Tag: Laura Bush

He fired off a tweet yesterday that said, quote, "we cannot allow all of these people to invade our country. The president's hard line on immigration plays well in certain conservative political circles, less well in others. JAMES LANKFORD: I would prefer the president would step out and say a lot of these are folks that are coming for economic reasons. MARTIN: Is immigration a good issue for Republicans this year? GOLDBERG: Well, look; there are people in the White House who are absolutely convinced that whenever the national conversation is on immigration it's good for Donald Trump and for the Republicans. GOLDBERG: ...That's a - just a very different message. And that's why the administration was so desperate to turn it into an MS-13, turn it into a gang violence sort of story because talking about these little kids who aren't MS-13 - they're not even MS-3, right (laughter)? MARTIN: Also, Republicans, though - some of these Republicans are in tough re-election districts... GOLDBERG: Yeah. MARTIN: Right. And this story, as it was playing out, was devastating for those congressmen.

Wide Awoke appreciates that these are both horrifying and confusing times. Which, at best, is unfathomably deluded. Which, at best (or is that worst? ), makes the first lady a voice of morality. Melania Trump speaks out against child separations at border: 'Hate to see it' Read more What on earth is going on? For a start, this is hardly speaking out against anything, when what the first lady actually said was she “hates to see children separated from their parents” and hopes “both sides of the aisle” can come together. No matter how much Melania Trump hates seeing children held in cages with foil sheets for blankets, this is a gross mischaracterisation of a policy enacted by the Trump administration alone. To which she is intimately bonded. On the same day, former first lady Laura Bush also spoke out against the zero tolerance policy, describing it as “cruel”, “immoral” and “eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War Two, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in US history”. We should all “hate” the separation of children from their parents, not because we are women or men, mothers or father.

(CNN)The White House's "zero tolerance" immigration policy and resulting separations of undocumented parents and kids is exploding into the most emotive and politically unpredictable test yet of President Donald Trump's effort to change the character of America. It's not just the usual Democrats who are criticizing the administration -- some prominent Republicans, including first lady Melania Trump and former first lady Laura Bush, religious leaders and influential figures in Trump's conservative evangelical base are also speaking out. "It's an atrocious policy," former White House communications director and Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci said on CNN's "New Day" Monday. Current first lady Melania Trump also expressed concern about the situation, though she did not break with her husband's position that only Congress can stop the separations. But the separations storm is injecting an unpredictable dimension to a critical week ahead in the immigration debate that sources tell CNN will include a meeting between Trump and GOP lawmakers on Tuesday. The House could vote as early as this week on a plan that would address family separations although the legislation would do little to change the underlying practice that has been implemented under the Trump administration. If the administration continues that practice, parents and children would still be separated. Three sources told CNN that Trump will meet House Republicans at the Capitol on Tuesday to discuss next steps on immigration, a gathering that could seal the fate of the House's hard-fought compromise immigration bill. And so you have to pay attention to that," House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows told reporters Friday. After spending a week already earlier in the year trying and failing to fix the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, there is little appetite among Republican leaders for a new immigration debate before the midterms.