GOP Rep: Cages For Migrant Kids Are Really 'Walls ... Made Of Chain Link'

[DonViejo]

By Matt Shuham | June 21, 2018 2:23 pm

Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) really must insist: Don’t call the structures the U.S. government uses to house children after they’ve been apprehended at the border “cages.”

On Thursday, Cramer continued to protest that, no, the United States does not hold migrant children in cages. He prefers the phrase “buildings that have, in some cases, walls that are made of chain link, so that it’s easier to observe and to protect them.”

Cramer is running for Senate against incumbent Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND). Perhaps this will be part of his platform: Chainlink rooms aren’t cages! He already made the same point twice on radio shows Wednesday.

“You know, there’s nothing inhumane about a chain link fence,” he told KTGO. “If it is, then every ballpark in America is inhumane.”

The Customs and Border Patrol cages are used to temporarily house children who are apprehended at the border.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-rep-cages-for-migrant-kids-are-really-walls-made-of-chain-link

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. There's nothing inhumane about a chain link fence, he says,

because if it is, "every ballpark in America is inhumane." Dude. When you go to a baseball game you aren't trapped inside the ballpark with no way to get out! That, sir, is the difference between a fence and a cage.

Moron.

[bdamomma]

2. What a dumbass comment

you stupid fuck

On Thursday, Cramer continued to protest that, no, the United States does not hold migrant children in cages. He prefers the phrase “buildings that have, in some cases, walls that are made of chain link, so that it’s easier to observe and to protect them.”


The United States is not supposed hold migrant children that came with their parents you stupid jerk.

[Xipe Totec]

3. And tumbleweeds are just eco-friendly mobile border walls. nt

[lark]

4. Crazy lying asshole to compare ballparks to those cages.

Ballparks can be freely entered and left - these can't. Ballparks don't have wire over the top to prevent anyone from climbing out - these do. Hope he uses this logic because then no one wiht a soul will vote for him. Yes, I am stating as fact that most of the true trumpian believers have no soul.

[kentuck]

5. Their parents are not really in "jail"...

They are in some comfortable rooms with security bars across the front...

[Freethinker65]

6. Cramer appears to be intellectually challenged

[blake2012]

7. What a fucking lunatic. If boards covered in water are torture

Then I guess saunas and steam rooms are torture!

Same idiotic and brutality-enabling logic there.

[KelleyKramer]

8. Yeah, keep that up, I'm sure it will work

He is writing his opponents campaign ads for her

[lame54]

9. Doocy already crashed and burned on that one

[Volaris]

10. The Wall is ALREADY BUILT!

Hooray for the majic powerz of our glorious god-emperor!!

I'm REALLY gonna get some business cards made:

Wyle E. Coyote
Super Genuis

And ship a box of them to select members of Congress.
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