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aocommunalpunch

(4,586 posts)
1. Tres humanitarian.
Thu Jun 1, 2023, 04:11 PM
Jun 2023
Seems like the consideration was anything BUT that.

Autumn

(49,019 posts)
2. Humanitarian consideration my ass. At least now we know that the DOJ has been very busy.
Thu Jun 1, 2023, 04:14 PM
Jun 2023

Lonestarblue

(13,560 posts)
3. What! The DOJ is defending the breaking up of families and transporting children to sites unknown?
Thu Jun 1, 2023, 04:17 PM
Jun 2023

“The Department of Justice said in their filing that when former Trump Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen claimed to have signed a memo in May 2018 directing immigration agents to refer migrant parents for prosecution, and thereby separating families, her intention was not “to use separations of parents and children to inflict harm,” but instead it was “in furtherance of policy objectives relating to immigration enforcement.” That made the department immune to legal challenges under the law, according to the filing.”

What is wrong with these people? The whole purpose of the program was to inflict so much harm that families would stop coming here. Many of these children have never been found, and no one knows what has happened to them because Trump’s government was so callous that they did not bother keeping records of where they sent each child and who took custody of that child. I suspect they wanted no one to know who took custody.

This defense of a heinous Trump policy makes my head spin.

RussBLib

(10,755 posts)
4. sounds like that "sex trafficking" the GOP is always going on about nt
Thu Jun 1, 2023, 04:32 PM
Jun 2023

RockRaven

(19,749 posts)
5. Brownshirts gonna brownshirt.
Thu Jun 1, 2023, 04:38 PM
Jun 2023

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