Posted on 06/23/2018 9:28:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump tried to cast doubt Friday on wrenching tales of migrant children separated from their families at the border, dismissing “phony stories of sadness and grief” while asserting the real victims of the nation’s immigration crisis are Americans killed by those who cross the border unlawfully.
Bombarded with criticism condemning the family-separation situation as a national moment of shame, Trump came back firing, sometimes twisting facts and changing his story but nonetheless highlighting the genuine grief of families on the other side of the equation.
“You hear the other side, you never hear this side,” said Trump, standing with a dozen of what he calls the “angel families” who lost loved ones at the hands of people in the country illegally. He focused on the fact that young migrants separated from parents are likely to be reunited, unlike the victims of murders.
“These are the American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones. The word ‘permanently’ being the word that you have to think about. Permanently — they’re not separated for a day or two days, these are permanently separated because they were killed by criminal illegal aliens.”
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How many of them come separated?
“Trump came back firing, sometimes twisting facts and changing his story but nonetheless highlighting the genuine grief of families on the other side of the equation.”
As InstaPundit writes, “The Left is going to hate playing by their own rules.”
Hopefully, the california (9th circuit) court will block the President’s attempt to bring these criminal famalies at the border together. I don’t like this 4 D chess the President might be playing
Trump should also host an event where Border Patrol agents say what they see, kids locked in hot trunks, kids who drown in the Rio Grande, little girls with birth control pills in their pockets, because their parents know they’re going to be raped along the way.
There was a report back in 2015, which said that 80 percent or more of women and girls are raped on their trip thru Mexico. Where is the #metoo and other feminists, don’t they care about Hispanic women?
Trump needs to press hard and constantly on this. These people are the faces of why we need a border wall. I would even go so far To say that Trump needs to hound the liberal media unmercifully about this for not reporting all the people killed by illegal aliens. He has the opportunity here to absolutely turn the media narrative on its head.
The Ass Press tried real hard to twist this into a President Trump bashing story. IMHO, they failed miserably.
Trump seems to be the only republican president that realizes that when the liberal media is screaming about something they’re distracting you from what you really need to be focused on.
illegalaliencrimereport.com, as mentioned in the press conference, is still down. Overwhelmed the hosting resources. I contacted him and offered my help/advice but he could probably use some funds to deal with things. He’s got a gofundme page but it’s not very active. 50 bucks within the past 24 hours and 50 bucks a few months ago. $1700 in 32 months.
https://www.gofundme.com/qe5vj9tk
https://www.facebook.com/pg/illegalaliencrimereport/posts/
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