A Different Story Along the Border

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The MSM is getting ripped today for their "fact checking" on Trump's speech. It was nothin' but partisan spin.

Sad when the fact checkers need to be fact checked.

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other than msnbc or cnn fact checked
and honestly you can do it yourself and easily see he lied about 4,000 suspected terrorists at the Mexican border. there were 6. the 4,000 number is true but the other 3,994 were at the airport.

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There are actually several things good to say about Trump's address to the nation because he raised some good points but it's not exactly what Trump probably intended.

For example:

There isn't a security crisis at our Southern border because the "hordes" of people coming from Central America are refugees that want to be allowed to apply for asylum and enter the United States legally under our laws.

On the other hand the statement about a humanitarian crisis is absolutely true but the crisis isn't in the United States.

The humanitarian crisis refers to the refugees that make the arduous, often dangerous, trip from Central American to be allowed to apply for asylum and enter the United States lawfully. The humanitarian crisis is that the Trump administration isn't allowing these refugees to apply for asylum when they reach a port of entry, in compliance with our laws, so thousands of them are backed up in very dire circumstances on the Mexican side of the border as the wait often for months to be allowed to lawfully enter the United States while the Trump administration is intentionally stonewalling the asylum application process.

Refugees waiting to lawfully enter the United States, that are suffering a humanitarian crisis, has nothing to do with "The Wall" that Trump keeps demanding.

That is true but the majority of "illegal immigrants" (over 700,000 a year) are entering the United States lawfully on a visa and then overstaying their visa. They're not crossing the Southern border and don't even come from South of the US-Mexico border. Most are Canadians.

A wall doesn't solve this problem and doesn't even remotely address it.

Historically there have always been those that illegally cross our border with Mexico and overwhelmingly this was related to individual men that were attempting to enter the United States for employment. Yes, there was the rare gang member or even an occasional drug smuggle but those were rare cases. The number of these historical people that illegally enter the United States, relatively speaking, is at an all time low. There was a much larger number coming in previously and we didn't have any real problems with adequate detention facilities or any problems related to deportation.

Now there is a difference. Refugees that arrive at a US port of entry are being denied their right, under our law, to apply for asylum and to be admitted into the United States lawfully with one of the Refugee visas provided for by Congress. They arrive only to find thousands of refugees that arrived before them waiting to be allowed to apply for asylum and entire situation is a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions because the Trump administration isn't following the law by refusing to allow refugees to apply for asylum when they arrive at a US port of entry.

They're faced with a bleak situation when it comes to waiting, at least for months and perhaps even a year, just to apply for asylum but there's another way to apply for asylum. If they're in the United States they can go to the Border Patrol to apply for asylum and receive the protections asylum offers. To do this they must undertake another a perilous journey through the desert, often relying on "coyotes" (smugglers) to show them the way but they've just completed one from Central America to the US border and that journey, in their opinion, is better than living in the humanitarian crisis with those simply waiting on the Trump administration perhaps follow the law and allow them into the United States. So they make that dangerous journey, often with their children that they're trying to protect, and when they get here they go to the Border Patrol.

And the Border Patrol arrests them and throws them into detention centers. The Border Patrol has to allow them to apply for asylum but instead of asylum protecting them they find themselves incarcerated, often having their children taken from them, without any logical reason for the incarceration. The asylum law protects them from prosecution for unlawful entry and from deportation proceedings. They don't represent a threat to society or a flight risk to avoid going to court on their immigration hearing (the reason they're here to begin with) so there's no reason whatsoever for them to be held in detention at all.

Not the way the Trump administration sees it. Instead of being set free and allowed temporary residency until their immigration court hearing the Trump administrations keeps them locked up for no reason other than spite or hate.

So yes, Trump brought up some very valid points and I've only addressed the first paragraph of his address. And in looking at the three issues Trump identified in his first paragraph the underlying problem in all three cases is that President Trump is not processing refugee applications at US ports of entry in a timely manner and instead has created a humanitarian crisis on the Mexican side of the border for refugees that should have been processed and allowed into the United States within days of arriving at our border.

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"I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it's dirty on the inside." Donald Trump

"I always had a rule, if the White House is dirty on the inside, it's dirty on the outside." ShivaTD

Based upon the corruption, brutality, inhumanity, immorality, dishonesty, and incompetence of the Trump administration the White House is the dirtiest house in America and there's no known cleanser that with remove the stains of the Trump Administration.

Nailed that one. Dumb and Dumber came out with their rebuttal speech 'bout 2 minutes after Trump ended his address, which tells ya it was already written.

Oh, look; either I'm psychic or libs are predictable. Since I haven't picked any winning lottery numbers I'm gonna go with the latter.

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