The "cages" for migrants become "structures" if Biden is in the government
The Democratic president reopens the same center for unaccompanied minors that Trump was harshly criticized for. But for the media now it is no longer a scandal
The site is the same used by Donald Trump, the structure is the same, the rooms are the same, the minors are different but detained for the same reason: illegally entered the United States, they are not accompanied by adults and must therefore be entrusted to families or centers that take care of them. But if in 2019 the media talked about "children locked in cages" (which, for the record, were built in 2014 by the Obama administration when Joe Biden was vice president), now that the Democrats are back in government, the tones are made more conciliatory:
"First facility for migrant children opens under Biden administration." From "cages" to "structure" there is a big difference, given the media power that words have, and the difference was noticed in the United States, bouncing on social networks, so much so that the Washington Post, one of the most proud opponents of the tycoon's migration policy, he had to defend himself with an ad hoc article entitled: "No, Biden's new move at the border is not like Trump's" baby cages "."
Irregular immigrants on the rise
The Washington Post revealed Monday that Biden reopened a facility for illegal migrants in Texas, which can accommodate up to 700 children ages 13-17, in Carrizo Springs, Texas. It is one of the facilities used by the Trump executive in 2019 to detain unaccompanied minors who have entered the United States illegally and minors temporarily separated from their parents. The reason why the democratic administration has reopened the facility is the sudden increase in illegal entries. In January 2021, 5,871 unaccompanied minors crossed the border with Mexico compared to 3,076 in January 2020. The increase in illegal entries recorded a total increase of 160 percent compared to the same month last year due, he admits the Wp, "of the policy of the new government".
In 2019, the photos of the minors kept together in fenced areas caused a sensation in the American media, which spoke of "children locked in cages". Now, writes the WP, the situation is just as serious but "it is not the administration that forces children to be separated from their parents". The fact remains that, according to the activists for the rights of migrants cited by the newspaper, "this is a huge step backwards".
Are the "concentration camps" reopening?
It is also not easy to distinguish when the same facility that Biden called for closure in August 2019 ("We don't need it!") And that the democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called a "concentration camp" is now reopened. It is no coincidence that MP Ocasio-Cortez denounced the Biden government yesterday: «This is not good, it has never gone well and will never go well. Regardless of the administration or the party ".
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked if the news was true and why the Biden government was behaving like the Trump administration, which he had criticized in the past. And spokeswoman Jen Psaki, while admitting that the reopened structure is the same one used by Trump, specified that unaccompanied minors are detained at the border beyond the legal limit because places where they should be transferred have been cut due to the COVID-19. "We must respect health protocols and protect their health," she said embarrassed, as can be seen in the video posted on Twitter by Forbes.
MOMENTS AGO: Jen Psaki clashes with Fox News’s Peter Doocy over Biden administration immigration policies. pic.twitter.com/6SBa8gt8SZ
— Forbes (@Forbes) February 23, 2021
However, there is something unspoken, as pointed out by the president of the union representing the border agents and support staff who are detaining minors in the Texan facility. Speaking to Breitbart Texas, Brandon Judd said: “What Psaki does not say is that the children are currently being held in conditions that do not respect social distancing at all and are far worse than those in the centers where the spokesperson claims they cannot be transferred for safety.
They are in fact in the same structure for which the Trump administration was accused of "inhuman acts" and of locking "children in cages" ". Judd concludes: "This is the hypocrisy of the left and the big media, who don't care about children, who have been used as pawns to attack Trump."
