Posted on 07/11/2018 9:59:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
GOP strategist and CNN contributor Rick Wilson said Wednesday that Trump supporters "want anybody who’s darker than a latte deported" while arguing that some in the administration actually enjoy seeing migrant children being separated from their families.
The remarks come as the White House faces considerable criticism from lawmakers on the both sides of the aisle over the "zero tolerance" policy that separated children from their parents after crossing the U.S. border illegally, despite Trump signing an executive order on June 20 to end the practice. A federal judge said the administration needs to expedite the reunification process after it missed Tuesday's deadline for all separated children under the age of 5 to be back with their parents.
“The pictures of the cruelty of this administration are a very deliberate part of this,” Wilson, one the network's most outspoken Republican critics of Trump, told anchor Poppy Harlow during a panel discussion on “CNN Newsroom.”
“They’re a feature not a bug of the Trump administration’s policy. Nobody inside the Trump administration is unhappy with these things because they’re talking to their base, they’re only talking to their core supporters, and their core supporters want anyone who’s darker than a latte deported.”
“They don’t believe in the asylum process, they want to separate the families as a deterrence, a sort of theater of cruelty,” Wilson added. “[Trump aide] Stephen Miller and the guys in the white nationalist faction of the party are very happy about this. They love the whole optics of this cruel exercise.”
Democratic strategist Steve Trippi concurred with Wilson.
“They wanted their base to see this,” Wilson argued. “They had no intention to return these children to their families, ever, and now they have to, and that’s why they’re having so much trouble doing it.”
Wilson later defended his comments in a series of tweets.
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw had scolded the administration this week after government lawyers indicated that U.S. officials would only be able to reunite 75 of 102 children under the age of 5 who are currently under HHS custody.
“These are firm deadlines; they are not aspirational goals,” Sabraw said. “I would like the process to continue as expeditiously as it has been with paramount focus on the children’s welfare.”
Sure, if they are here illegal, as well as the the ones lighter than a latte at the same time. If they are here legally and not committing any crimes, they are more than welcome, especially if they speak English and contribute to the tax base.
PS this is the Egg McMuffin guy
Rick Wilson is a Cheap Labor Express operative.
A Bush League Republican.
I want EVERY illegal alien deported regardless of their country of origin.
Visa overstays are half of the illegal aliens, they came in legally initially and then became illegal aliens when they failed to leave.
What a moron. Skin color had nothing to do with “deportation.”
Rick Wilson is an absolute idiot Trump hater. Always was apparently always will be.
Just remember kiddies, it’s racist to have borders, unless you’re a country full of non-whites.
Then it’s OK to ruthlessly discriminate against ANYONE who tries to cross the Sacred Border.
Like Mexico, China, Zimbabwe, India, Indonesia...all the countries we’re supposed to simply let in without pass or passport, as if they own the joint.
Which, according the Rat party, they do.
The reprobates are identifying themselves right before our very eyes.
I am so sick of you F in Bastards calling me a racist because I want illegals deported. I don’t care what color you are if you come in the right way. If you are to lazy to immigrate the proper way then you are to lazy to become an AMERICAN and we don’t want you.
Within the span of about 3 hours on Nov 8, 2016, this guy’s craft became as marketable as a typewriter. Like anyone else, he has bills he has to pay, so he went shopping for a new audience. As it turned out, there was another half the country willing to watch a “Republican strategist” call the people who put him out of business a bunch of racist deplorables.
Not true, I am a Trump supporter. Send home any illegal red haired white skinned blue eyed Irishmen you find as well if they decided to skip the legitimate method to becoming a citizen.
Funny how insulting voters whose support you need to regain only drives them further away...
How did this moron become a ‘GOP Strategist’?
Donald Trump’s hardcore hater
https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/politics/donald-trump-gop-rick-wilson/index.html
Self declared experts...
Wilson is scum in the flesh. He is a Vile, disgusting, pig of a man ( very small m )
Trump had it right when he offered the right to stay-just no citizenship. Problem is it wouldn’t take long for a Democrat in the WH to find a way around it.
He goes on the list of pseudo-Republicans who need to be purged from the party.
Blacks want illegals deported. I think they are darker than a latte.
GOP Strategist Rick Wilson: Trump’s Online Fanbase “Screaming For Hot Pockets And A New Holocaust”
July 2016
That is why some of us were supporting Ben Carson for president and then later for a cabinet position.
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