OldLady
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It's really hard to get my hands on hard facts about this, sorry to say, but the real issue is that when Obama was president, the policy was that if a family with young kids was apprehended sneaking over here, they got turned around and sent back where they came from without further ado. Or they were "caught and released" until trial. The kids weren't, by policy and admittedly as a deterrent, taken from their parents. Trump wants them ALL arrested, every blessed one of them, so they've apparently run out of room in the family detention centers.You're probably right. The problem he [Sesions] has is that he thinks that the left has an argument, when in fact, they don't.I think he was floundering around, trying to counter the accusations that he is engaging in an immoral policy. What better way to bolster your moralness than a quote from the Bible? Worked for slave holders, didn't it?In a lame attempt to justify separating immigrant children from their parents, attorny General sessions said:
"to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government"
Has this guy ever read the U.S. Constitution?
What country was he brought up in?
Welcome to the United States of America Mr. Sessions!
In this country one of our founding principals (literally the first and foremost of our founding principals) is:
"We the People of the United States... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Our government was NOT ordained by God. It was ordained by THE PEOPLE.
Holy crap! I can't believe that any American said that, much less the Attorney general.
I have no doubt that just about every attorney general that has ever served this country has been a religious Christian, but NONE of them has so blatantly contradicted the U.S. Constitution!
It is not immoral to incarcerate lawbreakers, and if the byproduct of that act is they are separated from their children, that sin is on THIER heads, not ours.
The alleged 'outrage' at this as conspicuously missing when Obama was President, so I give that all the consideration it is due.
Seems to me before changing policy and "tightening up" our border security stance, we should have cleared out the cases that were already there. Instead of hunting down more folks who needed to be detained, we should have adjudicated the ones we had. Then we would have had room for what any idiot could predict would be a problem with where to put them all.