Current Events > "Yeah, we are keeping kids in cages, but we dont like you saying it"

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Trumps America

https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1008695502379077637?s=19
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They're the best cages. The best, most comfiest cages, believe me. The kids just love them. That is what they're telling me. They all say, "we love the cages Mr. President!"
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At least.

AT LEAST he says "well it's not inaccurate". Hell of a concession.
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Well we certainly don't want to hurt their feelings
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"ThOsE kIdS sHoUlDn'T hAvE bRoKeN tHe LaW" -Trump supporters, probably
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Hey, Doom, let's give them a little credit. At least half of them are also saying "Obama did it too".
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Doom_Art posted...

"ThOsE kIdS sHoUlDn'T hAvE bRoKeN tHe LaW" -Trump supporters, probably

iTs Ok FoR kIdS tO bReAk ThE lAw WiTh No RePrECuSsIoNs - Libs

Why are we wasting government resources on this bullshit? Healthcare is still a clusterfuck.
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Squall28 posted...

Why are we wasting government resources on this bullshit? Healthcare is still a clusterfuck.

Because MAGA means "Minority Americans:Go Away." Trump apologists LOVE when they get treated like animals, it solidifies their feelings of superiority.

Breitbart is outdoing itself here

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/06/17/associated-press-uses-cages-to-describe-partitions-in-border-patrol-center/
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Squall28 posted...

Why are we wasting government resources on this bullshit? Healthcare is still a clusterfuck.

Locking up brown people gives a good portion of the Republican voter base a boner. Meanwhile, fixing healthcare both takes money away from the rich who take advantage of the system and it pisses off the above portion of the voter base because it means people they don't like get benefits too. Many conservatives would rather make their own lives worse just to spite minorities they don't like.
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What's wrong with kids being put into cages on military bases? At least they're not being put into basements at the bottom of a pizza parlor. The selective outrage let's you know how crass the regressive left really is.
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A_Good_Boy posted...

regressive left

oh man
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A_Good_Boy posted...

What's wrong with kids being put into cages on military bases? At least they're not being put into basements at the bottom of a pizza parlor. The selective outrage let's you know how crass the regressive left really is.

Because unlike that basement, these cages actually exist.
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https://www.apnews.com/9794de32d39d4c6f89fbefaea3780769

Michelle Brane, director of migrant rights at the Womens Refugee Commission, met with a 16-year-old girl who had been taking care of a young girl for three days. The teen and others in their cage thought the girl was 2 years old.

She had to teach other kids in the cell to change her diaper, Brane said.

Brane said that after an attorney started to ask questions, agents found the girls aunt and reunited the two. It turned out that the girl was actually 4 years old. Part of the problem was that she didnt speak Spanish, but Kiche, a language indigenous to Guatemala.

She was so traumatized that she wasnt talking, Brane said. She was just curled up in a little ball.

Brane said she also saw officials at the facility scold a group of 5-year-olds for playing around in their cage, telling them to settle down. There are no toys or books.

But one boy nearby wasnt playing with the rest. According to Brane, he was quiet, clutching a piece of paper that was a photocopy of his mothers ID card.

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Look, I get that we should enforce the border and that illegal immigrants should be deported. I don't disagree with that. But I don't see the point in separating the kids from their parents for more than maybe a few hours at a time.
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