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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts) Mon Jun 18, 2018, 02:20 PM Jun 2018

Pleas for border justice are aimed at the wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue

From the article:

Amid news reports about children separated from their parents at the border and sex abuse victims being denied asylum, religious leaders have spoken out this week in new, significant, and surprising ways...…

Unfortunately, nativist hardliners in the Republican Party have the power to thwart any legislative solution. They have exercised that power for years, as House Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan (both Catholics) cowered.
The problem that has brought us to this point on immigration is the GOP’s decision to stake its survival on being a white identity party.

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Pleas for border justice are aimed at the wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue (Original Post) guillaumeb Jun 2018 OP

The nightmare on Pennsylvania street duforsure Jun 2018 #1

And the GOP enables Trump. guillaumeb Jun 2018 #2

This article regurgitates the nonsense that Voltaire2 Jun 2018 #3

You are incorrect in your reading. guillaumeb Jun 2018 #4

The headline exonerates Trump. Voltaire2 Jun 2018 #5

I read the entire article. guillaumeb Jun 2018 #6

But apparently you didn't read the headline. Voltaire2 Jun 2018 #7

I read both. guillaumeb Jun 2018 #8

There is no evidence of that. Voltaire2 Jun 2018 #9

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

1. The nightmare on Pennsylvania street

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 03:02 PM

Jun 2018

Just continues to get worse by the day, and this is way too far past anything acceptable , and needs to end right now. Nov.election can't get here fast enough.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

2. And the GOP enables Trump.

Reply to duforsure (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:08 PM

Jun 2018

They are all responsible.

Voltaire2

(13,200 posts)

3. This article regurgitates the nonsense that

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:19 PM

Jun 2018

Franklin broke with Trump. He didn’t. He in fact parroted both gop talking points- that the law must be obeyed and that this is not Trump’s fault, it started long ago.

And both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are the problem. The headline exonerates Trump.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

4. You are incorrect in your reading.

Reply to Voltaire2 (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:21 PM

Jun 2018

From the article:

So what’s new?
For one thing, the Trump administration is matching its nativist, anti-immigrant rhetoric with ever crueler policies. In April, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced his intention to remove sexual assault as a legal justification for seeking asylum.

Last month, in an effort to deter illegal border crossings, the government announced it would enforce a rule, waived by previous administrations, that mandates detained parents and children be separated.

So how exactly does this exonerate Trump?

Voltaire2

(13,200 posts)

5. The headline exonerates Trump.

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:28 PM

Jun 2018

Obviously you missed that part of what I wrote.
What I wrote was “the headline exonerates Trump”. Probably you missed where I wrote “the headline exonerates Trump”. Or maybe you missed the headline of your op, the headline that says “
Pleas for border justice are aimed at the wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue” and then goes on to talk about congress.