President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was not going to reinstate his administration’s earlier policy of systematically separating families that are apprehended at the border. But he seemed to praise the policy in the same breath, saying “once you don’t have it, that’s why you see many more people coming.”
“They’re coming like it’s a picnic, because ‘Let’s go to Disneyland,'” he said.
On the heels of anonymously sourced reports following Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s ouster that Trump has expressed a desire to bring back the family separation policy, the President said Tuesday that “we’re not looking to” bring the policy back.
Trump also said, while sitting next to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in the Oval Office, that “Obama separated the children, by the way.”
While it’s true that border agents separated families apprehended at the border in rare instances in past administrations — such as when there was evidence of child abuse — the Trump administration alone pursued the policy of systematic family separations.
Illegally crossing the border is a misdemeanor for the first offense. Past administrations did not systematically prosecute these misdemeanors. The Trump administration did, and, because there are legal limits on the detention of children, thousands of families were separated as a result.
Trump says without family separations, migrant families come to the U.S. like it's "Disneyland" pic.twitter.com/pr7OLO5qS3
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) April 9, 2019
The man is obviously nuts and incapable of doing this job. He retains a bloodthirsty desire to punish people which is inflamed by his racism. The stain on this country will be long lasting.
Yeah, because children in cages was such a political winner the last time. Please proceed, douche-bag…we’re coming for you in 2020.
So is Trump or an ally doing something behind the scenes to encourage the migrants to come, and fill the coffers of private prison companies, create his “crisis”, and, to his base, justify violent racism? Dunno, but would not surprise me.
And as always, the same question: What.The.Fuck.Is.Wrong.With.Him.
2020 is coming, Fat Bastard.
He must be confused with Nazi holiday camps.
“Stretching nearly three miles along the north coast of Rügen, an island in northern Germany, Prora was built between 1936 and 1939 as part of Adolf Hitler’s Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude or KdF) project. Much like a Nazi version of Butlins, the resort was designed to be affordable for the average worker, with each of its rooms offering a sea view. Formed of eight identical buildings, Prora never achieved its purpose of accommodating the 20,000 Deutschen volke that were to be its guests – the outbreak of the Second World War diverted those involved with the project towards the more pressing war effort.”