Posted on 08/16/2018 6:47:02 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The Trump White House is planning an event next week to honor federal immigration agents — even as more than 500 migrant children remain separated from their parents after being separated at the border.
The “Salute to the Heroes of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs [and] Border Protection" is scheduled for Aug. 20 in the East Room, an administration official confirmed, in the latest signal that the Trump administration anticipates the midterm fallout from its zero-tolerance border policy very differently from its critics.
The ceremony is ready-made to provoke ire from opponents of the zero tolerance policy, some of whom have called for ICE's abolition.
“Only this White House would give medals for taking thousands of immigrant children from their parents," said Tom Jawetz, vice president for immigration policy at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, "and continuing to detain hundreds of orphaned kids in defiance of a court order.”
But many immigration advocates believe the family separation drama of recent months is more likely to hurt rather than help congressional Republicans in November.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Those that kidnapped Elian Gonzalez were honored by BJ. That masked driver should be exposed.
“The Trump White House is planning an event next week to honor federal immigration agents”
brilliant move, because it will precipitate new wailing and teeth gnashing amongst the Dems and their leftist fake stream enemedia minions regarding a VERY losing issue the Dems have backed themselves into a corner over ...
Lol !!! I like the way you said that !!!
I never saw ‘the separation’ incident as a fiasco.
Maybe they did, or pretended to just to create another Fake News Event.
Brilliant and bold. Essentially what Trumo is saying is FU DEMS and all you triggered anti Americans leftards.
Still waiting for libs, dems, and the media to care about Americans...
Politico is worse than any Pravda or Usvestia that I ever saw.
The Trump White House is planning an event next week to honor federal immigration agents... in the latest signal that the Trump administration anticipates the midterm fallout from its zero-tolerance border policy very differently from its critics.
By "his critics" the Partisan Media Shill means, jackasses like himself who didn't vote for Donald Trump in the first place, nor would they ever. Thanks 11th_VA.
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