Nielsen, after saying — at length — that loopholes are to blame, flat out says that they have changed the way they are enforcing laws, which is what has led to the significant rise in parent-child separations.
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Beyond everything else, this is an extraordinarily dense argument because there was so much outrage over the Kate Steinle's killing that it fueled a significant portion of Trump's campaign.https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1008829142576652295 …
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Incredible that in the middle of this, Nielsen literally says, "What has changed is that we no longer exempt entire classes of people who break the law. Everyone is subject to prosecution." This change is *precisely* what led to this separation crisis. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1008836005292474369 …pic.twitter.com/ZM2VtvZobJ
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Hence, they know exactly what's going on, know they've created this crisis, and know they could stop it. It makes Nielsen et al's "offense" and blank stares and claims that the law requires this all the more intolerable as an explanation.
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So, they are using children for leverage. The end.https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1008841282901499904 …
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Oof. Looks like Susan Collins has turned a corner:https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1008842785359908866 …
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Republicans Say They Don’t Like Trump’s Family Separation Policy But It's Not Clear What They'll Do About It https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod/republicans-say-they-dont-like-trumps-family-separation?utm_term=.gg53yY3pb … from
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Trump Keeps Telling Us There's A Crisis At The Border. The Numbers Say That's Not True. https://www.buzzfeed.com/adolfoflores/trumps-crisis-at-the-border-not-backed-by-numbers?utm_term=.spD86K8xy … by
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Hello - there has been an over 300% increase in the number of “family” groups crossing illegally alleging - no surprise - fear of persecution. Criminal elements know this & use the children. DOCUMENTED
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Thanks for repeating a line, almost word for word, from Nielsen's briefing. That has nothing to do with the policy being enforced that has led to this crisis.
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And she even blames the media for conflating those two issues -which *she* does.
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she said the media was conflating - that's a trump trick. he must be giving lessons
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I did not hear that. On the contrary I heard her make a clear distinction between the number of children who were unaccompanied and the ones who were not.
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She did that to further ad fuel to the obama administration photos and the box-city walmart. She know what she's doing.
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