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G_j

(40,372 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:00 PM Jun 2018

Trump's Ploy?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-ploy

By Josh Marshall | June 20, 2018

The President says he’s signing an executive order to end family separations. The actual aim seems to be to pick a fight with the courts and allow separations to continue while blaming judges. According to The New York Times, the President will sign an executive order allowing children to be detained indefinitely with their parents. The problem is that that violates a 1997 consent decree saying that you can’t detain/imprison children for more than 20 days (technically what’s currently happening isn’t detention). It straight up violates that order. So what will almost inevitably happen is that a court will step in, say you can’t do that and then Trump will announce that the judge is forcing him to keep separating families.

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Trump's Ploy? (Original Post) G_j Jun 2018 OP

Then we need to bare down hard if this is what happens Thekaspervote Jun 2018 #1

There is still no visibility into Trump's concentration facilities C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #2

They are already trying to change the limit from 20 days to as long as they want. duforsure Jun 2018 #3

Still bad optics for him, no good answer for his racism uponit7771 Jun 2018 #4

Thekaspervote

(32,803 posts)

1. Then we need to bare down hard if this is what happens

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:05 PM

Jun 2018

C_U_L8R

(45,021 posts)

2. There is still no visibility into Trump's concentration facilities

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:25 PM

Jun 2018

With or without kids, this is an absolute horrorshow.
Congressfolks, please pound on those doors every day....
bring the press... bring humanitarian organizations,
bring the American public in massive numbers.
The Trumps have scattered their prisoners around
the country... trying to hide and deceive. Please be
vigilant and don't let up on these fuckers.

Just saying... many Germans had no idea what was
really going on either until the camps were liberated.
That cannot be permitted to happen here.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

3. They are already trying to change the limit from 20 days to as long as they want.

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:27 PM

Jun 2018

But after signing this they may change that position .

uponit7771

(90,367 posts)

4. Still bad optics for him, no good answer for his racism

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:28 PM

Jun 2018

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