Merkley Reveals Secret Trump Administration Plan to Create Border Crisis.
Jan 17
'Leaked memo shows deliberate plans to create a border crisis.
Tonight, in a bombshell NBC News report, I revealed a previously secret document that shows the Trump Administration deliberately plotting to create a crisis at the southern border. The memo, dated December 2017, details deliberate plans to implement a family separation policy as a deterrent to would-be asylum seekers and lays out strategies to increase detention of migrant children. Despite many statements by the President and senior political appointees to the contrary, this document proves that the administration was in fact intentionally and deliberately planning all along to separate families and create a crisis on the southern U.S. border.'>>>
https://medium.com/@SenJeffMerkley/merkley-reveals-secret-trump-administration-plan-to-create-border-crisis-f72a7c3de2bd?
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)He's my senator, and I didn't hear it before this.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)THe link doesn't go to it as near as I can tell.
Edit: HEre is the direct link:
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/video/merkley-reveals-secret-trump-administration-plan-to-create-border-crisis
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)As said, too much attention paid to shiny objects waved in front of our eyes, not enough scanning the wealth of news available free on line to keep up with what's going on.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)children and parents for this, or any other, purpose is a dreadful indicator of what else they would use power for if not stopped.
Btw, I'm remembering when some, supposedly from that last big caravan who were supposedly still almost a month out from the Texas border and a couple weeks longer from the California border, actually showed up at San Diego a few days later, stormed the border throwing rocks, and were repelled with tear gas. I immediately suspected our own 21st Century American nazis were involved, of course.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)Now I remember catching the end of this on THursday. I didn't see enough of it to get the full significance.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)"One way to understand what's happened is that the president has taken hostages, essentially, in both the sort of metaphorical and literal sense -- 2,600 children separated from their parents through an act of the president and his administration, and now is using them as leverage to try to get a legislative solution favorable to his preferred policy goals," Hayes said.
Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)Except it was discovered of course.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)OMGWTF
(3,955 posts)Our pResident, elected with the help of our most fierce enemy, has shut down the government with no intention of ever reopening it. Putin is orgasmic at what Traitor Tot has accomplished.
BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)in San Diego and everyone knows it. My sister said to me three days ago that she is sick and tired of the immigration crisis on the news all the time when it does not exist. He made it up!!!!!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)a neighbor who has a home in the Baja area. There are some 2.5 million ex Pats living in the Northern Mexico area. You never hear a negative story from any of them.
BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)from the corrupt Mexican police and drug war violence in the mid 1990s for about15 years but even that has gotten better. Immigrants were never a real problem...it is all bogus BS from the moron for his cult.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...of Steven Miller, Jeff Sessions and especially Donald Trump must've had them collectively creaming their jeans.
Sick bastards!
RESIST!
erronis
(15,257 posts)I just hope we have enough willing predators in our federal prison system. Of course, most of them have higher standards than these shit-muffins.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Botany
(70,504 posts)n/t
trixie2
(905 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)How far do they plan on pushing this pattern ?
trixie2
(905 posts)Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a Jew.
Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak for me.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)I suggest House Dems all Murdoch and company and put them under oath. Fox has undermined our democracy for to long. Fox must be held accountable. They do not serve the public good.
elleng
(130,905 posts)'a former federal policy in the US requiring television and radio broadcasters to present contrasting viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Response to elleng (Original post)
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akraven
(1,975 posts)Come out come out from wherever you are, you slimy SOB.