Published on Jun 7, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions argued earlier this week that it's necessary to separate children from their parents when they are detained at the border, while the ACLU is suing the Trump administration over the forced separation of asylum-seeking families. Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, joins CBSN to discuss.
Klamath Falls, OR— Trump lies and so does Fox News
When are people going to wake up on the Right and see that Trump is nothing more than a lair and the cult Right keeps believing anything FOX News personalities who keep spoon feeding these people with this crap. Along with Right-wing talk Radio. We need for "The Fairness Doctrine" to be reinstated. Enough of the lies from Trump and those on the Right who keep believing his non-sense and they think it is the truth when he says it. Idiots!
Reporters fact-check Trump on family separation to his face, Trump keeps lying anyway. "I hate the children being taken away. The Democrats need to change their law."
Speaking with a gaggle of reporters on the White House lawn Friday, Donald Trump once again blamed Democrats for his administration’s policy of separating families. “I hate the children being taken away. The Democrats have to change their law. That’s their law […] The children, the children can be taken care of quickly, beautifully and immediately. The Democrats forced that law upon our nation. I hate it. I hate to see the separation of parents and children.”
Even though reporters tried to impress upon the president that there is no law requiring splitting up families — it’s, in fact, a Trump administration policy he could change at anytime — Trump just kept repeating the lie.
ABC News@ABC "I hate it," Trump says of administration's policy of separating children from parents at the U.S. border, claiming he has no ability to alter the policy without votes from Democrats. https://abcn.ws/2yfAW2y
There is, of course, no law requiring that families and children be separated at the border, and were there one it wouldn’t be Democrats — who have been the most outspoken critics of the policy — that would have created it.
In May, Trump’s own Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “zero-tolerance” policy that would “prosecute every case that is brought to us” and thus, leading to the detention of migrant parents. Because children are not allowed in detention facilities, those who traveled to the border with their parents were separated from them and placed in a shelter.
As a result, parents have reportedly been told their children are being taken away for a quick shower when they are being moved to shelters with propagandized murals. A baby was reportedly plucked from her mothers’ breast while feeding. ICE has put out a flyer with a hotline that parents should call if they cannot find their kids.
If Trump is so against the policy his own administration spearheaded, why doesn’t he just end the practice of separating families? In the Friday morning gaggle with reporters, Trump revealed that what he wants in return is funding for his border wall, effectively using migrant children as leverage.
“The Democrats can come to us as they actually are in all fairness, we are talking to them, and they can change the whole border security. We need a wall,” he said. “We need border security.”
Reporter Brian Karem asks White House press secretary Sarah Sanders whether she has any empathy after reports that thousands of immigrant children have been separated from their parents at the border.
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