- Apr 17, 2009
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‘Hopefully, they’ll get you to her’: Texas judge can’t promise migrant families they’ll be reunitedThere is another difference. If they take away your kids for speeding, unlikely but I'll accept it. You have an actual idea were they are, and you can be certain that you will get them back after you get out of the "pokey" as you so colorfully said, providing that's the only thing you did, not only that you will have the benefit of assured legal representation. The people who get caught here have none of these assurances.The difference is in most traffic violations you don't go to jail and if you do, you can request bail.You shouldn't exceed the speed limit, anyway. But yeah, you definitely shouldn't do anything in a car, with your kids present, that gets you arrested. You shouldn't do anything AT ALL that carries with it the chance of being arrested when you have your kids with you, because they will ALWAYS be taken away from you while you're in the pokey. I have no idea why it's a shock to you that kids aren't jailed along with their parents.
But this really cuts to the heart of the matter. You leftists keep yabbling mindlessly about "just a misdemeanor", when what you REALLY mean is "crossing the border is unimportant and should be ignored".
And yes, our immigration laws do consider a first time offense of crossing the boarder illegally a misdemeanor, a minor wrongdoing by definition. A first time offense carries a maximum of 6 mos in jail which is rarely used. To give you an idea how minor the offense is, Misdemeanor Trespassing carries a heavier penalty in most states and it wasn't until the 1996 immigration reform law that there was any legal penalty at all.
The first step in fixing the immigration system is to fix the law.
Unless you decide to keep trying to game the system by claiming, "Oh, I just wanted asylum, and thought you got that by sneaking into the country", you DO know where your kids are, and you get them back as soon as your case is processed. Better yet, if you ACTUALLY want asylum, you go to a port of entry and declare that fact, and the kids are never taken at all.
The first step in fixing immigration is to make it clear that we HAVE laws, and we demand that they be respected, and we aren't interested in having people in our country whose first act IN this country is to spit on it.
Guilt trip over how hard breaking the law makes a person's life? Keep it for yourself, because I'm not accepting delivery.
This judge doesn't seem to agree with your stating of facts.
Okay, first things first. Citing Politico as a fact source? You already lost the argument, and I am now pissing on your pitiful excuse for intelligence.
Second thing: you should really try reading the article for context, rather than just pouncing on the headline.
"Magistrate Judge J. Scott Hacker, presiding over the hearing in Texas federal court, could tell her only that reunification with her child was out of his hands." That's quite true, since that's not his job. Does the fact that it's not the judge's job mean it's never going to happen? Uh duhhhh.
"“Hopefully, they’ll get you to her,” Hacker told the woman, who was communicating through a translator, before sentencing her to time served in detention and paving the way for her likely deportation." Again, all this tells us is that the judge is a gormless doof who shouldn't be allowed to speak extemporaneously. Says not one damned factual thing about anything else.
“I can’t promise you anything,” Hacker told a father asking about his son before receiving a sentence of time served. “That’s all up to another part of the government.”" Second part of the statement explains the first part. He CAN'T promise anything, 'cause that's not his job. Again, does that say anything at all about the people whose job it IS? Only if you're a drooling fool.
"All but 16 of the migrants whose cases the court heard on Monday were sentenced to time served in custody, and all but five had been apprehended since Thursday. " I guess that'd be that "prolonged, traumatic period of time" you leftist twats keep yabbling on about.
If you can find one thing in that article that is an actual, hard fact contradicting anything I've said, that'll be a pretty neat trick, 'cause it's not there.
‘I Can’t Go Without My Son,’ a Mother Pleaded as She Was Deported to Guatemala
The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart