I doubt Trudeau had anything to do with this, but credit where credit is due to Canada. It's about time Canada found it's balls.
Citing Chinese genocide, Canadian representatives voted 266-0 for China to be stripped of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Bravo, Canada. Will American leaders have the guts to do the same?
Joe Biden putting kids in cages. Oh the outrage. lol
Psaki Defends Joe Biden Reopening Border Detention Center. Kids in cages.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the decision by President Joe Biden’s administration to reopen a detention center for migrant children on Monday.
More than 200 migrant teenagers on Monday were sent to a reopened facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, according to CBS News, with plans to expand the number of detained children to 700 in facilities across the country.
Both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris strongly condemned such facilities during the 2020 presidential campaign, accusing former President Donald Trump of putting children and “babies in cages.”
“Under Trump, there have been horrifying scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages, tear-gassing asylum seekers, ripping children from their mothers’ arms,” Biden wrote in an op-ed in the Miami Herald in 2019, accusing Trump of “actions that subvert American values and erode our ability to lead on the global stage.”
Biden promised during the campaign that he would close the facilities holding detained unaccompanied migrant children. Biden also falsely claimed that during the Obama-Biden administration “we didn’t lock people up in cages.” The administration had, in fact, built those cages. Breitbart News first revealed cramped facilities full of migrant children in 2014, during Obama and Biden’s second term.
Psaki blamed coronavirus social distancing requirements for the need to expand the facilities for unaccompanied children apprehended at the border.
“It’s a temporary reopening during COVID-19,” she said referring to the decision to reopen the facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas. “Our intention is very much to close it.”
She refused to accept the idea that the facilities were similar to that of the previous administration.
“This is not kids being kept in cages,” she said. “This is a facility that was opened that is going to follow the same standards as other HHS facilities.”
Psaki said the facilities were reopened because of coronavirus restrictions.
“That was never our intention of replicating the immigration policies of the past administration,” she said.
She did not mention the spike in border crossings by unaccompanied minors since Biden became president.
Less talking and more reading for you.
AOC on Joe Biden Opening Migrant Holding Facility: ‘This Is Not Okay’
Days after Biden took office, DHS officials moved forward with plans to construct and open a processing center in Donna, Texas, near the Rio Grande Valley Sector’s existing processing center.
Biden, in August 2019, said, “Close them down!” and “We don’t need them” when talking about border detention facilities that President Trump’s administration had utilized to control migration.
In a series of statements, Ocasio-Cortez — who once compared border detention facilities to “concentration camps” in 2019 — denounced the Biden administration for opening the facilities and said DHS “shouldn’t exist.”
“This is not okay, never has been okay, never will be okay — no matter the administration or party,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in reference to the Carrizo Springs facility.
“It’s only [two months] into this admin and our fraught, unjust immigration system will not transform in that time,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “That’s why bold reimagination is so [important]. DHS shouldn’t exist, agencies should be reorganized, ICE gotta go, ban for-profit detention, create climate refugee status & more.”
Liberals went from "no kids in cages!" to "what else are you supposed to do with migrant children?" even faster than I expected.
Will there be protests?
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