Posted on 06/20/2018 4:58:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We’ve seen Rep. Elijah Cummings in full emotional outcry before this. He was there, in the streets of his West Baltimore home district, in the televised riots that followed the death of Freddie Grey a few years ago, when tears ran down Cummings’ face and he begged America to understand the plight of young and impoverished black men.
And now we see him pleading for some sense of humanity over the lives of young immigrant children, frightened and weeping, separated from their parents over America’s “zero tolerance” at the U.S. border.
Cummings is man whose conscience is always on full alert. His father and his mother both preached the gospel. If Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, wants to justify cruelty to children by quoting scripture, he’s up against the wrong man in Elijah Cummings.
On Tuesday, Cummings gave everybody a full display of his conscience in action. At the House Oversight Committee hearing where Republicans intended to examine Hillary Clinton’s emails with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Cummings declared all of this a political charade. He went right to the kids.
He asked Republicans to “stand up” and reject “this mean policy” in which roughly 2,000 children have now been separated from their parents and many have been placed in holding areas resembling prison cells, or animal cages.
And he was just getting started.
“Even if you believe immigration should be halted entirely,” he said, “we all should be able to agree that in the United States of America, we will not intentionally separate children from their parents. We will not do that. We are better than that. We are so much better. We should be able to agree that we will not keep kids in child internment camps indefinitely and hidden away from public view. What country is that? This is the United States of America.”
If the last sentence sounded obvious, Cummings was telling us that it was not. He was saying the country has lost its way, has lost its sense of self as the big-hearted, open-armed embracer of the world’s most vulnerable souls.
Cummings knows such people. He grew up among them, and still lives among them. In his West Baltimore home district, the poverty and the human vulnerability are widespread.
Three years ago, at the time of the Freddie Grey riots, roughly 40 percent of West Baltimore children were living beneath the poverty line. Nearly 90 percent of the area’s school children qualified for free lunch at school.
The plight of such children is mirrored in the rough lives of their parents. Across Maryland, the median household income three years ago was $73,000. Across West Baltimore, it was $29,000.
Little has changed since the Freddie Gray riots – and nothing has changed Elijah Cummings’ sense of outrage.
But America has changed. When it comes to those seeking asylum here, the country’s official conscience has changed. Once, we had a policy where illegal immigrants were deported, but they weren’t criminally charged – and they weren’t separated from their children.
This “zero tolerance” business is the new world of Attorney General Sessions – and President Donald Trump, in which children are made to weep so that Trump can turn them into bargaining chips for a southern wall to keep others from entering America.
And this is what set off Cummings’ outcry on Tuesday.
“We now have reports of parents being deported,” Cummings said, “but the Trump administration is keeping their children here – 2018 in America. We do not need legislation. This is a policy. And understand this: this was a policy invented, implemented and executed by President Donald Trump.”
There were tears in Cummings’ eyes as he spoke the words. They were joined to the tears of children in cages, which now become a river.
“ABORTION THIS IS NOT AMERICA!!!”
SING IT LOUD, DEMOCRATS
SCRATCH POST #17: Wrong Congressman returned by YouTube search for Elijah Cummings.
Poor old bastage will be cried out in 6 months.
Elijah Hates Wipipos
My God! the man is full of ****!
Last Friday, a federal judge issued a ruling finding that the Department’s family detention practices constitute a material breach of a Court-approved class-wide settlement agreement. Flores v. Johnson, CV 85-4544 (C.D. Cal. July 24, 2015). Judge Dolly M. Gee found that the Department’s decision to house children in secure facilities that are not licensed by any State agency to care for dependent children violated the 20-year-old Flores settlement agreement. The court also rejected the Department’s request to amend that settlement agreement in lieu of remedying the numerous violations.
In other words, being in detention with their parents is dangerous and illegal. You are not complying with a court order. Fix it. Of course he meant "just let them all out" but the other way to fix it, as the congressmen demanded, was to seperate the kids, which is what Obama's DHS did.
So this was Cummings fault.
I was thirsty, but now Im drowning in liberal tears. bawhahahahabbababhahah pfffffffffts bawhhahah WINNING !
It was hard to read the article because I was so busy crying a river.
Cummings is a racist moron (sorry I’m so kind). He’s in a party that VOTED AGAINST the Civil Rights Act while Republicans vote for it. He’s in a party that has kept Blacks subservient, living poor in infested tenements with the welfare check as their gift from Democrats. This lasted for decades. He ought to be embarrassed and ashamed. High Black unemployment, high number of Black gangs, high number of fatherless Black children, high number of Blacks on social programs. Lots to be proud of Mr. Cummings!
Any video of him crying for Kate Steinke and begging for a new law or EO to prevent another similar occurrence?
Conman Cummings is a crybaby? In lieu of your Oscar, here’s your participation trophy, Eliar.
Cummings could be thoughtful and one of the cooler heads you hope to prevail, but not when anyone is looking I guess. When people are looking, by golly, he is going to tow that party line, further and better than anyone else.
People like Donald Trump are rare. He saw the truth about the alleged human rights commission, which is anything but. Instead of just doing what presidents always have, knowing it is a fraud, he pulled the plug. Most of us will just take the effed-uppedness of the world and figure out how to dissemble and work around, maybe, and maybe not so much. We get tangled up in stupid terrible things rather than just ending them and doing something else. That is not the man that Elijah Cummings is, he is like most people I think. More is the pity.
The manager of the Democrap plantation.
He thinks he’s better than Obama? Where has he been all our lives?
The only thing we ever see from Cummings is HISTRIONICS.
I am now totally immune to his blather.
My sympathy jar is empty.
My compassion jar is empty.
My empathy jar is empty.
I am refilling all 3 jars with AMMO.
Obama didnt think so.
And none of you said boo about it while it occurred under obamas administration and your terms in ofice.
Well, I guess slavery wasn’t as bad as this. Slaves never lived in in internment camps. I guess this is worse than the holocaust too.
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