Need some help understanding the current border crisis on the southern border?
If so, here’s Twitchy regular AG Conservative with another of his must-read thread explaining just what’s going on right now.
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There seems to be a lot of confusion about the issues on the border and the actual process. I'm going to try to lay out some of the facts in one thread to make it easy for future reference.
The process is much more complicated for children so that's what I will focus on.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
There seems to be a lot of confusion about the issues on the border and the actual process. I'm going to try to lay out some of the facts in one thread to make it easy for future reference.
The process is much more complicated for children so that's what I will focus on.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
Out of that number, around 2K are unaccompanied alien children.
These are either children that came alone or were separated (as required by law) from other adults (not parents) that brought them across.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
The law typically requires that those children only be held in these facilities for 72 hours before they are handed over to HHS to be placed with relatives or other suitable arrangements. But it allows for exceptions in some circumstances.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
These are the very facilities you have seen reports on in the news as having subpar conditions. They have never been set up for long-term stays.
The problem has been that HHS hasn't had the ability to meet that 72 hour window because of the huge influx of people at the border.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
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HHS has also had trouble placing kids once they do have them. As a result, kids have been staying at these inadequate CBP facilities for days or weeks longer than they are supposed to. The facilities are way over capacity.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
The point being is that the system as it is set up is meant to protect kids from spending too much time at such facilities or even in custody, but a combination of lack of resources and bureaucracy have strained it to the point where those guidelines aren't being followed.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
The Senate and House are both considering aid bills to help. The House bill focuses aid on HHS so they can speed up placing kids and picking them up from CBP custody. Senate bill gives more to improve actual CBP facilities.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
Also worth noting that HHS is tasked with not just handing these kids over to anywhere they can place them, but also vetting who they place them with. That takes time and resources they currently lack.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
And is it too much to ask that AOC and her buddies eventually tell us exactly what their plan is to combat the crisis?
AOC and her allies in Congress oppose the aid mentioned above. Their only proposed solution at this point is to get rid of the facilities completely. It is not clear what they want done with the 2K kids/day who currently are in CBP custody. I guess just release them anywhere?
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
I should mention specifically that Flores has a bunch of rules as to how children need to be treated in custody (safe and sanitary, adequate food etc.) and how long they can be in custody (20 days).
Those standards are not being met, similar to what we saw during 2014 crisis.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) June 26, 2019
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Related:
Relatives say father and daughter in that heartbreaking photo were not fleeing from violence in El Salvador, via the NY Times https://t.co/7nSQUhFPvy
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 26, 2019
Andy Ngo questions CNN's standards over photo of drowned father and daughter from El Salvador https://t.co/h0ms5nrRHm
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 26, 2019
‘This didn’t age well’! AOC tweet from months ‘AFTER her horrified photo shoot at the border’ sparks questions https://t.co/QgXT5TopBT
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 26, 2019
Here's a non-exhaustive list of Dems, conservatives and journos who said there is no crisis on the southern border https://t.co/F5vSjQ5iHv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 26, 2019
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