Not truthiness, just truth.
Yeah well perhaps they should have figured out what a border is first. Because their parents broke the law by Crossing ours and better than spend the time in these facilities than a prison with grown adults who made the human traffickers not even their parents
Actually, let me enlighten you.
These people in detention have not committed a crime.
- I don’t mean that in a moral or a figurative sense. I mean literally. It is NOT a crime to ask for asylum.
- These people didn’t jump a fence, they didn’t sneak into the backyard. They are knocking on the front door and saying “People are trying to kill me in my home country, will you let me in?”
- Now, I didn’t fall off the turnip truck. Some of these people are lying. That’s why you have a hearing. And because they might wander off, these people are held in detention until the hearing.
- This hearing is NOT in a criminal court. It’s in an immigration court. Because these people have not committed a crime.
- Immigration court is not like criminal court. You don’t have a right to an attorney.
- So these people are waiting around, separated from their children, with no attorney, until they get a hearing.
- In 2015, the median wait for an immigration hearing was 404 days.
- Here’s where it gets even more twisted. If people plead guilty to asylum fraud, they get their kids back and get deported.
- So these people knock on the front door, which is perfectly legal, and we take their kids, and tell them the quickest way to get the kids back is to confess to fraud.
- If someone committed a crime (ie. shoplifting, armed robbery, murder) and you took their kids away to make them confess, that confession would be thrown out.
- But these confessions are lawful, because this isn’t criminal court.
- Because these people haven’t committed a crime.
- Now some people think that if we make it so unpleasant for these people, they will stop trying to cross the border.
- But the message this sends isn’t “Go Home.” The message it sends is “Sneak in.”
- If they go home, they think they will be murdered. If they request asylum, they are separated from their children.
- If they sneak in successfully, they’re safe. If they sneak in and get caught, they are no worse off than if they sought asylum legally.
- And remember, these people haven’t committed a crime.
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And - AND - borders are inherently fucking cruel and stupid.
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