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bigtree

(86,021 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:11 PM Jun 2018

Trump left plenty of wiggle room in his executive order to default, renege on unifying families

Walter Shaub @waltshaub 25m25 minutes ago
The Executive Order also says families will be kept together ONLY “to the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations.” But the WH has taken the position that the law requires separation once a parent is arrested. Not clear how you reconcile that. 1/

Walter Shaub @waltshaub 25m25 minutes ago
The Executive Order says DOJ will seek modification of a settlement agreement related to detainee conditions, but that's not instantaneous. Even if that's successful, the Executive Order says nothing about return the children already taken. /2

Walter Shaub @waltshaub 24m24 minutes ago
There's no commitment in the Executive Order to be transparent about the fate of the children who have already been taken. No indication that they'll be returned, and no promise to show proof that they've been returned. /3

Walter Shaub @waltshaub 14m14 minutes ago
In short, Trump has left plenty of wiggle room for his admin to misbehave, failed to provide any transparency, failed to account for the lies (no policy. Period), failed to guarantee return of the children now in the internment camps, and doubled down on arresting everyone. /6

Walter Shaub @waltshaub 11m11 minutes ago
This is an effort to placate us and then, when our momentum dies, put the pedal to the metal again on the highway to authoritarianism. Worst of all, the children are still not safe and some may never get back to their parents. I say, when momentum is working, press on! /7

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Trump left plenty of wiggle room in his executive order to default, renege on unifying families (Original Post) bigtree Jun 2018 OP

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1. His corruption and lying knows

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Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:20 PM

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no limits. I figured he'd try to pull another fast scam and use it for PR. He should be being charged and Congress should be looking at his removal for what he's done to those children , and still doing to hurt them with, Hopefully he'll have many lawsuits in civil court paying for what he's done, because this feckless GOP in Congress are to cowardly to stand up to this monster, or hold him fully accountable for anything. He's nothing but a career criminal , corrupt to the core. It will catch up to him.

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Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:16 PM

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