Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 7:45:59 GMT -5
And yes, I am very deliberately and consciously using the "e" word. It's time to call evil stuff evil. And this is.
I have, for a while now, stopped posting about certain stories because, quite frankly, I don't want to hear about arguments about why they are really no big deal, both sides, but Gorsuch, etc.. It isn't fun for me to play devil's advocate with them because IMO they are fucking appalling. But, fuck it, I also don't think they should be ignored. This one especially, and especially on Father's Day.
If you've been living under a goddamn rock, Trump is separating migrant children, some of them still breastfeeding, from their parents.
NO, this is not a Democratic policy. NO, it isn't what Obama did. NO, it is not the law. YES, Trump could stop it himself today. But like a mafiosa saying "don't make me kill this beautiful child" to extort a ransom, he's using the children as hostage for his fucking goddamn border wall and then blaming the Democrats for not conceding to his wall demands.
How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families (it's a NY Times story, btw)
Democratic Senators are trying to pass a bill to top this practice. Not a single Republican has signed on.
(ETA: The thing is? We don't even need a bill. This evil policy isn't law. It's just a Trump policy. All we need to do is stop. Just stop doing something that is obviously morally reprehensible and incredibly harmful to innocents. Just stop. But given that Trump and that horrifying troll Stephen Miller are determined to do this unless someone blocks the door, we need just a handful of our GOP representatives to join on and said "no, dude, you can't do this, because it is fucking wrong". Well, where the fuck ARE you, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, Ben Sasse, etc? You know better than this. You fucking know better. Step up and caucus with Dems, not on left-wing policies you don't agree with (I don't ask for that), but on measures to stop Trump when he's doing stuff that you know is fucking appalling.)
Still, Trump and his minions blame the Democrats:
You know what this is? It's evil. I have no compunction, at all, about saying that, and I'm frankly not all that worried about being polite in doing so. Actually, IMO, there are no polite words for this, and no reasonable, principled defense for it. It's fucking evil.
I have, for a while now, stopped posting about certain stories because, quite frankly, I don't want to hear about arguments about why they are really no big deal, both sides, but Gorsuch, etc.. It isn't fun for me to play devil's advocate with them because IMO they are fucking appalling. But, fuck it, I also don't think they should be ignored. This one especially, and especially on Father's Day.
If you've been living under a goddamn rock, Trump is separating migrant children, some of them still breastfeeding, from their parents.
NO, this is not a Democratic policy. NO, it isn't what Obama did. NO, it is not the law. YES, Trump could stop it himself today. But like a mafiosa saying "don't make me kill this beautiful child" to extort a ransom, he's using the children as hostage for his fucking goddamn border wall and then blaming the Democrats for not conceding to his wall demands.
How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families (it's a NY Times story, btw)
Almost immediately after President Trump took office, his administration began weighing what for years had been regarded as the nuclear option in the effort to discourage immigrants from unlawfully entering the United States.
Children would be separated from their parents if the families had been apprehended entering the country illegally, John F. Kelly, then the homeland security secretary, said in March 2017, “in order to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network.”
For more than a decade, even as illegal immigration levels fell overall, seasonal spikes in unauthorized border crossings had bedeviled American presidents in both political parties, prompting them to cast about for increasingly aggressive ways to discourage migrants from making the trek.
Yet for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the idea of crying children torn from their parents’ arms was simply too inhumane — and too politically perilous — to embrace as policy, and Mr. Trump, though he had made an immigration crackdown one of the central issues of his campaign, succumbed to the same reality, publicly dropping the idea after Mr. Kelly’s comments touched off a swift backlash.
But advocates inside the administration, most prominently Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s senior policy adviser, never gave up on the idea. Last month, facing a sharp uptick in illegal border crossings, Mr. Trump ordered a new effort to criminally prosecute anyone who crossed the border unlawfully — with few exceptions for parents traveling with their minor children.
And now Mr. Trump faces the consequences. With thousands of children detained in makeshift shelters, his spokesmen this past week had to deny accusations that the administration was acting like Nazis. Even evangelical supporters like Franklin Graham said its policy was “disgraceful.”
Among those who have professed objections to the policy is the president himself, who despite his tough rhetoric on immigration and his clear directive to show no mercy in enforcing the law, has searched publicly for someone else to blame for dividing families. He has falsely claimed that Democrats are responsible for the practice. But the kind of pictures so feared by Mr. Trump’s predecessors could end up defining a major domestic policy issue of his term.
Children would be separated from their parents if the families had been apprehended entering the country illegally, John F. Kelly, then the homeland security secretary, said in March 2017, “in order to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network.”
For more than a decade, even as illegal immigration levels fell overall, seasonal spikes in unauthorized border crossings had bedeviled American presidents in both political parties, prompting them to cast about for increasingly aggressive ways to discourage migrants from making the trek.
Yet for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the idea of crying children torn from their parents’ arms was simply too inhumane — and too politically perilous — to embrace as policy, and Mr. Trump, though he had made an immigration crackdown one of the central issues of his campaign, succumbed to the same reality, publicly dropping the idea after Mr. Kelly’s comments touched off a swift backlash.
But advocates inside the administration, most prominently Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s senior policy adviser, never gave up on the idea. Last month, facing a sharp uptick in illegal border crossings, Mr. Trump ordered a new effort to criminally prosecute anyone who crossed the border unlawfully — with few exceptions for parents traveling with their minor children.
And now Mr. Trump faces the consequences. With thousands of children detained in makeshift shelters, his spokesmen this past week had to deny accusations that the administration was acting like Nazis. Even evangelical supporters like Franklin Graham said its policy was “disgraceful.”
Among those who have professed objections to the policy is the president himself, who despite his tough rhetoric on immigration and his clear directive to show no mercy in enforcing the law, has searched publicly for someone else to blame for dividing families. He has falsely claimed that Democrats are responsible for the practice. But the kind of pictures so feared by Mr. Trump’s predecessors could end up defining a major domestic policy issue of his term.
Democratic Senators are trying to pass a bill to top this practice. Not a single Republican has signed on.
(ETA: The thing is? We don't even need a bill. This evil policy isn't law. It's just a Trump policy. All we need to do is stop. Just stop doing something that is obviously morally reprehensible and incredibly harmful to innocents. Just stop. But given that Trump and that horrifying troll Stephen Miller are determined to do this unless someone blocks the door, we need just a handful of our GOP representatives to join on and said "no, dude, you can't do this, because it is fucking wrong". Well, where the fuck ARE you, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, Ben Sasse, etc? You know better than this. You fucking know better. Step up and caucus with Dems, not on left-wing policies you don't agree with (I don't ask for that), but on measures to stop Trump when he's doing stuff that you know is fucking appalling.)
Still, Trump and his minions blame the Democrats:
You know what this is? It's evil. I have no compunction, at all, about saying that, and I'm frankly not all that worried about being polite in doing so. Actually, IMO, there are no polite words for this, and no reasonable, principled defense for it. It's fucking evil.