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Unpacking the Manufactured Migrant Children Crisis
Jun 18, 2018

RUSH: Now, let’s go through this. It can sound very complicated, and I try to make the complex understandable. First a story from Breitbart today. Well, actually yesterday. “Democratic Lawmaker: Obama Admin Kept Child Migrant Crisis ‘Very Quiet’ — Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) claimed in an interview Saturday that the Obama administration tried to cover up the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the United States’ southern border.” Now, let’s remember part of what we’re talking about here. Let me set the table.



You remember — I guess it’d be three or four years ago now — in the early spring, late winter, early spring, massive numbers of minor children, unaccompanied, were arriving at the southern border. Not from Mexico. This is very key to this. They were not coming from Mexico. They were coming from Central America. They were coming from El Salvador. And they were coming from Guatemala. There is a loophole in American immigration law that says if people from Central America come to the United States from a non-contiguous nation, we have to keep them.

That’s why they were coming from Nicaragua and El Salvador and Guatemala, because of that loophole. If they are seeking asylum, once they get to Mexico, they have it. The first nation they get to after fleeing their war-torn torn native land is where they apply for asylum. They have it in Mexico. The fact that they’re waiting and traveling through Mexico to try to get asylum here is one of the many roots of this problem. Now, you have that as a foundational understanding.

“Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) [said] Saturday that the Obama administration tried to cover up the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the United States’ southern border. ‘It was kept very quiet under [Obama]. There were large numbers of people coming in. The Obama administration was trying to keep this quiet…’ According to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, nearly 70,000 unaccompanied minors crossed the southern border in fiscal year (FY) 2014 — the period between October 1, 2013, to September 30, 2014. …

“Cuellar suggested that some adults who are not legal guardians of the children they carry over the border take advantage of the separation policy. ‘Keep in mind that under the law, you can separate a child if that person, the adult, is not the real parent or the custodian because sometimes we see situations where they’ll bring a child because they know of the policy that we have over here with children,’ Cuellar said.”



In other words, they’re gaming the system. They know exactly what our laws are, and they are trying to circumvent them — and during the Obama administration, they were allowed to. This is the point. It’s been going on — and I have all these people saying, “It doesn’t matter, Rush. You should not use that as a defense of what’s happening now.” I’m not using it as a defense. I’m trying to tell everybody that this isn’t what it’s being made to look like. This is not something where people do care about kids and others don’t. It’s not about that.

This is a political issue, and it has roots in the Democrat Party playbook, as I’ve previously demonstrated. The Democrats have an operating play in their book that says “Republicans hate X,” fill in the blank. “Republicans hate women! Republicans hate blacks! Republicans hate kids! Republicans starve kids!” Democrats, of course, loooove and protect everybody. That’s what’s playing out here. This is a political battle, and the football in this battle is the kids.

Democrats don’t care any more about ’em today than they did during the Obama administration. January 28, 2016, Washington Post. This is over two years ago. “Obama Administration placed Children with Human Traffickers, Report Says.” This story is literally devastating. Here’s the opening ‘graph. “The Obama administration…” This is the Washington Post, folks, and this is during the campaign. This is before Trump’s been elected. Trump has nothing to do with any of this, okay?

“The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers, a Senate investigation has found. … Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) initiated the six-month investigation after several Guatemalan teens were found in a dilapidated trailer park near Marion, Ohio, where they were being held captive by traffickers and forced to work at a local egg farm.



“The boys were among more than 125,000 unaccompanied minors who have surged into the United States since 2011, fleeing violence and unrest in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. ‘It is intolerable that human trafficking — modern-day slavery — could occur in our own backyard,’ Portman said…” Where were the howls of concern, I ask you, ladies and gentlemen? The Senate investigated it; found the Obama administration tried to hide it and pretend it wasn’t happening, didn’t want anybody to find out.

The media certainly didn’t care to find out and report it, because they were not gonna expose Obama to anything. Where was the compassion for the children? Where were all the catcalls that Obama and the country were separating immigrant families? Where was all of the concern that we see and hear about today? It wasn’t anywhere. It was kept below the radar. It wasn’t an issue. This is faux concern. F-A-U-X. This is pretend concern about illegal immigrant kids being separated from their parents.

I’m telling you, folks, it is a manufactured crisis, and it is a political battle — one I don’t want the Democrats to win. This is not about kids. It’s not that. They are just the latest fill in the blank objective — and the Republicans better get in the game on this and not leave Trump isolated because Trump knows what’s going on. Trump knows what the effort really is here. Migrant camps create them. Refugee camps create them. Eventually, bring in the families and let them all have amnesty.

He knows what this is about because we see it happening in Europe right now, destroying original cultures of all of these European nations. He is the single administration figure standing athwart all of this, saying, “Stop!” Next week there’s gonna be a new issue. It used to be the travel ban. Every week it’s something new. The week before that it was Russia collusion. The month before that, Russia collusion. Then it became Russian obstruction. Then it became Trump obstruction. Every week…

Every week there was a new something to replace what people get tired of — a manufactured crisis every week carried by the media, sponsored and carried by the media. There’s gonna be one of these every week for years to come. This is all they have. This is all they’ve got to try to stop Donald Trump, is to accuse him of heartlessness. It’s the same thing they accused Republicans of for 50 years: racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia! Fill in the blank; you name it. That’s all they’ve got — that and their precious resistance.



But I’m not through. January 29th, 2016, New York Magazine: “Obama Administration Handed Child migrants Over to Human Traffickers.” Well, it looks to me like New York Magazine picked up this story that was originally published in the Washington Post, and they ran the details I just shared with you. Then we have a New York Times report April 26th, 2018. “Federal Agencies Lost track of Nearly 1500 Migrant Children Placed with Sponsors.” What does this mean?

Remember when those busloads of kids were crossing the border and the regime was packing ’em up and busing them into towns and just forcing them on families in these towns? There was a California town that refused to let the buses in, Rancho Murieta, I think — or not Murieta. Rancho… I don’t know. There are so many Ranchos out there but it made national news ’cause they told the buses: Don’t stop; we don’t want you here. The Obama administration “lost track of 1500 migrant children placed with sponsors.” This was after — pretend parents!

This was Democrats banding together to help carry out this policy of letting illegal immigrants into the country. Pretend foster parents, if you will. The story was that they had lost track of nearly 1500. I don’t believe they lost track of any of them. I think they knew exactly where they were. They set it up. But we’re still not through! Washington Post, March 10, 2015. Joshua Partlow is the writer. “Mexican Kids Held for Months as Punishment for Border-Crossing.” Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What? March 2015? Donald Trump hasn’t even announced his candidacy yet!

“Last spring, as Central American children flooded into Texas in a way he had never seen in his three-decade career, Border Patrol agent Robert Harris decided to experiment. His intelligence analysts estimated that 78% of the guides smuggling other migrants were Mexicans younger than 18 — teenagers often hired or conscripted by drug cartels that knew they would not be prosecuted if caught — and he wanted to attack this loophole. ‘Why don’t we remove these juveniles from the smuggling cycle?’

“Harris, the outgoing commander of the Laredo sector of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, recalled thinking. Now, as a result of that decision, young Mexicans are being held for months without charge in shelters across the United States, sometimes without their parents’ knowledge. Since the program began in May, 536 juveniles have been held — 248 of whom have been deported to Mexico after an average stay of 75 days, according to Border Patrol statistics.

“Mexican authorities say some of these repeat border-crossers have spent as much as six months in U.S. [jails] while they await an appearance before an immigration judge.” Why, are you telling me that Obama was jailing some of these kids because they were being used as traffickers by drug cartels to bring in product or to actually be human traffic? March 10th, 2015, Washington Post: Mexican kids held for months away from their parents. You see, it’s nothing new, folks. Nothing new at all.