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I'd say that's "doing something."
Your move, Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump went on a Monday morning Twitter rant about his administration's harmful policy of separating children from migrant parents at the U.S. southern border.
In the past two months, over 2,000 children have been separated from their families according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Once again lamenting that it's the Democrats in Congress who won't fix the current policy - when it was implemented by Trump's own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions - Trump tweeted, "Why don’t the Democrats give us the votes to fix the world’s worst immigration laws?"
The fact of the matter is there is a bill in the Senate that would stop Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border. There are currently 43 Democratic co-sponsors and zero Republicans.
Why don’t the Democrats give us the votes to fix the world’s worst immigration laws? Where is the outcry for the killings and crime being caused by gangs and thugs, including MS-13, coming into our country illegally?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018
Children are being used by some of the worst criminals on earth as a means to enter our country. Has anyone been looking at the Crime taking place south of the border. It is historic, with some countries the most dangerous places in the world. Not going to happen in the U.S.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018
CHANGE THE LAWS!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018
It is the Democrats fault for being weak and ineffective with Boarder Security and Crime. Tell them to start thinking about the people devastated by Crime coming from illegal immigration. Change the laws!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018
What probably kicked off Trump's rant was former First Lady Laura Bush's op-ed in The Washington Post this morning calling for a more humane and moral solution.
I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.
Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history. We also know that this treatment inflicts trauma; interned Japanese have been two times as likely to suffer cardiovascular disease or die prematurely than those who were not interned.
In 2018, can we not as a nation find a kinder, more compassionate and more moral answer to this current crisis? I, for one, believe we can.
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