That every parent who is arrested and detained will get to take their children into stir with them?

I mean, shootings, stabbings, Drunk Driving felonies….Murderers, blue collar and White collar crime? Domestic abuse? Drug possession? I mean, since we allow folks who cross the border illegally and are detained to keep their kids, why not all lawbreakers?

We are gonna have to build bigger prisons then.
Lots bigger. And probably add private showers and Playrooms…

“Were you outraged when Obama kept illegal immigrant kids in cages?”

Yeah, but that’s different. He was the LightBringer(er)…Today, it is Trump.

Even CNN is noticing the double standard. Which means it is pretty damned obvious. 

We had real dangerous toys.

Today, the most dangerous toy in the world is a Water Balloon Slingshot.

I find that sad.

I had toys that would burn you, cut you, and, if you did it right, I could make shit that would give you chemical burns and probably blind you available in my chemistry set.

I mean, really? The best you can do is a water balloon slingshot?

We had Jarts, which were heavy, sharp pointed real lawn darts. One had to learn to Stay Out of The Way when they were falling.

I had a lead soldier kit. Yeah, real molten lead and some molds. One learned quickly to Not Spill Molten Lead On Your Skin.

Real Bows and Arrows. With points.

BB guns. Don’t Shoot Your Brother In The Face. (the ass was OK though).

Other toys too, all potentially lethal or damaging.

And we survived.

Water Balloons? Really? 

So some parents were too busy to monitor their kid, and the kid broke a $132,000 statue…..

The parents, of course, blame everyone but themselves.

” No plexiglass. Not protected. Not held down . . . There was no border around it. There wasn’t even a sign around it that said, ‘Do not touch.”.

Watch the video. Kid was unsupervised. Totally.

I think the kid’s parents should be forced to pay the bill.

I used to run a motel. Parents would leave their kids to run round for HOURS. from a young as 2 or three….No supervision, no one watching them…either to discipline or protect ’em from predators. If they got up to mischief, or got hurt, they tried to blame the business. If we tried to stop little Suzy or young Hunter from climbing into the vending machine or something, we were castigated because she/he “Isn’t your child” .

Parents are responsible for the behavior of their child, even up to and including damage they do, either through maliciousness or carelessness.

Except those who made a better deal with previous US administrations….

Deutschland to give up it’s 10% protective tariff on  US made automobiles. 

Odd, that. Tariffs are bad….right? 

Such nice folks they have working for ’em, innit?

Woman congressional intern/aide shouts “Mr. President: Fuck you!” as he walks the halls of the Capitol. 

I’m sure she thought that was something to be proud of and all her friends are buying her a Frappachino right now. 

I’ve noticed that the current tempest in a teapot from the media regarding the illegal immigrants has a couple of issues:

The folks detained are treated as criminals….’cause that is what they are. And the treatment of their families is the same as any parent arrested and detained by Law Enforcement: The kids are placed in protective custody, the same as any dependents of a US citizen who was arrested and detained would be. (When possible, kids are placed with family members, if not DCFS or another local agency is charged to find a place to care for them….there is no difference in the treatment of the kids of folks detained, US citizen or not).

The Trump administration is not the first to do this. But the issue gives the media a way to (independently, of course) hammer on him yet again.

The media, and especially the folks they interview, seem to feel that these illegal border crossers have every right to enter this country, and that they are doing no wrong when they do.  This is simply not the case. They have no right to enter our borders without permission.  Further, the implication is that these folks don’t cost the US anything….which is also false.  Illegal immigrants cost the US in excess of $120 BILLION every year.

At the end of the day, again, I would ask each of those folks who believe that these border crossers have every right to enter our country and live here without the permission of our government, and believe that they cost us nothing, each take a family of at least 4 members and house ’em, clothe ’em, and feed ’em. Put your money where your mouth is, folks, or you are a hypocrite. If you wish to welcome invaders into our country that will dilute our wealth and standard of living, then let us start with YOUR wealth and YOUR standard of living.

‘Twas pointed out to me earlier Monday that the kids being separated from their parents who illegally entered the country (and who were treated like any other criminal, even to the fact that criminals of any nationality who are caught and incarcerated and NEVER allowed to keep their kids with them (no kids even in our women’s prisons, or jails either,  folks). Those kids separated from their parents at the border get better food, better healthcare, better care period…. better clothes than we give to the kids in our inner cities (who are, in my opinion, treated fairly well sometimes what with all the Free Shit that they get) and are being taught that America…Los Estados Unitos….is, indeed, the land of Free Shit.

So the media: CBS, NBC MSNBCSN ABC, CNN, most of the east coast and west coast (and old, large city) newspapers are all (independently, of course) choosing to give us sob-stories about all these illegal alien immigrants who cross the border illegally being detained as CRIMINALS and separated from their children….

All of them, at the same time. Each and every left leaning media company. Simultaneously giving us stories of the cruelty of incarcerating the parents and separating the children from them. Odd how that timing works, innit?

Of course, the press doesn’t collude to influence public opinion. I know this because the press tells me so.

All you folks whining about the CBP practice of separating those kids from their parents when said parents are caught illegally entering the country…ETA: (And, per comments  entering at Border Stations and DEMANDING asylum (a valid, if meaningless, point))

All you folks who think that the border jumpers should be given a red carpet and welcomed into the country even without a visa…

And all those that are here already….you think they should have instant (or at least an easy, no consequences) path to citizenship…

So here’s my question:

How many of those mothers with children are you going to welcome into your home?? How many of those folks are you, personally, going to support? Feed, clothe, house, pay their medical bills….How many will be guests in YOUR house?

Are you willing to stand good for their behavior, and the behavior of their children?

Or is that someone else’s job? If so, how much are you willing to pay for someone else to house, and clothe and feed, and take care of those folks? I’m not talking taxes, that isn’t what taxes are supposed to be used for. I’m talking a significant percentage of YOUR income.

40%?
60%

Are you willing to reduce your spending to the poverty level? Move to a smaller home? Give up some possessions?

Or are you only just willing to spend someone else’s money?
If you won’t do any of the above, you are a hypocrite. You want someone else to do the work, and pay the bills….So you can feel good and then forget those folks who enter illegally.