MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff, while live-tweeting his Dateline story on immigration last night, let loose with this zinger out of nowhere on Bill Clinton where he criticized the former president’s tough immigration policies which led to death rates that “skyrocketed”:
Donald Trump is hardly the first president to try deterrence as a border strategy.
Bill Clinton tried it in the 1990's — it stopped the flow of migrants — but it also had tragic consequences.
Death rates skyrocketed.#Dateline
— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) June 24, 2018
Weird. Bill Clinton’s policies were killing illegal immigrants yet we don’t remember anyone calling the president “Hitler” back then. Why could that be?
But now, Trump is just like Hitler because the government … wait for it … gives kids who were either caught crossing illegally with their parents or kids who were sent to the U.S. alone identifcation numbers:
What @realDonaldTrump is doing to migrant families is disgusting, labeling kids with number just like Hitler did. He's stepping on human rights, he doesn't care about humanity. It doesn't matter if these people comes from Mexico or Central America, Trump's madness needs to end. pic.twitter.com/85HQxtn4nb
— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) June 20, 2018
Vox even blamed Clinton and the 1996 law called “IIRIRA” that “laid the groundwork for the massive deportation machine that exists today,” but still no Nazi comparisons:
Absolutely horrific story, but not sure it's unique to the Trump era. Such things have been happening since the law changed in 1996, under Clinton.https://t.co/Mfg0upQRfN https://t.co/Fv0UJA8kZ5
— Cathy Young (@CathyYoung63) January 21, 2018
Good luck getting it to stop, however:
Stop already with the Nazi and Hitler analogies. Really. Stop. What's happening is its own kind of bad and you court discrediting the seriousness of your complaints about it by overstating things so tastelessly and wrongly.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 18, 2018
They can’t stop, won’t stop:
President Trump just said that immigrants "pour into and infest our country." This is more than reminiscent of the language of Hitler's Germany as is his monstrous policy of snatching crying children from their parents at the border. https://t.co/K2cvwlJDEk
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) June 19, 2018
“Literally,” he says:
"Trump isn't Hitler". He is literally torturing children. There was a time when Hitler had only killed a handful of people. Ideally you fight the fascist assholes before they rack up the body count.
— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) June 23, 2018
And as we told you on Sunday, Trump actually has the polling behind him for these policies:
Also CBS poll: only 21% of voters favor releasing illegal immigrants into the country. Nearly 3/4 support incarceration and deportation pic.twitter.com/ULUkvkQOP0
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) June 24, 2018
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Related:
MSNBC's Chris Hayes said to look at how Trump's wall polls with voters. OK, here's the latest and he won't like the results https://t.co/OhnoSGXZrB
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 24, 2018
SIREN: New poll numbers AFTER family separation crisis are a warning for …….. DEMS! https://t.co/mqWvYBoCyH
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 24, 2018
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