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Trump was only continuing a policy that was already in place.
Nope. That story won't fly. We know precisely when the policy of tossing kids in cages was prepared:
Newly obtained government documents show how the Trump administration’s now-blocked policy to separate all migrant children from parents led social workers to frantically begin tracking thousands of children seized at the southern border and compile reports on cases of trauma.
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Among the documents Public Integrity obtained is a September 2016 email from a child refugee specialist signaling discomfort with Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations splitting up migrant families prior to zero tolerance.
“The best thing that could happen is for the OFO to stop the practice of family separation,” a child refugee field specialist added to the top of an email containing instructions for reunifying families that he sent to colleagues on Sept. 20, 2016.
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Just 10 days after the specialist sent the email, a Homeland Security advisory committee issued a damning report on the damage children suffer when abruptly separated from parents. Separations were comparatively uncommon at the time, but they’d grown frequent enough to trigger a review, conducted by representatives of the American Academy of Pediatrics and civil rights groups.
It was Trump's way of discouraging immigration:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Health and Human Services official told senators Tuesday that his agency had warned the Trump administration that separating families would be dangerous for children. But some of the government’s top immigration officials used a Senate hearing to largely defend how the policy has been implemented, with one comparing family detention centers to “a summer camp.”
One official told the Senate Judiciary Committee that while the Trump administration was developing its immigration policies, Health and Human Services officials said they were worried “about any policy which would result in family separation due to concerns we had about the best interests of the child.” Commander Jonathan D. White of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a branch of HHS, said they were also uncertain their department had enough resources to handle large numbers of detained immigrants.
“There’s no question that separation of children from parents entails significant potential for traumatic psychological injury to the child,” White said.
Official says agency warned family separation bad for kids
You are simply mimicking the hysterics of the MSM.
His own people warned Trump that it would be damaging to the children. It only made him more determined to do it.
I was referring to worldwide persecution.
Guess how Christians in Syria are doing, now that Turkey is free to go after Kurdish and Christian militias and towns in Northern Syria. Yep. Trump's cowardly withdrawal from that area threw our Christian and Kurdish allies under the bus to appease Erdogan.
Trump abandoning Kurds could cost support of evangelical Christians
One of the president’s staunchest constituencies has stuck by him through many controversies but Syria may be a policy lurch too far
“It is very possible that the American withdrawal from the region will lead to the extinction of Christianity from the region,” Ashty Bahro, former director of the Evangelical Alliance of Kurdistan, told the Christianity Today news outlet.
“An invasion by Turkey into NE Syria would pose a grave threat to the region’s Kurds and Christians, endangering the prospects of true religious freedom in the Middle East,” tweeted the evangelical leader Tony Perkins, a Trump adviser.
The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) founder, Pat Robertson, described even more grave stakes in a broadcast on Monday.
“I believe … the president of the United States is in danger of losing the mandate of heaven if he permits this to happen,” Robertson said.
Trump abandoning Kurds could cost support of evangelical Christians
This in October, when evangelical allies of Trump were calling on him to save those people.
He refused.
Trump's evangelical allies then abandoned those Christians as well.
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