Many photos exist of migrant children held in "detention" during the Obama era surge in unaccompanied minors in 2014. Some of these old photos are being passed off now in the media hysteria that the Trump era border patrol are "holding children in cages"!!! The fact is that when many people cross a border they have to be processed somewhere, and that probably will not be at a Hilton or a Trump golf course. Illegal border crossers are processed at the border. The facilities that the 2018 separated children go to have been decent and humane. There is an executive order now to halt the separations. Unaccompanied minors entering the USA in 2014 were an enormous surge of about 70,000 children WITHOUT parents who travelled through Mexico without parents and and were guided by some adults and teenagers along with paid smuggler coyotes. They travelled a perilous journey on trains, buses and on foot. The families who have arrived in the recent caravan have not lost their children to "cages" which is a media lie. There are NO CAGES FOR CHILDREN NOW. Here are the OBAMA
era "cages" and surge and separation facts: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
from WBGH
June 21, 2018
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end his policy on separating families at the border. But what will happen to the thousands of children who have already been separated from their parents?
Joining Boston Public Radio for his take on the immigration crisis — and what may happen next — was Gil Kerlikowske, head of Customs and Border Protection under President Obama. Kerlikowske is now a professor at Northeastern University.
A partial transcript of the interview follows.
MARGERY EAGAN: What does the executive order the president signed yesterday actually achieve?
GIL KERLIKOWSKE: I think it's unclear. There's been an analysis done. I think starting out by saying that 'It would really be up to Congress, that this is what the law demands, that no executive order can undo what's being done' — and then to sign an executive order that actuality undoes that, makes a bit of a mockery of all the discussion that has gone on from the White House in the past month on this. It does say families will be held together and under a current settlement which goes back actually to Janet Reno days in the Department of Justice [in] the 1990s called the Flores agreement, they can only be held for 20 days. I think the administration and the Department of Justice will be looking for some relief from that 20-day period.
JIM BRAUDE: I'm sure you have never heard what I'm about to broach, that it's all Obama's fault and it was not President Trump who started this policy of separating kids from their parents at the border, but was Barack Obama. Where does the truth lie there?
GK: The truth is there were separations at times, by Customs and Border Protection and by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Those were when people were arrested and being charged. If you cross the border more than once and are charged, it becomes a felony and not the misdemeanor it is right now for a first-time offense. If you are involved in smuggling drugs or smuggling human beings and you have a child with you, you're going to be prosecuted and certainly that person cannot be held with their child. I'll tell you, those numbers were minuscule, tiny, compared to the number of people coming across the border who were actually separated.
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US IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT
Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children
Solicitation Number: BERKS-RFI
Agency: Department of Homeland Security
Office: Immigration & Customs Enforcement
Location: ICE-OAQ-DM
Synopsis:
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Posted Date:
January 29, 2014
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from WBGH
June 21, 2018
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end his policy on separating families at the border. But what will happen to the thousands of children who have already been separated from their parents?
Joining Boston Public Radio for his take on the immigration crisis — and what may happen next — was Gil Kerlikowske, head of Customs and Border Protection under President Obama. Kerlikowske is now a professor at Northeastern University.
A partial transcript of the interview follows.
MARGERY EAGAN: What does the executive order the president signed yesterday actually achieve?
GIL KERLIKOWSKE: I think it's unclear. There's been an analysis done. I think starting out by saying that 'It would really be up to Congress, that this is what the law demands, that no executive order can undo what's being done' — and then to sign an executive order that actuality undoes that, makes a bit of a mockery of all the discussion that has gone on from the White House in the past month on this. It does say families will be held together and under a current settlement which goes back actually to Janet Reno days in the Department of Justice [in] the 1990s called the Flores agreement, they can only be held for 20 days. I think the administration and the Department of Justice will be looking for some relief from that 20-day period.
JIM BRAUDE: I'm sure you have never heard what I'm about to broach, that it's all Obama's fault and it was not President Trump who started this policy of separating kids from their parents at the border, but was Barack Obama. Where does the truth lie there?
GK: The truth is there were separations at times, by Customs and Border Protection and by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Those were when people were arrested and being charged. If you cross the border more than once and are charged, it becomes a felony and not the misdemeanor it is right now for a first-time offense. If you are involved in smuggling drugs or smuggling human beings and you have a child with you, you're going to be prosecuted and certainly that person cannot be held with their child. I'll tell you, those numbers were minuscule, tiny, compared to the number of people coming across the border who were actually separated.
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US IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT
Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children
Solicitation Number: BERKS-RFI
Agency: Department of Homeland Security
Office: Immigration & Customs Enforcement
Location: ICE-OAQ-DM
Synopsis:
Added: Jan 29, 2014 3:19 pm
Please consult the list of document viewers if you cannot open a file.
RFI
Type:
Other (Draft RFPs/RFIs, Responses to Questions, etc..)
Posted Date:
January 29, 2014
Juvenile_Transport_RFI_(TONY_Edits_1_29_14).docx (36.76 Kb)
Description: Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children RFI