Joni Ernst Compares Border Conditions To Thanksgiving Guests

[turbinetree]

The border crisis is just like having a thousand people show up at Thanksgiving. Whatcha gonna do? says the Republican Congresswoman.
By Frances Langum

This may be the stupidest Republican analogy you'll hear this year. Congratulations, Joni Ernst of Iowa! The political website Iowa Starting Line reports:

“These facilities are at their maximum capacity,” she said. “And so the way I describe it is, hey, we’re used to a certain number of folks that will come to the border. We know that. That’s gone on for years and years and years. But, it’s just like Thanksgiving dinner. You make Thanksgiving dinner for your family, maybe 10 people, but a thousand show up at your door expecting Thanksgiving dinner. What do you do? You’ve only got two legs, come on. It is a crisis.”

The federal government's immigration forces have more than two legs.

Migrants are seeking asylum, not Thanksgiving dinner.

And this:

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/07/joni-ernst-compares-border-conditions



https://crooksandliars.com/2019/07/joni-ernst-compares-border-conditions

[dawg day]

1. this is a country that incarcerates a million people--

We actually do know how to house many people in shelters and prisons, and provide beds and food and showers and water.

Not to mention the government provides housing for hundreds of thousands of servicemembers.

This is nothing new.

There is no getting around it == Trump WANTS the border people to suffer. Pence (that "good christian&quot said as much. If they suffer, it'll send a message.
For Trump, that's sending a message to his sadistic followers.

[VOX]

5. Precisely! $$$ for privatized prisons, but the Ayn-Randing-factor spells death for refugees.

I agree, this ugly show is a meant to inflict punishment.

#45, at his “best” (ha!) turns a blind eye to the suffering he continues to cause; but his usual setting is “let them die.”

[LuckyLib]

2. Stop. Just stop.

[meadowlander]

3. What do you do with all your unwanted Thanksgiving crashers?

I'll venture to say you don't lock them up in your garage in standing room only conditions for 72 hours, refuse to let them shower, tell them to drink out of the toilet, lock their kids in the shed with the 8 or 9 year olds changing diapers for the toddlers and babies, feel up your 14 year old niece in front of everyone and then shrug and say "what can I do?"

Because those would be, you know, crimes.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Sure

Invite her over for Thanksgiving then lock her in a cage. It'll be a holiday she'll remember.