Posted on 11/08/2019 6:30:10 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
President Donald Trump spurned the advice of establishment diplomats as he fought to implement his campaign promises, according to a report by Vox.
The November 7 article described the elected president’s decision to ignore the self-serving view of agency officials:
Senior State Department officials and career diplomats repeatedly warned the Trump administration that taking away legal protections for [400,000 migrants] from El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti would put national security, foreign relations, and the immigrants’ American-born children at risk, according to internal State Department documents.Trump was elected president on an America First platform, and he has had to fight the establishment every day to implement his platform.But Trump did it anyway — and concerns about the 2020 election appear to have helped determine the timeline for requiring immigrants to leave, according to the documents, which will be released in a report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee [and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)] on Thursday.
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Well, I think the process started way longer than that.
Only that Obama did it much more openly.
I agree, the floodgates were thrown open by GHW Bush and continued through Obama.
Obama was the first to open side with fraudulently documented foreigners.
He is one himself.
For many decades the state department has been (and continues to be) populated with arrogant, self-important anti-American nitwits. Fire them ALL!!!
Stopped reading right there.
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