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By Tommy Christopher - October 17, 2018
The Trump administration is now trying to blame the very children it harmed.
The Trump administration may have reached a new low in its campaign of lies about its family separation policy: insisting that most parents self-separated from their children, when in fact they were involuntarily ripped apart.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the shocking claim during an interview Trump conducted with the Associated Press this week.
Ill send you guys the DHS [Department of Homeland Security] report that has the numbers that show that, like, 75 percent of the kids were actually self-separated, Sanders told the AP reporters. Their parents chose to go back and signed the paperwork to leave their kids behind.
Sanders icy assertion is wrong on its face.
Any children who were left behind in the U.S. had already been ripped away from their parents at the border. Those separations were not in any way voluntary.
https://shareblue.com/sarah-sanders-kids-taken-families-self-separated/
There are no words.........................to this crime being perpetuated by this person, her staff, that she can utter what she said, by basically saying that a 3 month old told a immigration agent that they wanted to be separated from there parents...................this total lack of empathy......................and they want us to be civil when they go pout to eat.................FUCK THAT
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)brush
(53,843 posts)Her credibility is so shot she doesn't even do her primary job anymorethe daily WH press conferencebecause she can't be believed anymore.
unblock
(52,317 posts)struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)with her slime-bag father... but she had a choice as an adult - to look beyond the hate and ignorance she was raised with to find a better way.
So while the odds were against her from birth, she still chose to wrap herself in ignorance.
That makes her a piss-poor excuse for a human, just like her father.
uponit7771
(90,363 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Please, SHS, tell us all how the Jews were just seeking warmer beds in Nazi camps and the Ukrainians under Stalin self-starved so the grain could become bread.
How long before we can jail these vile creatures?