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today. Apparently, the Trump administration policy with regard to separating children from parents, which is mandated by law, if you're going to arrest people criminally for crossing the border, you cannot keep their kids in custody. We discussed this at length. Over the last several days, there's a court ruling from 2016 in which the court declared that you cannot keep kids together with their parents. In fact,

the Obama administration used to keep kids together with their parents in detention proceedings,

and then they were sued. They were sued on the basis that this was being used as a deterrent

to illegal immigration, because how dare you keep children in prisons?

These are innocent kids. Why would you keep them with their parents in prison? Okay, so the left sort of wants it both ways. They don't want you to be able to keep the kids in prison with the parents, but they also don't want you to separate the parents from the kids, which leaves only one solution, of course, which is release the parents, which is really what they want out of this entire thing. Now, how do I know that this is what they want from the entire spiel here?

Well, because while the Democrats are out there saying Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi about all of this policies, about all of this policy. And let's be real, I did not see that coming. While they're saying all of this about Nazi policy from the right, the right is actually attempting to solve this. So Republicans came forward yesterday. Ted Cruz came forward yesterday with a bill. They would fix all of this and say that children can stay with their parents in detention centers until all of the proceedings have gone forward. So what did Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer do? He dismissed the legislative proposal. He said there are so many obstacles to legislation and when the president can do it with his own pen, it makes no sense.

Legislation is not the way to go here when it's so easy for the president to sign it. And then asked if that meant Democrats would not support a bill backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to keep immigrant families together while seeking asylum on the U.S. border. Schumer said they want to keep the focus on Trump. Again, quote, the president can change it with his pen. unacceptable additions additions have bogged down every piece of legislation we've done. So in other words, it's Nazi policy, but if the Republicans try to fix it, they are also Nazis, which is pretty convenient for the Democrats. And as I said, the media coverage of this particular issue has led Democrats to believe that the issue doesn't need to be solved and instead should be used is a club to wield against everybody that you don't like. This is the plan by people like Chuck Schumer on the left. You can't have it both ways. The policy is straight from Japanese internment camps in Nazi Germany, in which case you should be for anything that would alleviate the policy, or the policy is not that bad, in which case, maybe we should argue over the policy. But the Democrats want to say that the policy is awful, it's evil, it's Nazi-esque, it's Japanese internment in in 1942. It's all of those things, but we're not going to work to solve it because it's all on Trump. All of which suggests that a lot of the Democratic tiers on this are crocodile tears for political gain. Now, I'm not going to say that everybody who's upset over this policy is faking it, because I don't think that's right. I think a lot of people are upset over this policy. Listen, I don't think it's a great policy. I think it's a bad policy. But I also think that keeping kids interned with parents is not a great policy either. There is no great policy when it comes to illegal immigration. In the end, as with war games, the only winning move is not to play. If you don't want illegal immigrants separated from their families or, alternatively, kept with their families in detention, don't illegally immigrate. You're going to have to deter illegal immigration. That is the only solution because, again, you can't say that you want kids to stay with the families, but you also want kids released. It's either one or the other. You can't have it both ways. But it seems that the left is more interested in promulgating a particular feeling about this policy than they are about solving it. It's just like gun control. Every time there's a mass shooting, the left decides that it's necessary to have these vast displays of emotion, these vast displays of empathy, and then they don't actually get anything done because the policies they call for have nothing to do with actually stopping the crime at issue. Well, the same thing is happening here. The Republicans have proposed a legislative fix. The Democrats are running away from that legislative fix. Now they're urging President Trump to go ahead and make an executive decision to simply overrule the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Flores and keep the kids together with their parents. How long do you think it will

take for another lawsuit to be filed saying that it's unconstitutional for the kids to remain

together with their parents or that it is a violation of the 1997 Flores agreement with

the federal government? It'll take exactly five seconds because we just had those lawsuits. Again, the Obama

administration kept children with parents. They were sued not to do that. They changed their policy.

Not only did they change their policy, they had said that they were keeping the kids together

with their parents as a deterrent. And the court said you're not allowed to do that.

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