6/18/2018 - Arthur Schaper Townhall.com
I regret to inform you,
the mainstream media is at it again.
The liberal press is
hammering the Trump Administration because executive departments, at the behest
of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, are separating parents and children when
apprehended crossing the border illegally. The headlines give the whole gamut:
President Trump and his
allies have pushed back against the unjust uproar over this policy. The simple
refrain is “It’s the law.” Yes, the administration is correct. It’s codified in
federal immigration statutes that individuals are not allowed to break into the
United States.
It’s common for adults
on trial to be separated from their children during court proceedings, too.
The idea that
law-breaking parents are never separated from their kids flies in the face of
reality. When Americans commit crimes in the United States, they are arrested,
tried, and if found guilty, convicted. If they are parents, they are separated
from their kids due into incarceration. During the trial process, if they
cannot afford bail or are not given the option, then they are separated from
their kids as well. In more severe cases, they lose custody of their children
even after they completed their sentence.
But still, the press
jumped all over Sessions for quoting the Bible to enforce the nation’s laws.
They write that AG Sessions was using Scripture to justify specifically the
separation of migrant children from their law-breaking parents. Here’s the
verse: “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power
but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” (Romans 13:1) Sessions’
broader argument focused on full and equal application of the law.
Of course, there’s no
verse that states “separate children from their parents.” But then again, there
are no verses which teach that countries have to open their border to anybody
who comes knocking. Most Liberals would not realize that though. They only resort
to Scriptural arguments to try and shame conservatives for having points of
view which they disagree with, not because they believe it is the word of
God.
What is truly
maddening, however, is that even some conservative pundits along with the
liberals are condemning these actions. Consider AG Sessions’ interview
with Hugh Hewitt, in which the SoCal conservative asked Sessions to
imagine what it would be like if his grandchildren were separated from him.
Sessions is a citizen and he hasn’t placed any member of his in danger or
lawless inconvenience. Sessions beat down these unfounded claims of compassion,
reminding Hewitt that the United States has a right to secure borders, and that
the citizens have a right to full enforcement of the law. Simply put, a country
without a border is not a country. Thus, with no United States then all of us
would be lost.
President Trump has
rebuffed the media’s faux outrage by blaming the Democrats for the “family
separation” legislation. Once again, “It’s the law”, but leaders in Washington
and across the country are still not reverting the blame back to where it
belongs: the illegal alien parents.
And yet another part of
this debate is missing. The chattering classes wail about the separation of
illegal families, but what about the American parents who have been separated
from their families and can never reunite with them?
Kate Steinle’s parents
will never have their daughter back. Nor will Don Rosenberg ever
see his son Drew. What about Angie Morfin, Sabine Durden, or Mary Ann Mendoza? The
closest thing to reunification for grieving parents like Agnes Gibboney? A visit to her son’s grave
(see picture above) in Glendora, CA. Ronald De Silva was murdered by an illegal
alien gang-banger who had been previously deported.These and many other
American parents have lost their children—forever—because of illegal alien
crimes.
But no, instead of
those dead children, the left-wing lamestream media spends its time lying that
illegal alien minors are pining away in cages. The truth is that they are receiving adequate food,
shelter, clothing, and an education. The parents face prosecution
for illegal entry but the children receive basic care, probably better than
what they had received in their home countries. Which begs the question -
American taxpayers are footing the bills for these kids but shouldn’t
underprivileged American children access these resources, not foreign
nationals?
The media’s contrived
angst over the separation of families is purely for political purposes.
Represent the facts, respect the law, and if the press is so worried about
separated families, then they should tell illegal aliens to stop breaking into
the United States."
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