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bigtree

(85,998 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:02 PM Jun 2018

Trump's now framing immigrant families as 'child smugglers'

...on MSNBC speaking before the NFIB.

Trump tried out his old line (to applause) about 'gangs,' conflating these children we've all been anguishing over with violent criminals.

Next he trotted out his new line about concern over child smugglers, trying to make the despicable case, as his administration officials have, that these children don't actually belong to the parents. That's they're actually being smuggled in.

Think about it, Many of these children are separated for years, and Trump intends to deny them even their identity.

Trump is a dirty, hatefilled con.



Will Wilkinson 🌐 @willwilkinson
This is why the admin has tried to put improper entry with a kid into a "human trafficking" frame--to encourage the idea that moms are "child smugglers" of their own kids. Yet they're *charged* with misdemeanor improper entry.
9:26 AM - Jun 18, 2018

Will Wilkinson🌐 @willwilkinson 13h13 hours ago
Harden the border so people need help crossing. Rachet: define help as trafficking and drum up sex slave criminal gang panic. Rachet: cast parents fleeing danger with kids as child smugglers to justify "zero tolerance" and separation. Lie with statistics. Rinse. Repeat.









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SCRUBDASHRUB

(7,252 posts)
1. My blood pressure is just going up and up.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:05 PM
Jun 2018

My late grandparents are probably spinning in their graves. My late grandfather was one of 13 children. Many of his brothers and sisters were killed in the Holocaust. If it weren't for this country, he wouldn't have been let in and I wouldn't be here.

Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)
5. That Nielsen woman did it yesterday too. Said they were actually protecting the kids from child
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:08 PM
Jun 2018

smugglers/drug smugglers/human traffickers. Oh, and gangs! (MS-13)

bigtree

(85,998 posts)
7. this white supremacist administration wants to strip these children of their identity
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:15 PM
Jun 2018

...defining them as 'animals' and criminals.'

I don't use this term often, but this is evil.






 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
12. Trump follows Hitlers playbook always
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:28 PM
Jun 2018

He must dehumanize his victims as Hitler did to the Jews, before he can kill them.

Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)
13. I agree.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:30 PM
Jun 2018

Raw racism at its most brutal.

Strip their humanity away and the other atrocities follow.

That first step - reducing people you want to harm to background noise - property or refuse - something you throw away - which is just another thing you own - is necessary to do the rest because that's how you get other people to go along with it.

Then you can enslave them and torture them and rape them and murder them - it's all on the table now.

You can rip their children from them. You can put them in cages and chains. You can do anything to them.

Because you've reduced them to something other than human.

That is what is happening now.


Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)
19. Yeah. I watched IT yesterday. IT being her.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:44 PM
Jun 2018

They are all IT.

But now anyone that didn't can hear IT speak can do so.

It's sickening.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
9. Yup. Who's really smuggling children?
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:24 PM
Jun 2018

They are stealing kids & since the God excuse blew up in their faces, as did the 'Dems Fault' lie, I guess their list of creative reasons for their own kidnapping & smuggling of children has no where to go but the way of Goebbels.
Blame others for.....

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
8. We need a government system that can "remove" this despicable man!!!
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:20 PM
Jun 2018

Some foreign nations have found ways to remove the vile leaders from their lands. Even the United States has sent forces to other lands to remove vile leaders. Sadly, we may need to ask, why can't America mobilize our specialized force to remove this entire Republican Apparatus and All its Members? We can't ask the British or others to combine and come here and remove the vile Republican Apparatus and All its Members. yet, we can't and won't seem to do it ourselves as a nation.

America has used its own specialized trained people to remove leaders from foreign regimes that become an atrocity creating menace upon the the nation and society... and certainly they remove those that do damage to international alliance, and damage international relations.....

Then the question is... "Why is America Tolerating Trump?"

He and Republican have damages, insulted, and assaulted the dignity of American in every way they can, from grossly atrocious insult, to criminal graft, and every kind of act that can be done, including attacking our own Justice System, our own Intelligence system, and insulted our long term closest Allies.
"Why is America Tolerating Trump?"
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