Several congressional leaders — and John Cusack — staged a sit-in in front of the US Customs[tr]

ThisInsider.com ^ | 6/13/2018 | Jacob Shamsian

[simpson96]

Congressional leaders — including Democratic representatives John Lewis, Raúl Grijalva, Jan Schakowsky, Luis Gutiérrez, Pramila Jayapal, and Joe Crowley — staged a sit-in in front of the US Customs & Border Protection offices in Washington, DC.

It was part of the Families Belong Together movement, which protests the Trump administration's policy of separating families who illegally cross the border into the United States. According to the administration's policy, parents seeking asylum are sent to jail before appearing in front of an immigration judge. Their children crossing with them are sent to foster care or government custody. Over 10,000 migrant children are in US government custody at 100 shelters in 14 different states, according to a May estimate.

"Release the asylum seekers and reunite them with their children. End family separation. NOW," representative Jayapal wrote on Twitter. "Every hour that goes by is another hour of trauma for these moms, dads, little boys, girls and babies."

[simpson96]

@johncusack

With the legend- today - Hitting the streets -

[Lurkinanloomin]

John Lewis, Raúl Grijalva, Jan Schakowsky, Luis Gutiérrez, Pramila Jayapal, and Joe Crowley
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The best Congressmen that Mexico has in the US House.

[RatRipper]

Oh man, you know you are on the right side of an issue when John Lewis and Luis Gutiérrez are both on your side. . . . /sarc

[Lurkinanloomin]

“Release the asylum seekers and reunite them with their children. End family separation. NOW”

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OK, load them on airplanes and fly them to their own countries.

[Vaduz]

And no sane person cares.

[IronJack]

This is NOT “the Trump administration’s policy.” It was passed under Bill Clinton and actually enforced under Odumbo. Never seemed to be such a horrorshow until now.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

These children should be at shelters in their own countries. President Trump needs to call all the ambassadors from Bananaland into his office and tell them to pick up their garbage and take it home. It's not the American taxpayer's responsibility to take care of these parasites.

The source of this tumor is abroad, and that's where it needs to be fixed.
 

[katana]

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

N. Bonaparte

[PGalt]

What happens when deceivers and morons get together.

[Arm_Bears]

Further evidence that the Left/Dims side with criminals over law-abiding US citizens.

[Alas Babylon!]

This is the new “Republican War on Women”.

Every democrat and media outlet have been emailed and faxed the talking points, and I expect this story to go supernova this week.

“Kids kept in cages” is the lie of the week, and started under Obama, but if the media doesn’t tell you that, and the democrats only accuse Trump and Republicans, you can see that they have, what they consider, the perfect $hit storm to push.

Soccer moms and Jimmy Kimmel dads everywhere go nuts.

And it’s working. It’s the top story just about everywhere: Drudge, Free Republic, all the MSM and blogsphere.

People who don’t follow politics like us here are being force-fed this and getting outraged over it, as they don’t know the truth.

The democrats think they have their main election issue.

[Surrounded_too]

Every buck spent on INVADERS is a buck less available to encourage our own

problem millennials to become self sufficient.

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>It was part of the Families Belong Together movement<<<

Have a Coke and a smile while you’re at it.

[Cecily]

I hope that all their American citizen constituents ask themselves why they elected these goofs to represent the interests of illegal aliens, whose interests are in conflict with theirs (except possibly for voting Democrat).

[junta]

It does seem that even the nice white lady conservatives are phoning this one in, and so I must conclude that this bit of Journolist created political theatre will be a dud.

Trump will so easily manipulate this one that pretty soon the conservative intellectuals will realize they spent decades being dupes.

[Vaduz]

The mid term election is time to purge them from office the rule is vote or no change.

[bgill]

It’s sad when once famous people have to stoop to anything for a bit of publicity - good or bad.

[Ann Archy]

They are CHILDREN...BRATTY CHILDREN!

[DoodleBob]

I guess Dem pollsters are saying the separating kids from parents angle is testing well in focus groups. These would be the same pollsters who predicted a Hillary landslide.

Trump has been relatively silent. My guess is that's by design. Give him a day or so then he will Tweet something outrageous, people will be hyperventilating for about 3 days, then he will come out with something that makes this go away/make the Dems look bad...like a report that shows 95% of the "parents" aren't relatives and 95% of the "kids" are teenage gang members.

[bk1000]

No one, NO ONE on the news is pointing out the hypocrisy here. An American gets arrested for committing a crime, he is damn sure separated from his children. The Dims are simply playing a game of politics. There is no “deep concern”, “significant outrage”, “cries for bla, bla, bla”. Its all democrat BS. The GOP, COC go along to get the cheap workers. Build the wall! Stop all immigration for 20 years. Ban Islam. That would solve a lot of problems.