This is from LoveWhatMatters.com, written by Matthew Lee Whitt, 39, of Texas. Matthew worked as a flight paramedic for Air Evac Lifeteam which covers the Texas/Mexico border in order to treat and transport critically ill patients from the area to larger facilities in San Antonio.
“So I am going to break a self rule about not posting in regards to work and politics. Well, I am actually going to stand by my rule because what I am really doing is coming to the defense of the US Border Patrol and Customs, Texas DPS, and MYSELF since we were all part of the separation of children from their parents on the border.
Yes. You read that correctly. I was a part of the ‘human rights violations’ taking place on the border. Through the course of my career I have spent, off and on, 15 years working as a medic on the border. I’ve worked everywhere in Texas from Brewster and Presidio Counties, Eagle Pass, Del Rio, and Laredo. I know several Texas EMS paramedics that are deployed by the state and federal government to these “camps” running from El Paso to Houston currently.
Rarely do I ever speak or write about what I see as a paramedic. Most of the time I never say anything to my wife Natalee or my family and I never comment, post, or talk about the graphic stuff I have seen in my career to people other than my colleagues. That is going to change with this post so if you think you might have a problem with graphic details please stop reading.
I flew for Air Evac which has more border bases than any other air medical services in Texas. I was based out of South Texas and often covered shifts that were within viewing distance of the Mexican border. I love the Mexican people, their culture, and their customs. I married a woman from San Antonio who is of Mexican decent. My sons are half Hispanic. My heart is often broken seeing their plight as they take the ardent journey north for a better life.
But..
There is another side to some of the immigrants that most people don’t witness. Most of the children that started coming across the border 3 or 4 years ago were alone or with smugglers that worked double duty with the cartels. The adults that were with them often lied and said they were the parents which was not true. Even the children that were with their parents or parent were often times in dangerous situations. These children were separated back then and are still separated to this day. It is heartbreaking to see such events unfold and nobody, from the Border Patrol, Texas Law Enforcement or Texas EMS professionals were happy to be tasked with such work. We did not abuse any children. Instead, we cared for them. We fed them and gave them water, clothes, medical care and comfort.
All of these kids were sick or ill. It might be something as simple as dehydration but often times it was more than that. Much more.
Such as the 10-year-old girl that I flew who had been raped no less than 10 times on her journey. Her private parts torn by the continued trauma inflicted each night of her stay in the dessert. Her screams and cries of mistrust still haunt me to this day when I think about it.
Then there was a little boy who was only 5-years-old covered in scabies, flees, and abscesses with a broken jaw from being hit by a smuggler for crying.
There were many kids that were so malnourished and dehydrated that they could not hold any solid food down and were delirious from sun exposure. Most of these kids had never slept under a roof their entire lives. They certainly never slept in a bed as they often slept on the ground with animals in their home countries.
At the centers where these children were housed they cried aloud. Why wouldn’t they? Most had been on a journey that no human should ever go through. Most have never been able to trust a single soul their entire lives, even their parents. They were afraid of the future.
But what these professionals did at the centers was phenomenal work. They fed these kids. They immunized these kids. They LOVE these kids. They have counselors on hand to help with these children. Some of these kids are put into the foster care system which, while not the greatest it could be, is almost certainly better than where they came from and the abuse they have suffered at the hand of cutthroats and drug cartels.
The people that are actually working this crisis are good people. In fact, they are better than most people. They put their lives on hold to help children that they don’t even know while spending months at a time without seeing their own families. These people probably save more lives than anyone else in the US right now.
So I encourage you all to look at all sides of this situation. There are no winners but please don’t take up an opinion that comes from a media source that only has one agenda in mind: to discredit the current president.
Personally I could care less what you think of President Trump but where I draw the line is when we start taking down innocent people and painting them as villains in an effort to destroy someone else. These GOOD POEPLE working on this crisis have done so for the past 15 years without one word from anyone else until just recently.
Ask yourself why?
God Bless you all.”
An amazing and true story. Capped with an excellent question.
Anyone remember Carmen Yulin Cruz, mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico?
Remember her bleats — because she’s a Leftist after all — that President Trump was discriminating against Puerto Rico following the devastation of Hurricane Maria? That because Puerto Rico consists of little brown people it was being robbed of vital assistance from the Trump administration? She knew that Trump had to be the cause due to his racist tendencies.
Administration of Trump-bashing Puerto Rican mayor reportedly facing FBI corruption probe
by Barnini Chakraborty
The administration of the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who shot to international fame after criticizing President Trump for not doing enough to help Hurricane Maria victims, is being investigated by the FBI on corruption charges, according a local news outlet.
Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz and her administration are under fire for allegedly obstructing critical supplies from reaching victims of the category-4 hurricane that leveled much of the tiny U.S. territory nearly nine months ago.
The FBI reportedly launched the investigation following a February lawsuit filed by Yadira Molina, the former director of procurement. Molina claims she was retaliated against for reporting “alleged irregular acts” to the local comptroller.
“On February 21, Molina sued the city council after reporting alleged acts of corruption in the shopping division in the town hall under the administration of Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto,” according to El Vocero de Puerto Rico.
Uh oh. Corruption under Mayor Cruz? A little skimming off the top during a time of terrible crisis, when 64 Puerto Ricans have been killed? Is that not the worst?
The report says Molina claims she was punished for reporting on the allegedly rigged system and that she was blocked from her right “to report wrongdoing in her capacity as a private citizen, not as a public employee.”
Shortly after Cruz became mayor, Molina claims a supply company was granted “preferred supplier” status which paid them more than three times what regular suppliers made. She also alleges that other city officials engaged in a corrupt scheme to steer business the preferred supplier’s way.
Right. The mayor knew nothing of this. The crux of the biscuit?
Concerns about Cruz are not new. There has been a growing backlash from frustrated residents who say they feel forgotten and say the mayor’s personal political ambitions are coming at the expense of the very people she’s supposed to be representing.
For example, at a time when residents needed food, water and shelter, Cruz hired extra photographers to follow her around post-storm.
“She comes out, goes on television and pats herself on the back,” Simon Menendez, a small business owner in San Juan, told Fox News. “It stopped being about us a long time ago.”
Please note this difference: the FBI isn’t investigating the administration of Puerto Rico’s Governor Ricardo Rossello. No. The administration of Mayor Carmen Cruz.
Finally, this is all you need to know about Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz of San Juan.
Multiple attempts to reach Cruz were unsuccessful.
The Sack Heads Radio Show on the SHR Media Network is no more; in its stead — same time and day — is the Sack Heads: AGAINST TYRANNY Show (an actual SHAT Show) helmed by Sack Heads Clint and Sack Heads BZ.
EXCEPT. . .
Tonight — it was Shaun, ClintANDBZ who tore through the gristle of today’s screaming headlines and ripped out the sinewy Tendons of Truth ensconced within, all from the Hoary Streets of Shatramento, Fornicalia, exposing the trembling toadies, sniveling jackanapes and fripperous fopdoodles infesting Leftist and Progressive ant farms nationally.
Correct! For one night only the Band was Back Together!
Before Sack Heads Shaun arrived, however, Clint and BZ talked about Juneteenth and why it was important — realizing that altogether too many people don’t know its significance. Click on the link above to find out.
President Trump created the Space Force this week, and BZ asked about the various iterations of what became the USAF, to include the Army, the US Army Air Corps, the US Army Air Force and — finally abetted by General Curtis LeMay — the US Air Force, created in 1947. He also had Bell’s Palsy, leaving his face frozen for life — hence his proclivity towards cigars in his mouth, to distract from the fact.
BZ also indicated that June 21st was also the Summer Solstice — the longest day of the year. From there, it’s all downhill because BZ despises summer and loves the fall and winter. Shorter days, come one come all. Clint and BZ also talked about french ticklers and the Warren Zevon song of the same name. Ahem. Actually it was Sonic Youth who produced the song French Tickler.
Shaun dropped in for a moment and then found himself roped into the rest of the show though he was operating on only three hours of sleep. We were blessed with his presence for the next 1.5 hours and, well, it was thusly a kick-ass show.
Clint gave up his mic, and then BZ set up the third chair so that all three of us could talk. And talk we did, about the US Space Force, the shuttle, “Rods From God,” North Korea and, well, you’ll just have to listen. We also took a phone call from Kaiser Shuff.
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With two major caveats: the issue isn’t “new” by a long shot, and the massive bulk of persons illegally entering the US aren’t “refugees.”
Leftists, Demorats, American Media Maggots and some Republicans are weeping about children being separated from “refugee families” at our border. This is not a new policy, of course. These things occurred under the Bushes and also under Obama.
Oddly enough it wasn’t an issue then — not even under Barack Hussein Obama. That in and of itself bespeaks volumes about the biased bleating of the groups indicated above. Translated: when administrations other than Trump do it, no problemo. Under Trump: heinous.
Obama, in fact, featured the ATEP policy — the Alien Transfer Exit Program, also called Lateral Repatriation. You’ll see why. Here is an example:
Montes was put on a plane, flown halfway across the country and bused to the California-Mexico border. At 2 a.m. Tuesday, U.S. border authorities took off his handcuffs and escorted him to a gate leading to the desert city of Mexicali. Montes was back in Mexico, but about 1,200 miles away from where he started.
But wait; did you read of this then or hear of it now — Obama’s policy? Of course not.
But immigrants’ rights activists had long cautioned that Lateral Repatriation breaks up families. The reason is fairly simple: many male Mexican nationals who are detained trying to cross the border often come with their families in tow. When ATEP is used, the men are captured and taken thousands of miles away, while their wives, partners and children are placed in immigrant detention centers.
More, under Obama:
Single Mexican fathers or men who traveled without an adult female companion while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border with children, when subject to ATEP, had their children separated from them. Unaccompanied minors would then be placed into the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Such custody is supposed to be temporary and ORR is supposed to release children to an identified family member or sponsor.
Because of Homeland Security’s dismissal of the need for accountability, it’s unclear exactly how many children were separated from their families under this Obama-era policy.
But that’s okay, It was Obama after all — the single smartest and most compassionate man in any room, anywhere, any time.
Caught at a brief moment in time when she was relatively cogent, Nancy Pelosi plays the Religious Card. Nancy Pelosi believes in “church” to the extent that the Hells Angels believe in “church.”
Nancy Pelosi blasts ‘the hypocrisy of all people of faith’ over border policy dispute
by Douglas Ernst
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi unleashed a broadside against “all people of faith in our country” on Friday over prosecutions of illegal immigrants on the southern border.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recent comments that respecting the rule of law is a biblical principle sparked a scathing response from the California Democrat on Friday. Mrs. Pelosi accused the Trump administration, its surrogates and all people of faith of gross hypocrisy for not agreeing with her preferred policy regarding the children of illegal immigrants.
Parents who illegally cross into the U.S. are briefly separated from children for up to three weeks while their case is adjudicated. Minors are given medical care, meals, and educational material in accordance with federal regulations.
“The very hypocrisy of the Attorney General to quote the Bible, the hypocrisy of all people of faith in our country not to clamor for what the administration is doing to end — whether it’s to deprive the dreamers of the respect they deserve or whether its taking babies away from their mothers and fathers,” Mrs. Pelosi said Friday, the Daily Caller reported.
San Fran Nan, pot meeting kettle under the color of black? That would be you madame. First, someone must have caught you at a semi-lucid hour. What AG Sessions actually said was:
We are not sending children to jail with their parents. Non-citizens who cross our borders unlawfully, between our ports of entry, with children are not an exception. They are the ones who broke the law. They are the ones who endangered their own children on their trek. The United States, on the other hand, goes to extraordinary lengths to protect them while the parents go through a short detention period.
One word: true. But let’s go further and examine how the face of illegal immigration has changed over the years. Ten, twenty years ago the primary immigrant was male and Mexican. Gradually women were brought and then children and families.
The Trump administration isn’t changing the rules that pertain to separating an adult from the child. Those remain the same. Separation happens only if officials find that the adult is falsely claiming to be the child’s parent, or is a threat to the child, or is put into criminal proceedings.
It’s the last that is operative here. The past practice had been to give a free pass to an adult who is part of a family unit. The new Trump policy is to prosecute all adults. The idea is to send a signal that we are serious about our laws and to create a deterrent against re-entry.
Let’s not forget this very salient fact that, naturally, Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots wish to Bleach Bit your brain from.
The United States Code. Specifically 8 USC § 1325. The United States Code delineates crimes against the United States. The first violation of this statute is a misdemeanor. Illegal re-entry is a felony. A crime. Congress built and authorized these statutes. You know, Congress: the Legislative Branch of the US government.
The clearest description of procedure I’ve yet found is again from NationalReview.com:
When a migrant is prosecuted for illegal entry, he or she is taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals. In no circumstance anywhere in the U.S. do the marshals care for the children of people they take into custody. The child is taken into the custody of HHS, who cares for them at temporary shelters.
The criminal proceedings are exceptionally short, assuming there is no aggravating factor such as a prior illegal entity or another crime. The migrants generally plead guilty, and they are then sentenced to time served, typically all in the same day, although practices vary along the border. After this, they are returned to the custody of ICE.
If the adult then wants to go home, in keeping with the expedited order of removal that is issued as a matter of course, it’s relatively simple. The adult should be reunited quickly with his or her child, and the family returned home as a unit. In this scenario, there’s only a very brief separation.
That’s the easy part. What’s happen now is that the bulk of illegals coming north from Mexico — with children — are seeking “asylum.” Many are provided cards from which to read so that the precise “buzz words” and phrases can be spoken at the border to US authorities. Even back in 2016 this was a very serious issue. From the WashingtonExaminer.com in 2016:
Illegals seeking asylum up 900%, get cash, welfare, school loans
by Paul Bedard
The number of illegals seeking asylum to gain easy access to the United States has jumped 900 percent in less than 10 years, greatly expanding the immigration population receiving Social Security benefits, school loans, green cards, welfare and other taxpayer funded services, according to figures from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
While about 8,000 mostly Latin Americans in 2009 sought asylum, the number is expected to reach 80,000 or more this year, according to a projection from the Center for Immigration Studies.
The report said 80 percent come from just three countries that have already flooded the border with youths and young families, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Most claim a fear of torture, abuse, or retaliation, fulfilling the U.S. requirement that they must voice some credible fear of returning home.
Of course, there is much that Leftists, Demorats, the American Media Maggots and — the Republicans — are failing to tell you. From the NYTimes.com:
The Flores settlement (Flores v Reno, 1997) required immigration officials to “place each detained minor in the least restrictive setting appropriate” — for example, providing food, water and toilets. The government also agreed to release immigrant children “without unnecessary delay” under an established preference ranking for custody.
The Obama Administration screwed the pooch with regard to detained children and, hence, our illustrious 9th Circuit weighed in.
In 2016, the Ninth Circuit of Appeals ruled that the Flores settlement “unambiguously applies both to minors who are accompanied and unaccompanied by their parents.” It also overturned a Federal District Court’s decision that the government must also release the parents.
As a result the Trump White House has been responding to an all-out frontal assault by Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots who are giddy that, finally, Trump is hemmed in. That part is true.
Under Flores, the government has three options: releasing families together, passing a law that would allow for family detention or breaking up the families. The Trump administration has so far chosen the third option.
Gosharoo. I wonder which one of those three options has been touted all over the media this past weekend? Something about perpetually-open borders, n’est-ce pas?
The Emos thusly weighed in the past weekend to include Republicans. Remember that option regarding “passing a law”? From the WashingtonTimes.com:
Republicans abandon Trump, demand end to zero-tolerance border policy
by Stephan Dinan and Dave Boyer
Congressional Republicans beat a full-scale retreat Monday from the administration’s zero-tolerance border policy, joining Democrats to demand that President Trump stop jailing parents and find ways to keep families together while trying to stop a new surge of illegal immigration.
High-profile Republicans said they are writing bills that would end family separations, and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, said he will no longer allow his National Guard troops to assist with border security as a protest against Mr. Trump’s policies.
Former first lady Laura Bush also weighed in, comparing family separations to internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
How odd. GW Bush didn’t have to face the situation. Here is the full Kirstjen Nielson press gaggle on Monday, June 18th.
Why should illegals skate the “parent/child conundrum” whilst other US citizen arrestees are afforded no such luxury? Further, because illegals know it is working, more and more adults — not the parents — are taking children to the border and claiming they are the parents. These could be sex traffickers. These could be slave traders. That too is on the increase. People are not stupid; they know when advantages exist and how to acquire those advantages. Not everyone is Juan Valdez and his innocent family.
Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan tells us the truth about the situation:
When I came upon a scene as a California law enforcement officer in which parents were going to jail and children were present, I arrested the parents and ended up taking custody of the children if no other responsible adults were available. Arrangements were made to take them to what was termed the Children’s Receiving Home and it was up to the County to make further placement plans. The presence of children didn’t affect my arrest decisions whatsoever — and neither should they affect decisions of ICE or the USBP. Unlawful is unlawful no matter the circumstance.
Which is why the issue, I insist, goes back to Congress.
If you as a whole, Congress, US citizens, don’t care for the laws on the books, change the laws on the books. But until you do, your law enforcement personnel are going to have to work within the legal boundaries set forth in the USC as well as fiscal boundaries.
Simultaneously, Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots are attempting to Cloward-Piven the situation. That is to say, overloading the system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the system with another — one to the liking of Leftists, Demorats and American Media Maggots.
Not entirely dissimilar to the teachings of Saul Alinsky.
You want to see an agenda? You want to see a wanton display of rudeness, arrogance and emotions based upon political bias? You must go no further than this video.
What a “journalista.” A guy that writes for Playboy magazine. At least he supports my previously-juvenile retorts fifty years ago about buying the magazine for the articles.
Let me also reveal this fact: in California and most all states, adults and juveniles cannot lawfully be mixed in custodial situations. Jails and prisons are just like detention centers. Would you mix a male with a female in custody? Would you mix an adult with a juvenile in custody? Would you mix a sophisticated criminal arrested on a violent felony in custody with someone charged with an infraction or a misdemeanor? Would you mix someone charged with a hate crime, child abuse, elder abuse, with the general population?
If the answer is “no” to ANY of the above questions in normal custodial situations in the US, why would you throw them out the window for federal detentions?
Two words: you wouldn’t.
But that’s not the issue. The issue is to stretch and distend and tax the federal system to the breaking point — to where it collapses but upon itself because of weight and politics and unsustainable policies and regulations.
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Muster the votes. Convince the American Taxpayer. Make your case, your argument. Against borders. Against walls. Against proscriptions. Against detentions. Against current laws.
But let’s cut to the chase. Altogether too many Republicans won’t interfere with the illegal immigrant status quo because they benefit from cheap labor. This is why Republicans purposefully fail to rally around making the utilization of E-Verify a federal law. For everyone. All the time.
Regarding Demorats, they have locked onto illegals because their former voting bloc — blacks — is letting them down. Blacks aren’t carrying enough water for Demorats and, let’s be honest, they’re not having enough babies to keep up the future voting bloc lock. What to do?
Demorats have now decided: let’s hang our hopes now and in the future with illegals from the south. The brown people will lead us to the Promised Land of a voting lock in perpetuity. Blacks are — harumph, kinda like Kanye West — starting to throw off the Demorat chains.
The Sack Heads Radio Show on the SHR Media Network is no more; in its stead — same time and day — is the Sack Heads: AGAINST TYRANNY Show (an actual SHAT Show) helmed by Sack Heads Clint and Sack Heads BZ.
Tonight — quite special — it was Shaun and BZ who tore through the gristle of today’s screaming headlines and ripped out the sinewy Tendons of Truth ensconced within, all from the Hoary Streets of Shatramento, Fornicalia, exposing the trembling toadies, sniveling jackanapes and fripperous fopdoodles infesting Leftist and Progressive ant farms nationally.
Earlier on Wednesday, Sack Heads Clint called to say that he had a “septum emergency” and could not make the show. I dutifully called SHR co-owner Shaun to notify him of the events when he smacked me upside the head with a ten-pound brown trout: WHAM!He volunteered to take Clint’s place! Cowabunga!
Tonight also featured the debut of the SHR Media’s Cat Cam, where Clyde the Bobcat — mascot of BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show — has his own dedicated camera.
Shaun and BZ talked about Phoenix in the summer, humidity, Clyde the Bobcat, Peter Jennings, the DOJ, the FBI, North Korea, President Trump and, well, you’ll just have to listen to the show.
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