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Jeff Sessions Says Its Painful Hearing Christians Condemn His Family Separation Policy
I have critics from a lot of different areas, says the attorney general. You dont say!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-immigration-border-family-separations_us_5b2bfdcee4b0040e27410971
By Jennifer Bendery
Apparently it bothers Attorney General Jeff Sessions when faith leaders criticize his policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border. Maybe they do that because its a horrific policy, sir!
WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime member of the Methodist Church, said Thursday that it hurts him to hear Christian leaders condemning his policy of taking children away from their parents at the border and putting them in cages in detention facilities.
It is painful, Sessions said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network.
I have critics from a lot of different areas. I think our church people are really concerned about children, thats what Im hearing, he said. I feel it. I think theres a legitimate concern there, and Im pleased to work with the president to address those concerns.
Sessions is leading the charge on the Trump administrations zero tolerance policy on immigration, which separates kids from their parents so the adults can be criminally prosecuted for crossing the border without documentation. The administration has separated more than 2,300 children from their parents, so far, and has no plan for reuniting them. Previously, authorities typically kept migrant families together and routed them to immigration courts.
Photos from detention facilities show kids being kept in large cages and given foil blankets. Audio from one facility, obtained by ProPublica, features small children crying out for their parents as a U.S. Border Patrol agent jokes about an orchestra of wailing children.
Faith leaders of all persuasions, including the leader of Sessions own church, have denounced the policy. When Sessions invoked the Bible to defend it last week, he drew widespread criticism from Christian leaders who described family separations as immoral, disgraceful and deeply un-Christian.
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All that fuss just puts him off his milk and cookies.
sheshe2
(84,101 posts)Poor poor misunderstood Jeffie.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)sheshe2
(84,101 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)You're the damn DOJ. Your fear of death shouldn't be the basis of law.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Yonnie3
(17,520 posts)Thoughts and Prayers~
Yonnie3
(17,520 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Sick.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Oh, poor Jefferson, alas! Someone gave him a sad. Poor, poor melting snowflake Jefferson.
And all he did was help tear children away from their parents so the basketful of deplorables could have some more red meat. Fuck you!
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)and shackles yet to prevent us from speaking our thoughts about Jesus and the Bible
C_U_L8R
(45,047 posts)Not to mention his obvious disdain for his church leadership and congregation.
They might be smart to righteously kick his ass to the curb.
Caliman73
(11,760 posts)That would be fitting. I would like to see his response to that. The pain is the criticism of course because he was certainly grinning when he was defending the horrific policy change and how they were taking children away from their families as a "deterrent".
yellowcanine
(35,707 posts)Your pain is noted.
samnsara
(17,667 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Nobody gives a damn about you or how you feel, you evil little troll! Burn in hell!
UTUSN
(70,810 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)Of course that's the last thing he would do.
dembotoz
(16,866 posts)bdamomma
(63,978 posts)in a cage you racist !!