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Trump puts kids in cages because he wants his wall. How low can he go? The authoritarian shitshow continues ...

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Gumpendorf · 19/06/2018 19:29

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AcrossthePond55 · 20/06/2018 19:42

I'm beginning to think this whole stinking pile of shit was a publicity stunt created by Scrotus and his regime to enable them stir up the public, to point fingers at the Dems, then 'ride to the rescue' of the detained children.

Gumpendorf · 20/06/2018 19:45

From last August and just seen on the Westminstenders thread

Mike Godwin suspends Godwin's law:
By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.

<a class="break-all" href="http://go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/896884949634232320" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/896884949634232320

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ohmymimi · 20/06/2018 19:59

From that Intercept piece on separations:

'Hastings could not provide statistics on the number of children under 5 who his agency has separated from their parents.'

'Wagner had no numbers to provide regarding families who have been reunited, post-prosecution, under the administration’s new program.'
They're not even efficient f''n nazis

And:

Just seen T. supporters interviewed about the separations, on Blitzer, they are totally unmoved. 'They're illegals, they're here for welfare, I like kids, but they're trying to make us teary eyed.' These people really don't see any common humanity between themselves and these 'others'.

PerkingFaintly · 20/06/2018 20:10

Wait, what? Michael Cohen was deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee until right now? Confused

Are there not enough Republicans to go round, that so many jobs have to be filled by family and staff from the palace?

Gumpendorf · 20/06/2018 20:10

Frontier Airlines: "We will not knowingly allow our flights to be used to transport migrant children away from their families." twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1009507840426463233/photo/1

Another airline pulls out ...

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lionheart · 20/06/2018 20:20

Yes, I know Perking.

Melania Trump

Verified account

@FLOTUS
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A great visit with the King & Queen of Spain at the @WhiteHouse today. Queen Letizia & I enjoyed tea & time together focusing on the ways we can positively impact children.

Trump puts kids in cages because he wants his wall.   How low can he go? The authoritarian shitshow continues ...
lionheart · 20/06/2018 20:24

The Associated Press

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BREAKING: Trump signs executive order to keep families together at border, says 'zero-tolerance' prosecution policy will continue.

StealthPolarBear · 20/06/2018 20:29

Wow he's reversed it. So how quickly will the current children be reunited?

ohmymimi · 20/06/2018 20:36

God, that empty shell is tone deaf 'focusing on way we can positively impact children'.

ohmymimi · 20/06/2018 20:39

' "We can't do it through an executive order," Trump told Fox and Friends Friday on border separations. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order.'
mobile.twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1009516341424992256

lionheart · 20/06/2018 20:39

www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/obama-speaks-out-border-family-separations?bftwnews&utm_term=.anN8Xp0vl#.wqAEgX36a

"Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together?"

ohmymimi · 20/06/2018 20:45

'Trump falsely claimed for days that he couldn’t end family separations
The president is now reversing himself after facing fierce backlash for forcibly removing thousands of children from their parents.'

www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/06/20/trump-false-claims-family-separations-656011?__twitter_impression=true

AcrossthePond55 · 20/06/2018 20:48

Interesting, the WH.gov link to the document returns 404 error.

Gumpendorf · 20/06/2018 20:51

Oh just fuck off

@IvankaTrump
Thank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border. Congress must now act + find a lasting solution that is consistent with our shared values;the same values that so many come here seeking as they endeavor to create a better life for their families

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ohmymimi · 20/06/2018 20:53

Every act by the Trump playbook:

Heather Parrish
@hloaroo
Replying to @MatthewNussbaum
So is he telling us that, after all of this time, while our President begged Democrats to fix this problem, and terrified children were being ripped away from horrified parents, he could have fixed this from the start?

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
It is the Democrats fault for being weak and ineffective with Boarder Security and Crime. Tell them to start thinking about the people devastated by Crime coming from illegal immigration. Change the laws.

Ordinary Citizen
@Pudgydog
Correct.
Trump faked the whole immigrant policy crisis

unforgettableinky
@carnalinky13

Replying to @MatthewNussbaum and @SethAbramson
Create chaos. Blame Democrats. End chaos. Claim victory. Rinse.
Repeat.

mobile.twitter.com/MatthewNussbaum/status/1009484499665575936

NetofLemons · 20/06/2018 21:03

Gumpendorf I am so beyond disgusted that that orange bastard can fucking well cage up children and potentially not have the competence to be able to reunite them with their parents.
It’s just despicable. Surely some international body must stop the US behaving like this?. What guarantees will he make of reuniting them and compensating them when reversing this? What the fuck else does he have to do before his country says enough is enough?

lettuceWrap · 20/06/2018 21:04

Stealth, tragically, I think it’s likely that many of the children separated from their families over the last few months will NEVER be returned to them.

I think this appalling episode is going to haunt America for decades- as it should.
And I don’t think it ends now anyway- kids and their families, seeking asylum, are going to be locked up for undefined terms of time Sad

ohmymimi · 20/06/2018 21:04

And separation is misspelled on the title of the EO. Careless in every act big and small.

NetofLemons · 20/06/2018 21:11

mimi thank you for posting the Harry Leslie Smith article. Flowers to him.

StealthPolarBear · 20/06/2018 21:12

Well then the scandal is only slightly less than it was.

Gumpendorf · 20/06/2018 21:18

If this is correct, then it's a much bigger scandal than it already was. Surely there are some international laws against this. These drugs change the brain's chemistry and that will affect these kids for the rest of their lives. And more lies - vitamins. Angry

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1009528904229539840

New legal filings reportedly show that immigrant children in U.S. custody are being subdued with powerful psychiatric drugs, according to The Center for Investigative Reporting. https://www.revealnews.org/blog/immigrant-children-forcibly-injected-with-drugs-lawsuit-claims/?utmsource=Reveal&utmmmedium=socialmedia&utmmcampaign=twitter

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ohmymimi · 20/06/2018 21:18

Oh, now Ivanka comes out of hiding, Gump, only to spew this self-serving tosh:

'.. find a lasting solution that is consistent with our shared values;the same values that so many come here seeking as they endeavor to create a better life for their families.'

No decent being shares any values with this vacuous grifter.

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