First, we heard Rep. Ilhan Omar question ICE’s deportation of dozens of illegal aliens to Somalia, in part because of her concern that the U.S. not spread the coronavirus to Somalia. But according to the Biden campaign, wouldn’t they be safer from COVID-19 in literally any other country in the world than in the U.S. under President Trump?
Now we’re hearing that coronavirus measures are responsible for unaccompanied children being sent to their home countries. We first saw this news come across our feed from Fox 11 Los Angeles. It looks like around 8,800 unaccompanied children have been sent home under a COVID-19 pandemic measure from the Trump administration.
About 8,800 unaccompanied children have been quickly expelled from the United States along the Mexico border under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended asylum.https://t.co/Ddj8azEiNM
— FOX 11 Los Angeles (@FOXLA) September 12, 2020
Excellent.
— John Chamberlain, MHA, LFACHE (@misterchambo) September 12, 2020
Awesome!??????????????
— JoLissa ?? Freedom ?? (@JoLissa13) September 12, 2020
Fantastic
— ??Mona Belle?? (@Mona_Belle2) September 12, 2020
CNN tweeted the news from its @CNNPolitics feed for some reason:
Nearly 9,000 unaccompanied migrant children have been kicked out of the US without court hearings under the Trump administration's coronavirus restrictions at the border https://t.co/zHzKUyJ6aw
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 12, 2020
Well, that changes things.
Good
— JustSam (@SamG44842179) September 12, 2020
Sent home where they belong. Nice try.
— Lulu Lapin really (@Lulu_Lapin) September 12, 2020
I'm gonna call bullshit but either way it's a win win.
— Russian-Malware (@opscrotchfruit) September 12, 2020
A promising first step.
— Eric Zimmerman (@ericzim01563993) September 12, 2020
Important to note that the system counts 17 year old as “children” AND that a lot of these children are fibbing about their age and are really adults but they have no documents from their homeland to prove this. Short adults can pass for teens.
— Beatrice Cardenas (@RealBetyCardens) September 12, 2020
This.
— LSUfan (@Lsubet) September 12, 2020
Of course, CNN accompanies their tweet with an image of little children waving goodbye out of a bus window while the government was busy arranging flights home for these 17-year-old children.
This is one of those tweets, though, where you really have to read the story, because things get interesting. It seems a federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to stop putting up illegal alien children in hotels. The Justice Department was arguing to keep them there, but “immigration and civil rights groups had said the growing use of hotels to detain children and families during the coronavirus pandemic amounted to a shadow immigration system that skirted the law.”
Weird, huh? Under the judge’s order, “the Department of Homeland Security must stop placing minors in hotels and transfer them to licensed facilities by September 15.” But we were assured the Trump administration was keeping them in cages.
I’m sure the COVID Karens will be VERY happy we are guarding against the virus. Right? Or, is their outrage just a farce? ?
— K. Silkwood (@EnterNameHere01) September 12, 2020
Related:
Rep. Ilhan Omar concerned ICE deporting illegal aliens to Somalia risks the spread of COVID-19 https://t.co/0lhknLU6u1
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 12, 2020
