“These aren’t people. These are animals.”
As we saw before, Trump visited “the border” today, where he took credit for a section of wall that was actually started by Obama. But he wasn’t finished.
President Donald Trump at a Border Patrol station in Calexico, California, on Friday railed against what is commonly known as the “Flores decision” — a landmark federal immigration case — calling it a “disaster for our country” and publicly calling out “Judge Flores” for making the bad decision. The problem with that sentiment: The Flores in that case’s title was not a judge, but a teenage girl named Jenny Lisette Flores.
“Some very bad court decisions. The Flores decision is a disaster. I have to tell you, Judge Flores, whoever you may be, that decision was a disaster for our country,” Trump said to the panel. “A disaster and we’re working on that.”
Yes, he really did say “disaster” three times, in his pre-dementia way, along with thinking the plaintiff was the judge.
Trump at the border: "Judge Flores, whoever you may be, that decision is a disaster for our country."
Jenny Flores was the 15 year-old plaintiff from El Salvador in Flores v. Reno, that determined the standard for how migrant children must be treated in US custody-WHAT AN IDIOT. pic.twitter.com/iisrHnLfJ6
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) April 5, 2019
The 1997 agreement in Reno v. Flores requires the U.S. government to release migrant children from detention without unnecessary delay to their parents, adult relatives or programs licensed to care for them. The settlement also requires immigration officials to provide the detained migrant children with food, drinking water, toilets, emergency medical assistance and other basic needs.
Basic rights, just imagine.
Also he again spoke the language of genocide.
https://twitter.com/JeremyLittau/status/1114301804760711174
I’m a historian of genocide and mass violence. Let’s be clear. Trump talks like a Nazi, like Rwandan genocidaires, like the Indonesian military folks who killed 500,000 civilians in six months in 1965. This is the pre-language of genocide, the dehumanizing of future victims. https://t.co/lko3B6y6YS
— Brad Simpson (bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social) (@bradleyrsimpson) April 5, 2019
https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/1114298867393032192
Trump uses the words infest, breed, and invade to refer to immigrants. He calls asylum seekers animals. Nazis referred to Jews as “rats.” Hutu leaders in Rwanda called Tutsis “cockroaches.” Slaves were “stock.” Dehumanizing language paves the way for atrocities. https://t.co/R6ZQjc1fpj
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 5, 2019
https://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1114301905142829056
It’s a nightmare and we can’t wake up.
He doesn’t know that the phraseology, “the X decision” means the name of one of the key parties, and NOT “case decided by X”? That’s cartoonish. He can’t imagine “X” as the case-name, rather than the subject of the verb-idea of “deciding.”
The Miranda decision was decided by Judge Miranda.
The Plessy decision could only mean “decided by Judge Plessy.”
That is unspeakably stupid.
Unbelievable.
Except coming from Trump, it’s not.
Giving children food and water is a disaster. The “president” of the United States thinks that giving children food and water is a disaster.
It’s OK though, he’s working on it. He’s working on denying food and water to children. So that’s a relief, disaster averted!