Trump laments that US troops can't get "rough" with migrants at the border

[babylonsister]

Trump laments that US troops can’t get “rough” with migrants at the border
And it seems like he’d ask them to do it, too — if it weren’t for those pesky laws.
By Alex [e-mail]@vox.com Apr 10, 2019, 5:50pm EDT


President Donald Trump has mused about closing down the US-Mexico border entirely. He’s reportedly talked about restarting the family separation policy (which he denies). And now, Trump has added another line to his stop-immigration-at-all-costs rhetoric.

The president is saddened by the fact that the military can’t be more “rough” with migrants coming to America.

After telling reporters in Texas on Wednesday that he wants more troops at the US-Mexico border, the president added, “our military, don’t forget, can’t act like a military would act. Because if they got a little rough, everybody would go crazy.”

The reason? “They have all these horrible laws that the Democrats won’t change [and] they will not change them,” the president said, without explaining what laws he means, or how his political opponents thwarted him.

It’s easy to dismiss this as another off-the-cuff, tough-guy Trump comment. But one can’t lose sight that this is the commander in chief — the head of all American forces — saying he kind of wishes the military could have more freedom to hurt men, women, and children.

That, to put it mildly, is horrifying.

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/10/18305175/trump-border-immigration-military-texas

[FM123]

1. It really is horrifying!

I think he said something similar to that a while back about wishing police officers could be a little more rough too....

[Harker]

6. That's right.

He implied that cops ought to bang arrestee'e heads when placing them into police cars.

[RKP5637]

2. tRump, is a wacko!!! n/t

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. "Shoot them animals on sight if they cross" is what Trump is lamenting.

Trump wants them mowed down with bullets, cut down like vermin. Men, women, and babies.

The first immigrant the Military kills will be the end of our Military.

[TommyCelt]

11. "The first immigrant the Military kills will be the end of our Military..."

and the beginning of the American SS.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. That will be a sad day in our History, TommyCelt.....

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I posted the video here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212001364

Truly horrifying.

[dewsgirl]

5. This week you can feel things taking more of an

ominous turn, yesterday that was amped up by about 100 percent. I'm afraid of what today will bring.

[spanone]

7. he's the worse human on earth... and I use the word 'human' loosely

[bullwinkle428]

8. Once again, what's even more disgusting is that there are so many in

this country totally backing him up on these very sentiments.

[robbob]

14. I'm afraid it will take a tragedy along the lines of Kent State

before people will start to wake up. Even at that, I seem to recall reading that many Americans felt the Kent State students “had it coming” in the early days following the shootings. Deplorable doesn’t begin to cover it.

[lpbk2713]

9. If they can't do what you want ...

might as well send them home.

[yaesu]

10. Is it worth the effort to impeach Donnie dictator yet? nt

[PatrickforO]

13. Wow! He's describing the Einsatzgruppen.

The Wehrmacht had some rules around how the soldiers ought to behave, for at least the early part of the war, followed those rules.

Unfortunately, Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Bormann and Heydrich had a vision of 'soldiers' who could get 'a little rough' with other racial groups. They created a branch of the SS called the Einsatzgruppen. These 'soldiers,' little more than armed thugs inculcated with the Nazi racial 'science' of the SS, would go in behind the Wehrmacht units and begin rounding up Jewish people and others, killing, setting up concentration camps. They were 'rough,' and I imagine acted exactly as Trump imagines 'a military would act.'

Because Trump, at heart, is a Nazi, a disciple of Hitler. Make no mistake. He studies the way Hitler spoke, his tones, his gestures, and when things are going bad, he hurries to another rally where he can mesmerize his followers.

Don't, please don't, think it can't happen here.

It already is - we have ICE and the concentration camps along the southern border. Children separated from parents, living in cages. Already two years of crimes against humanity.