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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I hate what so many democrats do to their children...
give SANE America the upper hand ....
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