The Republican Party was already the Nasty Party, but it has sunk to new lows under Trump, consider the following nasty details about the separation of families of immigrants:
- “Zero tolerance”: Everyone who attempts to cross the boarder, even those seeking asylum, are being prosecuted.
- Ripping children from their parents after they have already gone through the ordeal of fleeing their home countries and an often very dangerous journey.
- Sephen Miller seems behind this policy
- Trump denies its a policy and blames the Democrats
- Social workers are used to entrap the children
- John Kelly argued last year that they could do something like this
- It’s a form of child abuse, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Here are all the possible damaging effect on the children
- It’s a form of kidnapping
- While the children are crying their hearts out in detention centers, guards make jokes
- Scaramucci: You can’t simultaneously argue that family separation isn’t happening, that it’s being used as a deterrent, that the Bible justifies it and that it’s @TheDemocrats fault
- Republicans support the policy 55%-35%
- Former Trump campaign manager Cory Lewandowski mocked a story about a 10 year old with Down syndrome being separated from her family, and then refused to apologize for it
- Despite video evidence, Lewandowski argued him mocking a 10 year old with Down syndrome was fake news
- Republican strategist Steve Schmidt denounces the Republican Party as corrupt, indecent and immoral
- Right wing provocateur Ann Coulter argues the weeping children are actors paid by the Democrats
- There is no system to reunite the children with their parents and there are already examples of children having been lost as good as permanently
- Eric Trump sees it as a Democrat ploy to get the headlines away from his father’s successful summit with Kim Jong Un. His father approves of his tweet
- Meet the White House bible study group that approves of it all
- Family separations do NOT happen only at the border, they have become a mainstay feature of Trump’s policy
- Fox News blames it all on the Democrats
- President Trump reversed, signing an executive order after arguing for days that this could not be done by executive order
- It does nothing for the 2300+ kids that have already been separated from their parents
- There are still legal obstacles, like the fact that children will now be held in detention with their parents, but the children cannot be held in detention for more than 20 days
- Some of the children claim to have been drugged in the US camps
- Republicans reject an amendment against family separation at the border
- Fake crisis; immigrants are LESS criminal on average than the native population
- Cato on studies linking immigrants and crime
- Nastiness is a choice, there are alternatives to locking people up at the border and/or separate them from their children