all the time, but the dems do not seem to have a significant presence. I've always felt democratic messaging really sucks.

Dr. Lakoff has shared and advised reapeatedly, but Dems seem to ignore him.

Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives

https://georgelakoff.com/books/dont_think_of_an_elephant_know_your_values_and_frame_the_debatethe_essential_guide_for_progressives-119190455949080/

Democrats are all over the media on this and other issues. I don't know what you're watching/reading but I see them everywhere with strong, solid messages.

Can we stop with slamming Democrats on this site when Republicans are literally kidnapping infants?

are our own worst enemy...sad. We better get it together, unite to defeat the orange menace threatening our way of life, problems and all....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government deported fewer illegal immigrants in 2017 than it did last year, even as it arrested far more people suspected of being in the United States illegally, according to Department of Homeland Security statistics released on Tuesday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed approximately 226,000 people from the country in the 2017 fiscal year, which ended on Sept. 30, down 6 percent from the previous year. The 2017 deportations were lower than at any time during the Obama administration, according to previous DHS statistics.

But ICE officers arrested far more suspected illegal immigrants in the months after President Donald Trump took office than in the same period last year. Between Jan. 20 and Sept. 30, the agency arrested nearly 111,000 people, a 42 percent increase over the prior year.

One reason for the decrease in deportations was that fewer people appeared to be trying to cross U.S. borders illegally. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported approximately 311,000 apprehensions in the 2017 fiscal year and 216,000 people trying to enter at official ports of entry despite being inadmissible. That was down 23.7 percent from the previous year.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-house-vote/u-s-house-votes-to-defeat-conservative-immigration-bill-idUSKBN1JH2UN

Denials of asylum by immigration judges continued to rise last year. As of the end of September 2016, overall asylum denial rates for FY 2016 had risen to 57 percent. See Figure 1. The number of asylum cases decided last year also increased nearly twenty percent to 22,186 cases, up from 18,581 cases decided in FY 2015. Details are shown in Table 1.

http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/448/

Data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement show that overall, fewer people were deported in fiscal year 2017 than in 2016 (fiscal year 2017 included nearly four months of the Obama administration). Overall removal numbers include individuals arrested by ICE in the interior of the country and individuals apprehended by immigration officials at the border and turned over to ICE for removal.

Despite the overall removals drop, more people who already lived in the United States were deported in fiscal year 2017 compared with 2016.

"The president made it clear in his executive orders: There’s no population off the table," ICE acting director Thomas Homan said on Dec. 5. "If you’re in this country illegally, we’re looking for you and we’re going to look to apprehend you."

Homan attributed the overall decline in deportations to a border that’s "under better control." There were fewer southwest border apprehensions in fiscal year 2017 than in 2016, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/dec/19/have-deportations-

This last link may not be complete. Please Google it.

We keep seeing stories about the For Profit Prison System gaming this issue. Seems over whelming evidence is in front of us after reading about GEO Corp and how they are gaming the system.

As someone who worked for a large Service Company,we always heard about how our Private Prison Unit was coming up with new ideas just to drive Profits.

Nuf said.

We have a very ill man in the White House.

Thousands of kids were just kidnapped by TrumpCo at the border in 6 short weeks.

WHERE ARE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM MR. TRUMP!

Seems like a lot of pedos are repubs

Sounds about right.....

...or to deny even harder what he is guilty of when he shouts “Witch Hunt”....

behavior. He is certifiably off his rocker. Just his body language is very revealing.

his brain removed for examination.

We're on to you and fuck off.

This is outrageous bs lies. They need to fight back and sue his fat lying ass.

Thank you trump....

to successfully sue for slander.

He is smuggling children all over the country (and who knows where else - CIA black sites?).

Liar liar

He just can not help admitting what he and his party are doing.

can do and have done to others.

Maybe this is what he's been involved in or now doing. He accuses others of what he's doing a lot of the time. He often projects what he's doing onto others like he did many times during the campaign. remember she corrupt, she's putins puppet, he's a liar, She committed crimes with her emails, he's wiretapping me, all probably things he, or has others involved in for him.

Such obvious degrading lies. Part of me is insulted that anyone could be so stupid as to expect us to believe such trash. How does he keep this up? Completely deranged.

The question may be... is Trump selling children?

Why must they always bring her up?

some of his fantastic claims with actual, provable facts. As long as they just sit there like bumps on a log without demanding proof, he will keep up this constant flow of bullshit.

is to set up the world's largest child kidnapping operation. Paid for by the US taxpayers. Brilliant.

is going to be FASCINATING!!

AKA shit for brains...
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This nonsense is really not worth responding to.

I am surprised he could not find a way to work Barbara Streisand, George Soros, Jesse Jackson, and Jane Fonda into his fantasy immigration scheme somehow and that the secret meeting place is in San Francisco California,

Instead of responding directly, I would question GOP legislators if they believe such wild allegations and, if so, what proof can they provide. Paul Ryan gets really bristly at these types of questions, as do Senators like Orrin Hatch. Make them squirm to support such nonsense spewing from the mouth of the head of their party.

Democratic Party has not held either branch of congress for quite some time. You decide when to turn and when not to turn. Stop blaming unwilling passengers

last time I checked there batman, your fucking party controls the agenda....................and this coming November the Big Blue Wave, is going to control the agenda......................and has for your comments on immigration...................how in the hell did your wife get away with the visa that she got a hold of....................FUCK YOU

Past years of illegal immigration data show a close split between male and female children who come to the US. The Trump Administration is claiming there are more than twice as many boys in custody. The disparity is suspicious. Between Drumphs history of projection and the fact that the feds aren't allowing access to the girls they DO have, I'm genuinely scared for these kids.

I would not be in the least bit surprised to find out there were child sex trafficking rings within ICE or Border Patrol.

He’s done and worse

More lies....
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This must mean his corrupt administration has not been keeping track of these kids for a nefarious reason. Oh boy, this is bad!

I don't understand why I don't hear the Dems coming out with the same talking points day after day bashing this guy.

Sick of how much this guy gets away with

can you hear them now?

That little girls are missing from the baby cages?

there is no child tracking on purpose. No bill is coming through. They will continue separations after 20 days. They’ll deport adults but retain kids and all babies. massive organ transplantation network. Pharmaceutical companies will conduct clinical trials. All those white supremacists alt righters can now come out of the shadows because they can be employed, trumps has tons of job openings for them.

There is a pattern I noticed. With trump we always assume the worst but no matter how hard we try it always turns out to be worse than we thought.

sure sounds like the repubes are doing child trafficking....

uh huh...ya orange fuckstick...

We will hear about in the coming months.