"They separated families," Nielsen says, referencing the Obama and Bush administrations.
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Nielsen: "The kids are being used as pawns by the smugglers and traffickers." / In response to a question about the family separation being used as leverage for the bill (with wall funding)
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Nielsen says it's "incorrect" to say that people seeking asylum are being turned away from ports of entry. "We're not turning them away," she says, saying they are telling people to come back when they don't have space. (Which is turning them away.)
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IN SUM: Nielsen told the press that a discretionary policy decision — zero-tolerance enforcement — was a "law" that created this problem. Then said that people need to seek asylum at ports of entry — even though people seeking asylum are being turned away from ports of entry.
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Nielsen also repeatedly conflated unaccompanied minors with family separation.
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Chris Geidner Retweeted Daniel Dale
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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Chris Geidner Retweeted Zeke Miller
So, they are using children for leverage. The end.https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1008841282901499904 …
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Zeke MillerVerified account @ZekeJMillerThe White House says it would reject a narrow fix to address children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it wants Congress to "fix the whole thing."@PressSec: "We want to fix the whole thing, we don't want to tinker with just part of it."16 replies 206 retweets 377 likesShow this thread -
Chris Geidner Retweeted Frank Thorp V
Oof. Looks like Susan Collins has turned a corner:https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1008842785359908866 …
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Frank Thorp VVerified account @frankthorpCOLLINS: “The (Trump Admin) has the authority to fix this immediately” Q: Nielsen says Congress alone can fix it. COLLINS: “That is not the case, otherwise how could the previous two administrations have rejected this approach” *pauses* “That’s amazing that she said that...”12 replies 79 retweets 189 likesShow this thread
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 @pdmcleod & @LissandraVilla
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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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They will do.....nothing
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