This is hilarious.
You have anti-Trumpers demanding that Trump can do something about family separations with the stroke of his pen.
He says no he can't, a low disallows him from doing that.
They go yes you can! You can end children being taken from their parents!
Trump relents and signs an EO calling for no more separations.
You then have anti-Trumpers going "See! Trump lied! He said a democrat passed law kept him from ending family separations but he just did an EO"
Then news agencies immediately start talking about the very law he claimed he couldn't override, suggesting that his EO wouldn't stand up against the law (Just like he said)
Then you have anti-trumpers going "Ha! What a buffoon! He didn't realize the law would stop him from fixing it!"
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Different people said different things. Each member of a "side", whether you define it or someone else does, is not responsible for the statements of everyone else on that side. Do you have at least one specific person in mind who said each of those things?
All of said obliviousness being justified in their heads because while they're CLAIMING to give a **** about the Kids, and CLAIMING to be care about family separation, and CLAIMING to not want children pulled away from their parents, what they really want is for Trumps general immigration policy with regards to illegal entries to be ended and they're simply using the children as a cudgel. So no, they won't pass legislation to help keep kids from being separated, because the separation is useful to their goal. And no, they're not going to change their messaging from "Trump needs to end this practice of children being separated" to "Trump needs to end his detainment of people crossing illegally" because that's not as good of a political bludgeon as screaming "BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN". And no, they're not going to have any self awareness that they mocked him for saying a law kept him from doing it, then claimed vindication when he did it despite the law, then claim how dumb he was when he didn't realize the law kept him from doing it.
First, you're continuing the pattern of mashing a bunch of statements from different people (if in fact they were made) together and then acting like each member of a "side" you've defined has said each of those things.
Second, you're simply
assuming that "what they
really want is for Trumps general immigration policy with regards to illegal entries to be ended and they're simply using the children as a cudgel".
Different people have said different things, with different motivations, and also happen to have different desires as to what immigration policy should look like. It's far too easy to act like the "other side" is fungible in order to launch an allegation (be it hypocrisy, insincerity, ill motive, etc), but people are not fungible.
The usage of the children as a means of deterrence by the Trump administration is abysmal and distasteful to the extreme. The denial of people attempting to legitimately claim asylum without any illegal action on their part, or the detainment of those who are doing such, is disgraceful and worthy of utter and complete contempt and absolutely should be looked into. Trump signing an EO he should absolutely KNOW is not in line with the law is a horrendous action worthy of scorn and derision. The inability to efficiently and with extreme accuracy pair the children they separated back up with the parents granted asylum is a horrendous government administration and a blight on any agency tied with it. However, I'm not going to sit here and act like it's only that one particular side acting in a pathetically political and dishonest fashion in all this.
Yeah, it is abysmal and distasteful to the extreme.
But we went over this yesterday. There is
no law requiring him to detain these families, whether together or separate, and in fact a court previously ordered Obama to release families he'd detained together in light of the
Flores settlement. And if someone you labeled "anti-Trumper" mentioned that, they were probably pointing out that Trump was lying when he claimed otherwise. Nothing to do with a cudgel.
In fact, most people here who you'd probably put in your "anti-Trumper" category have been consistently against the pointless separation of children. If
some of them are now making a few political jabs at Trump, they don't speak for all nor represent any nefarious group intent.