Sessions: Migrant Children Are Hostages To Trump’s Wall

Sessions: Migrant Children Are Hostages To Trump’s Wall

Reprinted with permission from Shareblue.

Even as Trump homeland security chief Kirstjen Nielsen tried to pretend Trump’s policy of ripping children from their families at the border doesn’t exist, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was promising that the family separations would end if Trump just got his border wall.

During a speech to the National Sheriffs Association Monday morning, Sessions admitted separating families at the border is a “choice” and said it would end if Trump’s demands are met.

“If we build a wall, we pass some legislation, we close some loopholes, we won’t face these terrible choices,” Sessions said of the policy.

Sessions’ remarks come as the Trump administration’s policy sparks global outcry, and the administration is desperate to avoid its political consequences.

In addition to Nielsen’s blatant lie, first lady Melania Trump and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway were deployed over the weekend to try and co-opt outrage about the policy.

Trump himself has been shamelessly exploiting the crisis in order to extract concessions from the Democrats, and even arguing the policy is somehow necessary to prevent crime.

Trump also claimed that “Children are being used by some of the worst criminals on earth as a means to enter our country.”

Trump is trying to have it both ways, insisting that his own policy isn’t his own policy, while also offering to end that policy in exchange for legislative concessions.

But most Americans can plainly see that Trump’s policy isn’t the necessary evil he and Sessions are selling it as, it’s just evil.

Published with permission of The American Independent.

Advertising

Start your day with National Memo Newsletter

Know first.

The opinions that matter. Delivered to your inbox every morning

American History Proves We Can Still Save Democracy From Trumpism

The Lincoln Memorial

Have you ever thought about the role guilt has played in our national life? It’s not omnipresent, it’s certainly not felt by everyone, most especially those sinned against, but I would say guilt rivals pride as the thing that has most motivated us. Think about it for a moment. The founding of this country wasn’t an immaculate birth – for one thing, there wasn’t a Founding Mother among all those long-heralded Founding Fathers, and one of the two greatest mistakes they made the day they came to an agreement on our founding document was what they left out. They didn’t award women full citizenship, and they failed to deal in any way with the sin of slavery.

Keep reading...Show less
How Fox Props Up The House Republicans' Impeachment Farce

Sean Hannity

Fox News propagandists are still eagerly shoveling Rep. James Comer’s (R-KY) slop to their viewers, nearly one year into the House Oversight Committee chair’s shambolic campaign to damage President Joe Biden’s political standing by focusing on his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings.

Keep reading...Show less
{{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}