Everybody on the Left, and Brit Hume at Fox, has tried to blame Bush for the 2008 law which contained a little-known requirement preventing the fast deportation of kids. Not true. Biden was behind it. He secretly and sinisterly perverted what was supposed to be a standard renewal of a Bill Clinton sex trafficking law that had nothing to do with illegal immigration, in order to help create the very situation we now have. In other words, he added a loophole specifically to flood the country with new, young, non-deportable, future Democrat voters. Bush probably didn’t even know this new requirement was even in the bill he was signing; he had been told it was just a renewal of an old human trafficking law. But that of course turned out not to be true, due to typical Leftist evil shenanigans.
Excerpted from Sweetness And Light: It was one of the final pieces of legislation signed into law by President George W. Bush, a measure that passed without controversy, along with a pension bill and another one calling for national parks to be commemorated on quarters.
You see? It’s all Bush’s fault. We knew the media would finally find a way to pin it on him.
“This is a piece of legislation we’re very proud to sign,” a White House spokesman, Tony Fratto, told reporters on Dec. 23, 2008, as the president put his pen to the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, named for a 19th-century British abolitionist…
Now the legislation, enacted quietly during the transition to the Obama administration, is at the root of the potentially calamitous flow of unaccompanied minors to the nation’s southern border.
In reality, this was not a new law at all. This was a ‘renewal’ of a law that was signed by Bill Clinton, the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000. Which was to provide protections for persons in the country illegally who may be victims of human trafficking.
The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act has been subsequently renewed in 2003, 2006, 2008 and most recently in 2013, as an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act.
In fact, William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 was sponsored by then Senator Joe Biden. It carefully added the loophole that prevents illegal alien children from non-contiguous countries from being quickly immediately deported.
The ‘renewal’ of the act in 2013, the Violence Against Women Act, introduced similar loopholes for women who were victims of domestic violence. It was also championed by Joe Biden.
So now we are being flooded with children who are claiming to have been victims of sex trafficking and women who are claiming to be victims of domestic violence. We are supposed to believe that these 50,000 kids are all the victims of sex trafficking. That the 250,000 illegal adult women — are all victims of domestic violence.
Originally pushed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers as well as by evangelical groups to combat sex trafficking, the bill gave substantial new protections to children entering the country alone who were not from Mexico or Canada by prohibiting them from being quickly sent back to their country of origin.
Funny how the NYT neglects to mention that this bill was sponsored and championed by then Senator Joe Biden. In fact, this is one of the feathers in Joe’s cap.
Instead, it required that they be given an opportunity to appear at an immigration hearing and consult with an advocate, and it recommended that they have access to counsel. It also required that they be turned over to the care of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the agency was directed to place the minor “in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child” and to explore reuniting those children with family members.
The Obama administration says the law is partly responsible for tying its hands in dealing with the current influx of children.
As if Obama has any problems ignoring or even changing a law that doesn’t suit him, via his phone and pen.
Officials have suggested that the White House might seek flexibility in the law’s requirements when it asks Congress to provide emergency funds to contend with the latest immigration crisis, a request that could come as early as Tuesday…
In other words, Obama pretended he was going to do something to change this law, in order to get his $2 billion from Congress. But he has already reneged on that promise. Keep reading