WaPo: Trump's team tried to cheer him up by going over plans for his new immigration travel ban

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-fury-the-president-rages-at-leaks-setbacks-and-accusations/2017/03/05/40713af4-01df-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?utm_term=.7f57556c68de



"Taking the shackles off"

It means custom officials now interrogate domestic air travelers at the door of a plane. It means that a U.S citizen like Muhammad Ali, Jr. the son of the iconic boxer, can be detained for hours at the Fort Lauderdale airport on his return to his native country and asked: “Are you a Muslim?” It means that a noted Egyptian-born historian from France can be detained and almost deported after he arrives in Houston to attend an academic symposium. “[T]he United States is no longer quite the United States,” the scholar, Henry Rousso, wrote on the French version of The Huffington Post.)

It means that federal immigration officials in Chicago can detain a U.S. citizen for three days and falsely accuse him of being an undocumented immigrant. It means that Mem Fox, a well-known children’s book author in Australia, can be detained and aggressively questioned at Los Angeles International Airport. "I am old and white, innocent and educated, and I speak English fluently," she said later. "Imagine what happened to the others in the room, including an old Iranian woman in her 80s, in a wheelchair. The way I was treated would have made any decent American shocked to the core, because that’s not America as a whole, it really isn’t.” "

These episodes are not merely a series of coincidental errors. They are not just the results of an unwieldly bureaucracy. This sanctioned unleashing of aggressive immigration tactics is precisely what the administration seeks and what those law enforcement unions were hoping for when they backed Trump’s presidential bid last year. They evidently felt underappreciated even as the Obama administration deported a record 2.7 million immigrants. For these Trump supporters in uniform, the news just keeps getting better. Over the weekend, for example, we learned that the administration is so anxious to hire thousands of new Border Patrol agents that it is considering asking Congress to relax the job’s hiring requirements.

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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/03/taking-shackles-off.html

[spanone]

1. it's hard to believe this is actually happening...

[GP6971]

3. Unfortunately, it is. n/t

[spanone]

7. i'm well aware of that....unfortunately

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. The Barnie Fifes that work those jobs

Feel a new sense of power and authority.
The SS guards at the death camps probably had a similar sense.

[sheshe2]

10. They are toilet training him.

Praising him when he poops in his potty instead of his oversized diaper.

[JudyM]

11. Yep... and not The Onion.

Any other presidency in history, it would've been satire.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I'm sure it made him feel better to know

he would have another chance to send refugees back to certain death in their home countries, separate parents from their children, and prevent students and researchers from returning to their studies. That must have been a welcome relief for him.

[GP6971]

4. He has no idea nor does he care

what his policies result in. It's all about him and nothing but him.

[Bleacher Creature]

6. He's cheered up by other people's suffering??

What have we become?

[dalton99a]

8. The gleeful exuberance of criminals when they talk about their intended victims

[BannonsLiver]

9. How's he going to feel when this one gets blocked by the courts?

[Solly Mack]

12. There, there. Look at this, little Donnie. You get to destroy families!

Now don't you feel better?


That's just fucking sick.