THE MEDIA HAS NO SHAME

It continues to show pictures of toddlers as if they were about to be taken away from their illegal immigrant mothers

TV newscasts are fueling the hysteria over the separation of children from their illegal immigrant parents. The media continues to show pictures of toddlers as if they were about to be taken away from their mothers. The TV newscasts have also resorted to showing mothers holding infants in their arms while the news anchors or field reporters talk about kids being separated from their parents.

And now the Associated Press is claiming babies and toddlers are being forcibly separated from their mothers and sent to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas. The AP has not provided any evidence that this is true.

The media knows that the separation of toddlers is not the case, but it is just one more way of making the hated Trump administration look real bad.

Except for special circumstances, no infants, toddlers and small pre-teens are separated from their parents.

The kids that have been separated from their parents and held in special detention centers are teenagers. Most of the kids are 12 and older. Also included among the detainees are teenagers who crossed the border unaccompanied with no parents to be separated from.

As I’ve said before, the only crime those parents have committed is entering this country illegally. They have not been arrested for burglary, robbery, rape or murder. They are not being sent to prison like robbers, rapists and other dangerous criminals who have to be separated from their children because jails and prisons cannot accommodate children.

The whole idea behind the separation policy is to discourage illegal immigration. That’s pure nonsense. The Mexicans, Guatemalans and Hondurans are still going to chance crossing our southern border for the better life they are seeking.

By all means, when you catch the illegals, put them all into detention centers, but without that separation nonsense. There is no law requiring the separation and it will not deter migrants from crossing our border illegally. That policy only serves the demonization of Trump. The separation policy can be cancelled any time by a stroke of the president’s pen.

Again, shame, shame on the Trump-hating media for making us believe that infants and toddlers are being ripped out of the arms of their mothers. You’ can’t get much lower than that!