GOP Senate nominee helped drug smugglers by backing family separations

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By Dan Desai Martin - October 10, 2018


Trump's family separation policy, backed by Senate candidate Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), siphoned resources away from prosecuting drug smugglers.

Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), a fringe anti-immigrant extremist who is the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, has previously defended Trump’s cruel family separation policy. Now it turns out that the policy Barletta defended is making life easier for drug smugglers.

Prosecutions of drug traffickers plummeted over the summer of 2018 because the Trump administration focused its resources on tearing families apart instead, according to a USA TODAY investigation.

“In June and July, federal prosecutors charged fewer people with drug-trafficking violations than in any month since at least 2001,” the investigation found.

Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy to prosecute everyone who crossed the border, even for “minor immigration violations that resulted in no jail time and a $10 fee,” took a massive amount of time and resources away from the Department of Justice.


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[dawg day]

1. It's uncanny how unerring Trump's badness is

Nothing he does is even slightly productive or healthy for the country.

And yet, and yet... we keep coming back to this. About half of our fellow citizens support him. And they support him while he's telling them over and over that the rest of us-- half of their neighbors and relatives-- are "an angry mob" and "the enemy."

I actually wonder if we're ever going to get over this, especially within personal relationships. What child is ever going to trust their Kavanaugh-loving parents with revelations about an assault?
What gay person is ever going to truly believe the Trump-supporting friend has their best interests?
What grandparent is going to look at their son who is loudly proclaiming those children "broke the law" so should be put in cages, and think he's going to be a good parent to their grandchildren?

Everything Trump touches dies.... including families.