Posted on 06/27/2019 3:37:57 PM PDT by grundle
It was only a few months ago that Democrats were dismissing the crisis at the border as manufactured by Trump, and now they’re comparing migrant detention centers to concentration camps and blaming Trump for “putting kids in cages.”
But for those still trying to blame President Trump, Barack Obama’s former ICE chief, Thomas Homan, has a reality check for them. Speaking at a conference hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, Homan explained that the “cages” Democrats are blaming on Trump were the product of the Obama administration:
“I’ve been to that facility, where they talk about cages. That facility was built under President Obama under (Homeland Security) Secretary Jeh Johnson. I was there because I was there when it was built,” said Thomas Homan, who was Obama’s executive associate director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly four years.
At an immigration conference today, Homan, under consideration for a new position of “border czar” in the Trump administration, grew visibly angry answering a question about “cages” often cited by Democratic critics of the president.
Homan, who ran Obama’s successful deportation operation, ripped Democrats who question Trump immigration officials on the Obama-era idea.
He cited one Democratic chairman who asked a Trump official, “You still keeping kids in cages?”
Homan, at the conference hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, said, “I would answer the question, ‘The kids are being housed in the same facility built under the Obama administration.’ If you want to call them cages, call them cages. But if the left wants to call them cages and the Democrats want to call them cages then they have to accept the fact that they were built and funded in FY 2015.”
Homan explained that the fencing that separates kids from adults is done for safety reasons. “It’s chain link dividers that keeps children separate from unrelated adults. It’s about protecting children,” he said. He also added it’s only temporary accommodations until they are moved elsewhere by the Department of Health and Human Services. According to a Google News search, only conservative media seems to be talking about Homan's comments. Gee, I wonder why.
When the Democrats talk of ‘No one is above the law..’ ask if that includes Illegal Immigrants. Why should they be allowed to ignore warrants?
It’s true and everybody should know this.
But, TDS and liberal derangement is strong.
Images of children in peril is a winner in the propaganda war. It kicks in visceral reaction, loss of rational thought. That’s why they’ve come back to it now.
A ways back when all the cage memes were going round you could point out the cage photos were from when Obama was president, not Trump.
Disbelief.
You could show the link to the original Washington Post article with the photos.
Somehow still, they would not believe it was not created by Trump.
The irrationality is scary.
Bttt.
On his own 0bama couldn't put together an Ikea nightstand with video instructions.
Barry: “Big Mike, get over here and put this thing together. I can’t figure it out.”
Big Mike: “Get the servants to do it. I’m going out to the garden to dig yams. I yam what I yam and I yam a yam digger.”
Captioin crying AOC....Obama did build these.
Stop engaging with the Cloward-Piven crew and just DEPORT as many as possible.
Ping for later
The media won’t let the facts get in the way.
Yep - couldn’t even get an umbrella through an archway...
That was hilarious. He probably used a stencil to sign his name.
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