Jesus! These people are animals!
Courtesy of NYT:
The five U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, including three appointed by President Trump, recoiled in May 2018 against an order to prosecute all undocumented immigrants even if it meant separating children from their parents. They told top Justice Department officials they were “deeply concerned” about the children’s welfare.
But the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions, made it clear what Mr. Trump wanted on a conference call later that afternoon, according to a two-year inquiry by the Justice Department’s inspector general into Mr. Trump’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy.
“We need to take away children,” Mr. Sessions told the prosecutors, according to participants’ notes. One added in shorthand: “If care about kids, don’t bring them in. Won’t give amnesty to people with kids.”
Rod J. Rosenstein, then the deputy attorney general, went even further in a second call about a week later, telling the five prosecutors that it did not matter how young the children were. He said that government lawyers should not have refused to prosecute two cases simply because the children were barely more than infants.
“Those two cases should not have been declined,” John Bash, the departing U.S. attorney in western Texas, wrote to his staff immediately after the call. Mr. Bash had declined the cases, but Mr. Rosenstein had overruled him. “Per the A.G.’s policy, we should NOT be categorically declining immigration prosecutions of adults in family units because of the age of a child.”
The Justice Department’s top officials were “a driving force” behind the policy that spurred the separation of thousands of families, many of them fleeing violence in Central America and seeking asylum in the United States, before Mr. Trump abandoned it amid global outrage, according to a draft report of the results of the investigation by Michael E. Horowitz, the department’s inspector general.
We need to remember that family separations are still happening on the border and that the only reason they slowed down is because of the Coronavirus, not because this administration had a change of heart.
You know I really wanted to respect Rod Rosenstein at one time, but there is literally nothing about him that deserves any respect.
Donald Trump is a xenophobic asshole, and those who enabled him are guilty of crimes against humanity.
These people are animals
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please do not insult the animals, they take care of their young,
These people are evil monsters.
We need to remember that they have no idea where some of these children are. They took them away and essentially lost them. These parents have no way of getting them back. Some of these children have been adopted by their foster parents. This is essentially government sanctioned child trafficking. They kidnapped these children and then gave them to other families, never to be returned to their rightful parents.
This isn’t war but there must be some sort of war crimes law that can prosecute these fuckers. I know it’s just another on the list of crimes against Donald Trump. But Sessions and Rosenstein need to be held accountable. Barr needs to be held accountable. If there are no consequences then it will not only continue under Trump but it will just happen again the next time the Republicans put a Deplorable tin god in the White House.
Agreed!!
Thousands of these kids will never see their parents again. The really unlucky ones will grow up in foster care, forget their native language, and at the age of 18 deportation proceedings against them will start. Eventually they’ll wind up in a country they don’t remember and don’t speak the language anymore, because they essentially grew up as Americans. This is fucking criminal.
How come willows kids weren’t taken away?
Barr is lining up all his ducks.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-frees-federal-prosecutors-to-take-steps-that-could-interfere-with-elections-weakening-long-standing-policy_n_5f7df355c5b6fc1dec78ba0a
“The Department of Justice has weakened its long-standing prohibition against interfering in elections, according to two department officials.
Avoiding election interference is the overarching principle of DOJ policy on voting-related crimes. In place since at least 1980, the policy generally bars prosecutors not only from making any announcement about ongoing investigations close to an election but also from taking public steps — such as an arrest or a raid — before a vote is finalized because the publicity could tip the balance of a race.
But according to an email sent Friday by an official in the Public Integrity Section in Washington, now if a U.S. attorney’s office suspects election fraud that involves postal workers or military employees, federal investigators will be allowed to take public investigative steps before the polls close, even if those actions risk affecting the outcome of the election.
The email announced “an exception to the general non-interference with elections policy.” The new exemption, the email stated, applied to instances in which “the integrity of any component of the federal government is implicated by election offenses within the scope of the policy including but not limited to misconduct by federal officials or employees administering an aspect of the voting process through the United States Postal Service, the Department of Defense or any other federal department or agency
Both groups have been falsely singled out, in different ways, by President Donald Trump and his campaign for being involved in voter fraud. Trump has repeatedly attempted to delegitimize ballots sent through the postal service, just as the country experiences increased voting by mail spurred by the coronavirus pandemic. He has also raised the specter that the ballots of military members, among whom he enjoys broad support, might be suppressed..”
Specifically citing postal workers and military employees is noteworthy, former DOJ officials said. But the exception is written so broadly that it could cover other types of investigations as well, they said.”
So on their end Trump and the Republican Party are going to hijack the electors in the swing states with Republican legislatures and Barr is going to October Surprise as much as he can from his end.
““It’s unusual that they’re carving out this exception,” said Vanita Gupta, the former head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division under President Barack Obama. “It may be creating a predicate for the Justice Department to make inflated announcements about mail-in vote fraud and the like in the run-up to the election.””
Yes. So the Republican legislatures have an excuse to subvert the vote and put in their own TrumpTard electors and steal the election. All legal like.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/experts-alarmed-as-doj-issues-unusual-memo-allowing-prosecutors-to-take-steps-that-could-interfere-with-elections/
“It alarms me that the DOJ would want to authorize more of the same in and around the election,” he said. “It’s incredibly painful for me to say, but given what we’ve seen recently, Americans shouldn’t trust DOJ announcements right now.”
Sounds like an evil old man isn’t inflicting enough pain to satisfy his appetite. Just because it happened to you does not mean you do it to others. Oh. I forgot. It’s Alexei.
He sold his soul long ago and far away. 👍