Delegation of 19 Republican senators to carry out border stunt on Friday
Delegation of 19 Republican senators to carry out border stunt on Friday
Mar 25, 2021 3:49pm Eastern Daylight Time by Gabe Ortiz, Daily Kos Staff
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/25/2022808/-Delegation-of-19-Republican-senators-to-carry-out-border-stunt-on-Friday
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A delegation of 19 Republican senators—19—led by John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are set to visit the Rio Grande Valley on Friday, claiming in a statement to be concerned about what they call in that document a “humanitarian crisis” at the border. With them will be pro-immigrant legislators (sarcasm) like Tom Cotton, who will no doubt arrive with policy solutions, responsible rhetoric, and a genuine concern for children (even more sarcasm).
If it all sounds like just another border stunt by Republicans, that’s because that’s what this is, and there’s not enough side-eye in the world for this. It’s not just any old stunt, but one that 19 Senate Republicans are shamelessly carrying out after spending four years ignoring the anti-immigrant abuses of the prior administration. Many of these abuses targeted the very asylum-seeking kids they’re now pretending to give a shit about.
Just a few weeks before a federal judge ordered a stop to the policy, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation blocking the previous administration from forcibly separating children from their parents at the border. The Keep Families Together Act would eventually get 48 cosponsors. But there was no delegation of 19 outraged senators going to Feinstein’s office to add their names. In fact, not one single Republican signed onto the bill, either afraid of the previous occupant of the White House, supportive of the family separation policy, or maybe just both.
There was no delegation of 19 outraged Republican senators when children died in custody of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for the first time in years. Making the deaths of 7-year-old Jakelin Ameí Rosmery Caal Maquin and 8-year-old Felipe Gómez Alonzo all the more tragic and senseless is that they were preventable, a top medical expert told Congress last year. NBC News reported at the time that the pediatrician’s findings were backed up by a Government Accountability Report (GAO) “indicating that CBP has not implemented medical care policies consistently across its facilities at the southwest border.”
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