Going Down On The Elevator To Hell

Not a jail, just walls made of chain link fencing.

As Dolt 45 struggles to lie his way out of the immigration shitstorm of his own making, a regular reader writes this:

So far I've cried every day.  Tonight watching news anchors cry on camera was too much. One could not even talk.  My stomach is sick, sick.  My husband does not believe in hell, but as a good Catholic, I do.  There is a long list from the Trump administration in the elevator, "Going Down" right now.  

Yes, a hot spot in hell would be just the thing for the Swamp Administration.  Some of the most recent horrors:

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was asked, "Where are the girls?"  (What little we've been allowed to see of the child detention centers has shown us boys only.)  "I don't know," she replied.

Nielsen blamed the child separation crisis on Congress, not the fake prez, and insisted that her people were only "following the law."  Nothing she could do.  (Like all fascists, she's big on following orders, even the most odious ones.)

Nielsen was chased out of a Mexican restaurant by a crowd of protesters chanting, "Shame!"  (A Mexican restaurant was an appropriate choice, eh?)

We learned that Nielsen and Trump established "tender age" detention shelters for the youngest of the separated kids, many under 4 years old.  Tender-age shelter is a bullshit euphemism for baby jail.

A Homeland Security directive denies any Congressional visits to immigrant detention centers unless two weeks advance notice is given, and the desired visitation date meets with official approval.  It mandates no photos and no interaction with children.  (Yep, 2 weeks oughta be plenty of time for the detention center to get its shit together.)

Border patrol guards have been recorded laughing and joking as separated kids are crying out for their parents.

Flight attendants on some red-eye flights have expressed shock upon finding their planes filled with non-English speaking children -- effectively kidnapped and being sent who-knows-where.  Reminiscent of Nazi prison trains to Auschwitz.  American Airlines today refused to allow its fleet to be used for such terrible purposes.

Trump said he'll seek authority to stop all foreign aid to any country "sending us" (non-white) immigrants.

Juvenile sociopath/bully Corey Lewandowski shamefully mocked someone trying to give a report of a Downs Syndrome child being pulled away from her mother.  Lewandowski butted into the other person's story by making "wah-wah-wah" sounds.  What an asshole!  An extra-hot spot for him.

Late today, implicitly acknowledging that images of distraught children made for bad TV, Trump tried to fix the disaster of his executive decision by issuing an executive order reversing his prior decision, sort of.  His "solution"?  Lock 'em all up together!  "Oh, you don't like to see child separation?  OK, we'll leave the family together.  No baby jail, family jail!  Voila!  I have solved the problem!"

"Look! I signed my name again!"

Not exactly.  Bringing illegal immigration cases to court can take years.  So his order enlists the entire federal government to assist with mass immigrant family detention -- use of facilities, diversion of federal funds, etc.  He thinks he's gonna keep families in jail for years?  Let the lawsuits begin.

His order reverses nothing.  It's the same cruel crackdown as before.

Think of the common thread linking these news items from our National Nightmare:  Build the wall; Travel ban; Charlottesville; Shit-hole countries; Puerto Rico; and now, family separation at the border.  Obviously, Trump believes pandering to racists is the best way to motivate his base.  He may be right, but it's a losing strategy.  The American public is solidly opposed to his fear-mongering, anti-immigration policies.

The one sure way to stop Trump's evil agenda and get to work undoing the damage he's done is to vote -- keep the pressure on Congress, but vote out all the spineless Republicans in the midterms, then vote out the leftovers along with Trump and his Grifter Cabinet in 2020.

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