Another Sad Episode Of Trump's Failed Immigration Rhetoric and His Lacking Of An Immigration Plan and Policy

Conditions at the U.S. border are becoming worse every day because of the record number of illegals and an influx of young children.  Border facilities can not cope with the health needs of those children and do not have the capacity to handle them.  As a result several young children have died and many are sick and with out needed medical attention.

That prompted acting Customs and Border Protection Commish John Sanders to tell the Associated Press that congress must pass the $4.6 billion in emergency funding or more kids might die.  Sanders also said, what occurred that was something that impacted me profoundly. U.S. Border Patrol Stations are no place for children.  They are bare bones holding facilities meant for swift processing.  But because the entire system is over whelmed, Border Patrol is routinely holding children longer.

And it is all taking place on President Trump's watch because of his failure to have a policy or plan to submit to congress for comprehensive immigration reform.  The President only has his rhetoric and his orders to separate children from their parents at the border has made the situation worse.  The President is still under court order to bring those children that were separated back to their parents.  Twenty nine months in office,  where 24 of those months congress was controlled by the republican party and Trump and the GOP punted on immigration legislation and the immigration crisis they said existed.  This is the same trumpet man who said during the 2016 campaign he would address the immigration problem after the election.  Yeah right.

President Obama's administration handled the immigration problem better and the democratic controlled U.S. House which took over in January 2019 passed one piece of immigration legislation that the republican controlled Senate failed to act on.  Trump and the republican rhetoric on immigration is just that.  The bottom line concerning immigration is that the republican party could care less.  Their do nothing record on the issue speaks loud and clear.  And at this time President Trump is the do nothing republican leader.


This commentary written by Joe Lorio