Thread: Sen. Dick Durbin compares Thai soccer team to migrant kids separated from families

Sen. Dick Durbin compares Thai soccer team to migrant kids separated from families

By Andrew O'Reilly
13 hours ago

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Sunday compared the more than 2,300 migrant children separated from their parents after crossing illegally into the United States to the boys’ soccer team currently trapped in a cave in northern Thailand.

“Hearts and prayers are with those boys in Thailand trapped in the cave,” Durbin said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “I hope our hearts and prayers are also with thousands of children – toddlers and infants – removed from their parents by the Trump administration under zero-tolerance.”

Durbin added: “They’re trapped in a bureaucratic cave too. So let’s not forget them.”

It's still not clear how many children have been separated from families under the zero-tolerance policy, or how many remain separated. Trump administration officials have said 2,342 children were separated from 2,206 parents between May 5 and June 9. Trump's order stopped separations on June 20.

About 520 children were reunited with their families within days because the improper-entry prosecutions were finished before the minors were turned over to the custody of Health and Human Services, which is responsible for caring for unaccompanied children. HHS Secretary Alex Azar told a congressional committee last month there were 2,047 such children in his agency's care.

On Thursday, Azar said there are somewhere "under 3,000" children who were believed to have been separated, but that includes kids who may have lost parents along the journey, not just parents who were detained at the border. He said none had been transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody yet.

A federal judge in San Diego who had been hearing the case of a woman separated from her child ruled on June 26 that the families must be reunited within 30 days of his order, and by July 10 if the children are younger than five.

But it's still not clear yet how that will work. Homeland Security has set up a staging area at the Port Isabel detention center in Texas where the parents can be detained until their children arrive. But it's not clear where they will go afterward — the three operational family detention centers are near capacity.

It's also possible not all parents will be reunited with their children; HHS has a strict set of guidelines the agency must follow to determine a suitable sponsor, including a home visit and a criminal background check.

Health and Human Services deployed more than 200 workers to review the cases of separated children. Azar said parents and children are being swabbed for DNA to match paternity and checks are being done as rapidly as possible to make the court deadline. He suggested the children would be transferred to ICE custody at Port Isabel shortly before the deadline. But he signaled they'd ask a judge for more time.

Azar said about 100 of the separated children are younger than five and subject to the rapidly approaching July 10 deadline. Officials there say they know the locations of all the children — some were sent hundreds of miles away to shelters around the country operated by nonprofits that care for them until a parent or other sponsor is identified.

A judge has put off — at least until Monday — a ruling on a Trump administration request for more time to reunite the children under five with their parents.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...-families.html

And the DemoQuacks just keep giving .....

The second phase rescue of more Thai boys will be starting shortly.

Durbin is trying to move the news back to the Dems new pet topic of "the poor illegal kids". Melodramatic drivel.

Durbin added: “They’re trapped in a bureaucratic cave too. So let’s not forget them.”

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LOL...how about THEIR own country NOT forget their own citizens Durbin?

Democrats will grasp at anything to destroy our country and promote their LAWLESSNESS!

And by the way, OUR people are over their helping get those kids out.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Sunday compared the more than 2,300 migrant children separated from their parents after crossing illegally into the United States to the boys’ soccer team currently trapped in a cave in northern Thailand.

“Hearts and prayers are with those boys in Thailand trapped in the cave,” Durbin said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “I hope our hearts and prayers are also with thousands of children – toddlers and infants – removed from their parents by the Trump administration under zero-tolerance.”

Durbin added: “They’re trapped in a bureaucratic cave too. So let’s not forget them.”

It was only a matter of time before a Democrat like Durbin would decide to use the Thailand situation to construct a liberal talking point to be used for their advantage. They know no shame.

July 9, 2018
Monica Showalter

Can Dick Durbin stifle himself for a bit? The vaunted senator from Illinois is saying one absurd thing after another, putting the jackass back big into the Democratic Party label.

Seriously, get a load of this first one from the senior senator from Illinois:

A top Democrat in the Senate said his vulnerable colleagues from red states "understand" that fighting to stop President Trump's Supreme Court pick is more important than getting re-elected in 2018.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was pressed on this "dilemma" that Democrats face as the 2018 midterms approach during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"Staying united to stop the Supreme Court pick could cost you red state senators. Not fighting it as hard might allow the red state senators to get re-elected and get Democrats in control of the Senate. That's your dilemma," host Chuck Todd posited on Sunday.

President Trump hasn't even named his pick for the newly vacant Supreme Court seat, and already Durbin is telling his fellow Democrats (not himself, of course) to fall on their swords by obstructing the nomination, no matter who it might be, and forget about their own careers. Do it for the cause. Take one for the team. Because many Democratic senators have found themselves in a quandary over this upcoming nomination – they are running for re-election in red states and know that obstructing the nomination as Democrats won't go over well with voters. Many are thinking of jumping ship to stay in office. So in Durbin's view, it's better "a lost seat for thee, but not for me."

How very, very big of him.

That isn't all he's been saying. As the world watches with bated breath the dangerous watery cave rescue going on in Thailand, marveling at the courage and technological virtuosity of the world's elite divers as they conduct the terrifying operation, and looks on in awe and wonder at the world coming together to pray, pool technological expertise, and offer moral support, well, Durbin decides that domestic immigration policy disputes are a good thing to bring up to compare to this spectacle – with himself as the hero this time, not the Thai SEALs.

According to Fox News:

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Sunday compared the more than 2,300 migrant children separated from their parents after crossing illegally into the United States to the boys' soccer team currently trapped in a cave in northern Thailand.

"Hearts and prayers are with those boys in Thailand trapped in the cave," Durbin said on NBC's "Meet The Press." "I hope our hearts and prayers are also with thousands of children – toddlers and infants – removed from their parents by the Trump administration under zero-tolerance."

Durbin added: "They're trapped in a bureaucratic cave too. So let's not forget them."

This is, frankly, nothing more than a policy dispute, brought on by the issue of people ignoring U.S. borders and U.S. immigration law, with many cases of additional bad behavior, such as parents turning over their children to human-smugglers, who most certainly shouldn't be forked back over to such criminal enterprises' tender mercies. It's a domestic policy dispute over how to handle lawbreakers.

The Thai rescue operation is a majestic story of heroism in the face of the merciless forces of nature.

Can this senator, who can think of nothing but domestic politics, spare us? Cripes, this guy needs to get off the stage. That said, his words are so insipid and idiotic that perhaps we should encourage him to keep talking. The more he talks, the more likely Republicans are to gain.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...f_himself.html

Gee - i didn't realize that thai soccer team was trying to come to america and go on welfare.