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Obama: Are we a nation that rips families apart?
The Hill ^ | Justin Wise - 06/20/18 | Justin Wise - 06/20/18

Posted on 06/20/2018 10:54:06 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Former President Barack Obama is calling out President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy that separates families at the border, asking "are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together?"

"If you've been fortunate enough to have been born in America, imagine for a moment if circumstance had placed you somewhere else," Obama said in a statement on Facebook to commemorate World Refugee Day. "Imagine if you'd been born in a country where you grew up fearing for your life, and eventually the lives of your children. A place where you finally found yourself so desperate to flee persecution, violence, and suffering that you'd be willing to travel thousands of miles under cover of darkness, enduring dangerous conditions, propelled forward by that very human impulse to create for our kids a better life."

Obama later criticized the policy that has resulted in thousands of families being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that watching these families broken apart in real time poses a very simple question to Americans.

"Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together? Do we look away, or do we choose to see something of ourselves and our children?"

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigration; obama; trump
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See, Obama is the GOOD president. He's like the good mother who overrides the rules of the bad dad.

If bad dad says no, just ask mom.

(The photo at the link make Obama look like Uncle Ben.)

1 posted on 06/20/2018 10:54:06 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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You are walking right into this one Bamster.

Sod Off!

2 posted on 06/20/2018 10:54:40 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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Detaining them is not ripping them apart.


3 posted on 06/20/2018 10:54:56 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Shut up you commie piece of sh!t


4 posted on 06/20/2018 10:55:00 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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[[”are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms,]]

Well let’s ask all the incarcerated LEGAL citizens who have had their children ‘ripped from their arms’ if we are or not obama


5 posted on 06/20/2018 10:55:20 AM PDT by Bob434
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What a homo. FUBO!


6 posted on 06/20/2018 10:55:44 AM PDT by jospehm20
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HYPOCRITE OBAMA STFU


7 posted on 06/20/2018 10:56:21 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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You didn’t see a problem with it when you did it Barry.


8 posted on 06/20/2018 10:56:43 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Obama is our "1984"


9 posted on 06/20/2018 10:56:57 AM PDT by yoe
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No. We are a nation that rips babies apart.


10 posted on 06/20/2018 10:57:00 AM PDT by forgotten man
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Obama: Are we a nation that rips families apart?


All nations are. When someone breaks the law, who puts their whole family in prison?


11 posted on 06/20/2018 10:57:18 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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Good lord, the man has no shame.


12 posted on 06/20/2018 10:58:06 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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We are a country that doesn’t follow its Constitution or he could not have occupied the Oval Office.


13 posted on 06/20/2018 10:58:06 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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How many ‘refugees’ are the 0bama’s sheltering at their multi-million dollar manse down the road from the White House?


14 posted on 06/20/2018 10:58:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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Obama should ask Kate Steinle family that question.


15 posted on 06/20/2018 10:58:24 AM PDT by boycott
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16 posted on 06/20/2018 10:58:38 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot and I approve this message.)
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Is this supposed to be the humourous article of the day? Given that we know about how family separations took place under his authority and that it was well known that this was to be kept away from public discussion as per his people.


17 posted on 06/20/2018 10:58:38 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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18 posted on 06/20/2018 10:58:55 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Obama hates Americans with a passion. As far as he’s concerned, the sooner they are replaced with another people the better.


19 posted on 06/20/2018 10:58:57 AM PDT by Dagnabitt ( I'm old enough to remember "the Wall".)
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I thought this asshole was dead?


20 posted on 06/20/2018 10:59:13 AM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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