 and 2014, locales with larger shares of unauthorized immigrants had lower rates of violent crime (murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault). The researchers found the same pattern for nonviolent crime, such as drug offenses and driving under the influence (DUI).
“The flood of illegal migration is the direct consequence of Democrat-backed policies that prevent border violators from being promptly returned home. They’re allowed to stay in our country, catch and release. They’re allowed—you catch them and then you have to release. It is crazy.” Again, Trump demonstrates little understanding of what it means to seek asylum. Under U.S. and international law, an asylum seeker is not an unauthorized immigrant and should not be treated in the same way. Promptly returning them to the country from which they are fleeing would be inhumane and might actually be a death sentence in some cases. And, for all his talk of “catch and release,” Trump overlooks the fact that 85 percent of all deportations in this country are quickly ordered without so much as a single hearing before a judge.
President Trump’s tenuous relationship with reality extends to his understanding of the current situation at the southwest border.Contrary to his repeated, fact-free assertions, the influx of asylum seekers from Central America is not a crisis of “illegal immigration.” Despite the absence of the border wall he falsely claims is being built, and which he deems so essential to border security, unauthorized immigration is the lowest it’s been in decades. And the vast majority of the migrants who are coming to the border, be they asylum seekers or unauthorized border-crossers, are not bringing crime with them.
Those are truths.
Benjamin Johnson Mr. Johnson is Executive Director of AILA and the former executive director of the American Immigration Council. He has studied and worked on immigration issues in Washington, DC for more than 20 years. A native of Arizona, Mr. Johnson was the co-founder and legal Director of the Immigration Outreach Center in Phoenix. Prior to becoming involved in immigration issues he was a criminal and civil litigation attorney in San Diego, CA. He earned a J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law and studied International and Comparative Law at Kings College in London.
conix, Yeah and if you don't help the source countries, and if you don't put funds into the border places and what comes after places, as immigration courts, the system won't work.
"I do not believe that everyone who comes to our borders and says he is seeking asylum..."
topdawg tdr - Trump’s shutdown has paralyzed immigration courts. Oh, the irony. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145863474 .. and .. This must be a joke Mitch McConnell: "So will these new Democrats come to Washington ready to roll up their sleeves, work together, and make laws -- or they're going waste time on partisan show votes that will do nothing to move the country in a forward direction?" hill.cm/nMzo13M https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145846434 .. both ot those, with a reminder of the Caucus Room Restaurant meeting on Obama's first inauguration day, are here .. 100%, hookrider. The immigration court situation reads as about the biggest Fuck Up ever, and it's obviously being made much worse by the most fucked up president the USA has ever had. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145864498
conix, You sure know how to ignore simple, no bullshit, questions
So your hero stops aid to those countries and splits up mothers, fathers, and their children. Some families will never get reunited. Trump is creating this "crises" as over 70% of immigrants show up for their trial and even more who claim asylum. Republicans like you don't want to solve the problem but they need something to hate https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149236187
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A SPOTLIGHT ON MISINFORMATION Posted by Benjamin Johnson | May 7, 2019 | 0
On April 26, President Trump reached a disturbing milestone: according to the Washington Post fact checker, he uttered his 10,000th false or misleading statement since assuming office. Not surprisingly, many of these falsehoods revolve around immigration, particularly the situation along the U.S.-Mexico border. In fact, the very next day, at a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the president blew past the 10,000 mark in part through a distorted portrayal of immigrants at the border. Among his more flagrant deviations from the truth were the following: https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149236841
Noted there are there three 'inconvenient posts' to you still to this time ignored by you.
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