Precisely the problem with AOC-style demagogy & its many defenders among Obama's longtime cheerleaders. If you're a moral reprobate for drawing distinctions or being careful with facts or language, you lose any basis for defending Obama putting kids in cages. https://twitter.com/KevinWGlass/status/1141082006643793922 …
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Two, the Trump Administration has been unnecessarily harsh in its treatment of immigrant detainees, especially in the ways it has departed from Obama policies. "Obama did it first" does not end the debate over new policies.
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Three, the casual assumption that detainees shouldn't be detained (even to be deported) is unserious. It may not be de jure open borders, but it is de facto. The critics are just not facing the logical consequences of their own arguments. It encourages people to die coming here.
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@chrislhayes, but this is a textbook example: yes, this is terrible. But a good solution is one that does not encourage tens of thousands of desperate migrants to come here in these conditions. And so long as they do, where do we put them?https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1141060031422615554 …Show this thread
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