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Let's be clear. There is no "law that separates parents from children". There is only an executive policy Trump enacted.

Congress would need to pass a new law affirmatively banning this practice, not "change the law that does it."

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And yes, there's a reason I'm being pedantic about the language we use for this.

Because Trump's strategy, when confronted about a policy he knows everyone finds morally reprehensible, is to lie that he somehow had his hand forced by some fictional thing Democrats did.

We saw this with DACA.

Trump went out of his way to kill it by executive action, and rejected two bipartisan deals to save it. But he kept saying "The Democrats won't fix DACA, the Democrats won't fix DACA." And eventually the media started asking, why won't Democrats fix DACA?

Trump is already trying to do the same thing with his barbaric child separation policy. His administration invented it. And now he's on Twitter saying Democrats invented it, which makes no sense.

It doesn't have to make sense, he got away with it on DACA and thinks he can again.

So when we see Republicans, or journalists, aping his language and saying "change the law" that separates children, we should forcefully say, no, BAN TRUMP'S PLAN to separate children.

I refuse to be gaslit. And I WILL hold anyone who furthers that gaslighting to account.