Don’t blame Trump
Regarding immigrant children, anger against Trump is horribly misplaced. He is simply following the law the identical way that Obama did. There was no anger then.
If an alien brings a child with him, he knows that if caught he and the child will be separated. He defies our laws and does it anyway. So whose fault is it? Why Trump’s of course!
Of the 12,000-plus children now involved, 10,000 are unaccompanied. They have not been separated from their parents. The overwhelming number are teenagers. Our own tradition makes every teenager an adult. These immigrant teenagers are not “children,” not toddlers, as the media would have us believe.
Of the actual 2,000-plus separated children, according to PBS, 80 percent are teenagers. This means that less than 500 are under age 13.
What sort of parents would bring pre-teens with them on the long, perilous journey to the border, particularly in the heat of the season? This is child abuse. These parents fully knew the consequences of their illegal activities.
Unfortunately, the media will never let you know any of this. Instead, Americans are being manipulated and their compassion exploited by a cynical media attempting to portray all these “children” as toddlers being torn from their mothers’ arms.
Amazingly, according to the latest Rasmussen poll, over half of American voters see through this media sham. They properly blame illegal aliens who defy our laws at the risk of their own children. We all weep for the few pre-teens caught up in all this.
Ironically, now that Trump has issued his executive order, as demanded, the situation becomes worse. The families are reunited — everyone is now jailed in detention.
Is everybody happy?
Lee Levin
Leawood, Kansas
