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1. We are in a ridiculous newscycle right now but there are 559 children who are still separated from their parents and the Trump administration has no plan to reunite them and does not intend to create a plan

We can't forget about these kids

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2. The separation of these children is a moral atrocity of historic proportions but the Trump administration has been able to escape sustained scrutiny because the story has mostly faded from the headlines and the public consciousness

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3. Look at this chart from Google Trends measuring online interest in child separation versus Omarosa.

Interest in Omarosa is higher today than child separation at its very peak on June 23.

Today, child separation barely registers

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4. The weird thing is that most of the interest in Omarosa seems to be about her claim that Trump is a racist and there is a secret tape of him saying the n-word

Is this crucial new information about Trump?

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5. Here are the things that Trump has said that we already know about.

We are supposed to be interested in a "secret" tape that shows he says racist things?

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6. These are kids that have been separated from their parents, not numbers.

This is the Galvez family. José Galvez was deported two weeks ago to Honduras. They've been separated from their 16-year-old daughter Kenia.

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7. You can read more about this in my newsletter, Popular Information.

We'll be staying on top of the child separation story.

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TRUMP: "At the request of Democrats it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall."

What Democrat has requested a border wall made of steel?
TRUMP: "The border wall would very quickly pay for itself."

Absolutely no evidence of this. Trump cites the cost of illegal drugs, most of which come through official ports of entry.
TRUMP: "The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico."

This is not true. And the deal hasn't even been approved by Congress.
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A total and humiliating capitation to a president with no interest in the truth.

The news media is supposed to inform the public.

They are now being used to disseminate government propaganda.
REMEMBER: When Obama wanted to address the nation on immigration, the networks refused to air it because they believe it would be "overtly political."

What a joke.

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The idea that a Democratic rebuttal or fact-checking will make this better is insulting.

If I break my arm and a doctor gives me a cast, I'm thankful.

If a doctor breaks my arm and hands me a band-aid, it's not a favor.
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Any network that airs this live is knowingly participating in a disinformation campaign
Some conflicting info, but @JenniferJJacobs of Bloomberg says the networks will air this live

This show just how deeply the mainstream media misunderstands Trump and his tactics

@JenniferJJacobs This is what happened when Obama gave a primetime address on immigration in 2014
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JUST in : #Trump administration announces end to financial aid for #UNRWA - #Palestinians
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BREAKING: The Trump Administration says that ONLY FOUR of 102 separated children under age 5 were reunited before today’s court’s deadline. They can’t even identify the parent of one toddler and have made no effort to contact 12 parents who ICE deported.
The court said these separations are causing “irreparable harm” and this humanitarian crisis is “a chaotic circumstance of the government’s own making.”
Remember, thousands of other children are still separated from their parents because of Trump’s cruel and immoral immigration policy. Your voices are still needed. RT to spread the word.
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This is devastating and important reporting on conditions in a detention center for immigrant children, please see a few important highlights in thread below /1
Most children held in the Shenandoah facility who were the focus of the abuse lawsuit were caught crossing the border illegally alone. They were not the children who have been separated from their families under the Trump administration’s recent policy /2
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Many of the children sent to the facility were accused of being MS-13 gang members, but a top manager said they did not appear to be gang members and instead were suffering from mental health issues due to trauma that happened in their home countries /3
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1/ We contacted the office of every Texas member of Congress requesting comment on the zero-tolerance immigration policy.

Here’s what they had to say ⬇️ buff.ly/2MH1EnB
2/ Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, whose district contains almost one third of the U.S.-Mexico border and who recently visited a detention center in Tornillo. buff.ly/2MH1EnB
3/ Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, says “Congress should pass legislation to prevent the separation of children from their parents while they are waiting adjudication of their legal status in the US” in a statement. buff.ly/2MH1EnB
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1/ Thread: Here’s everything we know about immigrant children being separated from their families. #ZeroTolerance #separatingchildren #ImmigrantChildren trib.it/hE
2/ About 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at the border, but the actual number is likely higher. trib.it/hE
3/ This comes after the Trump administration announced a “zero tolerance” policy. That means all adults crossing the border illegally will be prosecuted. Since children can't be sent to federal jail, kids who are detained are being separated from parents. trib.it/hE
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