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This thread elaborating and clarifying a point that may have gotten a bit buried in the second post on Trump immigration policy, dealing with the question of asylum seekers at the Mexican border and the plan to break up families. I made an effort to really lay it out and tell the story with no smartass tricks, because I was in a rage at how the muddiness of Trump's mind keeps him from knowing what he's doing, and the Twitter audience has liked it a lot.
Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S. Catch and Release, Lottery and Chain must also go with it and we MUST continue building the WALL! DEMOCRATS ARE PROTECTING MS-13 THUGS.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2018
What this is about--it isn't hallucinations, it's about something Sessions or Miller has told him to justify the grotesque and cruel policy that he doesn't understand. https://t.co/JzegGVwvtW— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) May 31, 2018
Why? Undocumented immigration isn't a crime of any kind (that's why CBP handles it instead of FBI). Asking for asylum is a guaranteed right in US law. Sessions arrests them for "smuggling children".— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) May 31, 2018
Because US law does say that when people are charged with a felony they lose custody of their children. That's a law that makes sense, right? It's dangerous to leave kids in the care of a felon.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) May 31, 2018
Obviously Trump doesn't understand any of this subtlety. He just loved the idea of how tough he would look socking it to those "MS-13 members" by tearing mothers and children from each other (never mind that they're actually running away from MS-13 members).— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) May 31, 2018
Trump loved the idea--he backed it as far back as March 2017 https://t.co/CZXKTA4C6N --until he found out it got people upset. Now he's trying to make us believe he had nothing to do with it. That's what it's about.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) May 31, 2018
There is some hopeful legal action going on, in the form of a suit filed by ACLU early in the year.What Trump said in the tweet didn't make any sense because he doesn't know what he's talking about, but there is a reality behind it. And the reality is that this inhumane program, devised by Sessions to gratify his and Trump's sadistic delight in hurting people, needs to stop.— Post-Impressionist Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) May 31, 2018
The case was filed in February in San Diego because the original plaintiff in the case is a Congolese woman who was separated from her daughter. Gelernt said the case is now a class-action lawsuit that seeks to end the administration’s policy and immediately reunite the separated children with their parents. It was argued on May 4, and it’s unclear when a decision will be issued. (Texas Tribune)
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