I have to pretend I’m listening to Alec Baldwin when tRump speaks. Its the only way I can get through listening to anything coming out of his contorted pie hole. I have to force myself to listen to his bullshit as a post-modern pastiche or his non sequiturs begin to drive me up a fucking wall.
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Good thinking. I wonder if Mitt asked Ronna to drop her maiden name from official use.
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The guy on TV that used to head ICE was on O’Donnell’s show and accurately described what could happen to many of these children who have been put in foster care in various states around the country. They will eventually need a representative assigned to them who advocates for the best interests of the child (someone like a guardian ad litem, I presume). A judge will make that determination. The judge can then later determine if a parent can’t come to claim the child within a reasonable period of time according to state guidelines, that they are relinquishing their parental rights. That judge then has the ability to sever parental rights as the child has now become a ward of the state. If reunification looks all but impossible because the parent has been deported, the state will not let that child remain in this limbo forever. That’s why foster care in other states without accurate record keeping as to where they are and who they’re with so that parents can find them is the most heartless and damaging thing they could have done to these families. The foster care system has its problems but it was never set up for this kind of crap. Those 2500 or so children that have been dumped into the system…many will be lost to their parents forever. That’s a fact. Nothing tRump did today changes anything for these children.
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For the future, these will be the Trump Hotels. You built it Trump. Now choke on it.
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Unbelievable but not unexpected. This issue is going to rightly hang over the gopers for a long time and it’s entirely their own doing. They took thousands of kids away from their parents and didn’t have any plan on how to get them back. Just blind disregard for the Others along with the total incompetence we’ve come to expect from the Greedy Oblivious Pricks.
At least they are likely to have to wear their shame right up through the elections, but it is just a disgrace.
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At the end of the NBC article linked above it said that not only must the sponsoring adult be fingerprinted but so must all other adults in the household
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And yet you can bet your bippy that the reunification process they won’t try is anything like bringing children and parents together and letting them recognize each other. Nope there will be paperwork shuffling and I’m sorry there’s no one by that name here and we’ll does the child know her case number and on and on
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OT - not sure Trump was ever the moral leader of anything but he actually wanted the Peace Prize.
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Yeah because Obama.
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I can’t even…
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If all goes well, if there’s any justice, the now-bona fide war criminal will get a “No-bail.”
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I think folks are missing the point here - lack of reunification isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. The goal of the policy is deterrence, and deterrence would be maximized by stealing the children, deporting the adults, and having the adults relate their experience back in Central America.
Yes, it’s sick and horrific, but that’s the truth of Trumplandia.
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It sounds like the permanent separation has been happening for some time. It’s just been a dirty little secret.
If anything, PP and his rat bastards have exposed some pretty serious flaws in a number of our systems. We used to be able to count on people not taking advantage of these flaws but not any more.
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Republicans are not honest people.
Purposefully inadequate response to a purposefully cruel policy
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Not Mitt, Trump made her do it so he didn’t have to hear the Romney name.
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I’m awaiting the shit storm if one of these kids dies while in custody. Who knows what pre existing medical conditions some of them might have and who is making medical decisions on their behalf?
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Keep the pressure up. Pictures like this go a long way toward ending this disgrace. This is phase 2 to the elimination of these atrocities. Show what’s happening!
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