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www.pennypressnv.com The Penny Press is published weekly by Penny Credits: Far West Radio LLC All Contents © Penny Press 2018 Publisher and Editor: Contributing Editors: Press Fred Weinberg Floyd Brown Al Thomas Letters to the Editor are encouraged. They should be Doug French Robert Ringer emailed to: [email protected] No unsigned or Logotype unverifiable letters will be printed. Pointedlymad John Getter Pat Choate licensed from: Ron Knecht Byron Bergeron 775-461-1515 Rich Gast Penny Press NEVADA USA 16 PAGES VOLUME 15 NUMBER 43 JUNE 28, 2018 Preserving That Bureaucracy By ROBERT FELLNER charter schools has soared in recent Carolyn Edwards. $770 million from its budget since Special to the Penny Press years. And that’s what happens when 2009.” But rather than celebrating the a bureaucracy that values its budget In reality, CCSD’s budget is up As famed economist Ludwig fact that more children are finally over student well-being is tasked nearly $300 million from 2009; the Von Mises observed many years able to attend a school that better with providing education — tax alleged cuts are government-speak ago, the first priority of any serves their needs, CCSD plans to dollars get spent trying to keep for a smaller than desired increase. bureaucracy will always be self- hire a marketer to discourage others children trapped in a failing system, CCSD even went so far as to from doing the same (“CCSD just to protect CCSD’s bottom-line. impugn its own self-reported data Commentary creates new job to keep students out Viewing students as funding when it threatened to paint the of charter schools,” The Las Vegas mechanisms is certainly the most district in a negative light. Review-Journal, May 25). destructive example of CCSD’s Every two years, the U.S. The move is particularly galling bureaucratic mindset, but it is far Department of Education surveys preservation. given CCSD’s constant complaints from the only one. schools across the nation on a While defenders of government- regarding teacher shortages and Despite being a public agency variety of metrics, including each run schools have largely succeeded overcrowded classrooms — both of funded by tax dollars, and thus district’s rate of “chronic teacher in obscuring this fact from the which would seem to be alleviated obligated to provide accurate absenteeism” — defined as teachers public, the Clark County School by having fewer students to teach. information, CCSD routinely who missed 11 or more days of District (CCSD) is doing its very So what gives? deceives the public when seeking regular classroom instruction that best to remind us of just how valid Because fewer students mean to advance its own interests. year. Mises’ insight remains. fewer dollars from the state, CCSD In an April press release asking In late 2016, CCSD’s chronic Because CCSD has failed so created the position “to raise money for more tax dollars, for example, teacher absenteeism rate of more many students, for so long, the for the district by bringing children CCSD Trustees falsely claimed than 50 percent was highlighted number of students transferring to back in,” according to Trustee that the district has “cut more than Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly Voice Of Nevada RON KNECHT PAGE 5 Inside: Penny Wisdom ROBERT BRADLEY PAGE 6 I am very impassioned and dis- ROBERT RINGER PAGE 7 traught over the situation with Let's Treat Drug children separated from their fam- DOUG FRENCH PAGE 9 ilies at the border, but I went way too far. It was wrong and I should FRED WEINBERG PAGE 10 Cartels Like ISIS not have done it. I immediately regretted it and sincerely apologize ROBERT ROMANO PAGE 11 to the family for what I said and CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14 See Editorial Page 6 any hurt my words have caused. —Peter Fonda THE PENNY PRESS,JUNE 28, 2018 PAGE 4 CCSD Dollars Should NOT Go To Public Relations Continued from page 3 in a Washington Post story on the then-current 2013-14 school year guidelines. data. CCSD chief student achievement officer Mike Barton reportedly And since these guidelines have been in place since the survey’s responded to the data by declaring that, “I don’t want for one minute for inception, why was there no mention of the alleged data problems when people to think that we are ignoring this. This is something that we want speaking to the Washington Post in 2016? to make sure improves.” An inquiry seeking to understand CCSD’s dramatic change in tone, Barton’s desire to remedy the problem was justified; as research has and whether they had in fact failed to follow the federal government’s shown that such high rates of teacher absenteeism seriously harm student reporting guidelines — as their statement suggested — went unanswered. learning. Nevadans rightfully expect that their education tax dollars will go Unfortunately, when the local news reported last month on the new towards student learning, not PR and marketing operations designed to 2015-16 data — which saw CCSD’s chronic teacher absenteeism rate rise protect a bureaucracy’s budget at student expense. to 59 percent, more than triple the rate found at the median school district In addition to continuing to promote charter schools, lawmakers nationwide — CCSD responded by issuing an inflammatory statement should immediately fund Nevada’s Education Savings Accounts, expand that sought to discredit the data as flawed. the state’s Opportunity Scholarship program and pursue reforms that put But because the data is self-reported, CCSD’s statement could only be parents — not bureaucrats and politicians — in charge of how educational true if the district had failed to follow the federal government’s reporting dollars are spent. Robert Fellner is the Nevada Policy Research Institute’s policy director. THE PENNY PRESS,JUNE 28, 2018 PAGE 5 Commentary: Ron Knecht & James Smack English skills. facility in both languages, who has are both decidedly 20th Century Spanish In this case, however, the been a great friend and volunteer. kids. translation could be secured at no She had expressed enthusiasm for Karyn and Lexi are, of course, Language cost to the state, and production and more such work, and the 24-page 21st Century kids. And the natural distribution at a very low cost to CAR is the ideal piece to translate. thing for them to do was to fire Controller’s our modest legislatively approved In addition, Ron had suggested up their computers and input the publishing budget. Moreover, the to his daughter Karyn that she English sentences and paragraphs CAR is one of our main vehicles do a half-time internship in the into an on-line translating program. Reports, Interns for promoting transparency and office to help translate, produce It returned the Spanish version of accountability about key fiscal and and distribute the document. Not the text, which they inserted into and Progress policy issues. So, it is an item with only would that introduce her to their document. which Nevada should reach out to the working world, but she would Bea noted that the girls’ A few months ago, we decided people. improve her Spanish and learn procedure allowed them to move the Controller’s Annual Report Also, we had some positive production and distribution skills. faster through the text than she (CAR) should be published in previous experience with a After considering the idea, Karyn could. She explained that she was Spanish, as well as English. Spanish-language document. So, if was enthusiastic about it. familiar with translation programs, As a rule, we think most governments want to make sensible When Karyn’s best friend Lexi but preferred the old school way government documents shouldn’t efforts in non-English publishing, heard about it, she asked if she because it produces a richer, more be rendered in languages other than this made a good test case. could join the team too. We agreed nuanced and accurate version. English. It’s expensive and difficult Three years ago, our first and got the three of them together However, not being stuck in her to do, and in most cases the social Controller’s Monthly Report, a four- with our production person and ways, she recognized the value value is not great when there are page document, was translated into a manager with strong bilingual of the material Lexi and Karyn public employees or friends and Spanish by Bea, a Mexican-born skills who had helped with the first were producing and suggested she relatives to help folks with limited American citizen with outstanding translation and agreed to help this would work from their translation, one. and improve it for the final-review Last week, they went to work. product. Great idea! Due to space constraints in our So, the girls initially may not be office, after the first day, Lexi and improving their Spanish as much Tips Of Our Cap Karyn worked at the Knecht home as hoped because they’re using the under the supervision of wife Kathy. software. However, they’ve made and When Ron was there to observe the a great contribution to the speed at work, he was impressed with the which the project will be finished. diligence and focus of the two girls In short, they’ve introduced a Bronx Cheers in their first working stint and with productivity gain to our system their productivity after minor initial by bringing in new technology for stumbles. automation. And it will leave them The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To: By the end of a week, they had time to concentrate on learning finished translating the first five Spanish as they compare Bea’s The United States Supreme Court for ruling that President Trump does indeed have the pages of a challenging document product to their own. power and authority to ban travelers from the Muslim majority nations in his ban and that that addresses economic, policy This is another example of how the Ninth Circus was, quite simply, wrong. Just because some Democrat appointees don’t and financial matters. Observing automation displaces mainly the like the President doesn’t give them the authority to rewrite the Constitution. and talking with them, Ron learned lowest level tasks and increases their secret. demand for higher level functions, Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton who may be of different political In the previous translation while creating more efficiency parties and philosophies but remain friends and are showing a very divided nation how things should be done. project, Bea had started from the and higher quality output. And an printed English version and used example of how the new generation her strong knowledge of both can improve things. The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer languages to create the Spanish And A Bouquet of Weeds To: version, which to Ron was the RON KNECHT natural thing to do. Bea and Ron and JAMES SMACK California Democrat Congressperson Maxine Waters who said, "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere" www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,JUNE 28, 2018 PAGE 6

From The Publisher...OPINION Let's Treat Drug Cartels Like ISIS You know what I’m tired of? of the interstate highway system.

Clowns in the Beltway, New York and Los Angeles media and The truth is that the problem is not simply at our Southern the rest of the swamp telling us how to live. As rudely as they border but also inside Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and can, at that. Ask the President’s Press Secretary who was told Nicaragua. to leave a Virginia restaurant because of who she worked for. (In absolute violation of Federal law.) The people who get to our border—children included—may or may not be real asylum seekers. We only grant asylum in 20% And hypocrite Democrats who, as their idiot-boy Mayor of of the cases. But, perhaps, if we turned our attention from Chicago likes to say, never let a crisis—even one they made the Middle East for a minute to Central America and started up—go to waste. enforcing certain standards of behavior in the Americas, some of our border problems would ease. To hear the media tell it, illegal immigration is a crisis. In the words of President Trump, “you put your foot into the Not because we’re allowing it and putting an incredible strain on country and you get a trial? What kind of nonsense is that? And our resources by doing so. what about the thousands of people who come here the right way?” But because most of America wants to get control of the illegal flood. You know, we “deplorables”. It’s time to tell the cartels and these nations, “NO!” Let’s not have a war on drugs. Why waste a good war? Let’s kill off as It is so much of a crisis that the Democrat party is willing to gin many cartel leaders as we can, just like we kill off ISIS leaders. up its Astroturf protesters and cry foul while Republicans play with themselves instead of forcing a solution to a broken system. If we do that, the same swamp will go nuts again because they detest both “nation building” AND the President. But the The Democrat swamp never met a solution it could live with. President is already used to the nutcases and maybe this is a Largely because the issue is more important to them than any better use of his time and power. solution. Its hatred for President Trump is so beyond reality that the average American voter simply cannot fathom what The President seems to fully understand something the swamp these people are thinking. And that also goes for the so-called doesn’t—what got him elected. And he suggested in Las Vegas “moderate” Republicans who are also known as…neverTrumpers. that maybe it’s time to stop rewarding bad behavior on the part of Central America with foreign aid. The Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity. Could the Republicans force a deal? Of course. All they need Why is it that, somehow, we try and buy off banana republics to do is to change the rules of the Senate to kill the filibuster. as opposed to enforcing standards of the civilized world as they But Mitch McConnell has the testicles of a fruit fly. As does Paul affect our interests. Ryan in the House. They are afraid of being called “politicians” at inside the Beltway cocktail parties. Is overlooking drug cartels shipping poison into the United States and engaging in human trafficking supposed to make us The “crisis” isn’t illegal immigration. It’s what passes for not racist? leadership in Congress not having any common sense. To hear the continuous whine coming from the minority people Is there a problem with Central America? who hate our President you would think so. Thing is, they’re whining to each other. Yes. This will be a case of the silent majority asserting itself. And the Those nations—Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and louder the minority whines, the bigger Trump’s margins will be. Nicaragua—foster the drug cartels which, in turn, run human trafficking and drug importation operations. And then, there are FRED WEINBERG our “friends” in Mexico who allow their nation to be used as part THE PENNY PRESS,JUNE 28, 2018 PAGE 7 Commentary: Robert Ringer admit she sometimes forgets to write down phone messages. I admit she Beware the Professional Interviewee has a habit of making costly assumptions. I admit she often misplaces important documents. But she ismechanically proficient,” I protested in It’s amazing how so many incompetent people are adept at fooling defensive desperation. interviewers. I found out the hard way that it’s dangerous to assume Nevertheless, by the fifth month it was I who was considering putting someone is competent just because he talks a good game. There’s many a a torch to Ms. Best’s hair. The urge came when I called her into my office slip between an interview and a person’s performance on the job. to point out yet another mistake she had made, one which had resulted in My own experience in this area taught me to be especially wary some costly repercussions. My primary intent was to forestall a future when a job applicant pounds his chest too hard. The objective in today’s repetition of the unhappy event, but she wasn’t about to let it go at that. entitlement society isn’t to develop marketable skills but to become Her first reaction was to tell me that it was I who was mistaken, that skillful at being impressive in interviews. my recollections of my instructions to her were incorrect. After I strongly Early in my career, I thought I was quite good at judging prospects suggested that my instructions had been exactly as I had stated, Ms. Best during interviews, but without being consciously aware of it, I apparently broke into tears and ran out of my office. It was a touching scene — lost pace with the rapid proliferation of the professional interviewee’s extraordinarily appropriate business behavior for an executive secretary staggering array of gimmicks. who claimed to be “the best.” My memory takes me back to a frantic search for a high-level Subsequently, she reviewed her transcription notes and, to her credit, “executive secretary.” (I use quote marks around the words executive admitted she had been wrong after all. Did that prompt her to offer a brief secretary, because it seems as though anyone who knows how to type fifty and immediate apology? Of course not. That’s not the way “the best” words a minute, talks in an authoritative voice, and has managed to stay operate. with one employer for at least six months fancies him or herself to be an Instead, she typed up a two-page explanation of the situation — on executive secretary.) company time — in which she admitted her mistake but emphasized that After interviewing a number of prospects, one candidate in particular “(my) handling of the situation begged for defensive action on (her) part.” made a big impression on me with her air of self-confidence. In fact, at At that point, I realized I had an important decision to make: Either one point she came right out and told me, in a matter-of-fact tone, that she I would have to go into the professional baby-sitting business fulltime or was “the best.” admit to the rest of the office that I was guilty of making an embarrassing Of course, because she was the best, she also wanted a starting salary and incorrect assumption. I decided on the latter. Not only was Ms. Best that was far in excess of anything I had previously paid to anyone whose guilty of all of the aforementioned mistakes, but, my previous assertions skills were unproven. Naively, I assumed that given the fact that she had notwithstanding, she was not even marginally skilled. declared herself to be the best, she must, at the very least, be very good. Alas, it was time to come clean and acknowledge the truth. If Ms. Best Otherwise, how would she have the audacity to say she was the best? was “the best,” I was Donald Trump. Sadly, she was not the best; she was (Yes, I blush as I write this.) not good; she was not average; she was not even bad. She was, in fact, the Since I was not able to contact her previous employer (naturally, he worst secretary I had ever hired! was out of business and had apparently moved to Mars), I based my hiring Job applicants with inflated self-perceptions are primarily guilty of of her on assumptions. (Tip: Ex-employers who have disappeared are self-delusion; i.e., they base their actions on who and what they would almost always a red flag.) like to be, rather than who and what they really are. That being the case, The result? After a couple weeks I noticed a few things that Ms. Best it’s a serious mistake to assume that an interviewee is even marginally was doing wrong, but I wasn’t too concerned about them, because I had competent, let alone great, just because he or she excels at puffery. the comfort of knowing that she was “the best.” After all, she had told A better idea is to hire the person on a ninety-day trial basis and let me so. him or her prove how good they are. And if they’re not willing to prove While complimenting her on her “progress,” I also tactfully suggested themselves, it’s up to you to have the toughness to tell them simply, that there were a few areas where she might want to sharpen up a bit — “Thank you so much coming in and talking to me, but I think I’ll take a such as trying not to make so many assumptions herself (which seemed pass for now.” Next! to be leading her to make far too many mistakes), being more alert when ROBERT RINGER listening to dictation (so as to make fewer of those mistakes), and cutting Robert Ringer (© 2018)is a New York Times #1 bestselling author who has down on her social calls during business hours. appeared on numerous national radio and television shows, including The By the third month, I was ready to concede that Ms. Best was not “the Tonight Show, Today, The Dennis Miller Show, Good Morning America, best” after all. To those in the office who were thinking more in terms ABC Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, as well as Fox News and Fox of setting the back of her hair on fire, I said, “Look, maybe she isn’t the Business. To sign up for a free subscription to his mind-expanding daily superstar I thought she was, but she is good. She just seems to have mental insights, visit www.robertringer.com. lapses now and then.” By the end of the fourth month, however, I was beginning to weaken. “All right,” I confided to my staff, “I admit she makes a lot of mistakes. I www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,JUNE 28, 2018 PAGE 8 THE PENNY PRESS,JUNE 28, 2018 PAGE 9 Commentary: Doug French “We believe that the government is obligated to give every man Socialist Chic employment or a guaranteed income...see...but if the white businessman will not give full employment, then the means of production should Among his notable interviews, the now departed Anthony Bourdain, be taken from the businessman and placed in the community, with the spoke with a founder of the Black Panthers party, Bobby Seale, over a people.” meal at Miss Ollie’s in Oakland. Seale said the Panthers were formed The host and famous conductor responded with “How? I dig it! But for self-defense. Bourdain said in the voice over, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI how?” “pretty much considered the Panthers public enemy number one.” Likewise, Bourdain called the late 60’s Panther agenda as “surprisingly The Panther push back impressed libertarian economist Murray moderate.” Mr. Seale stressed that today’s activists must be progressive. Rothbard, who wrote, “the great majority of anarcho-capitalists are Ms. Walters asked Cox about his negative view of capitalism and highly enthusiastic about the Black Panthers and their potential for whether he could “see any chance at all for a peaceful solution to these leading a black liberation movement,” but that, “I must record my serious problems, some way out without violence.” reservations about the value of the Panthers.” “Not with the present system,” Cox answered. “”I can’t see that. Like, Rothbard cited three “virtues” of Seale’s group, “their capacity for what can change? There’s 750 families that own all the wealth in this organizing black youth,” “their enormous ability to upset and aggravate country—” the white police” and “excellent black nationalist ideas - particularly in “Dat’s not tdrue!” says Preminger. “Dere are many people wid wealth emphasizing a black nation with their own land in such areas as the Black all over—” Belt of the South - as expressed in some writings of Eldridge Cleaver.” “The bad guys are winning,” Seale told Bourdain in 2015. “The Koch Rothbard’s reservation was, “There are increasing tendencies for the Brothers and the Tea Party, those right-wing idiots, so far, are winning.” Panthers to abandon black nationalism almost completely for the Old Left Fifty years later, the same old socialist claptrap is trotted out as the virus of black-white Marxist working-class action.” He wisely noted “an solution to all that ails us. unfortunate eagerness to reach out and make alliances with white radicals, DOUG FRENCH thereby contradicting the whole point of black power, which is to develop separate black movements resulting in black national self-determination.” He goes on to say that the idea was to have alliances between separate “independent white and black movements.” To Rothbard’s point, Tom Wolfe, who died a few weeks ago, chronicled the Panthers’ romance with limousine liberals in his classic “Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.” Wolfe found his way into Leonard (Lenny, as Wolfe calls him) and Felicia Bernstein’s Park Avenue apartment to report on the “meeting” to raise money for the Panthers’ legal defense. “So...Radical Chic was already in full swing by the time the Black Panther Party began a national fund-raising campaign late in 1969,” Wolfe explained. “The Panthers’ status was quite confused in the minds of many liberals, and to have the Panthers feted in the homes of a series of social and cultural leaders could make an important difference. Ideally, it would work out well for the socialities and culturati, too, for if there was ever a group that embodied the romance and excitement of what the Radical Chic is made, it was the Panthers.” Don Cox, Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party spoke to the high falutin friends of the Bernsteins. Cox explained what the Panthers wanted, with peace being the most important thing. Except, I’m the assembled Chic may not have realized that what Cox meant by peace was socialism. “Everyone in the room, of course is drinking in his performance like tiger’s milk, for the...Soul, as it were,” Wolfe wrote. “All love the tone of his voice, which is Confidential Hip.” Yes, the likes of Barbara Walters and Otto Preminger were eating it up and pledging thousands of dollars to help the Panthers’ cause. When Cox was pressed, he confirmed Rothbard’s suspicion, saying, THE PENNY PRESS,JUNE 28, 2018 PAGE 10 Commentary: Robert Bradley Department of Public Health and Environment, which evaluated some A New Low in the Media’s War on 10,000 air samples from fracking sites and found that the emissions levels were “safe.” Department officials reported that there is “no substantial or Fracking moderate evidence for any health effects” caused by fracking. That’s no surprise. Fracking fluid is 99 percent water and sand. Small Rolling Stone just dropped a bombshell — or so it claims in its amounts of chemicals are added to preserve the drilling equipment. article, “’The Harms of Fracking’: New Report Details Increased Risks of Even the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency, which harbored Asthma, Birth Defects and Cancer.” little affection for the energy industry, concluded that fracking is “unlikely Dig into the details, though, and it becomes clear that the study is not to generate sufficient pressure to drive fluids into shallow drinking water scientific. There remains no proof that fracking is dangerous. zones.” Lisa Jackson, the former head of the EPA under President Obama, Fracking is a drilling technique used to access energy reserves that plainly stated that “in no case have we made a definitive determination are trapped deep underground in shale rock deposits. Developers drill into that the fracking process has caused chemicals to enter groundwater.” the shale formations and inject a mixture of water and sand at very high Ironically, activists’ obsession with discrediting fracking blinds pressures. This infusion of liquid breaks up the rock deposits to free oil them to the well-established truth that fracking is an ecological and and natural gas for extraction. environmental godsend. Fracking has enabled an unprecedented boom in This process typically takes three to five days. Once a well is fracked, American natural gas production. Natural gas isn’t just cheaper than coal; it can produce fuel for years. it also burns much cleaner. According to Rolling Stone, the report’s central claim is that “residents It’s no wonder that as power plants have switched from coal to natural living near an active [fracking] site breathe air laced with carcinogens,” gas, air quality has improved. Air pollutants, as well as carbon dioxide which leads to an “increased risk of asthma, a decrease in infant health emissions, have dropped. And a recent increase in natural gas exports has and worrisome effects on the development of a fetus.” done wonders for energy market competition. But the vast majority of studies used in this report examine fracking- Activists ought to be celebrating a new era of energy plenty and related emissions out of context. They don’t look at how often, how long, reliability. Instead, they remain determined to smear fracking with shoddy or how much humans were actually exposed to these emissions. science. It’s almost as if they have a hidden agenda — one that has nothing And their report has not been subject to rigorous scientific review. to do with what’s good for people and the planet. It’s easy to see why. The preponderance of existing evidence directly ROBERT BRADLEY contradicts the hysterical claims. The new “study” only reconfirms the Robert L. Bradley Jr. is the founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy adage: garbage in, garbage out. Research. The gold-standard fracking assessment comes from the Colorado THE PENNY PRESS,JUNE 28, 2018 PAGE 11 Commentary: Robert Romano no documentation to confirm the claimed relationship between an adult Federal Law Dictates How Family and a child, we do so if the parent is a national security, public or safety risk, including when there are criminal charges at issue and it may not be appropriate to maintain the family in detention together. We also separate a Units Are Treated at the Border parent and child if the adult is suspected of human trafficking. There have been cases where minors have been used and trafficked by unrelated adults in Between 2009 and 2016, more than 242,000 unaccompanied children an effort to avoid detention. And I’d stop here to say, in the last five months, arrived at the southwest border, according to data compiled by U.S. Customs we have a 314 percent increase in adults and children arriving at the border, and Border Patrol, averaging about 30,000 a year. In 2016, that number was fraudulently claiming to be a family unit. This is, obviously, of concern. about 20,000. And separation can occur when the parent is charged with human smuggling. In addition, in 2016, about 23,000 family units were apprehended at the Under those circumstances, we would detain the parent in an appropriate border. According to CBP, “Family Unit represents the number of individuals secure detention facility separate from the child.” (either a child under 18 years old, parent or legal guardian) apprehended with Clearly Congress needs to step in and close off catch and release and a family member by the U.S. Border Patrol.” allow family units to be jointly deported when the process takes longer than Normally, what happens, per a 2008 federal law against human trafficking 20 days. In addition, Congress could allow those family units to jointly apply and federal court rulings, is unaccompanied children are given to the care for asylum if they don’t mind waiting in custody together for the time it takes of the Department of Health and Human Services, and eventually released, to process the case. If the issue is to prevent family separation, then federal ideally to a relative residing in the U.S., within 20 days. law should allow the families to stay together — as they’re either deported or As for the adults, there is no provision of law allowing them to stay, even await asylum adjudication together. if they arrived with children. If upon capture and pleading guilty and being As Nielsen noted, “we need Congress to fully fund our ability to hold released to ICE custody, they elect to be deported, however, they can return families together through the immigration process.” Well, how about it, home with the childrenbefore the child is required to be released within the Congress? Or is their solution for President Trump not to enforce the laws 20-day court-imposed deadline — provided there is time to hear the case. they pass? If the adults apply for asylum, that complicates matters. Asylum cases Because what really looks like is happening is the combination of law typically take longer than 20 days to process, meaning under the law, the child and court decisions has a created a de facto open border when presidents do will be released to a relative in the U.S. while the asylum case is being heard. not wish to enforce the law. This in turn creates a perverse incentive to bring This is where the issue of “child separations” occur, or when the criminal children to the border in a bid to enter the U.S. illegally, because of these prosecution takes longer than 20 days. Out of the 20,000 or so family units “catch and release” policies. apprehended, a subset of the adults are claiming asylum or get caught in the In a statement Americans for Limited Government President Rick backlog of illegal immigration cases. Manning noted, “It’s ironic that we have a President who is standing up for In the past, this meant, according a White House fact sheet, the government Congress’ Article I lawmaking power and we have members of Congress would “release the entire family unit into the U.S. interior. Once released into saying not to enforce the laws Congress wrote. President Trump is being the U.S. interior, these family units frequently disappear into the country, attacked for following the law that Congress wrote and courts have applied.” failing to appear for their court hearings or comply with removal orders.” In 2016, President Trump vowed to set a different standard. Finally, we Meaning, the separations, when they occurred in the past were often have a President whose top priority is enforcing the law. On June 20, the temporary and became a standard feature of how the federal government President issued an executive order stating, “The Secretary of Homeland processes illegal immigrants at the border. Security (Secretary), shall, to the extent permitted by law and subject to It’s called “catch and release,” which the Trump administration is ending. the availability of appropriations, maintain custody of alien families during According to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who spoke the pendency of any criminal improper entry or immigration proceedings to the press at the White House on June 18, “What has changed is that we involving their members…” but not “when there is a concern that detention no longer exempt entire classes of people who break the law. Everyone is of an alien child with the child’s alien parent would pose a risk to the child’s subject to prosecution. When DHS refers a case against a parent or legal welfare.” guardian for criminal prosecution, the parent or legal guardian will be placed But as Manning noted in his statement, “Executive action is no substitute into the U.S. Marshals Service custody for pretrial determination, pursuant to for Congress exerting its Article I authority and fixing the law, as it can be an order by a federal judge. And any accompanied child will be transferred to overturned both by the federal court and by a future President.” Meaning the the Department of Health and Human Services and will be reclassified as an only permanent solution is for Congress to act. unaccompanied alien child. That is in accordance with the TVPRA — a law If Congress does not like the family separations, then Congress needs that was passed by Congress — and a following court order, neither which are to change the law to make it possible to deport family units together. There actions the Trump administration has taken.” shouldn’t be any amnesty for arriving at the border with children, or else we By following the law, then, the separations become mandatory. The will be putting more children of danger of being kidnapped and subjected to choice becomes to enforce the law and separate the families, or not enforce human trafficking. the law. As Nielsen noted, “Until these loopholes are closed by Congress, it ROBERT ROMANO is not possible, as a matter of law, to detain and remove whole family units Robert Romano is the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for who arrive illegally in the United States.” Limited Government. The Trump administration for its part is prosecuting the illegal immigrants, whether they arrived with children or not. The separation, compelling the child to stay while the parent or adult accompanying the child is deported, is mandated by law. Per Nielsen, “We will separate those who claim to be a parent and child www.pennypressnv.com if we cannot determine a familial or custodial relationship exists… if there’s THE PENNY PRESS,JUNE 28, 2018 PAGE 12 THE PENNY PRESS,JUNE 28, 2018 PAGE 13

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