No One REALLY Cares About The Kids At The Border

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It’s time we all faced a cold reality: no one actually “cares-cares” about those kids separated from their families at the border.  Oh, we all feel the emotions: sickening sadness, sympathy, national embarrassment, frustration, and anger.  Those feelings, however, aren’t really because “kids are kept in cages,” but rather because Trump put kids in cages.

Look, the reason we study history is so that we can learn from it.  Our 21st Century history tells us that 99.999% of the American people don’t freak out whenever kids are kept in cages or separated from their parents.   It’s happened for centuries.  Almost every President has done it, and rarely does Congress ever care.  Political parties like to blame each other, but…that’s what politicians do.  We, the American people, look the other way because that’s what we do.

Every year millions of American kids are separated from their parents.  It happens when their parents have broken the law.  If mom and dad are arrested for opiods, and relatives aren’t available, the kids are separated.  They go through a different system, but a kid separated is a kid separated.   Any caveat about how their treated differently in different situations is largely moot if one believes that the issue is kids being separated.  A Honduran kid and a kid from Chicago are both going to be more focused on their parents than on the rhetoric about whichever policy and law has pulled them apart.

During the Obama years tens of thousands of kids were held in detention facilities.  No one cared.  It certainly wasn’t 24/7 coverage on CNN for weeks.  Hell, they gave more coverage to that missing Malaysian airliner than they did to those kids held by the Border Patrol during the Obama years.  Democrats didn’t freak out over it either.  Nancy Pelosi even held a press conference demanding that the issue not be politicized (Like Pepperidge Farm, YouTube remembers).  Republicans didn’t say much either back in the day.  The Pope didn’t say anything.  Did you care?  Do you even remember it?

Again, the political/media counter-talking point is that back in 2014 kids were kept in cages for this reason or that, but…kids were still kept in cages.  Anyone who has ever had a conversation with a 9yr old knows that the kid doesn’t care about this policy or that law, and instead just wants to know what they did wrong and/or where their parents are.  That’s what matters-not the caveat of policy and law debates.  Wrong is wrong, bad is bad.  Do we dare own up?  Does the media?  Do politicians still say we shouldn’t politicize it, or is the new meme, “Resist Trump, and vote Democrat….for the children!”

Obama’s policies were different, and the effect of those policies should be the real national sense of shame.  He let the kids who came across with adults go free.  More than 300,000 were never heard from again.  If that doesn’t sound too bad, then either you don’t know or don’t want to remember why kids are separated: crime.  While many illegal immigrants are great people, there are also many who are not.  Child trafficking is huge.  So too drug smuggling, the child sex trade, and a long list of horror stories that even CNN’s Brooke Baldwin had to force herself to look past (see also her interview with a border patrol agent who told her where the real child tragedy lies-in the desert).

President Obama had a choice: separate the kids from the adults they were caught with by the Border Patrol, or just blow it off in full knowledge that mixed in with the hundreds of thousands of good immigrants, hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands would be let go with the portion of child traffickers, drug smugglers, and sex trade participants.  President Obama let them go, we all did, and 300,000 were never heard from again.  Can you imagine the Hell some of those kids went through?  Do you care?  Do you feel 150x as sad as for those kids vs. the ones who Trump separated?  Democrats and Republicans didn’t care then, and don’t now.  Mass media only reports the 300,000 as a caveat to the 2000.

Let’s forget/ignore the past, or the present plight of American kids separated because their parents broke laws, and instead, let’s ask about the other kids kept in cages today?  Do you care about any and all kids in cages, or just the 2000 associated with Trump?  If the latter, then the only real differentiating factor is who you can blame: Trump.  Any other kids, yeah, kinda feel sorry for them, but not as bad as the ones that the Orange Goblin/Russian Pawn Trump separated (until it could be determined if they came across with a good immigrant parent, or a drug dealer, or a sex trafficker).

This morning I was watching Morning Joe on MSNBC.  Mika was pressing a Republican congressman about the 2000 kids separated from their families.  She seemed to feel sorry for them, and the feelings were real, but I wondered, “Why is she pressing about the 2000 kids separated by Trump policy (and a bit of law) yet she’s not mentioning the 10000 kids in child detention centers?”  That’s right, there are over 10,000 kids in child detention centers, and few mention it other than in passing.  Does Mika care?  Would Joe Scarborough call those places NAZI concentration camps?  Does CNN talk all day about the child “internment” camps akin to the Japanese internment camps of WWII?  Does anyone care?  Do you?

There are 5x as many kids in these facilities, than there were kids separated from their parents.  Do they have it better than those other kids being reunited with parents?   They do not!  These are kids who came across the border without adults.  Little kids walking through the 110 degree deserts of Mexico, through drug cartel, gang, and sex trafficking territory.  10000+ orphans who went through Hell on Earth and 2000 kids who were temporarily separated from their parents who chose to sneak into the United States instead of go through an Ellis Island style border checkpoint.

Let’s face it: no one REALLY cares about kids at the border.  The only reason people care at all about any kids, is because Democrats and some left-leaning media sources have been able to associate the pain of the 2000 with President Trump.  If it were otherwise, then we’d all care about the 10,000, the total 12000, or the 300,000, or the millions of American kids separated from their law-breaking parents.  It’s about who we can blame other than ourselves.

Please return now to your regularly scheduled faux political outrage, blame game, and BREAKING NEWS about this tweet or that.  Remember this post the next time you see Whoopi Goldberg ranting about child separation on The View, or Chris Matthews drooling out hate towards Trump while ignoring the bigger, sadder, problems regarding children coming across our southern border.  Listen to see if their focus is on the 2000, Trump, or the larger number of children suffering.

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Some care. But it falls far short of: next judge, growth of government, poor economy (it is much better now than the last 17 years, but still far from good!), the Constitution(1a,2a). For some of us it is a worry but not in the top 10!

President Obama had a choice: separate the kids from the adults they were caught with by the Border Patrol, or just blow it off in full knowledge that mixed in with the hundreds of thousands of good immigrants, hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands would be let go with the portion of child traffickers, drug smugglers, and sex trade participants. President Obama let them go, we all did, and 300,000 were never heard from again.

This is because Obama made every decision based on how it affected HIM. He never took a political risk in order to do something morally or legally right. If it would potentially damage HIM politically, he would delay or ignore it.

Perhaps if the liberal media had worked as hard to whip up a frenzy over the hundreds of thousands Obama separated and caged, people WOULD have cared. Of course, they MIGHT just have had to admit that their own immigration policies were largely at fault and, well, the liberal media could not bring itself to criticize Obama rule.

The true measure is this: if liberals actually cared about how these children are treated and if they actually BELONG to the illegal immigrant that brought them across, they would be putting their bodies and their money where their lying mouths are. They would be taking illegal immigrant families into their gated communities and donating their BMW and Starbucks money to their well-being. They would also be speaking out against the socialist, totalitarian governments that create the dismal economic conditions and rampant crime these people flee and support enforcing our immigration laws and securing our borders so that so many are not lured here with the promise of a free pass over our border. We see none of that, do we?

The moms are no one?

I suspect to you and yours, of course not. Hell their not even white much less American.

And even if they do matter, but, but, but OBAMAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Ajay42302:

The moms are no one?

#1) You are assuming all the illegal women who claim a child is theirs is actually the mom

#2) You are assuming that women are not involved in the child sex trade industry

I don’t know if you are willfully ignorant or just flat out stupid. I suspect it is the latter and not the former.

@retire05: He’s assuming he makes a point. He doesn’t. He’s a racist idiot that uses people like these children for political profit.

A news article last week was all about a woman (not said what her status was) who willingly sold her male children to traffickers who might use them for sex slavery or might use them for pretend “families” so their people could get into the USA on a free pass.
Her “reasoning” for selling her 2 sons was that she owed these men money for her drug habit.
Oh.
So, they also might use the boys to be drug mules (inside their bodies) or accompanying drug shipments to make carriers look like “families.”

Should these boys EVER be reunited with their “real” mom?
I mean, seriously?

@Nanny G: No doubt this will break all liberals’ hearts even though it proves the point of enforcing immigration law at the border.

I wish the democrats cared more for the American citizen children in shelters (e.g 24,000 in NY alone) , those thousands of American citizen children who are separated from their parents when the parent(s) are imprisoned. Oh yeah, I forgot that doesn’t meet the anti – American democrat agenda.

@Enchanted: If they cared about anything but political power to usher in more socialism would be a step up.

@Ajay42302: You’re right, 2000 adults who came across the border w the kids probably care, but since child trafficking is up 300% since the Flores Decision in April, I’m not sure all the kids came across w parents. That was kind of the point I was trying to make. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. Should have said 330000000+Americans don’t really care, but the parents and child traffickers of 2000 kids probably do.

@Scott: You can spell it out as clearly as possible for AJ but he’s too damned stupid to see the point and too liberal to try.

@retire05:

#1) You are assuming all the illegal women who claim a child is theirs is actually the mom

#2) You are assuming that women are not involved in the child sex trade industry

You seem to be assuming or trying to sell the racist and dishonest trump concept that none of those seeking asylum are actually driven from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras by gangs, rapist, and murders but rather that they are themselves gangs, rapist, and murders. And if that isn’t so, they must be baby stealing women working for the slave market.

Sure, con racist and trump licking blogs can throw their fake rocks and run or send their parroting sock puppet patrol to help silence reality but the fact is these refugee seekers are fleeing for their lives, many who saw their husbands killed, homes burned, daughters and themselves raped, and other atrocities. Many have traveled by foot for months to get here because they had no other alternative.

@Scott: Based on the demonstrations in the streets, churches of multiple denominations publicly denouncing it, the public rebukes of trump officials and brownshirt enablers, the GOP scrambling for an out due to upcoming elections, as well as even trump himself doing a rare somewhat reversal (albeit no more than more dishonest lies and spin), I’d say your 330000000+ non caring Americans is somewhat amiss.

But of course, like trump, you can make whatever nonsensical and alternate fact argument you like.

Remember how upset and vocal AJ was when ACTUAL caging of children, separation, losing kids and releasing the kids to human traffickers was happening under Obama?

Anyone?

Hello?

@Deplorable Me:

Remember how upset and vocal AJ was when ACTUAL caging of children, separation, losing kids and releasing the kids to human traffickers was happening under Obama?

Anyone?

Hello?

I normally don’t entertain Bill because he’s no more than a default sock-puppet troll clearly intending to spin or derail the argument with some rubber/glue non sequitur gibberish but there’s a few points in his intrusive distraction.

For starters, Bill’s accusations of Obama caging or separating children has been debunked on multiple fact checkers and even in an isolated incidence, does not compare in any front to the “zero tolerance” policy ordered by trump or his mass separations (2,342 children were separated from their parents between May 5 and June 9).

But Bill seems to imply that because Obama did exactly what trump did-that trump is simply continuing an Obama practice, then there should have been an outrage of Obama yet he somehow clings to the idea of exonerating trump. That’s just more hypocrisy coming from a rabidly dishonest and unhinged source, another attempt to swing the argument away from the snake oil that Americans accept trump’s baby stealing and his treatment of asylum seekers.

Another point is that I’m somehow suppose to be the hypocrite (again, the sophomoric rubber/glue game) because I sat quiet during Bill’s imaginary Obama family separating atrocities. If they were so bad, where was Bill and the FA howlers when this supposedly took place? And if you do find examples, what has changed that you now accept the trump practice? If you can’t find examples and they are so bad, why didn’t you raise hell ? Is “caging of children, separation, losing kids and releasing the kids to human traffickers” an acceptable concept for today’s so-called conservatives?

It certainly seems to be.

For lying, cowardly liberals, REALITY is how they prefer to define it, not what it actually is. Also, the idiot punks who create mountainous piles of excrement to wallow in out of molehills cannot seem to understand why conservatives don’t act like the whiny, crybaby, useful idiots THEY are whenever the law is followed.

So, here is AJ, following his mentor Soros and pretending to be outraged when Trump does what the law dictates and what his favorite tea-bagger (into HIS mouth) Obama did, only Trump did it much more efficiently and humanely. Further, here is AJ lying, perhaps out of mere stupidity, perhaps maliciously… it’s difficult to tell since he excels in both modes… about Obama’s actions.

Maybe you’re not a hypocrite, AJ… at least not intentionally so. Maybe you’re just an idiot. When George finds out how badly you’ve failed, you are liable to be demoted to window-smashing at college campuses.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/ceci-nest-pas-une-cage/563072/

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/21/17488458/obama-immigration-policy-family-separation-border

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article213525764.html

@an ol exJarhead: Let’s say it this way. Most , or all of us feel a little sympathy for mistreated children. But it’s hard to get too excited about the children that their very own parents are bringing them to the border, knowing full well they may be separated. A child that is left abandoned because both of their parents are in jail seems to be much more deserving of sympathy. But one of the main points is that the Dimocraps only care because they think they can use it effectively as a weapon against Trump. They don’t realize how much it makes them look extremely hypocritical.

@Hojay43202: 3 Spoken by someone that can’t even get their name correct. Expect the expected from Hojay. He had to bring race into the situation. No one else had. Leave it to Hojay.

@retire05:

I don’t know if you are willfully ignorant or just flat out stupid. I suspect it is the latter and not the former.

In Hojay’s case, it’s about 50/50

@Hojay43202:

You seem to be assuming or trying to sell the racist and dishonest trump concept that none of those seeking asylum are actually driven from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras by gangs, rapist, and murders but rather that they are themselves gangs, rapist, and murders. And if that isn’t so, they must be baby stealing women working for the slave market.

You say this as if it’s America’s problem. Just because they chose socialism and let tyrants run their country is no reason for US Citizens to bear the expense of bailing them out. Let them invade Africa.

@Hojay43202:

default sock-puppet troll

I ‘ve been wondering what your ‘full’ title is: Now we know. Hojay DSP.

@Hojay43202:

If they were so bad, where was Bill and the FA howlers

we weren”t howling then as we’re not howling now because it’s no big deal. I’m sure you still haven’t stopped crying since Trumps announcement last night.