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Victorian Gray

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A Manager at one of the Texas camps was interviewed:

"A senior manager at a child detention camp in Texas, close to the Mexican border, spoke out on Monday to decry Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy that had been tearing migrant families apart as “dumb”.

Speaking to journalists in what he said was an individual capacity, at the end of a special, supervised media tour of the facility in Tornillo, near El Paso, Texas, the manager, who asked not to be named, called family separations “a dumb, stupid decision”.

“All it did was harm children,” he said. The manager works for the private contractor BCFS, which is running the camp on behalf of the federal government.

“This operation would not be necessary had it not been for the separation.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...tions-donald-trump-harm-children-camp-manager
 
UNCjigga

UNCjigga

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Hmm, apparently Michael Avenatti's firm is now representing 60 parents and 70 children, and at least one worker at a Brooklyn facility who took video footage before quitting and shared with the media today.

I'm not sure I agree with Avenatti inserting himself into this story. Maybe his firm has resources, maybe they have some sort of track record with immigration cases, and maybe he's doing all of this pro bono because he has a good heart. But he also has the potential to do more harm than good. Some people will see him as a grand stander out to get Trump, and that'll help them justify ignoring what's really happening.
 
Svnla

Svnla

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jackstar7 said:
Yikes. You seem to have a lot of feelings invested here. Why do immigrants bother you so?
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My feeling is not the topic of the thread.

Do you have anything related to the thread to contribute or continue your usual trolling?
 
jackstar7

jackstar7

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UNCjigga said:
Hmm, apparently Michael Avenatti's firm is now representing 60 parents and 70 children, and at least one worker at a Brooklyn facility who took video footage before quitting and shared with the media today.

I'm not sure I agree with Avenatti inserting himself into this story. Maybe his firm has resources, maybe they have some sort of track record with immigration cases, and maybe he's doing all of this pro bono because he has a good heart. But he also has the potential to do more harm than good. Some people will see him as a grand stander out to get Trump, and that'll help them justify ignoring what's really happening.
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I think he's got a high profile and he's using it to keep attention on this issue during a nonsense argument about civility on the left.

He could be a glorified ambulance-chaser and I don't see the possible downsides to his involvement trying to help families as being anywhere near the good he is already accomplishing by keeping a spotlight on him while he goes to help those people.
 
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Jhhnn

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K1052 said:
GOP last chance immigration bill fails 121-301

Republic really functioning well.
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The GOP can't go against the minority of xenophobes & haters. Won't work for them. Too many of 'em vote GOP.

Which means that they have no answers & nothing that will really work for the rest of America.
 
blackangst1

blackangst1

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Jhhnn said:
The GOP can't go against the minority of xenophobes & haters. Won't work for them. Too many of 'em vote GOP.

Which means that they have no answers & nothing that will really work for the rest of America.
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As usual, youre telling a half truth. The bill failed because of the add on for the wall. The rest of the bill is to solidify DACA rules, And yes. Written by the GOP. Dont make it something it isnt.
 
UNCjigga

UNCjigga

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It felt good to march with thousands of people in support of family reunification and freeing children this morning.

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Svnla

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Jhhnn said:
Shameless bullshit on your part

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/cri...sed-crash-killed-husband-2-children-offensive

It really had nothing to do with his immigration status. Not a damned thing.
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From your own link.

A Mexican citizen, Quintero had previously been removed from the U.S. in October 2008.

.......

Courtney Hacking said her husband had picked up their kids from the sitter the day of the crash. He rarely ever drove on State Highway 78. That day, he did.

"On that day I lost my husband, my baby boy, my princess, my life as I knew it and my future," she said. "And you were the one who took that away from me ..."

"You were in this country illegally for the second time. You were driving a car without a license coming from a job you were illegally paid to do," she said. "Because of your selfishness, three beautiful people lost their lives."
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Bullshit you said? Like the story about Kate Steinle and others like her?

Uh huh.

I stand with Americans like her and not ILLEGALS. How about you? Oh, nevermind.
 
UNCjigga

UNCjigga

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Svnla said:
From your own link.



Bullshit you said? Like the story about Kate Steinle and others like her?

Uh huh.

I stand with Americans like her and not ILLEGALS. How about you? Oh, nevermind.
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I stand with kids being separated from their parents. You're equating traffic accidents with the willful separation of children? The driver plead guilty and is doing his time...but that's not good enough for you? You literally need to take this out on innocent kids? That is some wack sense of justice you have.

If you want to charge someone else with a crime besides the driver, how about his employer? Someone gave him an incentive to come back illegally and drive a van without a license...go run up charges against whomever was paying him.
 
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cytg111

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UNCjigga said:
Hmm, apparently Michael Avenatti's firm is now representing 60 parents and 70 children, and at least one worker at a Brooklyn facility who took video footage before quitting and shared with the media today.

I'm not sure I agree with Avenatti inserting himself into this story. Maybe his firm has resources, maybe they have some sort of track record with immigration cases, and maybe he's doing all of this pro bono because he has a good heart. But he also has the potential to do more harm than good. Some people will see him as a grand stander out to get Trump, and that'll help them justify ignoring what's really happening.
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Or he is building a case for running in 2020..
 
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