I think it’s a sure win for Trump. It’s only mid-year, but there are really a slew of them, which really put him over the top. The FBI embedding secret agents within the Trump campaign qualified for a “Pants on Fire” award. But, then came the Trump’s administration policy change to separate children from their parents, and blame it on a law passed by Democrats, really blew past prior lies. Here is the post:
A “horrible law” requires that children be separated from their parents “once they cross the Border into the U.S.” Donald Trump, May 28, 2018.
Politifact says: “We rate this statement False.”
Here’s the truth from Politifact.
But there is no law that mandates separating children from their parents. Trump’s own administration devised a policy to that effect.
So what is Trump talking about?
Whenever parents are charged with a federal misdemeanor (entry without inspection in this case), or awaiting trial, they are placed in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. Children cannot go to jail, so they are transferred to the custody of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. They are then placed with relatives, juvenile detention centers or foster care. That’s a longstanding Homeland Security policy, DHS told us.
Before the Trump administration, immigrants entering illegally as families were rarely prosecuted, said Sarah Pierce, an associate policy analyst of the U.S. Immigration Program at the Migration Policy Institute. Instead, immigrants were held in family detention centers until they were sent to appear before an immigration court or deported.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on April 6 the Homeland Security Department would now be referring all illegal border crossings to the Justice Department for prosecution. Facing criminal charges, parents would go to detention centers, leaving their children unaccompanied.
It’s the decision to prosecute parents that is causing the separations.
“That’s a choice they have made that’s largely different from what other administrations have done,” said Peter Margulies, an immigration law and national security law professor at Roger Williams University School of Law.
When we asked for evidence of policies separating families, the White House referred us to items determining what happens to unaccompanied immigrant minors. But none of the children in question would be deemed unaccompanied if the Trump administration did not decide to prosecute their parents.
The 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement, for example, calls for the release of unaccompanied minors to family members or sponsors who can care for them as their immigration case is resolved. The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, which Trump has wrongly called “a Democrat rule,” determines that unaccompanied minors be transferred to Health and Human Services custody.
The White House argued such policies encourage parents to send their children into the United States, knowing they will be promptly released.
“The cruel and inhumane open borders policies of the Democratic Party are responsible for encouraging mass illegal migration, enabling horrendous child smuggling, and releasing violent MS-13 gang members into American communities,” White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said in an emailed statement.
The Trump administration may believe that Democrats are responsible for policies that encourage illegal border crossing, but we found no law mandating that children be separated from their parents.
Stay tuned,
Dave
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May 24, 2018 was a rapid fire series of lies by Donald Trump on immigration on the Trump friendly “Fox and Friends”
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Everyone seems to be in agreement with Politifact website. The Washington Post gave a long explanation of why family separation was really a Trump policy change, and awarded his statement four Pinocchios (Definition: A whopper of a lie). New York Times fact checkers labeled this statement as “false” and just one of a series of lies he’s told recently.
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