Thread: Sen. Lankford: Some Illegal Alien Parents Don't Want to Take Their Children Back

By Susan Jones | July 10, 2018 | 10:41 AM EDT


(CNSNews.com) - The Trump administration, as expected, will miss today's court-ordered deadline to reunite all young children with the parents who brought them to the United States illegally.

A federal judge in California said all children under five must be reunited with the parents from whom they were separated by today; and all children over five must be reunited by July 26.

The Trump administration plans to ask the court for more time to deal with what one Republican senator called a "tough situation."

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The children are in custody of the Health and Human Services Department, which is caring for them while their parents are in custody of the Homeland Security Department, which will either deport them or consider their asylum requests.

"This is not the United States taking children away with no plan to ever give them back to their parents," Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday.

"The challenge is, some of those individuals are not their parents. Some of those individuals were traffickers claiming to be their parents. So they're doing DNA tests to be able to evaluate are these really relatives...If they're not a relative, then we're not going to go back and place them with someone who is not a relative. We've got to be able to figure out what to do with them."

"Some of the adults are saying we don't want to take these children -- we want to be deported and we'll start all over again and come back. This time it will be easier to not have to travel a month-long through Mexico with a child. We'll just try to catch up with them later."

"So it's a very complicated situation to try to be able to work through reconnecting. There are 102 of those individuals that are 4 years old and younger. They've already reconnected half of them. The other half they're still trying to determine, is this a relative -- is this the right person to be able to place them with and will the adults even take them if we do?"

Children who are not claimed by their parents are placed in foster care in the United States.

President Trump, speaking to reporters on his way out of Washington Tuesday, said he has a solution to the family separation problem:

"Tell people not to come to our country illegally," he said. "That's the solution. Don't come to our country illegally. Come like other people do; come legally.

"I'm saying this, very simply: We have laws. We have borders. Don't come to our country illegally. It's not a good thing. And as far as ICE is concerned, the people that are fighting ICE, it's a disgrace. These people go into harm's way. There is nobody under greater danger than the people from ICE. What they do to MS-13 and everything else.

"So we ought to support ICE, not do what the Democrats are doing. Democrats want open borders, and they don't mind crime. We want no crime, and we want borders where borders mean something. And remember this: Without borders, you do not have a country," Trump said.

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Children who are not claimed by their parents are placed in foster care in the United States.

Why are they sent to foster care here in the United States? As an abandoned child from a foreign country, why can't we just send them to an orphanage in the country they are a citizen of? That makes more sense to me than keeping them here.

YOU HAND THEM OVER TO THEIR PRESIDENT WITHIN 48 HOURS!

THEY ARE THEIR COUNTRIES RESPONSIBILITY.

Originally Posted by MW

Why are they sent to foster care here in the United States? As an abandoned child from a foreign country, why can't we just send them to an orphanage in the country they are a citizen of? That makes more sense to me than keeping them here.

Why do we do a lot of the things we do?

Found this comment...
I think it really hit me and I really lost it when BP picked up the anchor baby in progress on an island in the Rio Grande and did not return her to Mexico, but brought her in to the U.S. for processing. Nothing has ever made it more clear that the game is already lost. A year and a half in and the flood is growing. No tent cities, no mass deportations using the laws on the books already, no wall. Everyone in DC is working for Mexico and every other foreign interest, I finally get it. Trump of course is in campaign speak mode again, but that is wearing thin, very thin. We need to see some real commitment to what he ran on, enough campaign speak.
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Think about this.

What if the tables were turned. Someone took Pelosi's, Schumer's, Ryan's kids and grandkids. Dumped them over the border into Mexico. They do not know the language, the culture, where they are! And the Mexican government said "we will take these kids, put them in detention and foster care..."we do not know who the parents are" so it is OUR right to keep them!!!



IT IS NOT OUR RIGHT TO KEEP THEM...IT IS OUR OBLIGATION TO SAFELY RETURN EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM TO THEIR AUTHORITIES!

THIS IS INSANE! NO GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE KEEPING THESE CHILDREN!

THEY ARE NOT A LOST PUPPY ON THE STREET! SEND THEM BACK TO THEIR COUNTRY.

SEND THEM BACK TO THEIR COUNTRY AND THEIR RELATIVES WITHIN 48 HOURS!

Exactly. It's kidnapping.

WHAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THESE CHILDREN IS DISGUSTING ON EVERY LEVEL!

THEY ARE USED AS PAWNS FOR VOTES! IT IS DISPICABLE!

THEY ARE PANDERING FOR CHEAP LABOR AND FREE STUFF NOW ON THE BACKS OF CHILDREN TO GET A VOTE! THEY WILL STOOP TO NO LOW! THEY ARE SCUM!



THESE CHILDREN ARE UNACCOMPANIED AND MISSING AND THEIR FAMILIES BACK HOME SHOULD GET THEM BACK!


DONALD TRUMP YOU SIGN A DAMN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO SEND EVERY ONE OF THEM UNDER THE AGE OF 18 BACK HOME!


WHAT IF YOUR GRANDCHILD OR PENCES' WAS SENT TO RUSSIA! DO YOU WANT YOUR FAMILY BACK!


STOP THIS DISGUSTING VILE POLICY NOW!


NO FOSTER HOME, NO DETENTION...SAFELY RETURN THEM HOME WITHIN 48 HOURS FOR PETE'S SAKE!


THEY HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON...AND YOU WANT TO KEEP THEM LIKE A LOST PUPPY! THAT IS SICK!