ICE Is Making Sure Migrant Kids Don’t Have COVID-19—Then Expelling Them to ‘Prevent the Spread’ of COVID-19 | Talking Points Memo

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On the bright side, that means we’ll be able to put different people in those cages.

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First they came for people that wore eyeglasses, and I said nothing…

When Biden becomes President DHS, and every person under that agency, will have to be evaluated for firing. All of these before it gets broken up.

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Honestly, ICE just needs to go…it’s now made up of bullies who think they get to do whatever they want. Same for CBP and a lot of DHS…the inherent racism of their behavior alone warrants a top to bottom cleaning of the organizations. The best thing would be deleting the organizations, which would allow firing of all of the officers…throw them all out. We still need their functions though, just not the militance and bad behavior…hire back the good ones, put in proper, humane leadership, and force compliance with the rules.

This whole episode has been one of the most shameful of the Trump era, and that’s really saying something.

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Comprehensive testing?

Now look who’s providing free services to illegals that aren’t being provided to American taxpayers…

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Amazing how the answer to every problem is to not let people avail themselves of the opportunities to immigrate or be here as foreign nationals at all. You’d almost think there’s a fanatic in the administration who wants to end immigration entirely all by himself.

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Don’t count on that as true.
Simpler to expel without testing, saying they were tested, state the result is negative, so they’ll have to be accepted upon arrival back home.

As a bonus? They’re lying about it every step of the way!
What could be ICEier?

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All this makes as much sense as anything else coming out of the Drumpf mal-administration . . . which to say, NO sense at all.

I know, but that would’ve ruined a good joke. :stuck_out_tongue:

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But I thought children don’t get COVID-19 and can’t spread it…

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Those are children going to US schools. These are children from F’reign countries.
Circumstances alter cases, don’t you know?

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Silly me!

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Remind me, which Bible do the RWNJ evangelicals read and adhere to?

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FIFY

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The people who are spreading COVID in this country are the Rump’s supporters who refuse to wear masks. Why not expel them to some rapidly thawing ice flow?

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But by the time the children are boarded on planes home, they’ve already been tested for the virus — and proven not to have it.

According to the kids this isn’t remotely true. So who are you going to believe, ICE or the kids?

The appropriately titled Standard & Poor’s.

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