Trump 'Hates' Families Being Parted At Border, Insists Dems Must Change Law

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By Kate Riga | June 15, 2018 10:35 am

President Donald Trump said Friday that he “hates” migrant parents being separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border and insisted that the “Democratic law” that requires the separation can only be changed by Democratic lawmakers, despite the Republican majorities in Congress.

“The Democrats forced that law upon our nation,” he said during an impromptu press conference outside the White House. “I hate it. I hate to see separation of parents and children. The Democrats can come to us, as they actually are, in all fairness, we’re talking to them, and they can change the whole border security.”

The practice of separating parents from their children at the border is not enshrined in some Democratic administration’s law. According to an extensive Washington Post fact check, it is largely a product of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which includes prosecutorial crackdowns on all undocumented adults, while existing policy requires that minors not be held in captivity. Thus, it is Sessions’ policy that directly caused the separations.

In addition, Trump has routinely put the onus on the minority party to pass legislation ending the separations, for some reason exempting the Republican majorities from taking any action. In fact, a week ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and 39 cosponsors—all Democrats plus the two Independents who caucus with the Democrats—introduced the “Keeping Families Together Act” on the floor of the Senate.

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[dalton99a]

1. Because Democrats control everything in Washington.

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. Yup.

The Deep State Democrats could simply order it to end and presto!

[PaulX2]

2. And The Drooling Imbeciles That Still Support Him Agree

It's all the Democrats fault. Both Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh said so, and it absolutely true.

On Earth 2.

[DetlefK]

3. Sooo... Which law exactly is supposed to change? And why has nobody proposed to change it?

[dhill926]

4. he's really getting that Goebbels thing down pat....

and his tribe of morons cheer wildly....

[Liberalagogo]

5. Idiot Shithole

lies and makes no sense.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. It's your own fucking policy you fucking sadistic motherfucker.

And your malignantly narcissistic psychopathic motherfucking ass doesn't feel the least bit of remorse.

Go have your long deserved heart attack and die already, you piece of contemptible shit.

[forgotmylogin]

27. TRUMP'S FUCKING PICTURE IS ON THE FUCKING WALL OF THE FUCKING DETENTION CENTERS

And that quote, I'm head-thunking-on-the-desk flabbergasted to learn, is from the FUCKING Art of the Deal.

One of the images in the Casa Padre shelter in Brownsville, Texas, is a large mural of President Donald Trump with a quote – in English and Spanish – from his 1987 book The Art of the Deal.

“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war,” reads the quote, a reference to Trump’s real estate project at 100 Central Park South in New York City.

http://time.com/5312226/donald-trump-mural-immigrant-kids-center/

[thesquanderer]

7. Reminds me of his...

[muntrv]

8. No, you and the Keebler Elf need to change the DOJ zero tolerance policy.

[pazzyanne]

9. "Its the Democrats..."

Strange, we didn't have this happening until AG Jeff Sessions gave a press conference at the border to spell out the tRump administration's new policy, separating children and their parents at the border. There is no law that states that this separation must be done. Not until Sessions made it so.

[mitch96]

29. Right, From what I understand

It's not a law it's a policy.. and a policy o'l Jeffy could change with a snap of his wittle short fingers...
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[iluvtennis]

10. Another LIE. This is the policy of his Administration. Don't let him deflect it to the Dems.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. It is not the law. It is purely Trump-GOP-RepubliCON policy. Harm the child to punish the parents.

Once the kids are out they are not fetuses.

[IronLionZion]

12. Resign if it's too much for you

since the big bad Democrats are making you do bad things and you don't have any backbone to take responsibility for your own actions.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Destroying the opposition is part of a power grab for total dictatorship

He cannot be allowed to perpetuate these lies

[lagomorph777]

14. Donald J. Trump is a kidnapper and extortionist; he is throwing babies in concentration camps.

[Gothmog]

15. Trump is lying yet again

Link to tweet

[duforsure]

16. He owns it

No matter how much he lies and claims others are to blame, just like he's done to the DACA kids. He's intentionally lying so he can continue to hurt these kids , and could care less about what he does to them. His level of cruelty is just the tip of the ice burg. He wants to dictate and be known as the cruelest of them all. He's more brutal than anyone thinks.

[Firestorm49]

17. Right.

Dems can change the “law”. Who’s running this game? Dems, or a GOP controlled House, Senate, and unfortunately, presidency.

[Mc Mike]

18. Lying nazi pig.

[lagomorph777]

19. Hey Kidnapper Don: nobody's buying your crap. Close your concentration camps or go to jail.

[sinkingfeeling]

20. Can't someone demand the WH provide the law, you know US Code xx.xx?

[okaawhatever]

32. Well, yeah, the press could. The Democrats have (but you wouldn't know that because

the press won't report it).

[lagomorph777]

22. Partly true; TRUMP HATES FAMILIES

other than his own.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. Your party is charge of everything, you dickless meat goblin!!! nt

[treestar]

24. How evil

Si he can get changing that as a bargaining chip in some horrible bill. When he is the one who made the change. Just like he did with DACA

[Gothmog]

25. Ari Melber shows why Donald Trump is lying about his child migrant policy

Link to tweet

[Cha]

31. THANK YOU, GOTH!!! AND, ARI!

[DonCoquixote]

26. Not that he would be this smart

But he could fire sessions under the pretense of him fucking up immigration, which he did.

[hibbing]

28. Now watch this backswing n/t

[Cha]

30. Fucking GasLighter GASBAG. Anybody who

believes his LIES is a fucking Idiot.

[fishwax]

33. It's nonsensical bullshit, and news organizations should say so

I appreciate that WaPo went through the trouble of an "extensive fact check," but it's also true that this simply doesn't make sense.