In the morning I still feel that it is an important reminder. Call me cynical, but I have seen the slippery slope poo-pooed time after time. Then the landslide starts.

Illegal is illegal. Is this much more than another version of human shields? How did they pass through other countries en route to the US? How long has this been going on? Who doubts that somewhere down the line American criminals are going to petition for the right the have their children while in prison? It is not fun to be Cassandra.

Every single thing they do is calibrated to return them to power. They constantly use any means, legal or illegal, to get it back. They lie, cheat and manipulate and always immediately accuse their opponents of doing it to forestall them being charged. There is no depth to which they will not sink and no person or cause that they will not use to their advantage. Their friends in the media will join in the attack and cover for them every step of the way.

Anyone who doesn’t think we are in an uncivil war for the future survival of the country just isn’t paying attention.

Kick illegal entrants back across the border immediately with a card directing them to the nearest consulate in case they actually believe they have a case for asylum.

I see no argument that any would have a legitimate case since they have obviously received asylum in Mexico already. Let Mexico deal with the problem.

Why does anyone believe they are our responsibility.

https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/06/19/schumer-makes-it-crystal-clear-democrats-want-to-extort-trump-into-ceasing-border-enforcement/

CONTEXT FIRST

“Out of nearly 12,000 migrant children being held in U.S. facilities, some 10,000 arrived unaccompanied, meaning their parents sent them on the perilous journey north through Mexico alone. The other children, around 2,000, of them, are the ones at issue. ”

SCHUMER SECOND
(all these are quotes from or paraphrases of Senator S.)

Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday dismissed a legislative proposal backed by Republican leaders to keep immigrant families together at the border, arguing that President Trump could fix the problem more easily with a flick of his pen.

“There are so many obstacles to legislation and when the president can do it with his own pen, it makes no sense,” Schumer told reporters. “Legislation is not the way to go here when it’s so easy for the president to sign it.”

Asked if that meant Democrats would not support a bill backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to keep immigrant families together while seeking asylum on the U.S. border, Schumer said they want to keep the focus on Trump.

Schumer’s opposition to a legislative fix means there likely won’t be a quick end to the emotional images of immigrant children being separated from their families unless Trump backs down and reverses his “zero tolerance” policy.

ANALYSIS & CLARIFICATION THIRD

“This proposal [by Cruz] is too sensible and effective for the Democrats. The main reason, apparently, is that it would enable us to stop the family separations while also continuing to enforce the law.

Instead of making sure illegal border-crossers are stopped and processed, the Democrats want Trump to do what Obama did: use his pen and phone to dial back enforcement, so that illegal border-crossers are basically just released into the United States because there’s no capacity to hold and process them as the law says we’re supposed to.
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But why should Trump have to reverse his “zero tolerance” policy? What kind of vicious, deceptive wording is that? Can you name other laws for which we should not have zero-tolerance policies? Let’s do that with environmental laws and equal-opportunity laws. Sign memos in advance stating which clear violations of the laws we will tolerate. Any takers?

Grand theft? Embezzlement? Vehicular manslaughter? Murder? A little bit of any of these is OK, because some people do feel like there are benefits to stealing, driving drunk, and hacking spouses to death, or shooting uncooperative armed-robbery victims? Let the president, or a state governor, decide how much is the right amount?

Schumer obviously doesn’t care about children or family separations at the border. He cares about extorting Trump, with emotional images of children, to get Trump to gut the enforcement of U.S. law. Remember that.”

A HUGE “if.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/sarah-sanders-makes-laura-bush-regret-trump-attack-your-husband-signed-the-law/

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/first-photos-from-inside-facilities-for-illegal-immigrant-children-shatter-establishment-media-narrative/

It could pass without the support of Democrats if the Republicans were united on it.

The Federalist post you linked ends with this all-too-familiar refrain:
“At a minimum, Democrats’ proposed legislation is the consequence of extremely careless and hurried drafting. If this is actually what Democrats intend to do—and every Democratic senator has now signed on—it is a monstrous attack on law and order. If enacted, this bill would turn federal law enforcement upside down in the name of protecting relatively few unlawful border crossers from being prosecuted. This sloppiness is a prime example of why Democrats are unserious about outcomes and unfit to govern when the emotional stakes get high.”