The Trump administration is slightly backing off of a new rule announced last month that would force immigrants who are in need of lifesaving medical care to return home or risk deportation, the New York Times reported.
Trump will blame the Democrats for this mess in 5âŚ4âŚ3âŚ
Anything less than a full and complete reversal is unacceptable. Deporting seriously sick kids is depraved.
I think they are going to try âno more new casesâ and then try to deny to renew the old cases at a slower, less visible rate. Stephen Miller overreached but he has not given up.
Testing the limits of their grotesque, insensitive cruelty.
Another example of the Trump administration making snap decisions without considering the moral, ethical or political consequences of those actions. That they would even consider terminating a program that offers medical care (and life in many cases) to poor individuals, especially children, from developing countries is heartbreaking. That they are doing it in our name and on our behalf is unacceptable. This is not who I am; this is not who we are as a country.
You bet your boots they âreconsideredâ. All the polls showed them what complete unfeeling, vengeful, white nationalists they showed themselves to beâŚas well as overturning all the sanctimonious BS the âevangelicalsâ try to ram down everyoneâs throatsâŚâitâs for the CHILDREN. We care about the CHILDREN. Itâs those pesky DEMOCRATS that are twisting their minds with talk of evolution!â until of course, itâs not.
The Trump Administration is moving into new territory. It is no longer simply represented by the âperformative crueltyâ that Josh coined. It now seems to be conducting ânonchalant crueltyâ, or perhaps, âafterthought crueltyâ.
Somebody got to him. He has no conscience and Miller probably had a hand in this. Someone told him this was a bridge too far.
Now, to find out who it was.
Or not taking into account the blowback of public opinion. There were darned few out there who supported this move. Canât have an unpopular opinion out there - no one to stroke his quite sick ego on the idea.
Surely it is the political (i.e. their base) they were considering when they started down this cruel road.
And also the political (i.e. everyone else) they are reacting to with this potential change.
If by âheartbreakingâ you mean âfully expectedâ from this administration.
There are so many things on this list, I can hardly keep up.
Hoping that whomever we elect next year will have the energy and stamina to focus on completely cleaning up this mess. Lots of surrogates to take on each issue with laser focus.
This is still brutal inhuman cruelty. And murder of the most vulnerable by state policy. Trump must feel like a tough guy deporting children out of their hospital beds. Itâs what the dictators over the last 100 years did. I guess trump wants to be counted among the PolPotâs (Cambodia in the 1970âs), Stalinâs, Mao Zedongâs and the rest.
Morals and ethics are never on the table. They only consider the politics after they get caught. But for a few Boston journalists, this policy would have remained under the radar. How they thought that it would remain that way is a testament to their craven stupidity.
Has Stephen Miller gone soft, or what?
Miller most assuredly is waterboarding folks in the WH basement to find outâŚ
Guess someone woke up to the fact that running ads with kids hooked up to chemo-trees and dialysis machines might just be bad optics.
They would have a much harder time keeping reporters out of hospitals than out of the concentration camps at the southern border, so you can damn well bet those photos and stories will get out.
It is implausible that this was a snap decision. Hitler started his programs of killing by killing infirm German children. For at least some â Miller? â this was a trial balloon sure to delight white nationalists. And if Americans would not tolerate it they could reverse course for those already in the program but refuse to admit any more. The real test comes with the first new applicant to the program.
I donât think thereâs any âprobablyâ about it.
One of the young people who is affected by this cruelty was invited by doctors to come for treatment. Her family is not indigent. They followed the rules as they were. Then the trump folks changed the rules and killed the program she was here under. By the trump admin reasoning that made the familyâs presence here illegal. If this young person is deported she will die. Rachael Maddow and Lawrence Oâdonnell have talked up her situation. And I am sure there are others. And it is not just me who says this amounts to murder by state policy.
Some time ago I mused about what it would take to piss off either trumpâs base or GOP members of Congress to the point theyâd turn on trump. Grill a fetus on the White House lawn and hold a barbecue? Trump went way further in his naked evil cruelty. There can be no forgiveness for his varied and serial child abuse.
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