AP Sources: Homeland Security secretary drafting order to end family separation at border [UPDATED]

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:02 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: AP

BREAKING: AP Sources: Homeland Security secretary drafting order to end family separation at border; unclear if Trump will sign it.


Read more: https://apnews.com/1dafadd6fee4447cadd4a0179553026e

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See the update below - Trump has said he'll be signing "something" which is apparently this..


Breaking news from the AP, 8 minutes ago.

Link to tweet

I've edited the link and source to go directly to the AP story, rather than the tweet seen first.


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Editing to add a tweet from the AP's Ken Thomas, minutes ago -- says Nielsen is on her way to the White House to discuss this.

Link to tweet

[div class"excerpt"]Nielsen is drafting an executive action for Trump that would direct DHS to keep families apprehended at the border together during detention, via @colvinj @ctlong1. Nielsen is on her way to the White House to discuss the issue.


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Editing again to post tweet from CBS reporter -- Trump is saying he'll sign this.

Link to tweet

[div class"excerpt"]Trump to WH pool: "I'll be signing something in a little while that's going to do that. I'll be doing something that's somewhat preemptive and ultimately will be matched by legislation I'm sure."

[marylandblue]

1. Trump signs whatever they put in front of him

[lagomorph777]

7. A big wavy line scribbled with a giant crayon.

Will he pose with all of his co-conspirators (cabinet & staff) or hide?

[forgotmylogin]

28. He might use the special gold marker for this one. (n/t)

[yonder]

18. Usually yes and with that revolting flourish too, but in this case I would disagree.

It's being drafted by his own HHS. If he were to sign this, it would squarely put the blame for this border situation on HIM -- that he could have rectified this all along, rendering his finger pointing at everything but him, wrong. That doesn't sound like the tRump I know and hate.

However, his contradictory, blameless ass could deflect this by saying he had to sign it, because nobody else would do anything. In his mind that would make him the HERO. Once again, saving the world, he alone blah, blah, blah, while his idiot base laps it up.

So marylandblue, maybe I just talked myself out of disagreeing with you.

[csziggy]

34. Except when he walks out without signing what was in front of him

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. I will believe it when ALL the children are reunited with their parents...

waiting......

[OhNo-Really]

8. Who will oversee reuniting

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

[asiliveandbreathe]

19. This should be our mantra....

[The Blue Flower]

3. The Nuremburg trials made it clear his signature isn't necessary to stop an atrocity

There is nothing constitutional about the deprivation of the children's rights, nothing legal. No one should be obeying these directives.

[demmiblue]

4. Here is the link:

https://apnews.com/1dafadd6fee4447cadd4a0179553026e

[awesomerwb1]

5. But but....I thought that wasn't your policy Ms Nielsen?

IF, again IF this is true and they don't know if cheeto will sign it.....could this be her way out?

[IronLionZion]

6. So ruining her dinner worked?

Find out where every official has dinner and send in the Democratic Socialists to handle the rest.

[lagomorph777]

9. Evidently bullies can dish it out but they can't take it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. I see what you did there....

[lagomorph777]

39. Bada BOOM!

[duforsure]

10. Then after its signed, charge her and Sessions and Miller, trump with child abuse.

And remove them from our government for doing this. If he has no consequences , he always escalates it next time. If any international humane rights violations have been broken , other countries need to join in with charges against them also. This needs to be stopped , and prevented from him doing this ever again by removal from office. If this isn't a high crime against children , what is?

[TryLogic]

12. Hell yes!

[forgotmylogin]

29. 1200 counts of child endangerment?

Even if they fix it, they should not get a pass for the damage they've done.

[jimlup]

11. Keep the pressure on

Trump will only do what he feels is politically advantageous.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Too late. The damage - both psychologically to those impacted

and to the U.S. globally, as well as to the GOP, is DONE.

[Renew Deal]

14. My problem with Nielsen is that from what I hear, she wasn't for it. So I don't understand why she

went full Nazi defending it rather than resigning. This is the problem with working for Trump. It is a permanent stain on your life. In Nielsen's case, she went all in on defending an atrocity. There is no escaping that.

[highplainsdem]

15. Haberman thinks this means Kelly's trying to get heat of Nielsen and back on Trump

Link to tweet

[Renew Deal]

16. She doesn't like being protested out of restaurants.

[asiliveandbreathe]

20. Or shamed by her alma mater...

[Roland99]

17. Got called out on her LIES! Got SHAMED at her dinner the other night!

Trying to cover her heinous behaviour!

[highplainsdem]

21. Just edited the OP - Trump told the WH pool he'll sign this..

[highplainsdem]

22. Sam Stein: Fox News gonna shift to praising Trump for taking swift action now

Link to tweet

[klook]

35. Right - he's a hero

for ending a policy that wasn't a policy but a law, didn't exist, and was the Democrats' fault.

So how do they propose to
reunite the kidnap victims with their parents in different states/facilities? Do they even know who they put where? And what of the kidnapped children whose parents have already been deported?

[ecstatic]

23. This is a relief. I had literally just given up on this country

A month into the public knowing about the forced separations, this shit is still in place. One more day of this would have indicated that we're officially a dictatorship where trump can do and say whatever the fuck he wants.

[marble falls]

24. Amazing stuff. I almost want to find out what would happen if he doesn't do it. But the kids come ..

first, and if cheetolini stops this abomination before anyone else can its a better thing for these families.

Hopefully the tangle he and his wove to create this disaster should keep vibrating until November as mistakes get piled on each other and lawyers and headlines point out more and more sordid details in the actions of a basket of deplorables.

[C_U_L8R]

26. It's incomplete without her resignation

Anyone who schemed up such horrendous policy should not be governing anything.

[HopeAgain]

27. They will still be doing mass detentions

So where are they going to do this? Put whole families in adjacent cages?

And will the press follow up on this to see what they actually do?

[PubliusEnigma]

30. and yesterday, she said "We do not apologize!"

Steamroll these fuckers!!!

[mr_lebowski]

31. I got 1000 internets to wager that when he signs it he'll a) try to take credit, and b) blame Dems

and c) Lie his Fat Fucking Ass off, like he ALWAYS does.

"It took WH Lawyers a little while to come up with, I've had them working on this problem for weeks, and today they succeeded BIGLY! Found a 100% LEGAL way around the Evil Democrat policies that were responsible for this atrocity!" ~ Dump

[get the red out]

32. I think that's the plan

I had a Trump supporter tell me about this at lunch and it was in exactly that light, that this was always the policy and Trump is going to fix it. And something about how it started with the Elian Gonzales case back in the 90's and was never Trump's fault.

[grantcart]

33. D) Restart trade war E) Threaten war with Iran

[keithbvadu2]

37. Bring Dubya back as a consultant... Iran actually does have WMD.

[Snellius]

36. Unless they rescind zero tolerance, any exec action will bounce in court

If zero-tolerance is left in place, then the parents have to be arrested. If the parents are arrested, according to Supreme Court in 1997, their family will have to be separated. Only a vote in Congress can change the law and with Repubs split so only help from Dems can do it. Trump is caught in a real trap.

[keithbvadu2]

38. How many children/babies will be lost in the shuffle?

How many children/babies will be lost in the shuffle?

The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-government-has-no-plan-for-reuniting-the-immigrant-families-it-is-tearing-apart?mbid=social_twitter

[grantcart]

40. Dozens