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swag

(26,487 posts)
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:26 PM Jun 2018

Schiff: Nielsen privately said family separations could resume

Source: The Hill


Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Thursday said that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has privately told lawmakers that the Trump administration's family separation practice could resume despite the president signing an executive order to end the practice.

In a tweet, the California Democrat wrote that he was urging members of the House Appropriations Committee to ensure that no funding would be made available if the policy is restarted.

“Secretary Nielsen privately told lawmakers the Administration may go back to separating children from their parents,” Schiff tweeted.

“Congress must ensure that NEVER happens. I'm urging the House Appropriations Committee to prevent funds from ever being used to separate families entering the US.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/393563-dem-lawmaker-dhs-secretary-said-trump-administration-could-resume-family?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=truehttps://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl

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lark

(23,105 posts)
15. Nope, drumpf is counting on the kickbacks from his largest donors (except russia and NRA).
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 09:37 AM
Jun 2018

That's why the Executive Order is a total joke since he knows it breaks the law. He w indefinite detention for brown children and babies for his personal profit and racist anti-human meanness, but what does he intend to do the up to 20,000 children he anticipates? Don the con Hitler is doing his part to destroy us in the court of world opinion and to actually ruin these childrens' lives for the sin of being brown in America.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
2. So how's that empty spot where your soul used to be, you evil bitch?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:39 PM
Jun 2018

Oh, was that my out-loud voice?

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)
8. About the same as the space where
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:32 PM
Jun 2018

her heart is supposed to be. Seriously, WTF is wrong with her? How can someone be so cruel to children?

llmart

(15,540 posts)
4. She needs to resign.
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:54 PM
Jun 2018

Kamala Harris needs to keep up that meme along with other Dems. This woman is despicable.

StevieM

(10,500 posts)
7. I don't know how anybody could be so cruel. Of course, it is Trump's policy, which means
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:20 PM
Jun 2018

that he is even worse than she is.

And believe it or not, there are people like Kris Kobach who are even worse than Trump. The amount of evil out there is astounding.

pecosbob

(7,541 posts)
6. Once the private prison industry is involved
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:19 PM
Jun 2018

there's no going back. These people become a new revenue source. HHS is already instructing DoD to provide housing on US military bases...who you want to bet gets those contracts?

[GEO Group & Private Prisons Stand to Profit as Trump Pushes Indefinite Family Detention](https://www.democracynow.org/2018/6/21/geo_group_private_prisons_stand_to)

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
10. I am so tired of republicons
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:40 PM
Jun 2018

They've been dragging our country down for 50 goddamn years. I'm counting from Bobby's murder, 50 years & 15 days ago. I was 12 when I started paying attention to politics & Bobby was my inspiration, my hero. Then THEY murdered Bobby, the old democratic establishment nominated Hubie and it's been downhill ever since. I've been on this rock 62 years & things never seem to get any better. Only medicine, technology & movies have progressed at all. Or so it seems to me.

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
12. My god..seriously Schiff and democrats believed the racist liar
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 12:45 AM
Jun 2018

..my God, he pretty much sent the message yesterday, it was all optics to defer lens off him, his executive order was exactly as his policy...he never intended to reverse his henous policy. He lies ! He is a liar, gop republikbkkklansare liars.

Enough wth dealing wth him-- time to get legal minds working to charge this man wth crimes against humanity, take to supreme court...no more dealing, negotiating..children are waiting for the country to act.

Secret, how is it a secret if we know about it...they are playing games with the lives of children, you're right they are sick! The writing was on the wall for all to see--- how dems didn't get that. hear that--he was mocking liberal's spreading his hate propaganda about immigrants and refugees--he doesn't care about refugee children he's the person that approved policy, ordered that it be implemented. He must be held accountable NOW! Time to talk about impeachment, articles to include kidnapping, torture of children.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
14. Did anyone even read the order he signed? It has loopholes.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:30 AM
Jun 2018
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of this Administration to rigorously enforce our immigration laws. Under our laws, the only legal way for an alien to enter this country is at a designated port of entry at an appropriate time. When an alien enters or attempts to enter the country anywhere else, that alien has committed at least the crime of improper entry and is subject to a fine or imprisonment under section 1325(a) of title 8, United States Code. This Administration will initiate proceedings to enforce this and other criminal provisions of the INA until and unless Congress directs otherwise. It is also the policy of this Administration to maintain family unity, including by detaining alien families together where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources. It is unfortunate that Congress’s failure to act and court orders have put the Administration in the position of separating alien families to effectively enforce the law.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/affording-congress-opportunity-address-family-separation/

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