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On immigration, Democrats again give Trump the upper hand
The Journal Star ^ | June 28, 2018 | Marc A. Thiessen, The Washington Post

Posted on 06/28/2018 9:05:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Democrats just can’t help themselves. They were winning the battle over family separations at the southern border. Americans of all political persuasions were horrified by the images of children in cages separated from their parents. Despite President Trump’s efforts to blame Democrats for the catastrophe, polls showed that a plurality of Americans placed the blame squarely on the president’s shoulders. Evangelical Christian leaders — who stood with Trump through Stormy Daniels and the “Access Hollywood” tape — began to publicly criticize the family separations. The Rev. Franklin Graham called family separations “disgraceful,” and the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution declaring them “inconsistent with the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

But then, Democrats blew it — and gave the president the upper hand once again.

First, they went overboard in their attacks on Trump, with some playing the Hitler card. “This is the United States of America. It isn’t Nazi Germany,” said U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sorry, senator, there are no gas chambers on the southern border. Even Americans who oppose family separations are repulsed by those who compare Trump to Adolf Hitler and detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border to Nazi concentration camps.

Then, to compound her error, Feinstein introduced disastrous legislation — now co-sponsored by every Democratic senator — that would not simply end family separations but also actually expand the policy of “catch and release.” (Under the Flores settlement agreement, children who enter the country illegally must be kept in the least restrictive setting possible. Feinstein’s bill does not change that requirement while establishing in law a new “presumption that detention is not in the best interests of families and children.” Since it requires parents to be kept with children....

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TOPICS: Issues; Parties; State and Local; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: catchandrelease; crimmigrants; difi; immigration; trump
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1 posted on 06/28/2018 9:05:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The voters of every swing district and competitive Senate race must be made to understand in no uncertain terms that any vote for a Democrat is a vote for open borders.


2 posted on 06/28/2018 9:08:37 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The American people blamed the parentss of thee children. Blaming president Trump is due to media lies but the parents are to blame.


3 posted on 06/28/2018 9:11:58 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: allendale
... if the FBI raided the home of a drug dealer in Buffalo and discovered that his minor daughter was with him, the proposed legislation “would prohibit the FBI agents, while arresting a drug trafficker, from separating this child from her father.” Call it the “Catch and Release for Violent Criminals Act.”...

or worse...

4 posted on 06/28/2018 9:25:13 PM PDT by GOPJ (David Ignatius sided with Germans against his own country - what a jackass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every politician who places fraudulently documented foreigners ahead of citizens and the rule of law must be removed from office.

If we want to keep our country.


5 posted on 06/28/2018 9:28:26 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Marc A. Thiessen is a liar. Nobody I know blamed President Trump. There was even a poll released that showed most people blames the parents of the illegals and not Trump or the US.


6 posted on 06/28/2018 10:34:54 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20

The media was battering Trump.on this issue. Perhaps he thinks the media pushing a story means the American people are outraged about something.

I’m still confused, how it is, that the media decided last week.would be kids at the border week.


7 posted on 06/28/2018 10:49:31 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They were winning the battle over family separations at the southern border.

No they were not. People quickly realized all the pics were from the Obama era. And furthermore, people asked once again; what are you doing for American citizens, which is zero.

8 posted on 06/28/2018 11:01:47 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I feel the same way as you.


9 posted on 06/28/2018 11:03:27 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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People quickly realized all the pics were from the Obama era.

Yep. And you could hear the air gush out of the story like a pin-stuck balloon.

10 posted on 06/28/2018 11:07:55 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Journalist 2 would be my guess.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3666946/posts


11 posted on 06/28/2018 11:44:41 PM PDT by jospehm20
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Journolist not Journalist. I hate auto correct.


12 posted on 06/28/2018 11:46:02 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20

Yup. Yet another coordinated media firestorm.


13 posted on 06/29/2018 12:20:26 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yawn. Media created firestorm failed to move the needle 1 degree.


14 posted on 06/29/2018 12:35:35 AM PDT by mindburglar (I missed my flight...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Americans of all political persuasions were horrified by the images of children in cages separated from their parents.
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Those images were from the 0bama regime.


15 posted on 06/29/2018 1:29:40 AM PDT by HenpeckedCon (Covfefe Trump!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“I’m still confused, how it is, that the media decided last week.would be kids at the border week.”

Yep, a combination of Journolist 2 and some really damaging stuff against the Obama Administration going on in DC that week.

It’s their call, they control the media (as long as we let them).


16 posted on 06/29/2018 3:51:07 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: jospehm20

I am unaware that the names of the 400 participants of Journolist .2 have been been published. If so, please correct.


17 posted on 06/29/2018 4:24:59 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

Legals hate illegals.....

Most voters want illegal immigration stopped and a wall..

Dems lose on the issue...


18 posted on 06/29/2018 5:16:28 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It doesn’t help the “face” of the Democrats is Maxine Waters, now plastered all over the Internet pretty quickly.


19 posted on 06/29/2018 5:29:12 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: GOPJ

I sat on a jury of a case that stemmed from a mother and her boyfriend beating a child so badly the child is brain damaged and wheel chair bound.

I’ve worked with foster teens that were prostituted by their parents and grandparents.

I haven’t read the proposal, but depending how it is written these children would be kept with their parents/family members?


20 posted on 06/29/2018 6:58:45 AM PDT by PrincessB
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