U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego set a deadline of last Thursday to reunite the families. While he commended administration officials for reuniting many parents in its custody with their children, it faulted them for leaving hundreds of families still apart and warning that a better system must be in place.
Trump seized on the praise, tweeting Monday that âa highly respected Federal judgeâ had said that the ââTrump Administration gets great creditâ for reuniting illegal families. Thank you, and please look at the previous administrations record â not good!â
Cherry picking reality and taking things out of context again, are ya?
Your lies are way too documented to stand up under the light of day.
The Obama administration did not enact a policy that mandated kids be taken from their parents. Had they done so no wing nut would be spinning numbers theyâd just post the language of the policy. I think we should look at this for what it is. Trump wanted to cause these defenseless people pain and anguish because it made parts of his base feel good to see that pain. The separation policy offered nothing in the way of security. It just hurt folks. The cluster fuck that followed it lays bare what it really was. A cruel policy to deliberately cause emotional pain driven by hated hence the disorganized mess it left. There was no thinking or planning that went into it. It was reflexive and to satisfy those that live on hate.
There was no policy equivalent in the Obama or Bush administrations. Only Trump did this.
Give poorly trained officials absolute control over powerless detainees in a system run by utter caprice and abuse of every kind is 100% predictable.
Homeland Security spokeswoman Katie Waldman said agency officials perform their duties âprofessionally and humanelyâ and that the agency âis abiding by the intent and letter of law and maintains the highest standards care for individuals in our custody.â
Tell that one to the kids whose parents you have lost.
(Insert appropriate description of Katie Waldman here.)
And, worse for America, they thought they could get away with it. They figured no one would care enough to make a stink about it.
Boy, were they WRONG about THAT.
Iâll be happy if that same passion shows up on election day in November. Send a strong message. This isnât US.
The Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center is in Verona, Va (not Roanoke), near where I live. Many of us (dozens the first day, hundreds the next) demonstrated there one weekend after news of the alleged abuse came out. Lee Carter, a delegate to the General Assembly, was denied entrance to the virtually windowless facility, with the claim that it is under federal jurisdiction. This is only partly true, since it is funded primarily by the General Assembly.
The followup news we got was that the investigation was suspended after two of the three boys alleging abuse had been sent back to their countries, to almost certain death Iâm afraid, while the third, understandably, dropped his complaint.
As long as they can blame some of it on Obama, the republicans are willing to at least give lip service to caring about abuse. ICE as a rogue force goes back at least as far as the cheney administration.
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The separation policy was suppose to be a âdeterrent.â How did they think this could be used as a deterrent if it wasnât advertised in the home countries? So yeah it was meant to hurt folks. Plus then where were the plans to deal with the parents after they were deported?
This agency spokesperson crap is annoying. Unless Ms. Waldman has personally read every report, visited every facility, seen how CBP handles immigrants that turn themselves in at the border then she is lying.
If she was reading a statement from Nielsen then Nielsen is lying.
for protesting
that the Assembly delegate was denied entrance.
If she has been any where near a TV set, she is lying.