Discussion: Cotton On Dem Immigration Bill: Call It 'Child Trafficking Encouragement Act'!

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Deplorable.

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Tom Cotton is a vile creature.

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Total waste of an excellent education. Should have gone to a deserving immigrant who’d actually maybe contribute something with it.

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Fascist. Where’s his black shirt and armband?

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That’s understating it.

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As above
Just when you think they’ve hit the bottom of the barrel
Here comes Cotton, bustin’ right through it plumbing new depths of ignorance and dishonesty

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Just got this in my email from NBC -

Former ICE Director: Some migrant family separations are permanent

“You could be creating thousands of immigrant orphans in the U.S.,” said ex-Acting Director John Sandweg.

WASHINGTON — The former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told NBC News that migrant parents separated from their children at the border are sometimes unable to relocate their child and remain permanently separated.

“Permanent separation. It happens,” said John Sandweg, who served as acting director of ICE under the Obama administration from 2013-2014.

Sandweg’s warning contradicts White House messaging that the separation of women and children migrants under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy is only temporary.

While a parent can quickly move from detention to deportation, a child’s case for asylum or deportation may not be heard by a judge for several years because deporting a child is a lower priority for the courts, Sandweg explained.

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As a veteran, Tom Cotton reflects very badly on all other Vets. What in hell did he think he was fighting for in Iraq and Afghanistan?

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Cotton On Dem Immigration Bill: Call It ‘Child Trafficking Encouragement Act’!

Arkansas voters must have been out of their Cotton-pickin’ minds to elect this guy.

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Is Sen Cotton auditioning for Jeff Sessions, job? Or positioning self to challenge Pence when Trump gets ousted, quits, croaks, or decides to declare he has made MAGA and doesn’t run for a second term? It is one of the two. Or perhaps both.

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Regrettably I believe those voters knew exactly what they were voting for, which is no-doubt a major part of the reason that Arkansas is such a s*hole state.

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The Presidency, if you ask me. Just getting his ticket punched.

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When parents are sent back and die from the violence, who does the kid go to? And if the child is relatively young, she may not know names of relatives other than “Grandma” or “Auntie” – even now where she came from, neither country nor town. The little girl on the tape who knew a name and a phone number was older – what do you do with a 4-year old who only knows his first name, and Mami and Papi are only Mami and Papi.

This is so disgusting. How do these people live with themselves? How callous have they become??

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OT: I remember as a child seeing cotton balls in the supermarket, with the label “100 percent sterile!” and thinking, “Well, you’d be 100 percent sterile too . . .”

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This is frightening… projection is confession with Trump’s deep staters.

Is Trump running a “Pizzagate” down on the border?

Where are the children? Who took them away?

How can we ever really know?

The Russian mob is capable of anything.

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And the Republican race to the bottom continues in free-fall.

The moment Trump got the nomination, this was inevitable.

Every GOP candidate in a hurry sees Trump’s descent into madness as a template for electoral success.

The competition to out-Trump Trump is (literally) breathtaking.

It’s deplorables all the way down…

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Words fail.

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Global white Christian supremacy.

Next question.

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The short bill prohibits the government “from removing a child from his or her parent or legal guardian, at or near the port of entry or within 100 miles of the border of the United States” unless certain qualifications are met, one of those being if authorities believe “the child is a victim of trafficking or is at significant risk of becoming a victim of trafficking.”

As short as this bill is, perhaps Cotton should have read down to the end. It explicitly discusses trafficking. But thanks for nothing. That Fox News interview should be coming as soon as they can pull gasbag Rudy off the air.

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