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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDocument reveals Trump administration planned on separating migrant families soon after inauguration
Notes from a meeting soon after Trump's inauguration show a Department of Homeland Security official listed it among the methods that would discourage asylum seekers.
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/document-reveals-trump-administration-planned-on-separating-migrant-families-soon-after-inauguration-1258507843548?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
Wounded Bear
(58,719 posts)If you are surprised by this, you haven't been paying attention.
There is no bottom, folks. Severe damage is being inflicted, and it will take years to correct it, assuming we'll be able to.
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)remember the first "executive orders" he made as soon as he was inaugurated? Brannon and Miller are all over this. It isn't just Sessions.
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)and jailed.
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)We were at a Families Belong Together lighting event and the people were pretty pissed off. I was interviewed on the news and tried hard to not swear and it was not easy.
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)I could really express my feelings and thoughts but you know......we are all thinking it......oh hello agent mike.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Takket
(21,632 posts)but... but............................ it was Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PSPS
(13,616 posts)Here's what the nazis are doing:
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/16/immigration-border-asylum-central-america/
Botany
(70,588 posts)Racism is at the heart of Trump's actions and his base.
Trump's dad was arrested @ KKK riot in the Queens
The largest DoJ housing discrimination suit in history was against Trump
He is always flashing the "White Power" hand sign
Trump's let me see your birth certificate thing about President Obama
was the most racist thing I have ever seen. "Hey, boy let me see your
papers ..... you don't look like you are from around here."
Cha
(297,703 posts)Link to tweet
"There is no federal law mandating children and parents be separated at the border; a policy resulting in that outcome was enacted in May 2018."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-law-separate-families-passed-1997/
"But there is no law that mandates separating children from their parents. Trumps own administration devised a policy to that effect."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/29/donald-trump/trump-blames-democrat-own-policy-separating-family/
This should say.. "Can't Stand to Look at this Fucking Lying Face Anymore"
Link to tweet
Botany
Botany
(70,588 posts)To understand what the Trump administration is thinking about separating families and locking kids up at the border, you have to understand Stephen Millers foundational political belief: Its better to stir controversy, at any price, than it is to engage constructively.
The architect of Donald Trumps immigration policy and the White Houses resident troll, the 32-year-old White House senior policy adviser believes its good to trigger the libs, so to speak, with the purpose of enlightenment. To Miller, working constructively across the aisle isnt as useful as melting snowflakes.
To Miller, theres no reason to moderate a view or a policy, especially not when it comes to his deepest passion: immigration restrictionism. Its a subject he was passionate about even in high school and one over which he bonded with his former boss, then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, a longtime immigration hardliner. Its no wonder, then, that Miller designed the initial version of Trumps travel ban, barring people from several majority-Muslim countries from entering the US for 90 days, and refugees for 120 days.
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Cruelty as a feature, not a bug
The Trump administration hasnt really tried to win the public conversation on family separations. As conservative writer Ross Douthat pointed out on Twitter, the policy didnt begin with a public discussion or explanation for separating young children from their parents, or by making the case to Congress for more family detention facilities. It started by taking kids from their parents first and attempting to assuage demands for legislation later.
Cha
(297,703 posts)to BLOW UP in their Fucking Fascist FACE
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)malaise
(269,182 posts)Nah!
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)dalton99a
(81,599 posts)Cha
(297,703 posts)Link to tweet
"There is no federal law mandating children and parents be separated at the border; a policy resulting in that outcome was enacted in May 2018."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-law-separate-families-passed-1997/
"But there is no law that mandates separating children from their parents. Trumps own administration devised a policy to that effect."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/29/donald-trump/trump-blames-democrat-own-policy-separating-family/
This should say.. "Can't Stand to Look at this Fucking Lying Face Anymore"
Link to tweet
Thanks, miles
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)and came right out and said he was considering seperating families as a deterrent although I suppose it's nice to have paper back up.
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)Stephen Miller, he is only 32 years old is he our Goebbels? His ass needs to go. They planned this right along.