Now they are claiming that the Trump executive order calls for the families to be held "indefinitely".
The relevant portion of the Executive Order:
Sec. 3. Temporary Detention Policy for Families Entering this Country Illegally. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary), shall, to the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations, maintain custody of alien families during the pendency of any criminal improper entry or immigration proceedings involving their members.
(b) The Secretary shall not, however, detain an alien family together when there is a concern that detention of an alien child with the child’s alien parent would pose a risk to the child’s welfare.
(c) The Secretary of Defense shall take all legally available measures to provide to the Secretary, upon request, any existing facilities available for the housing and care of alien families, and shall construct such facilities if necessary and consistent with law. The Secretary, to the extent permitted by law, shall be responsible for reimbursement for the use of these facilities.
(d) Heads of executive departments and agencies shall, to the extent consistent with law, make available to the Secretary, for the housing and care of alien families pending court proceedings for improper entry, any facilities that are appropriate for such purposes. The Secretary, to the extent permitted by law, shall be responsible for reimbursement for the use of these facilities.
(e) The Attorney General shall promptly file a request with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to modify the Settlement Agreement in Flores v. Sessions, CV 85-4544 (“Flores settlement”), in a manner that would permit the Secretary, under present resource constraints, to detain alien families together throughout the pendency of criminal proceedings for improper entry or any removal or other immigration proceedings.
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DOJ Employee Allison Hrabar protest, no she commit a crime, disturbing the peace.
"If you see these people in public, you should remind them that they shouldn’t have peace,” she told The Examiner. “We aren’t the only ones who can do this. Anyone who sees Kirstjen Nielsen at dinner, anyone who sees anyone who works at DHS and ICE at dinner can confront them like this, and that’s what we hope this will inspire people to do.”
Despite Hrabar’s claims of keeping her personal politics outside of her time as an employee of the federal government, a look at her Twitter account, @allisongeroi, features tweets during the workday openly celebrating her behavior Tuesday night."
Since taking office, Trump has hosted angel families at the White House. Those involved included legal immigrant Sabine Durden, whose son Dominic was killed by a drunk driving illegal alien. And there was Jamiel Shaw Sr., whose son Jamiel Jr. was targeted and killed for the color of his skin; Mary Ann Mendoza, whose police sergeant son Brandon was killed by a drunk driving illegal alien; and Michelle Wilson-Root, whose daughter Sarah was killed hours after graduating college by a drunk driving illegal alien. Press pool coverage of a roundtable that day between Trump and these families left out almost all of the words from the families. The White House later posted video of the event, allowing the public to see the words that the media scarcely covered."
Complete Retreat:
President Donald Trump on Wednesday reversed his debunked argument that he had no authority to stop separations of undocumented immigrant families at the border, signing an executive order to keep parents and kids together.
Laurence Key of Stuart, Florida was arrested Tuesday after allegedly threatening to kill Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) and his three young children over the Trump administration’s immigration policy.
Key reportedly phoned Rep. Mast’s D.C. office on Monday, warning the intern who received the call that he was going to “find the congressman’s kids and kill them,” say court documents filed in U.S. District Court.
“If you are going to separate kids at the border, I’m going to kill his kids,” Key said in one of 478 calls to Mast’s office, according to the filings. Key also allegedly contacted Senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio.
“Key told an FBI investigator and Martin County sheriff’s deputy he never threatened to kill Mast’s children, but admitted he said ‘Mast should be separated from his kids’ if he supported the Trump administration policy,” reports Treasure Coast Palm.
The Stuart man was charged with threatening to kidnap or injure a person and is scheduled for arraignment on July 2 in St. Lucie County, Florida.
Rep. Mast, an Army veteran who lost both his legs while serving in Afghanistan"
Roger, you're a piece of rooted up cray cray paper, the slightest breeze and you change your opinion.
Peter Fonda deleted his sexist a Twitter tirade calling United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen a “gash” .
Actually he didn't say he had no authority. He said it was congress' job. He's right. Exec orders are not the answer...for obama or trump.
NBC journalist John Heilemann slipped up on Wednesday during a conversation about immigration, admitting he’s a Democrat before immediately walking it back.
“You can’t inflict this kind of policy on Americans, and not pay a political price,” Heilemann told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace, referring to Trump’s recent executive order to stop separating families who entered the United States illegally. “We have a great chance to inflict [a political price on Trump] and his party on November. We, I mean the Democratic Party.”
Heilemann quickly tried to cover his tracks. “I’m not part of the Democratic party, but people who object to this policy, which I think is a lot of people.”
He then accused Trump of trying to “have it both ways” with regard to immigration by “talking about people like they’re vermin” and then issuing the executive order.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/20/john-heilemann-admits-democrat/
or, as instapundit glenn reynolds likes to say - the media are democrat operatives with bylines.
You are a joke, CH......the party of trump is an incompetent group of boobs looking to preserve their power...How many lies does it take for you to wake` up???
Trump administration changed its story no fewer than 14 times before ending the border policy
First it was a deterrent. Then it wasn’t. It was a new Justice Department policy. Then it wasn’t. The administration was simply following the law. Then it said separations weren’t required by law. It could not be reversed by executive order. Then it was.
Just like busch and the reason to invade Iraq!!!!!
Exactly
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/20/john-heilemann-admits-democrat/
So FUCKING WHAT!!!! And you are a hemorrhoid infested republican asshole.....you are welcome.....
And what was trump registered as??????
Steve Schmidt quits the R party and recommends voting D!!!!!
I think Trump somewhat caved to the media and Democrats. We will now jail children with their parents but that’s what the “compassionate” Democrats and media wanted.
Steve Schmidt quits the R party and recommends voting D
Schmidt is a loser and a whore. Has always been a loser and a whore. He will not be missed.
What New Shoe are the Liberals hoping to drop
Schmidt is a loser and a whore.
Like you menstral???? Awesome comment for a moron.....Wonder how many will follow his lead?????
Somewhat caved???? CRASHED AND BURNED!!!! So much for its a D law!!! Be like Obama, write your own order to over ride the law, publish, and you guys jump in line to give him service.....WHATTA JOKE YOU ARE!!!
Polosi and schumer are talking down today's Economy. They promise, vote Democrat and they will fix it.
What New Shoe are the Liberals hoping to drop
The one stuck up your ass!!!!! Idiot
Steve Schmidt quits the R party and recommends voting D!!!!!
so i'm assuming he likes taking it up the ass from ralph 'strap-on' maddow and has decided to 'come out' and make it official.
that's nice.
Like you menstral???? Awesome comment for a moron..
With fatty you are dealing with someone who has the mental age of an obnoxious 7 year old.
We will now jail children with their parents but that’s what the “compassionate” Democrats and media wanted.
if it were up to me i'd call the democrats bluff on this and go straight to mass deportations. catch and release? fuck no. that's what the dems think they've achieved here. spin those illegals right back around and send them the fuck home.
It is being legitimately pointed out that reuniting those families who have been so viciously divided will take quite a bit of time. That is a probability, not a lie.
Here's a little something for the blogger who calls himself rrb (REPUBLICAN RAT BASTARD) and for KD ("Obama is a black monkey and his wife is a cheap Chicago whore")
---It reflects their mindsets.
A woman recently got upset when she went to Google and typed in “Are Jews…” and before she could finish, the search engines came up with “Are Jews evil?” -- apparently one of the most asked questions on Google. Curious, the woman clicked on that and was taken to Google’s page of the ten most popular answers, and nine of the ten said in effect, “Yes, definitely, Jews are evil.”
Genuinely surprised and disturbed, she typed “Are women…” and before she could finish writing women, she got two choices, one of which was “Are women evil?” She pressed return and got numerous statements about how evil women are, including one that said all women have something of the prostitute in them.
With her disbelief and alarm growing, she typed, “Are muslims…” and Google suggested she should ask, “Are Muslims bad?” and the top result along with six others said, yes they are. Google also suggests she search “Islam is bad for society,” and there she got another suggested topic: “Islam must be destroyed.”
She became upset. “Google is search,” she said. “It has beome a verb, to google, to search. We do it all the time. When we want to know something, we google it. The site handles at least 65,000 searches a second and 8.5 billion a day. Google claims that its mission is to ‘organize the world’s information and make it universally available and useful.’ It is supposed to give you the best, most relevant results.
Jane, you do know that the illegals and thier kiddos are self inflicting.
“But, Jews are evil? Women are evil? Muslims need to be eradicated? And Hitler? Do you want to know about Hitler? Let’s google it. ‘Was Hitler bad?’ I type. And this is Google’s top result: ‘10 reasons why Hitler was one of the good guys.’ I click on the link. ‘Hitler never wanted to kill any Jews…’ ‘,,,he cared about conditions for Jews in the work camps.’ Eight out of the other ten search results agree.”
We all remember when a young man named Dylan Roof went into a church in Charleston, S.C. and seemingly for no reason at all randomly shot and killed nine African Americans who were holding a Bible study. Why did he do that?
According to a video of the Southern Poverty and Law Center, Roof was raised in a by-all-accounts quite decent family with no history of racial hatred or racism. As he tells the story in his online manifesto (written shortly before he did the shootings) he says that he heard of a lethal shooting between a white and a black man, the first time he had really noticed something like that, and “this prompted me to type the words ‘black on white crime’ into Google, and I have never been the same since that day.”
He has never been the same because the search engine kept driving him to site after site simmering with “facts” similar to “all Jews are evil” and “all Muslims should be destroyed” – “facts” about how violent African Americans are, how they are a “retrograde species” that “should be eliminated.” And that, according to Roof, is why he did what he did.
--taken loosely from Ken Wilber’s TRUMP AND A POST-TRUTH WORLD.
Lol, really the name calling scum like the faux Christian Jane are now pro-life.
Sure they are, ever child counts?
Right.
James you do know Google’s owners and most of their developers are liberal, right?
News to James.
When pressed for how the Democrats will impoverished the US Economy they laid it out.
1, tax more
2, give more free shit away
MY, MY. WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT?
Record-High 75% Say Immigration Is Good Thing
A new Gallup poll finds that a record-high 75% of Americans, including majorities of all party groups, think immigration is a good thing for the U.S. — up slightly from 71% last year. Just 19% of the public considers immigration a bad thing.
Meanwhile, a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll finds there’s been a big jump over the last week in the percentage of Americans who say immigration is the most important issue facing the country, as they’ve been bombarded by the images and sounds of families being separated after trying to cross the border illegally.”
“It’s mostly Democrats who have shifted, and to a lesser extent independents — a sign that they’re getting energized over the coverage.”
James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.
BUT THIS IS NOTHING NEW
Stoking Racial Tensions Is Trump’s Survival Strategy
Washington Post: “Throughout his public life, Trump has pitted one group of Americans against another and inserted himself in racial controversies… As he leads his party into the potentially perilous midterm election five months from now, Trump is trying to make cultural identity a central theme of the Republican pitch to voters. His messages have been amplified by his surrogates as well as by friendly broadcasters on Fox News Channel and elsewhere in the conservative media.
“Trump is calculating that by playing to people’s fears and anxieties he can maximize turnout among hard-core supporters to counterbalance evident enthusiasm on the Democratic side. Fueling Trump’s approach, advisers say, is an unremitting fear of his own: that his base could abandon him if he is deemed too weak on immigration, which was a centerpiece of his 2016 campaign.”
WE THE PEOPLE ARE SEEING THROUGH THIS. JUDGMENT DAY IS COMING -- FROM THE VOTERS
CommonsenseJune 21, 2018 at 6:06 AM
We have TRULY just saved Medicare.
Nice diversion James, but I do have a question.
Did they pass something that will prevent the eventual demographic catastrophe that is coming?
Because if they haven’t then they didn’t TRULY saved Medicare.
Lol, I to believe Legal Imigration is a good thing.
Was the question , Do you think that illegal immigrants , like dems ms13 and baby rapist are a good yhing?
UH OH. WHOSE FAULT WAS THIS? OBAMA'S? TRUMP'S? HITLER'S?
Young Immigrants Allege Abuse at Detention Center
“Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells,” the AP reports.
“The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Staunton, Virginia, are detailed in federal court filings that include a half-dozen sworn statements from Latino teens jailed there for months or years. Multiple detainees say the guards stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed over their heads.”
Democrats Maintain Lead In Generic Ballot
A new CNN poll shows Democrats leading the generic House ballot by a solid margin, 50% to 42%.
“It’s way to early to predict which voters will turn out on election day, but the poll does suggest Democrats are still benefiting from an ‘enthusiasm gap.’ Fifty percent of Democratic voters saying they are extremely or very enthusiastic about voting compared to only 43% of Republicans who feel that way.”
James you do know Google’s owners and most of their developers are liberal, right?
SO FUCKING WHAT.....AND YOU REMAIN A REPUBLICAN MORON!!!!!!
https://www.grit.com/community/people/barter-system-makes-a-comeback-zm0z18jazmcg
I have always done this , good to see others are too.
Because if they haven’t then they didn’t TRULY saved Medicare.
Remember asswipe....you own all 3 branches of government and you can't get shit done!!!! Look at the mirror for inept leadership and not getting any thing done!! Build a wall and kill living kids is your idea of protection.....idiot
menstral our major cramp posited that....
With fatty you are dealing with someone who has the mental age of an obnoxious 7 year old.
Yep, I guess being 7 years old is a problem for you also.......asshole....Brains and thinking are not your long suit....LOLOLOL!!!
A new Gallup poll finds that a record-high 75% of Americans, including majorities of all party groups, think immigration is a good thing for the U.S.
well no shit, pederast.
i too think immigration is a good thing. as the survey notes most rational people agree.
now ask the question - "is ILLEGAL immigration a good thing for the US?" only democrats would say yes because they're desperate for the votes.
and make no mistake, if those illegals were destined to vote republican, democrats would be shooting them at the fucking border.
With Jane and HB. It is required to check what they post.
GALLOP POLL
"How Question Wording Affects Views of Immigration
On the whole, do you think [immigration/LEGAL immigration] is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today?"
Lol, the 79 year old is wrong.
"Remember asswipe....you own all 3 branches of government .."
RRB calls me a pederast.
I call him what he calls himself.
rrb -- REPUBLICAN RAT BASTARD.
Nuff said.
Liar, but you knew that about yourself.
Can't wait for that wonderful new Health care system Trump promised.
Can't wait for all those jobs to come flooding back to the USA.
Can't wait for us to bring China to its knees in trade.
Can't wait for all those shuttered factories to shake off their rust and rev up and start producing.
Can't wait for that wonderful 50 billion dollar Wall to be built at Mexico's expense.
Can't wait for the oceans to stop rising because Trump says so. Or the glaciers and Antarctica to stop melting because he says so.
Can't wait for the wealthy to start paying MORE in taxes, as Trump promised.
Can;t wait...
President Trump has 6.5 years to do most of those. So calm down.
Lol, Jane is conflating Again.
Can't wait for all those jobs to come flooding back to the USA.
Haven’t been paying attention much have you?
BLS Manufacturing Employment
Lost years ends = 12,351,000
TRUMP TODAY = 12,673,000
Net 322,000 jobs, no need to wait.
I can't wait for...
Full employment
Record low black unemployment
Defeat of isis
North korea talking with south korea snd US
Creation of jobs obama said were gone forever
Reigning in the out of control NLRB
Actually controlling our border
Oh wait, those things already happened
Haven’t been paying attention much have you?"
They don't report good news on his sites.
Jane had to go.
KDJune 21, 2018 at 7:56 AM
A drop in food stamp recipients by over 2 million. Less need then during the Lost years.
All those newly employees are paying into SS and Medicaid/care . Feeding the Ponzi.
Oh that Russia, Russia, Russia collusion...utter bullshit
Obama cyber chief confirms 'stand down' order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016
They don't report good news on his sites.
Like kids being imprisioned because you like them?????
LOL....Faux last night in the monologue railed how the MSM was ignoring the trump campaign rally in Duluth.....who the fuck cares what he says other than his base licking his asshole to get at his shit.....and you KS.....the idiot of all ages who still cannot find work in the trump years....sad, very sad!!!
Russia, Russia collusion...utter bullshit
which continues today with trump ignoring and repeating the same mistakes!!!! Russia is my friend...LOLOLOL!!!
Fatty let us all know when John Bolton orders the cyber chief to stand down.
Idiot
Here's the link you stole your info from asswipe...
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/manufacturing-jobs-18000-may-322000-under-trump
In June 1979, manufacturing jobs in the United States hit their all-time peak of 19,553,000
Again missed by KD.....Who was president in 1979?????
As of December 2017, there were 12.5 million manufacturing jobs – 1.2 million fewer than there were in December 2007, when the recession started, BLS data show. At last year’s growth rate, it would take until nearly 2023 just to recover the jobs lost during the recession.
Pence made his remarks in an interview with the conservative radio show host Dana Loesch. “Look at the jobs numbers that were just released last week — manufacturing is roaring back,” he said.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/01/manufacturing-jobs-roaring-back/
You really are not an SME on anything asswipe.....especially how you cherry pick sources....LOL
atty let us all know when John Bolton orders the cyber chief to stand down.
Awesome intellect there loser....those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.....just like trump and his ignoring the cyber threat like Obama....Bolton is an asshole, just like you....go win a vacation and let us know what a great quota you met....LOLOLOL
What's GREAT is what the rabid liberals call "another shoe dropping" just to see the "SHOES" KICKING THE HATERS IN THEIR OWN ASS ONCE AGAIN.
Old, at least a daily occurrence, but still entertaining.
Unlike the monotonous lying "pastor's" spam or the "idiot" who thinks he has a brain.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Trump's creative exec order is proving that it was never about the separation of kids. Once again he hands dems their collective asses
Still waiting for someone on the left to be outraged at obama for separating kids, wrapping them in foil and then holding them in cages.
Anyone?
Balls you forgot Obumble had twice as many wrapped in foil and locked in cages
Has your priest or pastor ever used the word "FUCK" ?
Faux Christian Jane does.
Citing the lost years BLS data vs. TRUMP BLS data always pissed off the 79 year old blog baby.
What IF 2nd quarter GDP is 3 % plus.
To Help Iran, Angela Merkel Tries to Pull a Fast One With Swift
U.S. sanctions won’t bite until Tehran can no longer accept oil payments from European buyers."
German officials have indicated their goal: to ensure that Iran remains connected to the Swift system—formally called the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication—that facilitates global financial transactions. By protecting Iran’s access to the Swift network, Germany hopes to preserve Europe’s ability to pay for Iranian oil, and receive payment for European exports, in contravention of U.S. sanctions. The Germans know that any maximum-pressure campaign against Iran cannot succeed if Iran remains connected to Swift."
Steve Levitan, creator of Modern Family, the hit sitcom produced by a division of the company that owns Fox News, piled on, writing, “I’m disgusted to work at a company that has anything whatsoever to do with Fox News. This bullshit is the opposite of what #Modern Family stands for.” Judd Apatow urged other Fox executives and showrunners to speak up in opposition to its infotainment arm.
In a democracy, it is vital that citizens have a common frame of reference for reality. There has to be a place where all citizens can go and look at facts about what happened yesterday and say you know what, I agree that’s probably roughly what happened. The electorate’s confidence in the news being real is all important.
You see this when you go to other countries that don’t have a history of a straightforward, honest press––places like Pakistan where I’ve spent a lot of time, where the press has always been dishonest, every newspaper is an organ of a political movement or other, and people have come over time to be really cynical about the press. They don’t believe anything that is written in newspapers because they assume that all of it is just another man’s view, all of it is bias. And so in the absence of any recognized standard or source of news, what happens? Well, rumors take the place of news. So ultimately you have an electorate that is really poorly informed and incredibly suspicious, and in that environment all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories bloom and take the place of facts.
I think the American press does a pretty good job having spent time abroad in the past 15 years. Whatever hangups I have or whatever anger I feel toward news coverage I try to compare that with things I’ve seen abroad and I think we’re doing a pretty good job by comparison. But we’re still not living up to the standard we set for ourselves in the press.
The attack on the free press continues.
Fox is the propaganda network for the President.
Not allowing the press to either talk to or photograph the children prisons is how an authoritarian banana republic operates.
It happened in the past under different circumstances and they immediately changed the situation within days.
The President has not responded to the problem that thousands of children will never be reunited with their families because he is using them as pawns in his chess game argument to build the wall, that he promised to get Mexico to pay for the wall. Hypocrisy is ballsless.
Fox is PRAVDA for the President.
Fixed it for you!!!
Has your priest or pastor ever used the word "FUCK"
In spades....he worked on an Indy crew as the tire guy and could cuss with the best of them!!!!! He's the guy menstral claimed couldn't work on Sundays because he had to say mass.....I'm still chuckling at that one!!!!!!!!
What IF 2nd quarter GDP is 3 % plus.
What if you actually had a job????? idiot...
n the left to be outraged at obama for separating kid
Because he didn't.....why get outraged at your stupid comments??????? Sure can't fix stupid as deep as yours ballz....
He did. There's photographic evidence stupid ignoramousaurus dopie
More winning
You don't need a college education or a high school diploma.
All you need is a friendly attitude and the desire to work hard — plus, maybe, a healthy respect for really clean bathrooms — to start earning as much as $15 an hour, with three weeks of paid time off and access to a 401k plan with up to 4 percent matched by your employer.
Fox is the propaganda network for the President.
well alky, trump has the murdoch -owned properties, and skeets 0linsky had everything else led by MSDNC and the ny times. seems fair. liberals are all about fairness, right?
Not allowing the press to either talk to or photograph the children prisons is how an authoritarian banana republic operates.
you got that right. it's absolutely fucking amazing that 0linsky and the press were able to keep this shit quiet during his administration and it's only NOW that this sees the light of day.
honestly alky, i don't know how you did it. it had to be standing room only around 0linsky's nutsack during his regime. it shows real dedication on your part to fight your way through that crowd every day.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
It happened in the past under different circumstances and they immediately changed the situation within days.
only if you call prohibiting the media from reporting on it as "changing the situation."
Have the Liberals descovered Trump played them?
More winning BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
!5 bucks an hour.....oh man....the next big step would be selling insurance to win vacations....great find numb nutz.....LOLOLOL
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There's photographic evidence stupid
Of what asshole??????? There was also photographic evidence from homeland security showing how well kids were treated that were just as old......That's why I call you moronic....
Flores v. Loretta Lynch – The 9th Circuit Decision"
Roger, you said no such LAW existed.
Wrong again .
Scott. You lied again.
The Washington Examiner (Conservative Media)
https://washingtonpress.com/2018/06/21/jeff-sessions-just-contradicted-himself-in-jaw-dropping-reversal-over-caged-kids-policy-watch/
Too often it seems that no one actually speaks to each other in Trump’s White House. During the avoidable human rights crisis that was the unilateral Trump policy to separate children and their parents seeking asylum at the border, everyone in the administration seemed to have a different excuse. Trump erroneously claimed that it was a Democratic law and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen pretended that no such policy existed.
But it was Attorney General Jeff Sessions whose memory – per usual – seemed to fail him at the most convenient moment. He not only admitted that the policy was a deterrent for others seeking to enter the U.S., but even suggested that the Bible gives ample justification for the policy.
“Persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to prosecution,” Sessions explained. “I would cite to you the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order. Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful.”
“If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border,” Sessions later said in a speech in San Diego.
“If you don’t want your child to be separated, then don’t bring them across the border illegally. It’s not our fault,” he continued.
Notwithstanding the fact that he already admitted the real and diabolical purpose of the inhumane policy, Sessions purposefully conflates seeking asylum with “violating the law.” It is not, nor has it ever been, illegal for people to seek asylum in the United States, which is precisely the “crime” for which they’re being punished at the border.
As The Times and others have reported, asylum seekers are also being turned away when they do present themselves at ports of entry. Even when immigrants improperly cross the border, they can still legally seek asylum.
But the administration’s zero-tolerance policy subjects all who cross the border illegally, including asylum seekers, to prosecution.”
Now, however, Sessions is claiming a new defense.
The Attorney General told the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody that the administration “never really intended to” separate families at the border, after all.
“It hasn’t been good and the American people don’t like the idea that we are separating families… We never really intended to do that,” he said. “What we intended was to make sure that adults who bring children into the country are charged with the crime that they have committed.”
Not only did the policy “intend” to separate families, given that the directive was clear and the intent was promulgated by Sessions himself, but he essentially admits that his concession came as the result of poor optics into the manufactured crisis. The fact that the Attorney General could not have predicted that separating kids and parents and throwing them into cages would reflect poorly on the administration is a testament to his utter carelessness for both America’s humanitarian obligations and the overwhelming will of its citizens.
"I REALLY DON'T CARE. DO U?"
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