Just wanted to add some supporting detail to how craptastic it is for the AP to write uncritically “[the concept] suddenly reappeared this spring after a persistent spike in illegal crossings.”
Check the chart in this tweet:
Bottom line: Reporters should not believe anything this administration puts out without verifying for themselves.
If Dems were smart, each day they will read such prior sanctimonious statements by Repub senators in the Senate chambers.
Alas they don’t show any signs that they are.
Othering is what you do when you are about to do something bad to a specific class or group of people, and this is on area where Team Trump’s strength has emerged. But it is kind of absurd. For example, Mexico’s birthrate has been steadily declining for decades, which may explain yesterday’s vote outcome. The issue is sharing wealth and developing the society, which I would think would be the focus of US politics as well.
So why repeat their meme?
Yep. Snuff out the “beacon of light” so nobody (brown) wants to bother coming here, knowing they’ll just be discriminated against, denied their rights, horribly abused, their children traumatized and maybe lost to them forever, etc.
I think we need to make #orwhatever trend!
And it’s up to a court to decide if they’re here illegally. Trump doesn’t care about due process, but the Constitution does.
“Or whatever” will haunt these barbarians until the end of their days.
Their casual cruelty is stunning! We cannot afford to become numb to these (daily) outrages, but need to speak against them at every turn…
I am praying (and I don’t pray as a rule) that Mueller unearths something so heinous about tRump that it blows him out of the airlock for good!
That really seems to be the objective. Suspicion of guilt is the same as being tried and found guilty. It’s a very Napoleonic form of “justice.”
Actually, this regime has been in control for more than a year. The rest of what you said is completely accurate.
Thanks - this is what I want to know.
I know, but I was referring specifically on family separations. But yes it goes for everything after 01/20/17. Goresuch was picked and vetted by someone else, shepherded through the process by someone else, tax bill same, and the only things Trumpy has struck out on his own has been smoke and mirrors with no results except anger and terror.
Heard someone this morning, “Chuck E. Cheese has a better system to track kids & parents than the Federal government!”
BTW, LA Times has a good story about separations even with ‘legal’ entries,
The Trump administration says it’s a ‘myth’ that families that ask for asylum at ports of entry are separated. It happens frequently, records show
Yes, this arbitrarily narrow definition of “illegal entry” is just another trap.
And putting defenseless women & children out of public view under the authority of a bunch of alt-right douche-bag men…
… what could possibly go wrong???
If you’re brown, go down.
If you’re black, get back.
If you’re white, you’re all right (unless out Loyalty checkers have discovered you vote Democratic – then you are an honorary brown.)
– need I say /s? –
We have them: American piker Nazis in action.
Maybe they will get better at being Nazis.
Give them a chance, for god’s sake!
Republicans now believe that wanting to live a better life is a personal fault, justifying the use of government power to completely destroy the human spirit.
That applies to citizens too.
Romney called it “self-deporting” and everyone condemned him. That was then.
The TrumpoNazis seized the concept with a vengeance and plotted extra-cruel disincentives. But because they’re dumbasses, they were instantly exposed and have no escape plan.