"No baklava for you!"
Posted on 07/09/2018 10:57:38 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Monday said a restaurant gave him free food because the owner "appreciated" what he was doing in his fight against President Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
"My experience at restaurants: I ordered take out at a Greek restaurant," Lieu tweeted. "When I arrived, the owner saw me & threw in a free baklava (one of my favorite desserts). He said he appreciated what I was doing. I guess that's what happens when one opposes ripping kids away from parents."
Lieu's tweet comes as he and many other lawmakers are pressuring the Trump administration to reunite the thousands of families that were divided at the U.S.-Mexico border.
His experience also serves as a contrast to the treatment that some Trump Cabinet officials have received while dining out in public. On separate occasions in June, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen were confronted by protestors while they dined out at Mexican restaurants.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was also asked to leave a Virginia restaurant over her role in the Trump administration.
Lieu has been highly critical of Trump over his immigration policies. In late June, he criticized Congress for taking recess despite thousands of migrant families remaining separated. He said it was "evil and shameful" that no Democratic bill had been brought to the floor to address the crisis.
“Have a nice vacation,” he added.
Last Friday, a federal judge said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) must comply with a previously mandated deadline to reunify separated migrant children with their parents. The deadline to reunite children under 5 years old with their parents is July 10. Children older than that must be reunited by July 26, "unless there is an articulable reason," according to U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw.
Tearing a child from her mother should only be done by planned parenthood!
I smell BS
“Ripping children from their mothers” is definitely the Rat talking point.
This lawmaker can be bought with a free baklava.
Makes him a bottom feeder.
"No baklava for you!"
We need to start impeaching Federal District Judges who don’t follow the Constitution.
I hope the restaurant properly documents this political donation in it’s taxes... Be a real shame if they were hit by an ICE raid followed by an IRS audit.
Sounds like an ethics violation. OCE should open up an investigation.
“Ripping Children from their parents” = arresting felons and incarcerating them until they can be processed while their child is cared for separately.
Now, should crack-head mommies get to take all their kids with them when they are arrested and taken to jail? Should her kids be present during her strip and cavity search?
...So when obozo enacted this policy there was no baklava?...
Obama’s DHS Secretary to Chris Wallace on 06/24/2018:
“JEH JOHNSON: Well, Chris, without a doubt the images and the reality from 2014 just like 2018 are not pretty. And so, we expanded family detention. We had then 34,000 beds for family detention, only 95 of 34,000 equipped to deal with families.
So, we extended it. I freely admit it was controversial. We believed it was necessary at the time. I still believe it is necessary to name a certain capability for families. We can’t have catch and release and in my three years we deported, or repatriated or returned over a million people”
It’s past time for all Democrats to admit Obama stareted the separations.
Boy, you can buy a Congressman pretty cheap in California.
What a moron. California sends the biggest embarrassments to D.C.
Ah Yes,, Ted Lieu-ney (sic)
One more California nutcase in CONgre$$..
“He said he appreciated what I was doing. I guess that’s what happens when one opposes ripping kids away from parents.”
No.
James O’Keefe gets arrested when he opposes ripping kids away from parents.
Must be a REALLY slow fake news day. A $2.00 dessert gets a magazine article.
A moment to reflect on the rules concerning lobbying as I understand them.
If the meal paid for is eaten standing up it doesn’t count but itpf sitting down it does.
Also lobbyiest have to be registered. Shouldn’t this be considered as encouragement to act in a certain way, a reward for having done so?
(Though I’m sure it isn’t an inducement ... yet ... a second freebie might be taken that way)
Receiving freebies and gifts because of your office is supposed to be frowned upon.
So, in all the years since Reno vs. Flores (1993), you were cool with it. But now, you are all enraged and filled with righteous indignation? Hypocrite.
A reportable campaign contribution???
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