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1/ My take on today's deadline to reunite kids Trump admin seized and separated from their parents: "The facts are clear. Trump and his team took thousands of kids from their parents; they separated them without any plan or system to reunite them;... americasvoice.org/press_releases…
2/ they deported hundreds of parents without reuniting them with their kids; and now they claim to be making decisions in the best interests of the children. None of this is acceptable...
3/ All families should be reunited. The Trump administration should not be allowed to determine what is in the best interests of children they have already victimized...
4/ And deported parents should be brought back to America to be reunited with their children and given a chance to vindicate their right to apply for asylum. END
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1/ There's lots of confusion on nature of Ted Cruz, Goodlatte/Ryan proposals to "end family separations." Here's the fundamental truth: family separation stems from zero tolerance, which is discretionary Trump policy since April. The only way to end it is for Trump to end it.
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1/ Idea that the law requires zero tolerance and family separation = lie. Idea that only Congress can fix it = lie. The idea that the Trump administration's hands are tied = lie. The idea that there are no ways to ensure those with credible asylum claims show up = lie.
2/ The blackmail strategy is full display. Shock and awe, huger reaction and opposition, followed by "we want to change it" crocodile tears, followed by give us what we want or else. They did it on DACA and they're doing it on family separation.
3/ Fog machine on display on Capitol Hill, too. Cruz, Ryan "fix family separation" proposals = keep kids with their families by locking them up indefinitely in huge family gulags on the border until they're deported. As morally reprehensible as taking kids from their parents.
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