Meanwhile, as the border crisis spirals, the absence of a coordinated policy process has allowed the most extreme administration voices to fill the vacuum. White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller has all but become the face of the issue, a development that even supporters of Trump's "zero-tolerance" position say is damaging the White House. "Stephen actually enjoys seeing those pictures at the border," an outside White House adviser said. "He's a twisted guy, the way he was raised and picked on. There's always been a way he's gone about this. He's Waffen-SS."
Christopher Moore: "What's the German expression for Tender Age Shelters? They might be able to re-purpose the old signs." (Apparently Jugendkonzentrationslager, but I haven't found a good picture of a sign.)
Outside Trump Hotel, an Uproar. Inside, a Calm Sea of Conservative Cash.
At the hotel, he spoke for an hour to 150 supporters -- about half of whom were donors who paid $100,000 to $250,000 to attend a two-day summit meeting organized by America First Action, the "super PAC" formed to support Mr. Trump and allied candidates.
Outside, the world was cloudy. Beyond the hotel's walls, protesters blasted audio of children crying in detainment centers. Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security, was heckled at a nearby Mexican restaurant. In the days before, an anti-Trump group had projected the words "Over 3,000 children taken from their parents" onto the hotel facade.
But inside, all was well.
"Does anybody here look stressed out?" the conservative commentator Candace Owens asked as she surveyed the lobby. [...]
Sensitive to campaign finance rules barring federal officials from soliciting donations greater than $5,400, the White House has been careful to call these events gatherings with supporters, not fund-raisers, although they have a similar effect. The event this week felt like a conference, with several panels geared toward foreign policy, "America First" messaging and a healthy disdain for the news media. [...]
Mr. Hamm has donated $1 million to America First Action through personal and corporate accounts. Mr. Weiser, who has donated $200,000, said he suspected the event raised "a lot" of money. [...]
"We have to give the impression that our laws matter," he said. "I think conservatism is the new counterculture."
And just like that Trump reverses the family separation “rule” that he’s carefully blamed on everyone but the White House. Thank you Resistance for your swift and continuous protest. I hope the public will not forget this shady manipulation of justice at the polls.
This isn't a policy reversal. They aren't going back to the way things were. Now they are locking up entire families as a unit.
And not only that, but it's just a dodge, so that they can blame some poor judge in less than a month.
More like brilliant jiu-jitsu. This media blitz targeted at low info emotionals will be burned out by then and the deterrent effect of the policy will be registering in central america. The problem of children on the border will be gone, thankfully for their sake. Let's get rid of Trump and just go straight Miller in 2020.
> by then and the deterrent effect of the policy will be registering in central america
What makes you think it ever will be seen as anything other than propaganda? Nobody has any faith in what this administration says, it's all a crapshoot as far as refugees and anyone else are concerned.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) found that, "of the more than 18,500 endangered runaways reported to NCMEC in 2016, one in six were likely victims of child sex trafficking. Of those, 86 percent were in the care of social services when they went missing."
Guess what the infant and toddler concentration camps do? Drug them without medical supervision. You think that's just going to fade away? The children are the only thing voters care about anymore, that and reaming the brown people.
November is really going to be something.
Given this raised Trump's popularity ratings to an all-time high, I think they'll count this as a win.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203207/trump-job-approval-weekly.aspx