Welcome to the USA, Ms. Nielson.
The Trump administration says these things as if it is new. This is not new. If Ms. Nielson would read into the history of immigration in the USA, she would find the number of immigrants, legal or otherwise has been much higher than the populations currently.
If she is referring to the USA southern border, the number of people coming to the southern border is a fraction of that even 15 years ago.
Get used to it. And to deporting minors, that is a very interesting idea, however, extremely flawed.
March 26, 2019
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen (click here) will ask Congress for the power to deport migrant children entering the country alone more quickly, according to a letter she is expected to send legislators Thursday night.
The letter, made public by NBC News, says Nielsen will also ask for authority to hold families who cross the border to seek asylum in detention until their cases are resolved and the authority to let immigrants apply for asylum from their home countries....
The two statements by Ms. Nielsen are contradictory. Now, either there is a crushing breaking point at the southern border or not. If Ms. Nielsen is stating she has the capacity to hold families for years at the southern border until their status is decided, then there can't be a crushing immigration crisis at the southern border. The two statements IF said in the same breath make no sense.
...Nielsen writes that she will soon send Congress proposed legislation to “help address the root causes” of a spike in the number of migrants entering the country through the Mexican border — especially families entering together and children entering alone — which she describes as an emergency. She writes the DHS is “increasingly unable to uphold that responsibility (to secure the border) given the emergency situation. We are grappling with a humanitarian and security catastrophe that is worsening by the day, and the Department has run out of capacity.”...
Secure the border from what? Families with children and unaccompanied minors? What exactly is the danger from these people?
Ms. Nielsen obviously is not good at humanitarian aid to the incoming border crossers. See, if she was able to process the people and then release them, there would be no humanitarian crisis. Why that seems absurd, they would enter the country and still have a humanitarian need. True. But, the infrastructure at the USA southern border that provides legal help and humanitarian assistance is incredible. Primary, non-profits and many affiliated with FAITH BASED organizations take over where the USA government leaves off.
CATCH AND RELEASE, MS. NIELSEN.
It is a concept that has worked for decades. DETENTION CAMPS don't work, they CAUSE a humanitarian crisis.
Unaccompanied minors are some of the saddest scenarios seen at the USA southern border. If the USA were to simply SEND THEM BACk, the minors would be in far worse condition than when they arrived at the USA southern border. Most of the minors arriving to the USA southern/Mexican border left their parents or families behind to come to the USA. Those families could be dead by the hand of drug cartels or simply unable to protect them from the drug cartels, so the families encourage these young people to run and find a safe haven.
Now, if Ms. Nielsen succeeds in SENDING THEM BACK she will create a humanitarian issue in the originating countries.
So, therefore, Ms. Nielsen needs to come up with a better and more expedient PROCESSING REGIME or she needs to begin to work with other countries to BUILD ORPHANAGES that are secure from drug cartels in the countries of origin.
If Ms. Nielsen is able to provide secure orphanages in other countries, then she may actually have solved the existence of drug cartels.
Ms. Nielsen needs to examine the number of times these same children are abducted and trained as child soldiers by the drug cartels because that is why the families are sending them north. Once she secures an understanding to the humanitarian crisis IN THE COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN caused by these cartels, what will she do about it? Declare war? Against whom? The country of origin because they can't control violent drug cartels in their countries?
The entire idea of CONTROLLING the USA southern border is bizarre and UNATTAINABLE no matter how one tries to tackle the issue. The issue is NOT SECURITY, it is how are these people processed once discovered at the USA southern border and what humanitarian assistance do they need, including legal help because they are now in trouble, once they are decided to be peope without a criminal background.
CATCH AND RELEASE, Ms. Nielsen is the only viable solution. After pretending over two years there is a security issue at the USA southern border (which has been pursued at enormous cost, even insulting the military budget) one would think the ideologues of the Trump White House finally figured it out.
