Top Homeland Security Republican Demands End To Family Separations

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Cameron Joseph | June 18, 2018 5:27 pm

The top Republican on the House subcommittee responsible for funding the Department of Homeland Security demanded that the Trump administration end its forced separation of parents and children at the U.S. border, going further than many of his congressional colleagues in his demands.

Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling for him to end the controversial policy. “I ask that you take immediate action to end the practice of separating children from families at the border,” Yoder says in the letter. “Separating children from their parents should not be used as a deterrent.”

The letter is the latest but far from the only plea from congressional Republicans for President Trump and his administration to end this policy, which by the Department of Homeland Security’s own numbers say have separated 2,000 families in recent weeks.

But while Yoder highlights areas of agreement with Trump about other immigration concerns, his language is less mealy-mouthed blaming both sides than other rank-and-file Republicans’ (like this from Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R)).

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[riversedge]

1. He needs to make the rounds on the TV talk shows.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Good idea!!!!!

[riversedge]

5. If you are on twitter, please tweet him the suggestion. I did.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I don't use social media or I would.

[vlyons]

3. Finally, a Republican with a shred of honor

They know how badly these child kidnappings are killing their party. The audio of the crying children made me furious, and I'm usually a very calm person. I hope that audio gets played everywhere on the MSmedia. Over and over and over. Rub their god-damn Fascist noses in their own shit.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. He had to make lots of calculations to decide which way to con his voters. . . . nt

[BumRushDaShow]

7. The GOP controls Congress and right now, can pass a law to forbid this

Yet they have forgotten how to "govern" and prefer the "strongly worded letter" approach.

[kimbutgar]

8. The rethugs are probably holding off to see how it plays out and the outrage dies down

Twitler will do or say something outrageous and the media will follow him like ants.

But something tells me this is not going to die down. Seeing crying children and mothers tug at people’s hearts. I have been outraged all weekend over this story. I might even go back on Facebook and make the crying baby my profile picture.