Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says U.S. Is 'Running Concentration Camps on Our Southern Border'

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“I’ve been to that facility, where they talk about cages. That facility was built under President Obama under (Homeland Security) Secretary Jeh Johnson. I was there because I was there when it was built,” said Thomas Homan, who was Obama’s executive associate director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly four years.
At an immigration conference today, Homan, under consideration for a new position of “border czar” in the Trump administration, grew visibly angry answering a question about “cages” often cited by Democratic critics of the president.
Homan, who ran Obama’s successful deportation operation, ripped Democrats who question Trump immigration officials on the Obama-era idea.
He cited one Democratic chairman who asked a Trump official, “You still keeping kids in cages?”
Homan, at the conference hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, said, “I would answer the question, ‘The kids are being housed in the same facility built under the Obama administration.’ If you want to call them cages, call them cages. But if the left wants to call them cages and the Democrats want to call them cages then they have to accept the fact that they were built and funded in FY 2015.”
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Obama Built The ‘Cages’ for Illegals, Not Trump, Says Obama ICE Chief

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dvdjs said:
There are also children accompanied by parents who are separated from them.
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Do people forget the Executive Order President Trump signed last year to keep families together after they were detained crossing the border illegally? Do people remember what Trump said about that? “We are going to keep the families together. I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ngress-opportunity-address-family-separation/

www.usatoday.com

Trump signs executive order to end immigrant family separations: What we know

President Donald Trump, facing a national outcry, signed an executive order Wednesday to keep migrant families together at the border, abandoning his earlier claim that the crisis was caused by an iron-clad law and not a policy that he could reverse.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ng-prevent-human-trafficking-southern-border/
 
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kat07 said:
It has already been posted on here. Go back and read the thread.
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since you seem to know it, why not link? There are bnow 6756 posts to wade through.
kat07 said:
Do people forget the Executive Order President Trump signed last year to keep families together after they were detained crossing the border illegally?
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I remember and give kudos for his seeming abbout face. But he hasn’t gotten the job done, has he?
 
Guinness said:
Why do Catholics in good conscience want to encourage migrants to come to the US where they face only imprisonment and death? Wouldn’t the compassionate thing be to send them to other Latin American countries, like Cuba or Venezuela, where they will be welcomed with compassion and tolerance?
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Do you not see that migrants face “imprisonment and death” in the U.S.
contingently, due to the particular type of “crackdown” policies of the present administration?

It’s a total strawman (and one in bad taste at that) to suggest that people who sympathize with the plight that migrants face in their native countries, should regard inhumane detention centers as the “better life” that migrants aspire to. Please.
 
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I heard in the pictures of her at the border, one can see her $6000 dollar watch, also:
Let’s face it; the media has done a fantastic job of selling the lie to the American people that this is somehow President Trump’s fault.

The truth is that the second highest number of border deaths happened under the Obama administration. From 2008-2012, over two-hundred to over four-hundred deaths at the border happened under Obama.

According to Military News: During Obama’s two-term presidency, from 2008 to 2016, border deaths ranged from 251 to 471 each year. The 471 deaths occurred in 2012, and that is the second highest number of border deaths in the last 20 years.

In the first two years of Trump’s presidency, border deaths have actually decreased.​

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The Facts About Border Deaths That Angry Leftists Who Blame Trump Aren't Telling You * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Leisa Audette

After the photo of a father and a young child appeared in nearly every media publication around the world, the […]
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So, one may disagree with the article, I think if one is talking about the “present administration”, was the press and others as vocal about what happened under Obama? It looks like holding facilities actually may be better now.

Even PBS ran a show on Obama’s border facilities:

https://www.pbs.org/video/now-on-pbs-obamas-border-fence/

Also presented in the interest of fairness.

Also, they just caught a couple with a million dollars going to Mexico the other day. So many articles on this, it’s a journalist’s dreams how many stories there are.

www.americanthinker.com

Rich illegals now crossing over with their suitcases

Is there something new happening within the border surge? The American Mirror has a Border Patrol video showing illegal aliens now towing huge suitcases, along with kids (who might even be rented as entry tickets), writing: ...
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Ana_v said:
Do you not see that migrants face “imprisonment and death” in the U.S.
contingently , due to the particular type of “crackdown” policies of the present administration?
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Most of the pictures that sparked the original outrage dated from before Trump’s election. Let’s not pretend this is something new to Trump’s administration.
Ana_v said:
It’s a total strawman (and one in bad taste at that) to suggest that people who sympathize with the plight that migrants face in their native countries, should regard inhumane detention centers as the “better life” that migrants aspire to. Please.
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I regard the “inhumane detention centers” as awful and wonder why people can, in good conscience, encourage people to come to the US knowing they will be subject to “inhumane detention” in disease and filth ridden camps. Why do people lie to our brown brothers and tell them that things are better in the racist and inhuman US “of KKK” A (to quote our former President’s favorite pastor)?
 
dvdjs said:
since you seem to know it, why not link? There are bnow 6756 posts to wade through.
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https://congress.gov/resources/display/content/Appropriations+for+Fiscal+Year+2019


dvdjs said:
I remember and give kudos for his seeming abbout face. But he hasn’t gotten the job done, has he?
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Are you aware of how large the increase in the # of family units crossing the border has been? With the crisis, surge and Flores Agreement the # of separations are inevitably going to increase. It’s not because of Trump, it’s a continuation of policy. Do you know how many separations there were when Obama was in office? Only the separations under Trump are horrible though.


May 1, 2019: "The demographics of migrants arriving at our border has changed dramatically, from single adult males to family units and UAC. This year, over 52 percent of apprehensions have been migrant families. The number of UAC referred to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has increased by almost 50 percent over last year. "
 
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dvdjs said:
Ahhh that “humanitarian bill”. :roll_eyes:
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YES that humanitarian bill. Have you read it? My take is you haven’t.
  • Provided $415 million for humanitarian relief specifically for medical care, transportation, food and cloth; for humanitarian improvements to the McAllen Central Processing Center; and for a new El Paso CBP processing facility.
  • Provided $59 million for 600 new CBP Officers and encourages CBP to use fee funding to hire up to 600 additional CBP officers for a total of 1,200 new officers.
  • Provided an appropriated level for detention beds that establishes Congress’s intent to reduce the daily population in ICE detention to approximately 40,520 by the end of the fiscal year, down from a current count of approximately 49,060.
  • Expansion of the Alternatives to Detention program from 82,000 to 100,000.
  • Provided $30.5 million for ATD family case management, which improves compliance with immigration court obligations by helping families’ access community-based support for basic housing, healthcare, legal, and educational needs.
  • Provided $40 million for additional ICE staffing dedicated to overall ATD case management, particularly for asylum seekers.
  • Funded additional detention facility inspectors in the Office of Professional Oversight to bring the number of inspections up from once every three years to twice per year.
  • Provided funding to bring the number of detention facilities in compliance with PREA requirements from 86 percent to 97 percent.
  • Provided $7.4 million for additional attorneys and for courtroom expansion to assist in the backlog of immigration cases currently in the system.
  • Provided $1.9 billion for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which focuses on a wide variety of investigations with a cross-border nexus, including those related to human trafficking, financial crimes and cyber investigations.
  • Provided an increase of $7.5 million for new HSI Victim Assistant Specialists and $44 million for new staffing to enhance opioid/fentanyl-related investigations and analyses.
  • No funding for additional enforcement and removal field personnel.
I guess the Democrats didn’t like the “7.4 million for additional attorneys and for courtroom expansion to assist in the backlog of immigration cases currently in the system”???
 
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dvdjs said:
It was not just a “humanitarian bill”. Now that we know how extensive it was, it might be fair to consider what aspects of this large bill actually informed AOC’s vote.
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AOC as well as others CLEARLY indicated what aspect of the bill informed their decision (the beds), that’s also been posted here… Ironic isn’t it that she opposed additional beds, but yet cries tears for the children sleeping on the concrete floors a month later. A summary of the bill has also been posted as well.
 
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Senate Rejects Pelosi's $4.6 Billion Border Package, Passes Its Own

The Senate rejected an emergency border funding package by Pelosi, instead passing their own that better lined up with Trump's priorities.
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“Pelosi also acquiesced to demands from progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) that the final bill not include additional funding for more detention beds or overtime compensation for ICE officers.”

https://www.harris.senate.gov/news/...ect-expansion-of-family-immigration-detention

“We appreciate your efforts to negotiate a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the start of the 2019 fiscal year without providing for any increase in immigration detention beds.”

http://www.gopusa.com/democrats-aim-to-block-funds-for-detention-beds-at-border/
“They said Congress should cut “detention funding” back to what it was in 2016 under President Obama. That could slash money for thousands of detention beds out of Mr. Trump’s request.”

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Ocasio-Cortez complains about there not being enough room for illegal aliens at detention facilities used by federal officials. Federal agencies requested 52,000 detention beds per day in the recent omnibus bill AOC and the Democrats only gave them 45,274 detention beds https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1111116797682569216 …

She rejected humanitarian aid and providing more beds, then cries they are sleeping on the floor, then cheers when a walkout happens at Wayfair to stop giving these kids beds paid for by the Trump Administration… It’s all a political ploy. Dems want less detention beds so they can’t hold as many people who break the law, and so they would have to be released. They want to make it harder for DHS to enforce the laws that Congress wrote.

Also, the “Not One More Dollar” joint statement she and others were a part of rejected the proposed bill, with some outlandish false claims (more deportations).
 
13pollitos said:
We spend millions to feed, shelter, investigate, send through the courts, and deport illegal immigrants.
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In comparison with the thousands of billions of dollars spent on the Afghan war alone, this is a very small amount.
 
In other news, a New York Times editorial calls for “doxxing” Customs and Border Protection officers. I wonder if they would consider violence against the officers a “bug”, or a “feature”…

www.nytimes.com

Opinion | The Treatment of Migrants Likely ‘Meets the Definition of a Mass Atrocity’ (Published 2019)

Children are suffering and dying. The fastest way to stop it is to make sure those responsible, including the foot soldiers, face consequences.
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The identities of the individual Customs and Border Protection agents who are physically separating children from their families and staffing the detention centers are not undiscoverable. Immigration lawyers have agent names; journalists reporting at the border have names, photos and even videos. These agents’ actions should be publicized, particularly in their home communities.

This is not an argument for doxxing — it’s about exposure of their participation in atrocities to audiences whose opinion they care about. The knowledge, for instance, that when you go to church on Sunday, your entire congregation will have seen you on TV ripping a child out of her father’s arms is a serious social cost to bear. The desire to avoid this kind of social shame may be enough to persuade some agents to quit and may hinder the recruitment of replacements. For those who won’t (or can’t) quit, it may induce them to treat the vulnerable individuals under their control more humanely. In Denmark during World War II, for instance, strong social pressure, including from the churches, contributed to the refusal of the country to comply with Nazi orders to deport its Jewish citizens.
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