US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

This is what happens when immigrant families cross the border outside a port of entry: https://t.co/n0BCeT8OmP thanks @darlacameron @CEssig @emmaplatoff pic.twitter.com/K1CHq4zUc3

— amanda zamora (@amzam) June 20, 2018

i hope people are paying attention on the day we finally receive stats on the number of children who were sent to foster care because relatives in the US couldn't be located.

60million voted for trump, 63million voted for Hillary, I thought.

the president's third wife is an immigrant. and so was his first wife. his sons, and one of his two daughters were born to mothers born outside our borders. i hope the GOP come to their senses but i'm not holding my breath

good praxis https://splinternews.com/heres-stephen-millers-cell-phone-number-if-you-need-it-1826985626

I'm so confused pt 2: weren't they just saying everything was fine, media was making something out of nothing? why would they need to make an executive order or have Congress pass a law to fix something that isn't broken??

the important thing is that from the perspective of the border patrol, everything is fine and nothing has changed since 2014, these children are only detained for a couple hours, tops. they do hand them over to ICE and they have no idea what happens after that, but keep in mind that everything is fine and nothing has changed, from the border patrol's perspective.

the president's third wife is an immigrant. and so was his first wife. his sons, and one of his two daughters were born to mothers born outside our borders. i hope the GOP come to their senses but i'm not holding my breath

the president's third wife is an immigrant. and so was his first wife.

... and so was his mother. Paleskins though.

xp will I don't totally get that post, can you clarify?

It's non-white immigrants.

xp will I don't totally get that post, can you clarify?

ah thx

womp womp

This is unbelievable.

The Capitol is filled with wives, husbands and kids, who have flown into town because they were invited to go to the White House. This is a highlight of many congressional families’ summers. https://t.co/FvNz2YjGqf

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 20, 2018

I am watching this bullshit conference with Trump. Such bullshit.

Shakespearean!

President Trump on immigration:

“The dilemma is that if you’re weak... the country is going to be overrun with millions of people, and if you’re strong, then you don’t have any heart. That's a tough dilemma. Perhaps I’d rather be strong, but that's a tough dilemma.” pic.twitter.com/YYkGgW4yjm

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 20, 2018

cool cool, just the president deciding if he'd rather be feared or loved in the middle of everything

anyway, like always, this is a particularly depressing day for blue feed red feed

http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/#/immigration

(yes, "like always" and "particular"; every time is a new nadir of depressing)

oof.

President Trump is preparing to issue an executive order as soon as Wednesday that ends the separation of families at the border by indefinitely detaining parents and children together, according to a person familiar with the White House plans.

Mr. Trump’s executive order would seek to get around an existing 1997 consent decree, known as the Flores settlement, that prohibits the federal government from keeping children in immigration detention — even if they are with their parents — for more than 20 days.

The President says he’s signing an executive order to end family separations. The actual aim seems to be to pick a fight with the courts and allow separations to continue while blaming judges. According to The New York Times, the President will sign an executive order allowing children to be detained indefinitely with their parents. The problem is that that violates a 1997 consent decree saying that you can’t detain/imprison children for more than 20 days (technically what’s currently happening isn’t detention). It straight up violates that order. So what will almost inevitably happen is that a court will step in, say you can’t do that and then Trump will announce that the judge is forcing him to keep separating families.

Could result in a more interesting order than he's expecting, though.

thanks Karl, that's totally what he's doing here

'I'm not touching you, you can't get mad' shall be the whole of the law.

Like this has just been a year and a half of Trump with his finger waggling in the periphery of our vision and being all, what, I'm just staaaaanding here.

an important tidbit to keep in mind when you're arguing with my mom people who try to bypass the tricky "detaining toddlers" aspect of the story with "all i care about is enforcing the law and keeping this country safe" bullshit:

For all the talk from the WH about immigrant criminals, the practical effect of the new policy is to radically shift public resources from prosecuting people with criminal records to prosecuting desperate people with no record seeking refuge.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 20, 2018

Before this policy roughly 90% of prosecutions in McAllen federal court were of detained immigrants with criminal records. Since the new policy it’s flipped!

90% of those being prosecuted have no record and are facing misdemeanor charges for first time entry.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 20, 2018

Christ, people (my mom and dad) so concerned about the country being safe never even fucking leave their street.

Absolute nightmare fuel:

https://www.revealnews.org/blog/immigrant-children-forcibly-injected-with-drugs-lawsuit-claims/

trump retweeted this a few hours ago:

Once the mid terms are over, liberals won’t talk about detained or separated illegal immigrant children until 2020. #itsallpolitics

— Dr.Darrell Scott (@PastorDScott) June 19, 2018

donald trump is every privilege you don't deserve. rebuke aristocracy and chill the fuck out

Even if that were true that’s just a 1 year break, though the 2020 election season is gonna start in March of next year roughly

they assume that because they don't care about anything other than their own naked self-interest, nobody else does either

Christ, people (my mom and dad) so concerned about the country being safe never even fucking leave their street.

Yup. Bogeyman.

tbf sounds like they've got the Schumers, Kaines et al pretty much nailed

xpost

taking a nice look at pastor dr darrell scott's page. he's a real piece of shit. his use of hashtag #itsallpolitics is basically just a reflection on his own worldview

fall into trump's trap and take him and his literally rather than the final gasping of desperate grifters in the twilight of reagan's america

Even if that were true that’s just a 1 year break, though the 2020 election season is gonna start in March of next year roughly

― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, June 20, 2018 5:45 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol it starts November 7th, my dude

well sure but there's still the matter of presidential candidates officially declaring and that I think will still at least wait until after congress is sworn in

What a heel turn er wait

WOW- Cohen takes swipe at Trump- "...the images and sounds of this family separation policy is heart wrenching,” Cohen wrote to RNC. “While I strongly support measures that will secure our porous borders, children should never be used as bargaining chips." https://t.co/B4butq6bb8

— John Santucci (@JTSantucci) June 20, 2018

^ was tired of being out of the headlines

Well he was going to make them anyway:

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen resigns as deputy finance chair of the RNC's Finance Committee, sources tell @ABC. https://t.co/dCmksACH88 pic.twitter.com/lb8rFApQHC

— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) June 20, 2018

The presence of an incumbent president will keep most potential Republican challengers deeply incognito until late 2019. Democrat hopefuls won't bust out the big announcement until at least May, but they will be making plenty of friendly phone calls to donors, governors, state party chairs, activists and operatives long before that. And dropping hints to the media.

REVENGE OF THE MOOCH

As I predicted Monday, once @POTUS got focused on the child separation issue he put an end to it. President @realDonaldTrump is a compassionate person. He was getting bad advice and info from his Chief of Staff, who started pushing this policy in March 2017 while at DHS. https://t.co/M4DDSJjSau

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) June 20, 2018

mock the tastes of the underprivileged, bourgeois know-it-alls, and reap republican rule

"I alone can save you from me"

mock the tastes of the underprivileged, bourgeois know-it-alls, and reap republican rule

my libertarian prof who insisted walmart and gop is the best friend poors ever have had

Common theme: A Trump supporter in Duluth, one of many waiting in a long line outside tonight’s rally location, just told me she has compassion for separated families but ultimately believes that the detainment center photos and videos are fake and photoshopped.

— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) June 20, 2018

So we're now supposed to believe that Trump has been acting under the dictate of someone who isn't a Fox News anchor? Yeah, okay, pull the other one and see if it jingles, bruh.

lol as if the person who will ultimately replace john kelly isn't corey fucking lewandowski

https://splinternews.com/heres-stephen-millers-cell-phone-number-if-you-need-it-1826985626

My big worry now is that Trump's new order will improve things slightly and the whole episode will be forgotten, even though the family separations are just one of the uglier aspects of a much larger immigration catastrophe.

I have no idea how I had got this far without realising that Ned and Corey’s favourite expression is sad_trombone.wav

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, June 20, 2018 11:58 PM

oh!

I thought Ned's whomps were "here's another news story [drops pile of paper on table, whomp]"