Obama condemns 'cruelty' of families 'broken apart in real time' in World Refugee Day message – without acknowledging his administration set up child detention centers
- Obama's White House set up detention centers that held children with families
- But he slammed Trump's 'zero tolerance' policy on World Refugee Day
- Obama: 'Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms, or are we a nation that values families'
- The former president issued his criticism before Trump signed an executive order reversing the policy
Former President Barack Obama used World Refugee Day to criticize President Donald Trump's policy of separating migrant children and families.
While he did not mention Trump by name, Obama did ask in a Facebook post if the United States was a country that 'accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms, or are we a nation that values families.'
He posted his soliloquy before Trump signed an executive order reversing his policy of separating migrant children from their families.
'To watch those families broken apart in real time puts to us a very simple question: are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together? Do we look away, or do we choose to see something of ourselves and our children?,' Obama wrote in his Facebook post.
He also noted that as a nation 'we have to do more than say 'this isn't who we are.' We have to prove it – through our policies, our laws, our actions, and our votes.'
Former President Barack Obama used World Refugee Day to criticize President Donald Trump's policy of separating migrant children and families
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday reversing the separation policy
But Obama's administration also detained children, albeit with their families.
Under Obama's administration, families were detained together in detention centers while awaiting trial, earning protests and public outrage at the time.
A court ruled those detention centers violated the law and that families should be released together.
The Obama administration also had a policy of releasing families through a program called Alternatives to Detention that allowed them to be closely supervised by devices such as ankle monitors.
Trump's 'zero tolerance' policy has resulted in thousands of children being held in centers separated from their families.
The administration separated 1,995 children from 1,940 adults from April 19 to May 31 after zero tolerance was announced, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
'To find a way to welcome the refugee and the immigrant – to be big enough and wise enough to uphold our laws and honor our values at the same time – is part of what makes us American,' Obama wrote.
Trump has come under bipartisan fire for the policy, which he reversed on Wednesday when he signed an executive order ending family separation at the border.
The president directed the Department of Homeland Security to detain families together so long as children are not put into danger.
'I didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated,' the president stated.
Trump did not end the 'zero tolerance' provision of his policy that requires the prosecution of all unlawful immigrants as criminals. His order merely authorizes DHS to hold families together while prosecution is pending.
JAMES WALSH
AMERICAN? TRAITOR: BARACK OBAMA’S
HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions
of illegals over our borders and into our voting booths!
How the Democrat party
surrendered America to Mexico:
“The watchdogs
at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“The cost
of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit.
Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President
Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3
million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy
Institute.”
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD
AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
“The watchdogs
at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of
LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOus.
DURING
OBAMA'S 8 YEAR BANKSTER REGIME, HE OPERATED LA RAZA (NOW CALLING ITSELF
UNIDOus FROM THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA V.P. CECILIA MUNOZ. HE
FUNDED THE MEX FASCIST PARTY WITH U.S. TAX DOLLARS.
BOTH OF OBAMA’S SECRETARY of
(ILLEGAL) LABOR WERE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST. THESE WERE HILDA SOLIS AND TOM PEREZ.
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
Jose Angel Gutierrez,
professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of La Raza
Unida political party screams at rallies: "We have an aging
white America. They are d ying. They are s hitting in their pants with
fear! I love it! We have got to eliminate the g ringo, and what I mean by
that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to k ill him!"
FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group
called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of
left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors
have succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
JUDICIAL WATCH
OBAMA HANDS TAX DOLLARS TO LA RAZA MEXICAN SUPREMACIST:
MICHAEL BARONE
“The Lawlessness of the Obama Administration: A
never-ending story.”
THE PSYCHOPATH WHO WOULD BE DICTATOR FUNDED BY
HIS
CRIMINAL CRONY BANKSTERS AND REELECTED FOR A
THIRD TERM BY
MEXICO
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
SOARING POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER
OBAMA
"These figures present a scathing
indictment of the social order that prevails in America, the world’s wealthiest
country, whose government proclaims itself to be the globe’s leading democracy.
They are just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the vast and
all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty.
MEXICO: AMERICA’S DRUG DEALER!
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS to serve the filthy
rich
The same period has seen a massive growth of social inequality,
with income and wealth concentrated at the very top of American society to an
extent not seen since the 1920s.
“This study follows
reports released over the past several months documenting rising mortality
rates among US workers due to drug addiction and suicide, high rates of infant
mortality, an overall leveling off of life expectancy, and a growing gap
between the life expectancy of the bottom rung of income earners compared to
those at the top.”
BANKRUPT STATE TO SPEND $200 MIL ONOBAMA CENTER
June 19, 2018
What better way could there be to celebrate Obama's legacy than bankrupting a bankrupt state for the greater glory of Barry?
Illinois now has the worst credit rating in the municipal bond market. Moody’s Investment Services pegs Illinois’ debt at Baa3, and it could further downgrade that credit rating later in 2018.The State of Illinois incurred deficits reaching nearly $15 billion in 2017, and those deficits are projected to double to $30 billion in 2018. Illinois has also accumulated hundreds of billions in unfunded liabilities in public sector pension and health-care plans. This has exposed local jurisdictions to the risk of default or bankruptcy. In response, Illinois has issued large bailouts, further weakening the finances of the state’s government. The courts have exacerbated this problem by ruling the Illinois Constitution mandates state bailouts for public sector pension and health plans
Do you know what's going to make it all better? A big, giant Obamaville!
Public works projects around the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago could cost Illinois taxpayers nearly $200 million, The Washington Examiner reported Saturday.Illinois approved a $224 million legislature budget earlier this month that included $174 million for road work near the presidential center and $50 million to for the Garfield Gateway rail project two miles away, the report said. About $200 million of that total budget would come from state taxpayers. Half of the $50 million is funded through a 2016 Transportation Department grant.
Don't call it spending, it's an investment. You know like all of those Obama investments that took the national debt high while keeping the economy low.
Pensions are less of a priority than another useless center glorifying the 21st century's worst president.
"Illinois is a state full of illegal aliens. One in seven Illinoisans are immigrants, with 450,000 official illegals. One point two million jobs are taken by illegals in Illinois. This is one of the most heavily invaded states in the Union. Timothy Birdnow
THE BANKSTER FUNDED DEMOCRAT PARTY: SERVANTS OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE ON THE AMERICAN WORKERS’ BACKS!
THEY DESTROYED THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS, AMERICA’S BORDERS AND ENDLESSLY ASSAULTED THE AMERICAN WORKER IN THEIR EFFORTS TO FINISH OFF THE GOP… And they got filthy rich doing it!
“The Democrats had abandoned their working class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
Their pop culture lapdogs rapidly adopted the new agitation talking points, shifting the goalposts in real time. Rubio has it exactly right:
This is the veritable definition of bad faith, and it helps explain why so many Americans loathe Washington, and why so many conservatives distrust compromise. Democrats are empowering the "don't give an inch" crowd, perhaps deliberately. It's cynicism all the way down. Incidentally, the Left's activism against family separation (which touched a nerve with Americans from across the ideological spectrum, thanks to the unacceptable images that emerged from the humanitarian mess) was popular. Their new stance, essentially described as the return of "catch and release," is not:
Less than one-fifth of voters favor a return to catch and release. Republicans should pass the Senate bill, which ends catch and release, while expediting asylum claims. It provides for shelter, food and medical care for the detained illegal immigrants, and streamlines swift, full-family deportations for those whose asylum claims are rejected. It ends -- or at least massively reduces -- the previous status quo, which was huge magnet for illegal immigration, as large percentages of illegal immigrants who were given court dates just never showed up for them. Unsurprisingly. If Democrats want to say that families being housed together as they await their immigration decision is cruel or "abuse," let them make that argument. Americans don't agree. If a family is approved, the gift of entry into America is worth waiting for. If a family is rejected, they're at least kept intact before being shipped home together. We have laws for a reason. People should not be rewarded with loosely-enforced, contingent entry into our country as the default policy response to unlawful entry. David Frum, a strident Trump critic, has a strong piece out that (in part) documents the Left's increasing open borders radicalism
These Virginia-based accusations all stem from Obama-era alleged abuse, yet without that important information, many casual readers are left to assume that You-Know-Who is responsible. This telling scorecard derived from the Associated Press story is especially egregious:
It's even worse than that, even acknowledging some 2017 allegations:
Bingo:
In short, political class, if you're baffled as to why so many people detest you -- all of you -- look no further than the incompetence, deceit, callousness, intransigence, bad faith, and bias on parade over the last 96 hours. Good job, everyone. I'll leave you with this wince-worthy performance:
Credibility Crisis: Media Trumpets Allegation of Child Migrant Abuse, Fails to Mention it Happened Under Obama
Suffice it to say that I haven't felt this disillusioned about our political process in quite some time. First, we have the President of the United States presiding over a disastrous policy, both morally and politically, being bludgeoned into a rare retreat after the extent of the failure was no longer disputable. Once he ran out of excuses, his administration abandoned its previous pretense that its hands were tied by existing law, all while he acted like a bystander who merely happened upon an unpalatable scenario. What he was seeing was his policy. The forces within the administration who convinced him to pursue this now-discarded path should be held accountable for the debacle they created -- especially since it could have been handled so much better. Next, we have the Republicans in Congress, who seem congenitally incapable of passing any immigration legislation. There are two scheduled House immigration votes later today, but as I reported on Wednesday's Daily Briefing, leadership sources sound decidedly sour about the passage prospects of either bill:
That was about 24 hours ago. Earlier today, I followed up with my sources, and heard the exact same thing. Prognosis: Weak. I happen to favor the so-called 'compromise' bill (as does the president) because it tackles a number of important issues while striking a reasonable balance. It has been amended to more permanently address the family separation issue, as well. And yet, chances are dim that it will garner support from 50 percent-plus-one of the Republican-controlled lower chamber. And even if it somehow clears that hurdle, it appears dead on arrival in the Senate. Upper chamber GOP lawmakers seem to be coalescing around a pretty good bill, which perhaps offers the greatest hope for something actually becoming law, even as House conservatives and moderates teeter on the brink of revolt, and the president is foolishly denouncing a central plank of his own party's Senate bill: More immigration judges to process claims, something that is sorely and unquestionably needed.
Then, there are the Democrats. They demanded that Trump, and Trump alone, "fix" the child separation problem through executive action -- even as they simultaneously endorsed a reckless, shoddy, totally unworkable bill that was so badly written that its provisions are already sparking deserved political attacks against those who blindly backed it. When Trump belatedly complied with their demands, they instantly pivoted to a new attack, brazenly arguing that detaining families together as they await asylum adjudication is the new monstrosity that must be resisted:
over Trump's executive order:.@realDonaldTrump’s executive order seeks to replace one form of child abuse with another. Every child is entitled to basic human rights. Instead, the President is paving the way for the long-term incarceration of families. goo.gl/Xt12Q2
Their pop culture lapdogs rapidly adopted the new agitation talking points, shifting the goalposts in real time. Rubio has it exactly right:
This is the veritable definition of bad faith, and it helps explain why so many Americans loathe Washington, and why so many conservatives distrust compromise. Democrats are empowering the "don't give an inch" crowd, perhaps deliberately. It's cynicism all the way down. Incidentally, the Left's activism against family separation (which touched a nerve with Americans from across the ideological spectrum, thanks to the unacceptable images that emerged from the humanitarian mess) was popular. Their new stance, essentially described as the return of "catch and release," is not:
Interesting contrast in the Economist/YouGov poll. The family separation policy at the border is very unpopular: 29% approve/54% disapprove.
But the broader "zero tolerance" policy of arrest/jail for all illegal crossings has plurality support: 46-37%d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_upload…
Also when given these choices for how to handle the situation:
Release all & order adults to report back at later date: 19%
Detain families together while awaiting court date: 44%
Arrest adults/separate from kids: 12%
Arrest adults AND kids, send kids to juvenile detention: 8%
Less than one-fifth of voters favor a return to catch and release. Republicans should pass the Senate bill, which ends catch and release, while expediting asylum claims. It provides for shelter, food and medical care for the detained illegal immigrants, and streamlines swift, full-family deportations for those whose asylum claims are rejected. It ends -- or at least massively reduces -- the previous status quo, which was huge magnet for illegal immigration, as large percentages of illegal immigrants who were given court dates just never showed up for them. Unsurprisingly. If Democrats want to say that families being housed together as they await their immigration decision is cruel or "abuse," let them make that argument. Americans don't agree. If a family is approved, the gift of entry into America is worth waiting for. If a family is rejected, they're at least kept intact before being shipped home together. We have laws for a reason. People should not be rewarded with loosely-enforced, contingent entry into our country as the default policy response to unlawful entry. David Frum, a strident Trump critic, has a strong piece out that (in part) documents the Left's increasing open borders radicalism
Finally, we have the media, who -- good work aside -- cannot help themselves but embarrassingly betray their biases. When scores of children were held in cages during the Obama administration, a corresponding cacophony of outrage never materialized. The press was too busy covering Saint Barack's "scandal free" presidency. And while there was plenty of legitimate fodder for harsh criticism of the Trump administration's actions and decisions over recent weeks, a number of Obama-era incidents and images were falsely attributed to Trump. Perhaps this was deliberate dishonesty. Perhaps it was confirmation bias -- certain details fit The Narrative, so they were wielded without much regard for context. Here's the latest example, which made the rounds among breathless journo Twitter this morning:
These Virginia-based accusations all stem from Obama-era alleged abuse, yet without that important information, many casual readers are left to assume that You-Know-Who is responsible. This telling scorecard derived from the Associated Press story is especially egregious:
Immigrant children at detention center sue for 2015 and 2016 abuses including being strapped to a chair naked with sack over head.
Word count “Trump” - 5
Word count “Obama” - 0apnews.com/afc80e51b56246…
ht @JammieWF
It's even worse than that, even acknowledging some 2017 allegations:
Nothing in this story explains that these abuses allegedly took place in 2015 and 2016, but they do mention Donald Trump a number of times in the story. Great work, @AP.
Bingo:
It is calculated misinformation to bury the date of the allegation, injecting an important but incendiary story into this media cycle without headlining a date stamp isn’t #FakeNews, it is deeply biased, agenda-driven “reporting” that should embarrass the editors.
In short, political class, if you're baffled as to why so many people detest you -- all of you -- look no further than the incompetence, deceit, callousness, intransigence, bad faith, and bias on parade over the last 96 hours. Good job, everyone. I'll leave you with this wince-worthy performance:
CRINGE: Watch Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) avoid answering whether or not she was outraged about immigrant families being torn apart under Obama...
No hypocrisy to be seen here people... move along.
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