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Bill Clinton blasts family separation: 'Children should not be bargaining chips'
The Hill ^ | 06/22/18 | Justin Wise

Posted on 06/22/2018 8:53:41 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Former President Bill Clinton this week slammed President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy that resulted in separating families at the border, saying that "children should not be bargaining chips."

“Taking these kids away from their parents makes no sense,” Clinton said Thursday at an event for his new book in Chicago, according to CNN. “It’s wrong. It’s immoral. It’s not required by the law. And it’s not necessary to protect the border. It’s just wrong."

He added that “children should not be bargaining chips," and that "they are people."

"I not only want this to stop, I want them to go get these kids that have already been sent away and give them back to their parents and do it right now," he said.

Clinton's condemnation of the policy comes two days after the president signed an executive order to end a policy that resulted in thousands of children being separated from their parents. It is not yet clear how or when the families already divided under the policy will be reunited. The administration began implementing the policy widely in April.

Trump signed the order after facing increasing pressure from Republican and Democratic lawmakers. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was one of the many people to criticize the policy and Trump's defense of it earlier this week.

“Separating families is not mandated by law at all. That is an outright lie," she said. "It’s incumbent on all of us, journalists and citizens alike, to call it just that.”

Many lawmakers continue to question the Trump administration over the policy. On Thursday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) tweeted that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen privately told lawmakers that despite Trump signing an executive order, the practice of separating families could continue.

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KEYWORDS: clinton; elian; immigration; trump; x42
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To: pgkdan

Right. He doesn’t think children should be used for bargaining chips. For Bill and Hill children’s purpose is to steal from Haiti and set them us as sex slaves. Sheesh... everyone knows that.


41 posted on 06/22/2018 9:30:09 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Well if we have to hear from Bill Clinton...

why not get Harvey Weingstein's opinion too... And Charlie Rose's and Tom Brokaw's and Harold Ford Jr's and Mark Halperin's?

Yeah, let's hear from all the abusers... and their 'feelings' about children in cages during the Obama years... Come on Justin Wise include all of 'em. ALL the liberal 'elites'...

42 posted on 06/22/2018 9:30:18 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Difference between Putin and Hillary? Putin can win an election rigged in his favor.)
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To: yesthatjallen

...because everyone respects the opinion of a serial rapist.


43 posted on 06/22/2018 9:33:07 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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Shut up billy...you have less credibility than a demonrat at a gun show....


44 posted on 06/22/2018 9:37:07 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: yesthatjallen

oh do shut up old horny toad. U had Chelsea as a political prop, and u ignore poor Danny b/c the optics won’t look good for you, banging a black whore on the side. Altho who cares anymore after your Monica debacle. Just shut up.


45 posted on 06/22/2018 9:38:19 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: yesthatjallen
Remember how Bill stood tall and firm and protected Elian Gonzalez?

No?

Neither does anyone else.


46 posted on 06/22/2018 9:38:26 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ( Liberals love all mankind without reservation. Except those who don't agree with them 100%.)
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To: timestax
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47 posted on 06/22/2018 9:39:32 AM PDT by timestax
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To: yesthatjallen

48 posted on 06/22/2018 9:45:38 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: yesthatjallen

Parents who try to break into the country with their children should be charged with child trafficking.


49 posted on 06/22/2018 9:47:10 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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To: yesthatjallen

The idea of Bill Clinton lecturing on morality is a farce, especially where young, impressionable people are the subject


50 posted on 06/22/2018 9:57:40 AM PDT by llevrok (Established 1950.)
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To: yesthatjallen
So says the Pedophile (or, at the very least) "Ephebophile"-in Chief...

(Aboard Epsteins "Lolita Express"...)

51 posted on 06/22/2018 10:00:54 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; "0bama": Allah's stooge; "Moderate Muslims": Allah's useful idiots.)
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To: yesthatjallen

National security, however, can be a bargaining chip, as in Uranium One.


52 posted on 06/22/2018 10:02:51 AM PDT by Rocky (I have principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: yesthatjallen

To Democrats, Children are Human Shields.


53 posted on 06/22/2018 10:03:15 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: yesthatjallen


54 posted on 06/22/2018 10:06:21 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ( Liberals love all mankind without reservation. Except those who don't agree with them 100%.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Stand by Bill. I think justice is headed your way in the form of an activated Keebler Elf. How were those trips to Little St. James Island?


55 posted on 06/22/2018 10:06:26 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: yesthatjallen

‘Children should not be bargaining chips’

Chelsea was!!


56 posted on 06/22/2018 10:09:12 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: TXnMA
Was that a "before" or "after" picture?


57 posted on 06/22/2018 10:09:26 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: yesthatjallen

The degenerate SOB initiated this policy!


58 posted on 06/22/2018 10:10:01 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: yesthatjallen

Bill, the molester of children feels that they shouldn’t be used a bargaining chips. What about all those underage girls that Epstein pimped for Bill’s pleasure and the Lolita express jet plane Bill enjoyed so much.

Give us a break!


59 posted on 06/22/2018 10:12:42 AM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Lighten up, Slick. You’re going to give yourself a heart attack.


60 posted on 06/22/2018 10:12:54 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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