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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:38 PM Jun 2018

GOP Senate Nominee Cramer Compares Cages For Migrant Kids To Playgrounds

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Cameron Joseph | June 20, 2018 4:05 pm

Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) pushed back hard on the idea that keeping border-crossing children in chain-link cages was inhumane, defending the practice in two local radio shows on Wednesday.

Cramer, who’s running against Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) in a top-tier Senate race, called the facilities “humane” during a Wednesday appearance on KTGO, a local radio station that broadcasts in the Bakken Oil Fields.

“By the way, chain link fences are around playgrounds all over America, all over North Dakota. And chain link fences allow line-of-sight visual connectivity with children and families,” he said as he discussed reversing President Trump’s policy to let families stay together at the border. “You know, there’s nothing inhumane about a chain link fence. If it is, then every ballpark in America is inhumane.”

Cramer then went on to say he supported changing the law to allow families to stay together when they enter the country illegally, and supported House Republicans’ dueling pieces of immigration legislation that are expected to receive a vote this week that would address this issue.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-senate-nom-cages-for-migrant-kids-are-humane-like-chain-link-playgrounds



First off asshole, your an asshole, secondly, your still an asshole




November 2018 cannot get here fast enough


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GOP Senate Nominee Cramer Compares Cages For Migrant Kids To Playgrounds (Original Post) turbinetree Jun 2018 OP
Kids aren't locked into playgrounds. Lindsay Jun 2018 #1
And there is no "line of sight connectivity with the family". Do morons really swallow this swill? Midnight Writer Jun 2018 #6
Pandering, lying piece of shit just like trump Wwcd Jun 2018 #2
if anyone says "oh it's just chain-link fencing" cvoogt Jun 2018 #3
keep digging, you ghoul flibbitygiblets Jun 2018 #4
Shall we have his kids come to the "playground" Thekaspervote Jun 2018 #5
Lock him in one indefinitely truthisfreedom Jun 2018 #7
Kick and recommend for visibility of the evil pos. bronxiteforever Jun 2018 #8

cvoogt

(949 posts)
3. if anyone says "oh it's just chain-link fencing"
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:44 PM
Jun 2018

show them this picture from The Chicago Tribune.

It has a roof, too. "Cage" is the most accurate word to describe this.

Thekaspervote

(32,762 posts)
5. Shall we have his kids come to the "playground"
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:52 PM
Jun 2018

106 degree heat, not enough to eat poor sanitary conditions. You and your kids first you creep!!

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