Brandon Darby is welcoming all the blue-checks who have finally woken up to the fact that we have a crisis on the southern border:
After five years, it’s great to see so many journalists and Democrats finally outraged about migrant children in crowded detention facilities.
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 24, 2019
But where are all the Obama supporters who said nothing when the exact same thing was happening on his watch?
What’s not great is that so many Obama supporters suddenly care when it can be blamed on Trump, and so many who cared when it could be blamed on Obama suddenly don’t have the same fervor.
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 24, 2019
Crickets:
Being full of it and intellectually inconsistent is apparently just part of human nature. The timing and comparative responses to migrant detention issues really show this.
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) June 24, 2019
So, let’s take a look at some of those stories from 2014 to help remind people what was really going on back then. Drug cartels, you say? They’re not all good people?
Mexico's drug gangs may be behind the unprecedented number of underage migrants in Arizona's detention centers http://t.co/zpAKeYxd6V
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 23, 2014
It’s “sickening” even!
Photos of the sickening humanitarian crisis at US border detention centers http://t.co/owmJDiYWNa pic.twitter.com/Mkd6EwXiMK
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) June 22, 2014
From the New York Times:
RT @nytimes Child Migrants Strain Makeshift Arizona Shelter http://t.co/ETWOBGIup7 #WarOnChildren #YesEveryKid @supportKIND @RAICESTEXAS
— RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) June 7, 2014
From the article above:
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Immigration advocates have criticized the federal government for stranding the women and children in extreme heat with no money or food. Volunteers have stepped in to help them reach their families.
Boy, the president who ordered that should be impeached! Did someone mention ICE raids?
U.S. Plans to Step Up Detention and Deportation of Migrants http://t.co/j7OLh9GECn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 20, 2014
But for some reason, Trump is a Nazi for saying this kind of stuff:
Obama administration responds to immigrant surge by ramping up detention and deportations http://t.co/SNMK01HzZg
— The Verge (@verge) June 20, 2014
"We're really concerned that these detention centers … will not be under compliance with international law." http://t.co/qulcQcguO0
— The Nation (@thenation) June 21, 2014
Question for AOC: Are these concentration camps?
White House plans more detention centers to address border crisis http://t.co/okWm0xXBJ5
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 20, 2014
This 2014 link to the HuffPost article on this is dead for some strange reason:
Arizona rushes supplies to shocking site holding migrant kids http://t.co/AJ0YBjw22g
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) June 7, 2014
And maybe President Trump should hire this guy. His tough talk on unaccompanied minors makes a lot of sense:
DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson: “Those who cross our border today illegally, even children, are not eligible for an earned path to citizenship.”
— Chargé Heide Fulton (@USAmbHonduras) June 14, 2014
“We will send you back,” Jeh Johnson said:
Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson on undocumented immigrants: 'We will send you back' http://t.co/8IxmKB3Wna #immigration #FLETC #nmpol
— CarlsbadCurrentArgus (@CCurrentArgus) July 12, 2014
Obama’s DHS secretary also put migrants and their families in private prisons to act as a “deterrent” to others who might come to America to claim asylum. Those are his exact words:
And as for separating families as a "deterrent," the Obama admin put families in detention centers as a "deterrent."
Jeh Johnson on family detention “l believe this is an effective deterrent"
https:// https://t.co/FSDjqquKkp https://t.co/12rEyhMvOq
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) June 15, 2018
And maybe it’s time to send Barack Obama to the Hague:
US: Surge in Detention of Child Migrants http://t.co/9m3SKA41TS
— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) June 25, 2014
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