Can the Trump administration sink any lower than threatening to deport sick kids?

[GeorgeGist]

Step by malicious step, the Trump administration is turning the American immigration system into an apparatus of appalling, intentional cruelty.

The latest case in point is a relatively small program known as “medical deferred action,” in which immigrants without legal status who are suffering from serious medical conditions are granted a reprieve from deportation so that they can have access to much-needed medical treatment in the United States.

Trump halted the program this month, threatening to deport these patients, including children with leukemia, muscular dystrophy, or cystic fibrosis. The program’s termination means suspending or interrupting medical care, which in some instances is virtually a death sentence.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2019/08/27/eimmigrationchanges/QGz28BqWIwll0pxgPYVdhN/story.html

[Aristus]

1. Please don't ask if they can sink any lower.

They'll just say: "Hold m'beer 'n' watch this!"

The slightly more literate might respond: "Challenge accepted!"

[procon]

2. Kids have already died in Trump's concentration

camps so why would he be moved by a few sick kids? Trump is an amoral psychopath and he sees the world as his own personal torture chamber.

[SeattleVet]

3. Of course they can.

There is no bottom. They will move from the threat to the action, to begin with.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. Yes. Just wait another week.

[CDerekGo]

5. I see the creepy hands

Of Stephen Miller all over this...

[FiveGoodMen]

6. He will continue to descend. He will go as low as his 100,000,000 Nazi supporters.

[yellowcanine]

7. Yes and he already has.

His minions go to court to defend not providing kids with toothbrushes and soap. How low is that?

[Alwaysna]

8. Sick kids wouldn't be suitable for medical experiments

Or organ donation schemes Stephen Miller is lusting after.

[Skittles]

9. Trump can - and will - *ALWAYS* find a way to go lower

ALWAYS