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. Its wrong. Its immoral. Its not required by the law. And its not necessary to protect the border. Its 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. "Its 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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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.
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'...
...because everyone respects the opinion of a serial rapist.
Shut up billy...you have less credibility than a demonrat at a gun show....
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.
No?
Neither does anyone else.
Parents who try to break into the country with their children should be charged with child trafficking.
The idea of Bill Clinton lecturing on morality is a farce, especially where young, impressionable people are the subject
(Aboard Epsteins "Lolita Express"...)
National security, however, can be a bargaining chip, as in Uranium One.
To Democrats, Children are Human Shields.
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?
‘Children should not be bargaining chips’
Chelsea was!!
The degenerate SOB initiated this policy!
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!
Lighten up, Slick. You’re going to give yourself a heart attack.
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