Tea at Trianon: Holding Unaccompanied Minors

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Holding Unaccompanied Minors

From The National Pulse:

The Biden regime is holding unaccompanied minors entering the U.S. illegally for an average of 107 hours – nearly one and a half days longer than the legally allowed limit. While the numbers, reported first by CNN, would have caused outrage under the Trump administration, Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have stayed silent on the matter.

“Thousands of migrant children who crossed the US-Mexico border alone are being held in US Border Patrol custody for more than four days on average in facilities unfit for minors, a dramatic increase from a week ago,” CNN notes. The minor illegal immigrants are held in facilities for 107 hours on average – and represent an increase of 30 hours or nearly 40 percent from just last week. Current federal law permits authorities to detain for just 72 hours. (Read more.)

From Dan Bongino:

There are now a record-breaking 7000 “kids in cages” being temporarily held in Health and Human Services’ facilities. The previous February record was 5900 in 2019, so this is a large increase. Some of these children showed up with relatives, but the law requires that be verified before they’re allowed to stay together. Others, encouraged by Joe Biden’s policies, arrived with no adult supervision at all. (Read more.)

From Gregg Jarrett:

The Biden administration is detaining these children for weeks at a time, something that both President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attacked the Trump administration for. President Biden’s border policies are also incentivizing the influx of illegal immigration, using policies described by the former ICE Director as “open border.”

“More than 1,360 of the children have been detained beyond the 72 hours permitted by law before a child must be transferred to a shelter, according to one of the documents, dated March 8,” the New York Times wrote. “he figures highlight the growing pressure on President Biden to address the increased number of people trying to cross the border in the belief that he will be more welcoming to them than former President Donald J. Trump was.”

“The shelters for migrant children are 13 days away from “maximum capacity,” according to the documents,” the New York Times added. “The data shows the stress on the system designed to hold the migrant children as Mr. Biden tries to make good on a campaign promise to be more compassionate to migrants during a global pandemic. Border agents encountered a migrant at the border about 78,000 times in January, the highest number for that month in at least a decade.” (Read more.)