President Trump on Sunday said that those who enter the United States illegally should be “immediately” returned to their country of origin “with no Judges or Court Cases,” adding that “Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair to those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years!”
While in line with fulfilling his campaign promises, Trump’s comments are sure to dump jet fuel on the barnfire of controversy over separated migrant families at the southern U.S. border, after pictures of children in cages began to circulate, which the left attributed to Trump’s new “zero tolerance” policy of enforcing Clinton, Bush and Obama-era immigration laws.
Mercedes Schlapp, White House Director of Strategic Communications, said “As we have said multiple times before, the administration does NOT prosecute those who seek asylum at our Ports of Entry.”
Others have brought up the fact that there are 9 U.S. consulates in Mexico where Asylum seekers can legally apply to be in the United States.
And despite the fact that the “caged children” pictured in viral media happened under Obama – who separated migrant families all the time and is being sued for keeping children in brutal conditions, and despite the fact that Time Magazine tried to pass off a fake picture of a “separated migrant child” (who was never separated) in order to propagandize the Trump’s immigration policy – which even CNN called them out on, Trump’s Sunday tweets will undoubtedly give the MSM plenty of headline fodder for the next week.
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