That particular phrase is related to the separation of immigrant children from their families during the Trump administration. Previously children were only put in custody if they were unaccompanied. The Trump admin did it to all families crossing. In separating kids from parents they were also unable to reunite hundreds of families.
I only brought up the "Kids in Cages" meme thing because it was one of those stories my news feed did not feature at all. So I was interested in where people get those sorts of charged news items from because I'd like to learn how these operations unfold. My reaction once I understood the issue was, "what if the 'family members' of the kids were human traffickers? Maybe that was the reason for the policy change to allow border control to try and identify if they were really family?" That was extremely triggering and rage-inducing to my friend. I concluded there was more conditioning to that psyop that I wasn't privy to that I was tripping all over.
Things are 10x worse for kids at the border today, but my friend is oblivious to it since Biden came to power. I've been patiently waiting for the rage and concern to resurface.
Similarly the escape to Mastadon was like a herd thing that I had no exposure to, and I was interested in what influencer or subreddit got that ball rolling. I'd like to lurk and learn, and I feel like not knowing is a huge blind spot for me.
The point is they separated all kids from all families and did not track the families. Crossers suspected of human trafficking were always separated. This policy was based on the racist garbage assumption that most of the people filing through were criminals. Which is proven false.
Yet the human trafficking is worse now. The human suffering is worse now for policy and political reasons. AND, there are kids in cages now. AND, that policy started under Obama.
Is the adminstration inviting more migration or is it saying "don't come"? It's a disorganized human disaster.
What are you basing your talking point on? Immigration is the lowest it's been since covid when no one wanted to come here. I already explained, protective custody started only when children immigrated unaccompanied. So, every kid was put in a cage in Trump's plan -- ripped from their parents custody regardless, because of the racist premise that immigrants are evil. If you can't acknowledge the difference between an unaccompanied minor and a family immigrating, I'm beginning to think you are not discussing this in good faith.
Also, immigration is as low as when Trump was botching covid because Harris improved root causes in Central and South America. She helped negotiate a bill endorsed by Border Patrol that would have put 1500 more agents at the border which very much would have helped. Trump called his buddies in Congress and killed it so he could run on it instead of fixing it. He actively chose more human trafficking for his own political benefit.
I never said anything about Trump. You are obsessed. He's going to LOSE in a legitimate election anyhow, buck up. Harris will get her 81+ million lawful, American citizen votes just like Biden did.
Like I said before, I was frustrated about how things are worse NOW for kids than when the "Kids in Cages" meme was coined. Kids in Cages drove people I know nuts. I couldn't understand what they were experiencing since it wasn't in my feed. I have since been cynical about it, assuming it was an election season media stunt. I marveled at how incredibly animated people got.
The migration north to the border through central America and Mexico is itself a humanitarian disaster, right? And so of course the processing of those people at our border is going to be dehumanizing and awful. They don't book the trip for their families and let CBP know they are coming, they just show up.
The whole way the left thinks about the entire immigration subject seems mental. In my opinion, we should WANT to try to detain and separate and discover if kids are being trafficked, do some DNA tests, and not release them if they are being trafficked. Ideally, we could send them to their home country to get reunited with their families if they were taken. (That would be very expensive, I know...) If we screw up and the kids get released to traffickers or a corrupt NGO, those kids are GONE. Maybe used as slaves or chopped up for organs? Who knows? The unaccompanied minors situation is even more tragic. That is orphan train levels of tragic.
Remain in Mexico was perfect as a deterrent and worked well to curb numbers. It was awful for the migrants in-transit, which sucked. But, it was not humane for the Biden regime and NGO's to lure migrants to this country in the first place. The humane thing would be to discourage people from getting trafficked at all and stay in their home countries.
I just want to reiterate what a humanitarian disaster it was that Biden encouraged mass migration in his 2020 debates with Trump and in his campaign. That followed with all kinds of incentives and asylum guarantees once he assumed power. I find that really reprehensible, and I hope you do as well. Our globalist policies create such misery, we truly are the baddies. And the blowback to all this is mass deportation, probably just as tragic if not more so.
You brought up Covid. Covid and public health at the border was crazy. Why were we not force vaccinating migrants against covid before being released into the interior when we were simultaneously mandating vaccines for citizens? And what other diseases were we letting in, like drug-resistant tuberculosis?
Everyone of your peers gives a blank stare when I've confronted them about not vaxxing the migrants. Someone explain how that makes sense! The possible implications of those inconsistent vaxx policies just give me the willies.
So, covid and border crisis narratives don't quite gel. Clown world apparently has many managers who do not talk to one another or read each other's memos.
> Immigration is the lowest it's been since covid when no one wanted to come here.
It's an election year, silly. 1) I look askance at any stats reported in an election year, 2) OF COURSE they're going to try to make their border numbers look stellar, they own that small hell right now!
To quote our sharp-as-a-tack President whose 'gaffes' were so charming in 2019 and not senility, "C'mon man!"
> Trump called his buddies in Congress and killed it so he could run on it instead of fixing it.
Talking points, indeed! That border bill also had a $60 billion dollar poison pill for Ukraine among other turds. The D's win either way. The bill passes: they get $60 billion more death dollars for bombs for their corrupt kickback and land grab war that we're not actually the ones fighting and dying in. The bill fails: we can say the R's are against border security and reforms. The attempt was pathetic, and the outcome didn't move the needle with anyone but the base. You got snookered if you truly bought into that one.
You remind me that the D's are acting unserious and panicky this cycle. Obvious legislative stunts like that border bill. "The Switch" with Biden before the convention and him being soft coup'ed. Constantly repeating hoaxes like the "Fine People" hoax. The rehabilitation of Harris by the media, who they were dumping on a year ago, (and yet she's still somehow less popular than Biden was!) The outrageous Mar a Lago raid and all the lawfare that's backfiring. The sketchy political censorship/big tech bias firing up again. Feels bad, man.
If you're not a bot ... now you HAVE to tell me what or who first triggered you specifically with the "Kids in Cages" meme! Where did you first hear it? I need to sneak behind enemy lines to lurk and learn. Mwahahah! :D
