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brooklynite

(94,557 posts)
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 12:34 PM Aug 2019

Trump defends ICE raid strategy

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump on Friday defended recent, large-scale raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and the way the agency dealt with children of the immigrants who were detained.

Asked Friday why there wasn't a better plan in place to deal with the children after their parent's arrest, Trump told reporters outside the White House south lawn, "You have to go in, you can't let anybody know."

"Otherwise when you get there, nobody will be there," Trump said. "The big factor is to let people outside of the country that want to come in legally," he continued, then praising Mexico's efforts to deter migrants from illegally entering the US.

"I just hope to keep it up," he added.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/politics/trump-defends-ice-raid-strategy/index.html

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Trump defends ICE raid strategy (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2019 OP
Wander off and die please world wide wally Aug 2019 #1
I really want to heart your reply. displacedtexan Aug 2019 #2
I no longer have any hope ICE or Homeland Security can be reformed pecosbob Aug 2019 #3
HOW in the BLUE FUCK can you defend a policy Haggis for Breakfast Aug 2019 #4

pecosbob

(7,538 posts)
3. I no longer have any hope ICE or Homeland Security can be reformed
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 08:36 PM
Aug 2019

they need to be abolished. CPB needs to be ripped apart and remade as an government agency and not a criminal gang.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
4. HOW in the BLUE FUCK can you defend a policy
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 10:02 PM
Aug 2019

where you deport parents and just leave children to fend for themselves ? With no safety net ? With no way to take care of themselves ? With no one to watch over them ? And then say that you have no responsibility for them ?

THEY'RE CHILDREN FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU ?

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