What about his family, Linda? I guess his doesn't matter since he's an American, right Linda?
Posted on 06/16/2018 11:41:00 AM PDT by Mariner
Evangelist Franklin Graham says the practice separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border is "disgraceful.”
But the North Carolina-based preacher isn’t blaming the Trump administration and its zero-tolerance policy toward people who enter the United States illegally.
"I think it's disgraceful, it's terrible, to see families ripped apart, and I don't support that one bit,” Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said Wednesday in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.
"I blame the politicians for the last 20, 30 years that have allowed this to escalate to the point where it is today. We are a country of laws, laws need to be obeyed, no question about that.
"But the situation we have today is the result of our lawmakers in Washington over generations ignoring this, and I’m hopeful that soon something can be done to fix it.”
Graham’s opinion came the same day as Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called Trump's asylum rules "immoral."
In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the nation’s intention to prosecute of adults separately from children when families seek asylum at the border. The children are placed in custody at a branch of the Health and Human Services Department while the adults are processed.
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What about his family, Linda? I guess his doesn't matter since he's an American, right Linda?
The fault, the blame, the outrage belongs squarely on the shoulders of those cross our border illegally to begin with.
Politicians share some of that blame for letting the can get kicked down the road to where we’re at, like Graham says. But the majority of the blame belongs to the illegals themselves.
This is the root of the scandal. Untenable promises were made AND WINKED AT BY BOTH PARTIES. Why can’t they go back and try to make Mexico better.
You’re already there then.
“If a luminary like Dr. Graham expresses concern, listen lest you find that you’ve swept Jesus aside too.”
Graham is just another idiot citizen in this country. Nothing more.
Little difference between him and the Pope.
You can subscribe to his “infallibility” if you choose, but...
Thankfully the sane will not succumb to his nonsense.
EXACTLY. We could complain about children being torn from their parents’ arms at the gates of prison, but they sort of earned that, didn’t they?
Well, parents are already separated from their children when they perform an illegal act....that’s what jail does. Attempting to enter the country as an undocumented alien is also an illegal act. So... no surprise that separation of children from parents is the result.
BIOA
Democrats, winked at by pure-capitalist Republicans, winked for years. Individualists are wrong. Watch Donald — part of his answer will be to address the countries that are sending their people here.
You should have said nothing. You have probably made matters even worse. Stay in your arena.
You have made a strawman argument. Putting words in people’s mouths.
Be careful lest you “recover a country” and find you have no God there.
The idea is to force countries to fix themselves. You can’t have 80% of the world’s population living in 20% of the countries.
I guess I’ll call him Linda too, OOPS!
The world spent decades “trying to force NK to fix itself.”
Neither know nor care what that is.
And what did his Serene Gracefulness Mr. Graham say about separating Paul Manafort from his family?
‘He’s watching a humanitarian crisis wothout taking sides except God’s.’
I’m highly tempted to opine about whether there is any divine concern for these individuals, but I must observe decorum...
I suspect President Trump is doing as Abe Lincoln suggested.
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” Abraham Lincoln
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/abraham_lincoln_122582
Hey Franklin, do we also not Jail White parents, separating them from Their parents, or does your Bleeding Heart only apply to Hispanics?
“Stay in your arena.”
The fate of the nation is the arena of every citizen.
I’ll call this man out, just like I’ll call out the Pope and the US Council of Bishops.
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