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Old 06-20-2018, 04:32 PM
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Sample List of Lies from the Trump Administration on the matter of child separation from the parents.

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“Congress and the courts created this problem, and Congress alone can fix it. Until then, we will enforce every law we have on the books to defend the sovereignty and security of the United States.” — Nielsen

“It's not a policy. Our policy at DHS is to do what we're sworn to do, which is to enforce the law.” — Nielsen

“The only [other] option is to not enforce the law at all.” — Nielsen

“I don't want children taken away from parents. And when you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally, which should happen, you have to take the children away. Now we don't have to prosecute them, but then we're not prosecuting them for coming in illegally.” — Trump

You can’t do it through an executive order.” — Trump

And not only did the administration say it was bound by man's law to do what it was doing; it said it was also bound by God's law. "I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said recently in defending the policy, "to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order.” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered a similar justification, which logic would suggest means Trump will have some explaining to do at the Pearly Gates.

This is such a course reversal that, just two days ago, the White House was saying it wasn't even onboard with Congress passing a stand-alone bill to fix the problem — dismissing such efforts as a “Band-Aid” that didn't deal with core immigration problems. Today, it is gladly applying the “Band-Aid” itself — and in a way it insisted it couldn't.

Rarely has the White House so tacitly and unmistakably admitted to overplaying its hand. And rarely has it so blatantly copped to its own dishonesty about its actions. Nielsen, in particular, has a lot of explaining to do. But this whole thing is an extremely ugly chapter. And it makes clear that, from Day One, this was a political gambit to force an immigration bill through. It didn't work.
Guess the Pope having better relations with God than Sessions disagreed.

And then Trump took a dump and out came the misspelled ""Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Seperation,"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.553006a12dd2
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