A Border Lines Solution for Immigration
by Tony Perkins, FRC:
Where was all of this outrage about family separation at the border four years ago? That’s the question mainstream reporter David Martosko is asking about the 24/7 news cycle on current U.S. immigration policy. Like a lot of people, he’s astounded by the firestorm over America’s law for dealing with illegal immigrants for one reason: it’s not new.
In this noisy back-and-forth between the Trump administration and mainstream press, it’s become tough to separate fact from fiction. We all see the pictures of the kids huddled in an old Walmart supercenter, and our minds immediately jump to the conclusions the media is hoping for. But, as Martosko chides his colleagues behind news desks, “Political journalism needs a bit of housecleaning on this child border crisis. I’ll start,” he posts. “It was going on during the Obama years in large numbers. I never wrote about it. [I] was completely unaware, in large part because few reporters were interested enough to create critical mass… Why didn’t those kids matter as much as these? Few of us chased those stories down with any vigor.”
What’s changed? The person in the oval office, for one. Barack Obama separated children from their families too. As Breitbart points out in its “13 Facts the Media Doesn’t Want You to Know,” people crossing the border illegally were put in the same criminal justice system. “Obama, of course, rarely prosecuted, even though the law calls for it. Neither Democrats nor the media cared about family separation then — which proves this manufactured and coordinated uproar is only about politics.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who’s just as unhappy with the current immigration system as the rest of us, joined me on “Washington Watch” this afternoon to give us his unique perspective on the situation.
Read also: Separating Children at the Border: 3 Options by Jim Denison, Christian Post
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