{"id":179006,"date":"2018-06-19T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/19\/interesting-insight-into-the-origins-of-trumps-child-snatching-policy\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T01:32:00","slug":"interesting-insight-into-the-origins-of-trumps-child-snatching-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/19\/interesting-insight-into-the-origins-of-trumps-child-snatching-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Insight into the Origins of Trump&#8217;s Child Snatching Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Welsh has come across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianwelsh.net\/the-roots-of-trumps-policy-of-separating-children-from-parents\/\">how Barack Obama&#8217;s truly horrific immigration policies led directly to Trump&#8217;s even more contemptible child snatching<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">So, you\u2019ve all heard about this by now.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">It is, obviously, a terrible crime. And yeah, evil.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">It is an extension of Obama\u2019s policy of holding families (without splitting them up, but still in terrible conditions). If you want to understand the link, read this Twitter thread.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thread: How did we get here? <br \/>In 2015, I shook President Obama\u2019s hand, thanked him for DACA, and asked him to reverse course &amp; close the for-profit baby jails (also known as \u201cfamily detention centers\u201d) he opened in Dilley &amp; Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core 1\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K5vi6S2RPj\">pic.twitter.com\/K5vi6S2RPj<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 R. Andrew Free (@ImmCivilRights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImmCivilRights\/status\/1008902662828511232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is rather telling that (read the whole tweet storm) it is clear from the exchange that putting families in detention was intended as a deterrent by the Obama administration, because they thought that no one but a few immigration lawyers would care.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s immigration policies are not an abberation, they are a natural progression from prior administrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Welsh has come across how Barack Obama&#8217;s truly horrific immigration policies led directly to Trump&#8217;s even more contemptible child snatching: So, you\u2019ve all heard about this by now. It is, obviously, a terrible crime. And yeah, evil. It is an extension of Obama\u2019s policy of holding families (without splitting them up, but still in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[491,368,573,364,438],"class_list":["post-179006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-barack-obama","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}