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"Despite the rightwing narrative that thousands of child traffickers routinely cross the border..."

Human trafficking and child exploitation should be something we can all stand together against. Suggesting its a "rightwing narrative" when its well documented and covered by non-rightwing organizations only servers to perpetuate the problem.

Two things can be true at the same time. You can be against Trump's family separation and also recognize the exploitation migrants have suffered since forever.

"And smuggled children are certainly at risk for human trafficking, the United Nations' children's agency UNICEF and World Without Exploitation said in a joint statement.

"Smugglers also take advantage of children and their families by extorting them with threats and false promises," they said."

https://www.cnn.com/2017/07...

"The links between street prostitution and both domestic and international trafficking have beenconfirmed by dozens of studies,41 with the market forces of prostitution driving demand for human trafficking of women and girls.42 Estimates of the overall magnitude of human trafficking into and within the United States are the subject of debate and are derived from data and methods with substantial limitations (e.g., Clawson et al., 2006), but most researchers agree that a substantial portion of trafficking is for the purpose of commercial sex..."

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffi...

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Don't forget the Japanese internment camps, which, we never learned about in school.

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OK, some of the kids no longer qualify to be reunited with their parents. So who qualified them to be kidnapped?

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Putin will keep AF1 and strip that thing down to the rivets for all the cool spy shit it carries.

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Haven't you heard of Stand Your Ground?

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shared. TY

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...the government says 48 hours should be all the time ACLU lawyers need to investigate the details of all those cases.

Would this be the same government that begged and pleaded for more time to complete the reunification because everyone was scattered to hell and gone?

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Yes. Drag 'em all to The Hague.

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OK, they claim to have been working 24/7 to get a partial credit. How much overtime are we paying these goons?

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Kirstjen needs to be kjicked in the kjiester.

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I recently read that, if by cue, activity from the Russian bot farms ramped up barely 30 mins after uttering those words....

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That's for the darker skin colors.

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I'm more inclined to think it's by design all part of the indoctrination process.

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Thing is, all that other stuff was done in accord with the general sentiment of the time.

But now, we're supposed to know better.

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Watch the GOP stall and block whatever the SCOTUS does.

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Your feet are not on fire. That is an illusion.

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