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Floridafan said:
Its a fine representation of the 2500 children who were taken from their parents.
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Wise up! A fine representation of the 2500 children who were taken from their parents which is a dubious assertion to begin with
ought to have been a rendering of a child that was actually taken from a parent. No this joke of a COVER!
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
No idea, perhaps the authorities took the photos and deleted them.

But are you going to deny that children were separated from their parents, and that some of them were likely to be crying at the time?
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Sure parents and children were separated. That's the law. You can't have children housed in jail with adults. Even if the adult criminals are the parents. You can't have adults housed in juvenile facilities.

I had kids. Kids cry. It's their method of communicating. For all I know big bad meanie refuses to give the chillun' a candy bar before dinner.

But that's not the issue here. The photo was faked. That's the issue. The authorities didn't gather up all the photos and destroy them.

The issue is falling apart. So now it's time to move on to something about 2000 or 5000 or some other random number of kids.
 
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jimbo said:
Sure parents and children were separated. That's the law. You can't have children housed in jail with adults. Even if the adult criminals are the parents. You can't have adults housed in juvenile facilities.

I had kids. Kids cry. It's their method of communicating. For all I know big bad meanie refuses to give the chillun' a candy bar before dinner.

But that's not the issue here. The photo was faked. That's the issue. The authorities didn't gather up all the photos and destroy them.

The issue is falling apart. So now it's time to move on to something about 2000 or 5000 or some other random number of kids.
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The issue is falling apart because Trump backed down on his initial policy
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
The issue is falling apart because Trump backed down on his initial policy
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NO HE DID NOT,

His Initial Policy is ZERO Tolerance. This is Specific to prosecuting anyone and everyone NO discretion no catch and release, ALL that comes through illegally will get prosecuted.

What HE did DO was add an EO provision to keep the children together with the Parents. HAS NOTHING with the Zero tolerance policy that should be in effect NOR did he BACK DOWN from it. He is just making his case that he is using discretion like OTHER administrations through an EO and not just when it feels good for them.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/family-separation-executive-order.html
 
Floridafan said:
When your ancestors entered this country were they doctors, engineers or teachers? or were they just as poor and uneducated as the Central Americans? The difference is that you give a pass to those of white skin.
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Playing the race card. That generally happens when someone has nothing to offer.

Thanks for not answering my question. I will take it as a no. You are not willing to pay more taxes to feed and care for the illegals.

As far as my "ancestors". They came in legally. So the rest of your comment has no meaning.
 
Floridafan said:
Its a fine representation of the 2500 children who were taken from their parents.
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Sure. It's just as fine a representation as this:


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Because both of them are not, actually, of children whose parents are imprisoned for breaking the law.
 
mike2810 said:
Playing the race card. That generally happens when someone has nothing to offer.

Thanks for not answering my question. I will take it as a no. You are not willing to pay more taxes to feed and care for the illegals.

As far as my "ancestors". They came in legally. So the rest of your comment has no meaning.
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My dear, I always play the race card with racists.
 
Floridafan said:
My dear, I always play the race card with racists.
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:lamo

Still won't answer the questions. Got it. Consider us done unless you can come in with something meaningful to say.
 
Fledermaus said:
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The widely shared photo of the little girl crying as a U.S. Border Patrol agent patted down her mother became a symbol of the families pulled apart by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy at the border, even landing on the new cover of Time magazine.

But the girl’s father told The Washington Post on Thursday night that his child and her mother were not separated, and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed that the family was not separated while in the agency’s custody. In an interview with CBS News, Border Patrol agent Carlos Ruiz, who was among the first to encounter the mother and her daughter at the border in Texas, said the image had been used to symbolize a policy but “that was not the case in this picture.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...er-mother-father-says/?utm_term=.bf809755a137
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Facts are so inconvenient for the lefts narrative.
 
humbolt said:
Brian Williams was there. Honest. And if you look closely, you can see that the left front tire on that Chevy is floating above the ground, too.
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Do you mean the rear tire?

It does look like that.
 
Floridafan said:
Would you call the 2500 children taken from their parents a crisis. A crisis that could have been avoided and should never have happened. How long will it take to reunite these children with their parents, if ever?
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Nope. People that endanger children should not have access to them.
 
Mason66 said:
Nope. People that endanger children should not have access to them.
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As bad as this sounds, I never thought about it.

Would it be considered child endangerment and its probably a better thing that the child WAS separated from these parents LOL!
 
Exactice said:
As bad as this sounds, I never thought about it.

Would it be considered child endangerment and its probably a better thing that the child WAS separated from these parents LOL!
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Since I live in Mexico I have seen this first hand.

Two days ago there was a couple and a small child of about 4 years old standing on a narrow divider in the middle of the street. The street has three lanes on both sides and the divider was where the left hand turn lane was.

Cars were wizzing past on the other side of the street at full speed.

The divider couldn't have been more than about 12 inches wide.

The sign they had said they were from Honduras and they needed money to continue on their trip.

They were using their daughter in a very dangerous situation as a prop to make money.

That kid would be much safer away from those people.

Who knows if she will even make it to the border.

Before you ask, no I didn't give them any money.
 
Exactice said:
As bad as this sounds, I never thought about it.

Would it be considered child endangerment and its probably a better thing that the child WAS separated from these parents LOL!
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If you think about the trip they put those children through with trains and who knows what else.

An illegal cannot get on a bus to travel across the country. You need a valid ID to get on the bus and at certain places the police get on the bus to find people that may have gotten past that rule.
 
Fledermaus said:
It is a picture that truthfully DOES NOT represent any of the 2500 children who were taken from their parents.
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And yet... 2500 kids were taken from their parents. I really don't care. Do u?

Sent from Trump Plaza's basement using Putin's MacBook.
 
Floridafan said:
Its obvious that trump made a fatal mistake by tearing children away from their parents. Its a mistake that won't be forgotten come November. Why else would your kind be spending days trying to justify his actions. Its all you can talk about. You have your marching orders, to hell with the children, its all about politics. Fortunately, this is one battle you will never win.[/QUOTE

The manufactured outrage of the left is like a car alarm down the block - always going off, annoying, and ignored.
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Fledermaus said:
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The widely shared photo of the little girl crying as a U.S. Border Patrol agent patted down her mother became a symbol of the families pulled apart by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy at the border, even landing on the new cover of Time magazine.

But the girl’s father told The Washington Post on Thursday night that his child and her mother were not separated, and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed that the family was not separated while in the agency’s custody. In an interview with CBS News, Border Patrol agent Carlos Ruiz, who was among the first to encounter the mother and her daughter at the border in Texas, said the image had been used to symbolize a policy but “that was not the case in this picture.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...er-mother-father-says/?utm_term=.bf809755a137
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I look at it like this. Say you are a photographer on assignment at this chaotic border crossing, where people are getting arrested left and right. You aren't a reporter, and you aren't an interviewer, a politician, or a pundit. You are you. A photographer who is supposed to capture the event and that's it. Getty is not known for their journalist capabilities anyway.

So you take this shot of a kid crying and get on your plane and go home. You sell the picture to Time Magazine, which writes an article about the event, but not necessarily the kid. Washington Post with the resources they have, digs into who the kid is, and they find out she didn't get separated.

It's really not as nefarious as everyone thinks it is. This scenario also highlights the problems going on down there and that it took TIME MAGAZINE, for this guy to find his wife and daughter! Otherwise without that picture, he might have had a really hard time finding them.
 
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