Separating Families At The Border: The Hysteria Overlooks Some Key Facts

Separating Families At The Border: The Hysteria Overlooks Some Key Facts: 
"Illegal Immigration: The latest outrage by the Trump administration is its policy of "ripping" children away from parents who've crossed the border illegally. 
As with so many other things involving Trump, there's plenty of emotion but precious little in the way of facts.
...So what's going on here?

• First, it's important to note that many of the "separations" don't last long at all.As Rich Lowry explains in a detailed article in National Review, "when a migrant is prosecuted for illegal entry, he or she is taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals," in which case, as when other adults are incarcerated in the U.S., they are separated from their children.Lowry notes that "The criminal proceedings are exceptionally short, assumng there is no aggravating factor such as a prior illegal entry or another crime. ...However, it only took a matter of hours to reunite more than a third of these children with their parents.

• Under the "zero tolerance" policy, Trump has tried to put an end to this "catch and release" policy, by arresting every adult caught illegally crossing the border.
• Asylum Claims-The administration is right to point out, however, that there is a legal process for seeking asylum that won't involve facing such a choice — just show up at a port of entry to make the asylum claim. "As I have said many times before, if you are seeking asylum for your family, there is no reason to break the law and illegally cross between ports of entry," Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tweeted over the weekend. Critics complain that the legal process just takes too long, as a way to justify illegal border crossings. But illegal border crossers are not only jumping the line...
• Another fact conveniently overlooked amid all the hysteria is that just because a group claims to be a family, doesn't mean it's true. The Department of Homeland Security says that from October 2017 to February 2018 it saw "a 315% increase in the number of cases with minors fraudulently posing as 'family units' to gain entry." Presumably that's because they think posing as a family will improve their chances of avoiding deportation. Whatever the reason, those children's separation from their parents occurred long before the border patrol showed up.

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