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turbinetree

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Sat Sep 29, 2018, 09:22 AM Sep 2018

Trump official caught OKing family separation plan she said didn't exist [View all]

By Dan Desai Martin - September 28, 2018

More lies emerge about the family separation program that callously ripped apart immigrant families.

Contrary to the lies told by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the Trump administration knew exactly what it was doing when it instituted its cruel policy of tearing families apart, leading to the abhorrent baby jails and other atrocities revealed over the summer of 2018.

A newly uncovered memo, signed in April, shows the Trump administration was fully aware of what its “zero tolerance” border policy would do to families. According to Buzzfeed:

Nielsen signed off on the option to prosecute all adults who crossed the border illegally, including those with kids, knowing it would lead to family separations. The administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy, which sought to prosecute every adult caught crossing the border illegally, resulted in thousands of families being separated, with some parents being deported without their children.

Even though the memo was signed in April, Nielsen blatantly lied about the policy both in conversations with reporters and on social media. On June 17, 2018, almost a month after signing the memo, Neilsen wrote, “We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.”

https://shareblue.com/kirstjen-nielsen-family-separation-immigration-memo/

So the Vanilla Queen #3 is basically full of right wing racists shit.

I just wonder if this person ever put her self in someones else shoes....................I fucking doubt it.............

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Kickin' with disgust Faux pas Sep 2018 #1
The child kidnapper is a full-fledged white supremacist dalton99a Sep 2018 #2
They needed 2naSalit Sep 2018 #3
Yep, that's my thoughts on the "child stealing enterprise" MagickMuffin Sep 2018 #16
I thought the plan was vlyons Sep 2018 #17
Don't fool yourself -- the plan was to wrench control of the federal government away KPN Sep 2018 #21
What repercussions do they suffer for lying? essaynnc Sep 2018 #4
Throwing members of the Administration in jail has always been one of the coercive actions in2herbs Sep 2018 #7
The complete loss of political power and then prosecutions, as it always is. Fred Sanders Sep 2018 #8
And abdication of enforcment by court order. ancianita Sep 2018 #10
None right now. But wait. Their time is coming. There WILL be blowback. We shall KPN Sep 2018 #23
People with No Conscience (Psychopaths, Sociopaths) Are Incapable of Feeling Empathy or Compassion dlk Sep 2018 #5
And 45 million Americans want them to cause MORE pain to these children. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2018 #26
Expect a few actual 'angry Democrats' will have a few questions for Ms. Nielsen next year pecosbob Sep 2018 #6
That would be lovely! Every Dem must vote in November! SunSeeker Sep 2018 #11
Glad she's documented, but we knew the program was designed to Hortensis Sep 2018 #9
"We" at DU learned of it, but nationwide there was nothing in writing to make us aware enough ancianita Sep 2018 #14
I've since read that planning started before Trump Hortensis Sep 2018 #18
Thanks for the summary details. Once these places are built, they're hard to defund and dismantle, ancianita Sep 2018 #24
These are mostly meant to be emptied, needless to say Hortensis Sep 2018 #25
Heartily agree. ancianita Sep 2018 #28
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Sep 2018 #12
Put All Trumpscum In Prison PaulX2 Sep 2018 #13
K&R! calimary Sep 2018 #15
I hate them so much. hostalover Sep 2018 #19
These peope are wholly untrustworthy to say the least, yet we are saddled with them for now. KPN Sep 2018 #20
+1000! ancianita Sep 2018 #29
I see all of this as a dress rehearsal Samspadesnark Sep 2018 #22
When this started last Spring, they said it was Jeff Sessions FakeNoose Sep 2018 #27
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