LePage says immigrants could 'go home,' jabs Medicaid expansion in last appearance before Portland c

[jpak]

Source: Portland Press Herald

Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday weighed in on the controversy over the Trump administration separating children from their parents at the border, saying the families could “go back home.”

“The parents have a right to take their children and go back home,” LePage said to assembled news media after an appearance at the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. “(President) Trump is not trying to stop them.”

More than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents since April, according to the Associated Press, and Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy has been roundly criticized. U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, and U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st District, are urging the Trump administration to reverse the policy. U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-2nd District indicated when asked by an activist at the Portland International Jetport this week that he preferred famillies to stay together.

After withering criticism on moral grounds from Democrats, Republicans, religious leaders and activists, Trump said on Wednesday he would sign an executive order. News reports Wednesday afternoon said the “zero tolerance” policy would remain, but parents and children would be detained together. Children can be detained for no more than 20 days for immigration purposes, according to a 1997 federal consent decree.

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LePage says immigrants could ‘go home,’ jabs Medicaid expansion in last appearance before Portland chamber

LePage did not learn to speak English until early adulthood.

[Mc Mike]

1. Deport LePage.

[Vinca]

2. Odd. LePage doesn't sound like a Native American name.

[flotsam]

3. How the fuck

does this moron get the idea that a mother and a child held in separate guarded detention facilities could go home???

[still_one]

4. how the f**k did this ignoramus bigot get elected?

[jpak]

5. Multiple candidate races

We have ranked choice voting now.

This won't happen again.

Nope

[still_one]

6. There is a similar problem we have with our jungle primary here in California. Fortunately we

escaped a possible disaster in certain republican districts where too many Democrats running could have resulted in two republicans running against each other in the GE.

[Demsrule86]

7. Vote split between three candidates...he never got a majority.

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. But what is being done - hopefully, on an urgent basis - to locate where

the missing children have been taken ? It needs micro-managing by a consummate bureaucrat with the Presdent's ear and full powers.

An official apparently said that a large number of the children (I forget the figure) would have been permanently lost track of. But surely the whole chain of custody for every single child could be established and ought to be, obligatorily.

Surreally, in some cases (perhaps most), paper-work was said to have been non-existent. If so, in such cases, the chain of custody should be established verbally, but just as rigorously. Not a single child should be lost. The US is an advanced society able to create bureaucracies. It ought to be viewed as a separate issue to the immigration and uniquely prioritised.

Controlling national borders, in itself, is just being realistic. However, it is difficult for the monied legislators and their paymasters of the Deep State, who cause mass unemployment and poverty at home and wars of aggression abroad, in pursuance of their globalism, to pontificate as moral authorities, when legislating for and enforcing immigration controls, unless they can act according to normal legal canons. Abduction of a person's child, whether by a government or by an individual, is clearly not an appropriate sanction against a misdemeanor..... equivalent to a parking ticket, apparently.

And the poor Guatemalan mother and similar victims of these separations - who is looking after their cases ?

This whole issue brings sharply into focus the truth of the dictum of former President of Mexico, 'Poor Mexico. So far from God, so near the United States.'