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Trump Admin (Stephen Miller) plots new scheme to rip immigrant families apart
https://shareblue.com/trump-new-scheme-immigration-family-separation/There is no end to Trump's cruelty.
Trumps family separation policy was an unmitigated moral catastrophe so naturally, the Trump White House is talking about reviving it.
The White House is actively considering plans that could again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, reports the Washington Post.
The move to reintroduce a policy former CIA Director General Michael Hayden compared to Nazi Germany comes from Stephen Miller, one of Trumps most viciously racist and anti-immigrant advisers.
Miller has so much contempt for immigrants that he once attacked the Statue of Liberty. His fringe xenophobic views are so reprehensible, even his own family has condemned him for them.
According to the Post, there have been several high-level meetings at the White House about bringing back the cruel policy with only a few minor tweaks.
One option would be to detain parents with children for the legally allowed 20-day limit, and then force parents to make a heart-wrenching decision:
Remain together as a family in a government detention facility for months or years waiting for their immigration case to move forward, or volunteer to be separated from their child so that other relatives or guardians in the United States can seek custody.
The original policy, which drew massive protests and generated worldwide condemnation in the summer of 2018, introduced the world to the term tender age facilities, the euphemistic term used to describe baby jails.
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Trump Admin (Stephen Miller) plots new scheme to rip immigrant families apart (Original Post)
Bfd
Oct 2018
OP
My, to listen & watch as Maxine Waters publicly reduces that little Nazi to a crying 5 yr old boy
Bfd
Oct 2018
#4
My fervent hope is that this sick asshole has to face punishment for his crimes
Docreed2003
Oct 2018
#7
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Well,the Dems will have this little Hitler
wannabe before a house committee before the end of January.
Bfd
(1,406 posts)2. My god I hope so. Someday that s.o.b should be standing before the Hague also.
Crimes against humanity committed by position of power.
And done so for no other reason other than, "he could".
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Best guess is this,
Sessions leaves after Xmas,Miller leaves New Years eve or day. He wants to be long gone by January 7,2019. Maxine Waters will have this sucker arrested and brought before here Committee one way or another.
Bfd
(1,406 posts)4. My, to listen & watch as Maxine Waters publicly reduces that little Nazi to a crying 5 yr old boy
will set the wheels of justice in motion.
The Statue of Liberty must have been made in her eternal image.
Your post gives hope.
Thanks
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)5. Maxine rules!
And White Conservative Males are scared to death of her.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)7. My fervent hope is that this sick asshole has to face punishment for his crimes
At The Hauge
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)6. More profit from child trafficking by Trump's pals who run the cages.
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)8. Miller is drunk on power and Elmer's glue
n/t
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)9. That story's gonna stick to him forever.