The flop-sweat is starting to show in Trump team's scramble to defend child separation

[babylonsister]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-scrambling-to-defend-family-separation-immigrants-3ce82b642e12/

The flop-sweat is starting to show in Trump team’s scramble to defend child separation
Evolving lies, and a sudden rash of Bible-thumping.
Alan Pyke
Jun 14, 2018, 5:31 pm


With faith leaders criticizing his asylum and family separation policies at the southern U.S. border, Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a few of his favorite lies about immigration law spiced up with a more aggressive rhetorical flair in Indiana on Thursday.

The speech landed right between two other prominent examples of the Republican regime’s increasing desperation to deflect attention from the cruelty of its border policies — a cruelty which Sessions made clear is quite intentional.

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“In this system, you say ‘Where’s my child?’ and they tell you, I don’t know but you can call this phone number. They can’t find your child,” former U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services counsel Ur Jaddou said in an interview. “How is a baby supposed to stay in contact with their parent? They took your child, oh here’s a flyer if you’ve lost your child call and we’ll try to help — when they’re the ones who took the kid in the first place.”

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Several people deported under the Trump administration have told border activist groups that they have been unable to contact infant children who were taken from them by American security personnel as part of Session’s “discouraging” efforts. In one case reported by the group Raices Texas via MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, deported parents have been occasionally video-chatting with their 8-month-old baby via Skype for more than four months.

If that starts to sound like a policy of mass kidnapping in the name of Sessions’ discouragement campaign, that’s because that is exactly what it is, Amnesty’s Bell said.

“The government does not plan on reuniting the separated families. What they’re trying to do is get families connected so that they can communicate through phone or Skype, but they do not plan to reunite them when they find one another,” said Bell.

“It fits a pattern of seeking to deter people from coming here to seek safety, and it flies in the face of fundamental human rights protecting parents, protecting children, and protecting refugees.”

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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-scrambling-to-defend-family-separation-immigrants-3ce82b642e12/

[LakeVermilion]

1. Refer Sessions to the the International Criminal Court...

crimes against humanity.

We didn't prosecute Bush/Cheney so they push farther beyond the law.

[CentralMass]

2. This.

[lagomorph777]

7. We failed to prosecute Cheney/Bush, Reagan, and Nixon.

Each time we fail to uphold the law, they take it as permission to push it further.

[peggysue2]

3. Oh Noes!!!

the Bible quoting isn't working. Sarah Huckabee's arrogance yesterday didn't effectively chastise the press and critics. The word Kidnapping is now being used to describe snatching children from their parents and the proposed Camps for Displaced Children has a ragged sound to it.

The excuses of old are blowing up.

Never forget, never forgive.

[Delmette2.0]

13. I will never forget or forgive. nt

[peggysue2]

17. Few of us will, Delmette but

for those few, I always post the reminder--this isn't simply a bad Administration, it's a cruel, traitorous and criminal Administration. Anyone still supporting the deliberate chaos and destruction of norms and values is on the same perverse level.

The House of Cards is beginning to collapse, methinks. Can't happen soon enough.

[Achilleaze]

4. a republican crap storm of republican making

He repubes: It's pretty damn evil to cage children, break up families, lie to the American people, cheat with your so-called "charity" foundation, and betray America.

Snap out of it, you will be DAMNED TO HELL for all eternity by your own stanking sins (and crimes).

[C_U_L8R]

5. There's no other word

This is the definition of concentration camp.

And it's happening here. These children must be rescued.

[lagomorph777]

8. Throwing BABIES into concentration camps. This from the "family values" party.

[C_U_L8R]

12. Chickenshits.

Of course these Republican assholes pick on babies. I dare them to face us.

[NastyRiffraff]

15. "Family values" only applies to fetuses

Not living, crying, peeing, beautiful children. They really don't care once a baby is actually born, unless of course that baby is their own.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Harm the children to punish the parents. CONservatives. After, the kids are born, not fetuses. . .nt

[OhNo-Really]

9. Many US Christian Zealots Believe in corporal punishment of their ownchildren

Do a titch of research.

Even their own children are seen as objects in need of their heavy hand and shaming.

Spare the rod, spoilmthe child.

Authoritarian parenting.

Authoritarian politics.

[Johnny2X2X]

10. Evil

Tearing children, some of them infants away from their parents for months at a time is evil. Following orders to do so makes you an evil person. Evil is being committed by our country in our names. These children will be forever scarred and it's 100% immoral and evil, there is no excuse for it.

People do not realize how atrocities happen, once you've decided babies are OK to throw into dog kennels, it's not a big step to start killing them. I have no doubt stories of horrible abuses start coming out from these children prisons.

[bullwinkle428]

11. The FUCKING KLANS-ELF tossing out the same Bible passage used to

justify slavery, back when he was a young racist boy, was their "Hail Mary pass".

[dalton99a]

14. Kick

[Hekate]

16. Not in my name, you evil bastards

[lunatica]

18. The flop sweat really stinks too

Even Trump doesn’t look comfortable with his lies about it.