With hurricane season starting up, seems like as good as time as any to remind everyone that Trump has raided the FEMA disaster relief fund in order to pay for his concentration camps migrant detention centers.
Just call them concentration camps. The right-wing outrage is fake. Why do I think that? Arpaio.
Surely planning to commit crimes then abuse the pardon system to get away with it is an impeachable offense? Otherwise it renders any president above the law.
If the President had an affiliation of (D), it would be!
I'm not so sure. Instructing someone to commit a crime and promising a pardon strikes me as crossing into sic semper tyrannis territory. Regardless of politics that sort of thing ought to be squelched hard.
How often do Republican politicians do as they ought, these days?
I know. It's insane! Nancy Pelosi needs to get on board.
...I'm not convinced that she's not on board, honestly. I look more to the more Republican/corporate-leaning members of the Democrats that are likely to vote against action being taken at present. If a vote for even an impeachment inquiry is still almost certain to fail because of dissenting Democrats, I completely don't blame her for not pushing hard at that.
Fox still has the #1 ratings, so basically anything they say gets to a very large audience. Anything short of condemnation for most of what Trump says helps him.
#1 on Cable News. Not #1 in general.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-says-children-us-215644038.htmlTrump administration says children of US troops born overseas do not have automatic citizenship
What the actual ****!?
Uh, the children of US Citizens are US Citizens no matter which country they are born in. That is basic law.
And, yeah, , this is going to make Donnie real popular among the troops...
It's a little more complicated than that - the kids in question are ones that are born to non-citizen US troops and government officials who are serving on foreign ground and... Actually, here, I'll let the
policy clarification speak for itself.
Policy Update Regarding Children of U.S. Government Employees or Service Members Employed or Stationed Abroad Who Were Born Outside the United States
Who This Policy Update Affects
This policy may affect children residing outside the United States who were born outside the United States to:
Non-U.S. citizen parents and adopted by a U.S. citizen U.S. government employee or U.S. service member after their birth;
Non-U.S. citizen parents, such as a lawful permanent resident U.S. government employee or U.S. service member who naturalized only after the child’s birth; or
Two U.S. citizen government employee or U.S. service member parents who do not meet the residence or physical presence requirements to transmit citizenship to their child at birth (or one non-U.S. citizen parent and one U.S. citizen parent who does not meet these requirements).
What's worse, though, is that this isn't the only recent change that is specifically targeting children.
USCIS Tells Kids with Cancer They Have 33 Days to Leave the US
There are a small number of non-immigrant families who came legally, either to get medical treatment for seriously ill children (cancer, cystic fibrosis,epilipsy) that they couldn't get at home, or whose kids fell ill while visiting here. These families have been allowed to stay here using medical deferred action determinations, which means that they can stay here legally as long as the child (or other close relative) needs life-saving treatment in the United States. This option dates back to at least the 1970s, though the Obama administration may have mandated a more liberal application.
For whatever reason, the Trump administration has, with no announcement and no notice, started sending out letters to these families and telling them that they will no longer be allowed to stay on medical deferred action, and that they must leave — taking the kids with them — within 33 days of the date of the letter. (Some of the letters only arrived halfway through this ‘grace’ period.)
The Trump Administration, doing its best to get kids killed.
I hate having to say this again, but... I really don't like "Oh please won't you think of the children?" arguments. I find it much more reprehensible when children are being specifically targeted for acts of cruelty, though, which these days, the GOP JUST KEEPS DOING.
What is it they get out of it? Are there that many little brown babies born to military servicepersons Miller et al want to exclude from the US?
Rule changes that erode at the underlying principles in play, allowing for more moves. Death by a thousand cuts, a bit like what the Republicans have been doing to women's right to an abortion. Also, moves like this can likely help pave the way for bigger moves.
Here's a shiny distraction, though!
Donald Trump: 'I keep whining and whining until I win'
