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spanone

(135,833 posts) Sun Jun 17, 2018, 03:10 PM Jun 2018

Democratic congressman: Family separation 'on all of us'.....Dear Congressman...BULLSHIT

THIS IS ON REPUBLICANS.

Washington (CNN)Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke on Sunday railed against the Trump administration separating children from parents at the border, but said responsibility for what is happening is on everyone.

"This is inhumane," O'Rourke said on CNN's "State of the Union." "I'd like to say it's un-American, but it's happening right now in America. And it is on all of us, not just the Trump administration. This is on all of us."

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that the government had separated about 2,000 children from parents at the border since implementing a policy that results in such family separations.

O'Rourke said he was planning to march to Tornillo, Texas, where the government is holding unaccompanied immigrant children, and several other Democratic lawmakers are due to visit immigration centers in South Texas.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/17/politics/beto-orourke-family-separation-cnntv/index.html

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Democratic congressman: Family separation 'on all of us'.....Dear Congressman...BULLSHIT (Original Post) spanone Jun 2018 OP

I think you're misinterpreting what Beto is saying. blogslut Jun 2018 #1

It's being done in our collective names neeksgeek Jun 2018 #2

Did you go to a protest in last few days? EndGOPPropaganda Jun 2018 #3

After WWII, all of Germany had to take responsibility for what the Nazis did. Caliman73 Jun 2018 #4

Thank you for posting OhNo-Really Jun 2018 #5

I don't think that's what he meant. I think what he's saying is The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2018 #6

I understand that it's on ALL Americans. But I will give them nothing WHILE they're blamingDemocrats spanone Jun 2018 #7

blogslut

(38,000 posts)

1. I think you're misinterpreting what Beto is saying.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 03:12 PM

Jun 2018

It's on all of us to condemn and and fight this.

neeksgeek

(1,214 posts)

2. It's being done in our collective names

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 03:14 PM

Jun 2018

As Americans, it’s on us to defeat it.

EndGOPPropaganda

(1,117 posts)

3. Did you go to a protest in last few days?

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 03:19 PM

Jun 2018

If not it’s being done in our name.

We need to go and show up. That’s what Beto is saying. I agree with him.

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)

4. After WWII, all of Germany had to take responsibility for what the Nazis did.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 03:20 PM

Jun 2018

We Americans have a way of compartmentalizing things, which is one of the reasons that we never really resolve some of the serious problems in our society.

Of course, having been bombed to shit and having 4 nations carve up and control the various parts of your territory for several years would facilitate a process of self reckoning, but still, the German people, to this day, understand what happened with the rise of the Third Reich, which is why Nazi symbols are illegal, denial of the Holocaust is illegal, etc...

While there are a majority of us who did not vote for Trump and who scream out against his policies, O'Rourke is saying that we are all still Americans and this is being done in America's name.

We have to do all we can to stop it.