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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:39 PM Jun 2018

Cotton On Dem Immigration Bill: Call It 'Child Trafficking Encouragement Act'!

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Matt Shuham | June 19, 2018 12:06 pm

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Tuesday said Democrats’ anti-family separation bill would be “better called the Child Trafficking Encouragement Act,” even though the bill includes protections for children suspected to be the victims of trafficking, as has been the practice in the past.

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All of the Senate’s 47 Democrats and two independents support Feinstein’s “Keep Families Together Act.”

The short bill prohibits the government “from removing a child from his or her parent or legal guardian, at or near the port of entry or within 100 miles of the border of the United States” unless certain qualifications are met, one of those being if authorities believe “the child is a victim of trafficking or is at significant risk of becoming a victim of trafficking.”

Feinstein’s office did not immediately reply to TPM’s request for comment regarding Cotton’s criticism.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cotton-on-dem-immigration-bill-call-it-child-trafficking-encouragement-act

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Cotton On Dem Immigration Bill: Call It 'Child Trafficking Encouragement Act'! (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP

Cotton is as devious and slimey as they come bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #1

What is wrong with you, Cotton? C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #2

Wow,this Statement proves my point Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #3

What a dickhead... charliea Jun 2018 #4

His term is up in 2020. I hope he has a strong Democratic opponent. Arkansas Granny Jun 2018 #6

So that's their new talking point, I suppose. If you don't support putting the children in Arkansas Granny Jun 2018 #5

A detention center does make it easier for Trump's 'best people' to molest the children. keithbvadu2 Jun 2018 #7

This worthless oxygen robber must be LOVING this awesomerwb1 Jun 2018 #8

Republicans would know all about that IronLionZion Jun 2018 #9

Projecting their own acts like they always do. Squinch Jun 2018 #10

Excactly----WHERE are the girls right now that the Rethugs are in control??? Doitnow Jun 2018 #13

That question is so freaking chilling. And where are the babies? Squinch Jun 2018 #15

We can see how willing drumpf is to do horrible things to any vulnerable Doitnow Jun 2018 #16

He's a Nazi too. sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #11

Couldn't help myself. Just called Cotton's DC office and stated that I was going to sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #12

Trump IS child trafficking. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #14

See what I mean. Doitnow Jun 2018 #17

I want to ask "How and why does anyone at all listen to this awful man?" BobTheSubgenius Jun 2018 #18

bucolic_frolic

(43,182 posts)

1. Cotton is as devious and slimey as they come

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:41 PM

Jun 2018

those Fundie heads twist and turn language, ideology, intent, grammar

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)

2. What is wrong with you, Cotton?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:42 PM

Jun 2018

Seriously... why do you want to harm children. Why?

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

3. Wow,this Statement proves my point

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:42 PM

Jun 2018

that the Hispanics are the focus group of the GOP and Trump for the mid terms. Racial Hatred.

charliea

(260 posts)

4. What a dickhead...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:46 PM

Jun 2018

So when is this dipstick up for re-election? Does he poll well in his state? I know he's a true blue American veteran, sadly he doesn't appear to know what he was fighting for...

Arkansas Granny

(31,518 posts)

6. His term is up in 2020. I hope he has a strong Democratic opponent.

Reply to charliea (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:50 PM

Jun 2018

Arkansas Granny

(31,518 posts)

5. So that's their new talking point, I suppose. If you don't support putting the children in

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:47 PM

Jun 2018

detention camps, you are encouraging child trafficking. This will be all over the internet by the end of the day.

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)

7. A detention center does make it easier for Trump's 'best people' to molest the children.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:50 PM

Jun 2018

A detention center does make it easier for Trump’s ‘best people’ to molest the children.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210747258

awesomerwb1

(4,268 posts)

8. This worthless oxygen robber must be LOVING this

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:07 PM

Jun 2018

he's one of the most anti-immigration politicians out there. Pushing idiotic conspiracy theories? Shocker

IronLionZion

(45,457 posts)

9. Republicans would know all about that

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:23 PM

Jun 2018

they have sick twisted imaginations. As if it's not going to be a little obvious if the child wants to be with their parent/guardian, but not be with a trafficker.

They used similar arguments to oppress transgender and gay people in the recent past.

Squinch

(50,955 posts)

10. Projecting their own acts like they always do.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:30 PM

Jun 2018

Doitnow

(1,103 posts)

13. Excactly----WHERE are the girls right now that the Rethugs are in control???

Reply to Squinch (Reply #10)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:05 PM

Jun 2018

Squinch

(50,955 posts)

15. That question is so freaking chilling. And where are the babies?

Reply to Doitnow (Reply #13)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:26 PM

Jun 2018

Doitnow

(1,103 posts)

16. We can see how willing drumpf is to do horrible things to any vulnerable

Reply to Squinch (Reply #15)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:48 PM

Jun 2018

group; one's mind is ready to accept the worst about him as true. He's a sadist along with all the other things people say of him. I'd say his "chance" is up.

sinkingfeeling

(51,460 posts)

11. He's a Nazi too.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:46 PM

Jun 2018

sinkingfeeling

(51,460 posts)

12. Couldn't help myself. Just called Cotton's DC office and stated that I was going to

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:51 PM

Jun 2018

call and request Cotton remove the lunatic in the WH via the 25th. Amendment, but after hearing Cotton's comments, I wished we had the 25th. To remove senators as well.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

14. Trump IS child trafficking.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:21 PM

Jun 2018

Kidnapping children and selling them for political and financial gain. Is there another way to describe that?

Doitnow

(1,103 posts)

17. See what I mean.

Reply to lagomorph777 (Reply #14)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:49 PM

Jun 2018

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)

18. I want to ask "How and why does anyone at all listen to this awful man?"

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:40 AM

Jun 2018

But more to the point, I think "How is this guy not duct-taped to a rolling office chair and locked in a closet in the Senate basement?"

What an insufferable, massive POS.

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