According to the donkeys at MSNBC, we are now running concentration camps.

Things that make you go hmmm. So many of the current lot of illegals are coming from Central America. Very poor people coming from very, very poor countries. Yet, in the overwhelming number of photos I see there isn't anyone looks like they've just walked hundreds or thousands of miles. Most don't look like they've walked 10 miles let alone a thousand.Then we hear the stories of people paying the "coyotes" thousands of dollars to get smuggled across the border. Really? Thousands of dollars where the per capita income is typically less than 3-5K a year. WTF?
No, this only gets pulled off with a very well financed, very well oiled human transportation machine in place. Who is fronting the money to support this slow rolling invasion?
 
Tsing Tao said:
Oh, this is rich. LOL

https://www.kvue.com/amp/article?se...entId=269-565579684&__twitter_impression=true

Fact check: Viral photo of caged child was actually staged as Texas border issues heat up
The photo is actually from a June 10 event protesting the Trump administration's immigration policy.
A viral photo of a small child crying with his hands gripping the side of a cage that has sparked outrage is not actually from a detention shelter.

Posted on Twitter last week by filmmaker and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, the photo is captioned: "This is what happens when a government believes people are “illegal.” Kids in cages." It has more than 24,000 retweets and 35,000 likes.

Below the photo, Vargas writes that he was still trying to find the source of the photo and that he had pulled it from a friend's Facebook timeline.

As the heart-wrenching photo made its way across the internet, many began to link its origins to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), drawing a parallel to the almost 2,000 migrant children who have been separated from their parents or guardians, the Department of Homeland Security reported last week.

However, the photo of the young boy was actually taken on June 10, 2018 at an event protesting the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy. The boy is not a detainee. The protest featured signs reading: "If you were separated from your child, what would you do?" and "Hey Trump, what if it were your grandchildren in those dog cages? What would you do then?"

The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Monday that they do not have "a policy of separating families at the border."

The protest was hosted by the Texas chapter of the Brown Berets de Cemanahuac, an indigenous advocacy organization. The group posted on Facebook a photo gallery of the protest, with the little boy noticeably in the background. The viral image, however, was not featured.


"We demand the release of the children being held in a jail and being treated like animals. We will not go away until we have answers!" the Facebook post read.

Snopes debunked the photo of the child in the cage. The boy had not been detained by ICE, nor had it resurfaced from 2014 during the "Obama-era" as some internet commenters had claimed.

PolitiFact also interviewed the original photographer, Leroy Peña, who said in an interview that the boy had spotted his mother outside the space and began crying and that he was only in the cage for about 30 seconds.

Vargas, who originally tweeted the now-viral photo, said in response to criticism as to how his photo was captioned: "Read what I wrote. All I said the photo was this is what happens when a gov't considers people 'illegal.'"
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Errr, would this be fake news? Not that it matters, it's the go to picture for leftists. Hey, they're still walking around with hands up don't shoot signs, so facts and reality rarely intersect in the mind of the leftist regardless of the evidence presented.
 
Tsing Tao said:
The immigration lawyer with a political narrative and bone to pick. I had no doubt you would side with her vs. your lying eyes.
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Yes, I will side with not taking babies over a misdemeanor every single time. It's that easy of a choice to me.
 
Poll finds that demrats are insane and tweet by deranged leftist Peter Fonda gives insight into the depth of their insanity:


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Immigration lawyer recounts a conversation with Obama about the border crisis that he says 'shook me to my core'
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US Customs and Border Protection agents take Central American asylum-seekers into custody on June 12 near McAllen, Texas.



  • A lawyer who works with immigrant communities in the southern US argued on Monday that the fallout from the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy was an extension of practices implemented by the Obama administration.
  • R. Andrew Free recounted on Twitter a 2015 exchange with President Barack Obama, during which Free said he implored Obama to close two detention centers in southern Texas out of concern for the women and children being held there.
  • "It's wrong. And it's going to be a stain on your legacy," Free recalled telling Obama.
  • The lawyer said Obama's response, as he remembered it, "shook me to my core."
An immigration lawyer on Monday sought to add some context to the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy drawing criticism over its practice of separating children from adults they're traveling with who are caught crossing the US-Mexico border illegally.

R. Andrew Free argued on Twitter that the fallout from the sounds and images from locations along the southern US border and detention centers where migrants are being held were an extension of practices that began under President Barack Obama.

The lawyer recounted a 2015 exchange with Obama, during which Free said he implored the president to close two detention centers in southern Texas out of concern for the women and children being held there.

Those detention centers, in Dilley and Karnes City, were opened as part of the Obama administration's effort to house the migrants who had reached the US seeking asylum from the ongoing violence in Central America.

Free recalled the conditions he witnessed at the detention centers where some of the women and children were held.


"I remember hearing the constant, violent coughing and sickness of small children, and the worry of their mothers who stood in the sun outside the clinic all day only to be told their kids should 'drink water,'" Free tweeted. "I remember nearly doubling over when I saw the line of strollers."

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Migrants at the El Chaparral port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 30.


Free said he brought up those centers during his brief conversation with Obama in 2015.

"It's wrong. And it's going to be a stain on your legacy," Free recalled telling the president. The lawyer said Obama's response, as he remembered it, "shook me to my core."

"He stopped moving on to the next person in the rope line and looked back at me. I'd gotten his attention," Free said. "He turned back, looked at me and [asked,] 'Are you an immigration lawyer?' 'Yes.'"

Free reasoned that Obama believed that basically only immigration attorneys cared about the practice of holding asylum-seekers in the detention centers, an apparent byproduct of a deal struck between the Obama administration and the Corrections Corporation of America, which had received a four-year, $1 billion government contract to build facilities to hold women and children seeking refuge in the US, The Washington Post reported in 2016.


The lawyer also argued that Obama saw the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children to seek authorization to live and work in the country without fear of deportation, as a big enough win that the detention centers wouldn't be a blip on his political radar.

The part that Free said 'shook me to my core'
In his tweets, Free recalled Obama's response to his suggestion that the detention centers would tarnish the president's legacy.

"I'll tell you what we can't have," Obama said, according to Free. "It's these parents sending their kids here on a dangerous journey and putting their lives at risk."

Free said he interpreted the president's remarks as an argument for treating the migrant holding facilities as a deterrent to illegal immigration.

Members of the Trump administration in recent days have avoided that characterization of its policy, but some officials, including the White House chief staff, John Kelly, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, have acknowledged that goal.

Free said the logic of detention as a deterrent to illegal immigration ignores the reality that many US-bound migrants are fleeing violence in Central America because they believe they have no other options.


As Free put it, the deterrence argument "assumes a parent would rationally choose to watch her daughter raped or murdered in Guatemala, El Salvador, or Honduras instead of helping her flee to seek the domestic and international legal protections of US law."

He continued: "People in the Northern Triangle were (and are) fleeing for their lives. They're looking to what we've held out as a shining city on a hill and following the beacon to safety.

"To convince them not to flee, you must convince them a worse fate awaits at the end of the journey."
 
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