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DonViejo

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Tue May 29, 2018, 05:12 PM May 2018

Elizabeth Warren Battles Meghan McCain on Missing Migrant Children: This is 'On Donald Trump's Head'

by Ken Meyer | 2:04 pm, May 29th, 2018

Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Meghan McCain mixed it up today when the senator appeared on The View to talk about President Trump‘s policy allowing the division of migrant families detained at the U.S. southern border.

The conversation gravitated around the HHS statements regarding the 1,500 children who they’ve been unable to keep track of after Trump Administration policy separated them from their parents. Warren argued that Trump could allow these families to stay together if he wants to, but “the fact that children are being torn out of the arms of their mothers, is on Donald Trump’s head and nobody else’s.”

McCain challenged Warren afterwards by noting that Barack Obama‘s presidency allowed immigration officials to separate migrant family members too. The senator countered by calling for systematic change while re-stating that Trump decides the rules on this issue.

“Let’s not go backwards in the blame game,” Warren said. “If you think it’s wrong, change it, and if you don’t think it’s wrong, if you’re not willing to change it, then own it.”

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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/elizabeth-warren-battles-meghan-mccain-on-missing-migrant-children-this-is-on-donald-trumps-head/

Video at link, above. Don

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Elizabeth Warren Battles Meghan McCain on Missing Migrant Children: This is 'On Donald Trump's Head' (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
Important to include this Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #1
The notion of false equivalency goes over Meghan's head. panader0 May 2018 #3
McCain is such a Fux Ruse talking head... BigmanPigman May 2018 #2

Eliot Rosewater

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1. Important to include this
Tue May 29, 2018, 05:15 PM
May 2018
To be clear: the Obama administration’s use of ATEP wasn’t intended to break-up families–that was an expected side effect–while Trump’s recently-confirmed policy is expressly directed toward that end in the name of “deterrence.”
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