House GOPers Will Confront Trump About Separating Families At The Border

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 29: President Donald J. Trump walks from the Oval Office across the South Lawn to board Marine One at the White House on Tuesday, May 29, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Wash... WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 29: President Donald J. Trump walks from the Oval Office across the South Lawn to board Marine One at the White House on Tuesday, May 29, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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House Republicans, faced with growing public outcry over the separations of migrant families at the border, plan to confront President Donald Trump about changing the policy at a Tuesday meeting, according to a Monday Axios report.

Trump will be a guest at a special House Republicans meeting Tuesday evening, when GOP lawmakers reportedly plan to use Trump’s sensitivity to disturbing photos and negative media spin to circumvent Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.

However, per Axios, Trump views family separation as a bargaining chip and is disinclined to roll back the policy without securing a concession like his border wall in return.

Republican sources reportedly told Axios that the story’s legs and emotional heft are making it a cudgel they fear will hammer GOP candidates during the midterms.

They also fear that the party line that the policy is Democrats’ fault and responsibility to change is too unbelievable to hide behind, as Republicans control all of Congress and the White House. Also, a simple fact check reveals that the separation practice comes from the Trump administration’s policy and not any preexisting law.

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  1. You idiots feeling the heat now?

  2. “They also fear that the party line that the policy is Democrats’ fault and responsibility to change is too unbelievable to hide behind.”

    Some of them actually know there is a reality other than the alternate one they are so successful at creating? Come on, guys … try a little harder. You can bend that reality curve far enough so the truth no longer matters at all. That’s the goal, man. You can do it.

  3. Isn’t child abuse illegal? Kidnapping? Imprisonment without representation or due process?

    Apparently not.

    This is all apparently legal and Constitutional. Like in our recent past, there will be no prosecutions of either the perpetrators giving the orders or perpetrators following the orders.

    Torture, murder, property confiscation, and extrajudicial imprisonment by government agents are all okay.

    Our Constitution is not saving us.

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