Kelly on immigrants: "The children will be taken care of -- put into foster care or whatever."

[womanofthehills]

OMG! Every day they get worse!

Kelly: It’s not cruel to separate undocumented immigrant families

White House chief of staff John Kelly defended the Trump administration’s new "zero tolerance" policy on border-crossing immigrants, pushing back on accusations that separating immigrant families is “cruel.”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions enacted the new “zero-tolerance” policy earlier this week, which calls for more prosecution of immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, while acknowledging the policy would separate more families.

NPR’s John Burnett asked Kelly in a new interview about criticisms of the new policy, specifically that “people say that's cruel and heartless to take a mother away from her children.”

“I wouldn’t put it quite that way,” Kelly responded. “The children will be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever. But the big point is they elected to come illegally into the United States and this is a technique that no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/387309-kelly-its-not-cruel-to-separate-undocumented-immigrant-families

[ProudLib72]

1. It was cruel when they separated Kelly's brain from his skull

Not for him but for the rest of humanity.

[malaise]

2. The United States Government is kidnapping people's children

This will be an international scandal in 3...2...1

[Ohiogal]

3. Cruel bastards, all of them!

I can't wait until this nightmare is over.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Neither can I. I just want to see them all get what is coming to them.

I have never seen such a group of vicious, evil, hateful bastards in my life. They are absolutely sadistic.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. Kelly: The kids should be "put into foster care or whatever..."

“Are there no poor houses? Are there no orphanages? Why should I help when there is someone ELSE whose job it is to help?” -- Ebenezer Scrooge

I'm old enough to remember thinking that "compassionate conservatism" was a crock. Now I look back on those days fondly. Between Trump, Ryan, Sessions and Kelly, this administration has taken lack of empathy to a new low.

[Girard442]

5. Not too worry, they'll be sent to camps where lots of children can be brought into a few places...

...where they can be cared for effectively and efficently.

You know. Concentrated.

[Leith]

6. The Nazis Did Something Similar

Orphans who were "Aryan" enough (don't ask how they became orphans) were put into foster care in proper German homes.

rethugs are sick fucks.

[lindysalsagal]

7. The optics of this, if they go through with it, will be blood-curdling.

Americans will flock to these kids and the video will be devastating. Idiots.

[lpbk2713]

8. How easy would it be for a pedophile to sign up to be a foster parent?

ICE would be in so much of a hurry to unload them there
probably wouldn't be much of a background check.

[blueinredohio]

10. Foster care is bad enough but it's the "whatever" that scares the shit out of me.

[Danmel]

11. Does this bastard have grandchildren?

Let's put them in foster care or "whatever" and see his reaction. It is sickening.

[bdamomma]

12. What a sick ass

he is, will the next thing is to put these children in work factories??? child labor perhaps John Kelly you heartless POS. Make America great again????

[Arazi]

14. Trafficking would be muy easy with these kids. "Lost" in the system

[treestar]

13. If they come to request asylum

that is not entirely "illegal." And coming illegally is not the worst thing people do on this planet. Note the underlying assumption they deserve it for that relatively harmless act.