ICE: Does that mean a cold drink? I'll ask mommy
(Hey,
where’s my mommy)
(A picture worth 10,000 words or arrests)
HOT TOPIC:
My Introduction to this fine
analysis from the Washington Post (below) with my emphasis on critical points – the ones Trump and
many GOPers always seem to conveniently skip over re: Trump’s routine
strong and standard harsh terms and based on many Trump lies and flat out false
claims:
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So, hey Mr. and Mrs. America and especially “Trump
loyalists” – listen up:
What we are witnessing right now and once again smack in
our face is the Trump “Art of the Con” – not deal making or skill from “I’m the
smartest man in world at negotiating” or with any finesse whatsoever. Nope, we
have a Flim-Flam Con Artist right here in our own “River City” and in our collective
face.
The subject is immigration, and I will say right up
front something we all know and supposedly cherish – our heritage. We all (except
truly native Americans) have our roots in families that immigrated to America –
most legally, but some illegally in many cases over the decades past. All of
them no matter how, came here for a better life, some to escape poverty or in
many cases war, famine, crime, other turmoil inhumane terms.
But with Trump we have a horror show as I said, once
again right in our face, now ripping children away from their parents who brought
them here – no fault of their own to seek a better life – and, yet Trump wants
to sustain his “nasty blame game” when in reality it is his bigoted fault.
Related – click the video link below – it also explains
the topic (about 3 minutes):
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From the Washington Post analysis:
Trump has
calculated that he will gain political leverage in congressional negotiations
by continuing to enforce a policy he claims to hate — separating immigrant
parents from their young children at the southern border, according to White
House officials.
Trump suggested he would not change the policy unless Democrats
agreed to his other immigration demands, which include (1) funding a border
wall, (2) tightening the rules for border enforcement, and (3) curbing legal
entry. He also is intent on pushing members of his party to vote for a
compromise measure that would achieve those long-standing priorities.
(I note:
Trump shames DEMS to support his crap knowing full and well he does not have
GOP votes on the harsh policy to pass any standalone bill. He needs the DEMS
and he thinks shame will turn them his way. He is flat out wrong on this approach.
Many GOPers also know it. Now we shall see who stands for right or wrong and
common sense).
Trump’s
public acknowledgment that he was willing continue as he pursued his political
goals came as the president once again blamed Democrats for a policy enacted
and touted by his own administration.
Trump tweeted this
after listing his demands in any immigration bill: “The
Democrats are forcing the breakup of families at the Border with their horrible
and cruel legislative agenda,” he tweeted “Go for it! WIN!”
The attempt
to gain advantage from a practice the
American Academy of Pediatrics describes as causing children “irreparable harm” sets up a high-stakes gambit for Trump, whose
political career has long benefited from harsh rhetoric on immigration.
Democrats
have latched onto the issue and vowed to fight in the court of public opinion,
with leaders planning trips to the border to highlight the stories of separated
families, already the focus of news media attention.
Democratic candidates
running for vulnerable Republican seats also have begun to make the harsh
treatment of children a centerpiece of their campaigns.
The policy has cracked Trump’s usually united
conservative base, with a wide array of religious leaders and groups denouncing
it. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Southern Baptist Convention
issued statements critical of the practice.
The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, who
delivered a prayer at Trump’s inauguration, signed a letter calling the
practice “horrible.”
Pastor Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse, a vocal
supporter of the presidents who has brushed aside past Trump controversies,
called it “terrible” and “disgraceful.”
Besides increasing
the odds of a broader immigration bill, senior Trump
strategists believe that the
child separation policy will deter the flow of migrant families across the
border. Nearly 2,000
immigrant children were separated from parents during six weeks in April and
May, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The figure is the only
one released by the government.
(My insert: I wonder who the “senior Trump strategists and,
and do any of them even have small children themselves: Hint: My first guess to ID the
leader of that bunch would be the staunch anti-immigrant ass, Stephen Miller
followed by Jeff Sessions a close second – then anyone’s guess).
A White House
official said: “The president has told folks that in lieu of the laws being
fixed, he wants to use the enforcement mechanisms that we have.
The thinking
in the building is to force people to the table.” Trump reinforced that notion at
the White House when he suggested Democrats (falsely again) alone had the power
to alter the policy.
(I note: the law as such was passed under Obama and the GOP, but they never separated children this way — ever — so the policy as such then was nowhere the present harsh implementation by Trump and Sessions now ... that is a historical fact — look it up and BTW: The GOP runs the whole government shebang so they could in heartbeat change the policy, but Trump wants blame to benefit his so-called skills in deal-making).
Then Trump had the audacity to say: “I hate the children being taken away.”
(I have to say:
Bull Mr. Trump, utter BS).
The
president used a similar strategy last year as he sought to gain approval for
his immigration demands by using the lure of protection for young immigrants
brought to the United States as children. That effort, which ran counter to
Trump’s earlier promise to sign a bipartisan bill protecting the young
immigrants, foundered in Congress.
Democratic
and Republican strategists believe the odds of passing a broad new immigration
law — this one ending the family separation policy — remain slim.
My 2 cents: All my views are basically highlighted above – so not
much more to add that to state the obvious: Trump is a bigot and racist and
anti-immigrant hateful man, period. Measure that against all his words and actions and deeds and attempts at harsh policy. The evidence is compelling: Trump is a bigot and hates immigrants - sadly his own family came from Germany and two of his three wives were immigrants — how's that for his sick irony? Pretty hard to square that circle, Mr. Trump.
All I finally say is stay tuned and for goodness sake if you disagree with Trump on this
policy or his other harsh policies (anti-health care and especially harsh
toward women and seniors on social security and Medicare cuts, etc.) then get onboard the movement to turn things around this November. Help get get out the vote and take friends, too and do whatever you think is right.
Our national honor, dignity, core values, compassion, and yes, the future are at stake.
Thanks for stopping by.
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