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Here’s What Trump’s Executive Order to End Family Separation at the Border Really Means
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump finally decided that he’d done enough damage in embarrassing America on a global stage and signed an executive order to end the separation of migrant children from their loved ones at the U.S. border. Didn’t matter that he could have done this weeks ago or that he never had to…
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Jeff Sessions Explaining How the Trump Administration Is Not Like Nazi Germany Is Peak Dumpster Fire
For the Trump administration, the bottom appears to be nonexistent. On the same day that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen gave an abhorrently insensitive defense of the Trump administration’s insistence on separating immigrant children from their loved ones at the U.S. border, U.S. Attorney General Jeff “King Keebler Klan” Sessions actually argued about…
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Melania Trump Hates Seeing Immigrant Children Taken From Their Parents, but Not Enough to Tell Her Husband to End It
Melania Trump has a voice; she just chooses not to use it. In fact, when Ofdonald does speak, it’s usually to spout the lifted words from black America’s first-lady-until-further-notice, the great and incomparable Michelle Obama, or it’s to shout “Be best”—because that makes a lot of sense. So in a rare moment of unfiltered utterance…
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Jeff Sessions Quotes the Bible to Justify Abusing Immigrants; God Laughs
If you hear somebody quote the Bible outside of church, it’s usually not a good sign. The occasional gasp of “Jesus Christ” or “Gaht damn” and various forms of “Jesus be a fence” are all right, but those aren’t really Bible quotes and could denote anything from having missed the bus to winning the daily…
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Trump Wants Taxpayers, Not Mexico, to Pay for Border Wall
President-elect Donald Trump promised his voters a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, and now his transition team and congressional Republicans are trying to figure out if there is any way to slide the wall building into existing legislation without passing a new bill. Two congressional officials and a senior transition-team official with knowledge of the…
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Report: Trump Team Is Building Plans for Wall, Considering Muslim Registry
President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t even picked a transition team, but that hasn’t stopped those in his proposed administration from looking for loopholes to avoid getting congressional approval on the construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border. And that isn’t all. Trump has also been seeking advice from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, “an…