Two Options

Two Options
Trump Stands by Family-Separation Policy as Hill GOP Scrambles for Solution - FreeBeacon

President Donald Trump and his administration continued to aggressively defend its policy of separating children from parents who enter the country illegally as public backlash to the policy intensified and Republicans on Capitol Hill sought a solution. Customs and Border Protection officials on Tuesday said they have separated more than 2,000 children from parents or other family members since early May but did not say how many of those children are under the age of five.

Brian Hastings, Border Patrol's acting chief of operations, told reporters that the agency's field supervisors have discretion to allow those young children to stay with their parents, if, for instance, they are breast-feeding or if U.S. authorities believe there is a "humanitarian" reason to keep them with their family members. Steve Wagner, the acting assistant secretary at Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, said the agency's Office of Refugee Resettlement is housing 11,786 immigrant children in "an elaborate network" of facilities in 17 states.

As outrage about the separations continued to build, President Trump showed no sign of backing away from his "zero tolerance" policy of prosecuting illegal immigrants who enter the country regardless of whether they bring children with them. His administration stood by its argument that the resolution of the Flores settlement agreement impedes its ability to keep children with their parents during the process of prosecuting illegal immigration cases or promptly returning these families to their home countries.

The White House late Friday signaled the president would sign a compromise measure allowing so-called Dreamers to remain in the country legally. The legislation includes several of Trump's priorities: money for a border wall, a shift to so-called merit-based immigration, and an end to the visa lottery system.

- Father, the media are creating an unthinking, emotional stampede toward solutions to our immigration problems. We pray the final immigration bill will deal with all the unfortunate realities and provide long-term solutions.

- Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct-as irrational animals do-will destroy them. Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam's error; they have been destroyed in Korah's rebellion. (Jude 10-11)

On the other hand, Democrats' Border Separation Bill Would Let Nearly All Parents Who Commit Federal Crimes Get Off Scot-Free - The Federalist

Democrats' proposed legislation to prohibit so-called border separations would actually prevent federal law enforcement agencies almost anywhere inside the United States from arresting and detaining criminals who are parents having nothing to do with unlawfully crossing the border and seeking asylum.

Every Senate Democrat has now signed on to cosponsor a bill written so carelessly that it does not distinguish between migrant children at the border and U.S. citizen children already within the United States. The bill further does not distinguish between federal officers handling the border crisis and federal law enforcement pursuing the ordinary course of their duties.

Let's break down Sen. Dianne Feinstein's proposed "Keep Families Together Act" to see where Democrats went wrong. The bill provides that "an agent or officer of a designated agency shall be prohibited from removing a child from his or her parent or legal guardian at or near the port of entry or within 100 miles of the border of the United States" Four immediate warning signs in this provision should put the reader on notice that this bill is not what Democrats claim.

- Father, we pray this bill, as it stands, will not gain enough support to be considered by Congress.

- Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps errs. (Proverbs 19:2)