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Wow. It's a tradition!!!

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So reuniting the children with their parents would be more disruptive to them than being taken away from their parents? Wow this administration should get a gold medal for all of the mental gymnastics its doing to justify these cruel as fuck policies.

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I think this is even worse than it seems, as impossible as that may be. I think the kids have been deliberately trafficked to hardline fundamentalists, so they can be abused and inculcated with the Hate Cult rules; I also think there is child sex trafficking going on (if that isn't already going on with those Hate Cult families). Worse and worse revelations are undoubtedly yet to come. It's abominable. All we can do is support the ACLU, RAICES Texas, and the other organizations that are valiantly fighting these barbaric, shameful human rights violations.

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Absolutely.

This is all paying out exactly as designed: manufacture a crisis, hurt as many people as possible so that they won’t ever want to come to American, and then use the manufactured crisis to justify Wall.

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Yes, Mrs. Prickly.

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If they would just remove Donnie Trump . from the custody of Papa Putin, it would be a start. FIFY

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I have a friend who was born in Mexico but who is a naturalized US citizen now. She makes very good coin as a corporate lawyer but volunteers a lot of her time to help undocumented women with their legal issues. She finds it endlessly frustrating but occasionally rewarding. I hope you find some rewarding bits, Kyu.

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It’s evil shit like this that makes me want to find things stronger than votes to get some justice for the separated families and help wipe away the stain on the face of America. People need to fucking go to jail, at a minimum, over this.

YOU DON’T TAKE CHILDREN AWAY FROM FAMILIES UNLESS THEIR LIVES ARE ABSOLUTELY IN DANGER!

That also goes for overzealous CPS reps who rip children away “for their own good” in the War on (some) Drugs. Fuck you too. Just more intended consequences, not a fucking bug, and fuck Joe Biden while we’re at it for his part in the WoD.

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Since under the Rs civility is gone, we don't have to be nice about dealing with these fuckers. Call them out for their crimes, accept no excuses or deflections.

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I'm sure trump will address the dire humanitarian crisis he has created in his SOU babblings.

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Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, announced that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has agreed to testify before the Committee for a public hearing on Wednesday, March 6th at 10am.

Bennie is a House rep.

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Jaysus...Where to start with this clusterfuck.. Years from now all these now adults will be deported because they weren't born here and who knows if DACA will exist? Assholes every one of these people involved.

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Tiffany doesn't seem awful, from the little I've seen of her. She appears to be preparing for a profession, at least.

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MTE!

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That seems pretty obvious, free slave labor is irresistible to the Christopaths like Betsey DeVoss and crew, who see children as little dollar signs.

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people who support this policy do so because they take pleasure from the suffering of others especially those who are most vulnerable. we have a word for this : EVIL

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