The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.
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You mean JEFFREY EPSTEIN"S BEST FRIEND who is using the FULL FORCE of the US Government to Protect CHILD SEX TRAFFICKERS is Kidnapping Children and LOSING them? That sounds EXPENSIVE! They need MORE Money!
-Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer!
It took a lot of public pressure, but Democrats are actually trying to block additional funding for this now. Only problem is thar ICE already has a huge multi-year slush fund
You can count on Democrats doing too little too late.
They respond to public pressure. We didn’t have that at the necessary scale at the beginning
The cynical might claim that they can afford to appear to respond to public pressure now, since the slush fund was already completed.
More that congress operates on a go-along-to-get-along basis by default, and it takes some serious popular rage to change that
It was the funding bill. Without it everything would break. I know a bunch of us think that’d be dandy, but it wouldn’t.
Should have voted Harris.
Lost him into human trafficking.
