President Trump has laid out his plans for the four caravans making their way to the border. He plans to build tent cities to hold the thousands of illegal immigrants trying to cross our border in violation of our laws.
By building tent cities, it will allow the parents and children to remain together, so that the Democrats, who never said a word when Obama separated over 70,000 children from their parents, can’t complain that Trump is separating families. President Trump also announced today that he is planning on sending a total of 15,000 active duty soldiers to the border, to help deal with the caravans.
Trump said his plan would keep asylum-seeking parents with their children, undermining Democrats’ complaints about “family separation.”
The Trump plan can legally replace the judge-imposed Flores rule which forces officials to release migrants with children before their asylum requests can be processed by officials. The Flores rule releases migrants with children in 20 days, even though the legal process takes roughly 40 days.
Trump’s plan may deter the future flow of migrants towards the border and into the United States. Once the asylum-seeking migrants hare held in detention, “you will have far fewer people come up,” he said.
Trump’s detention plan could break the cartels’ profitable labor-trafficking business because it prevents migrants from getting the U.S. jobs which allow them to pay for the cartels’ fees.
Human trafficking makes a lot of money for the cartels. They charge an illegal $10,000 to get them into the United States, and then the illegal goes to work and saves up in order to bring their spouse, parents or children into the country to join them.