Trump says he is considering a new family separation policy at U.S.-Mexico border

This article discusses the fact that Trump is considering a new family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump believes that the administration’s earlier move to separate children from their families was necessary and effective in order to get the rise in immigration. Trump has stated that they are “looking at everything that you could look at when it comes to illegal immigration”. He has also stated that while separating children from their families is a “terrible situation”, he is persistent on it because he hopes that it will scare away undocumented migrants from trying to enter the United States, “If they feel there will be separation, they won’t come”.

In August of 2018, the Department of Homeland Securities states that the country saw a 38 percent increase in the number of migrants arrested and charged with illegally crossing the border. For that reason, Trump believes that the people coming in are only bad people, “You have really bad people coming in and using people. They’re not their children. They don’t even know the children. They haven’t known the children for 20 minutes. And they grab children and they use them to come into our country”.

One option that the administration’s is looking at for their new plan on separating the children from their families is for the government to detain asylum-seeking families together for up to 20 days, then give parents a choice, to either stay in family detention with their child for months or years as their immigration case proceeds, or allow children to be taken to a government shelter so other relatives or guardians can seek custody.

Rucker, Philip. “Trump Says He Is Considering a New Family Separation Policy at U.S.-Mexico Border.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 13 Oct. 2018, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-is-considering-a-new-family-separation-policy-at-us-mexico-border/2018/10/13/ea2f256e-cf25-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html?utm_term=.285595715cf5.

 

“As Trump struggles to curb unauthorized immigration, his rhetoric gets tougher, but quick solutions are elusive”

The Washington Post published a new article describing President Trump and his administration as weak and unable to deal with illegal immigration in the United States. Trump is portrayed as someone who campaigned during the presidential election as the only person who can fix the illegal immigration in the United States, but it is not as easy as he believed, but he campaigned with immigration as a large issue in order to be attractive to the public, the article stated. The administration puts a heavy focus on using tough rhetoric and policy proposals to win the battle over immigration, but the article cites that despite these efforts, the number of arrests at the border has skyrocketed. This article leans to the far left and has manipulation present throughout. For example, Trump refers to immigration as “illegal,” but the article carefully describes it as “unauthorized immigration.” The author describes President Trump as someone who uses threatening rhetoric in order to paint the president in a negative light. The article incorporates quotes that attack the actions of the president by calling them problematic, and it attempts to manipulate readers in believing that Trump lacks a fundamental understanding of immigration. The article does not explain how Democrats hope to resolve the issue of immigration. The Washington Post has created a very bias article against President Trump, and it fails to present the facts of the issue at hand in a minimal or balanced bias.

Nakamura, David, and Seung Min Kim. “As Trump Struggles to Curb Unauthorized Immigration, His Rhetoric Gets Tougher, but Quick Solutions Are Elusive.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 6 Apr. 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-struggles-to-curb-unauthorized-immigration-his-rhetoric-gets-tougher-but-quick-solutions-are-elusive/2019/04/06/8780ac92-57b7-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2cd1b306dd59.