"For years, the Las Vegas Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, Nevada’s primary state mental facility, gave discharged patients a bus ticket out of town," reported Mother Jones in 2015. "Poor and mentally ill, they ended up homeless in cities around the country—especially in California, where more than 500 psychiatric patients were sent over a five year period."
It sounds shocking that an American city would take its homeless, and give them a bus ticket out of town. Unfortunately, that is not an uncommon practice.
After an 18 month investigation, The Guardian concluded that from 2011 to 2017, there were 21,400 homeless bus relocations throughout the lower 48 states of America.
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that White House officials were pushing a similar idea, but instead of it being the homeless, it would be immigrants detained at the southern border. Furthermore, the idea was to put them in buses and drop them off in sanctuary cities.
Per The Washington Post:
Trump administration officials have proposed transporting detained immigrants to sanctuary cities at least twice in the past six months — once in November, as a migrant caravan approached the U.S. southern border, and again in February, amid a standoff with Democrats over funding for Trump’s border wall.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco was among those the White House wanted to target, according to DHS officials. The administration also considered releasing detainees in other Democratic strongholds.
This is why it's not hysterical to call Donald Trump a white nationalist, which is just another way of calling someone a fascist. Plus, he's as incredibly petty, as he is repugnant.
He's using women and children as a pawn to attack his "enemies" for not going along with his white nationalist
“The extent of this administration’s cynicism and cruelty cannot be overstated,” Nancy Pelosi's spokeswoman Ashley Etienne told The Washington Post. “Using human beings — including little children — as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants is despicable.”
Thankfully, whistleblowers have informed Congress of this horrific policy idea that was being pushed by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller.
"The White House believed it could punish Democrats — including Pelosi — by busing ICE detainees into their districts before their release, according to two DHS whistleblowers who independently reported the busing plan to Congress," reports the Post. "One of the whistleblowers spoke with The Washington Post, and several DHS officials confirmed the accounts. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations."
In a statement, the White House said, “This was just a suggestion that was floated and rejected, which ended any further discussion."
Right.... Just suggesting horrifying policy ideas to go after political opponents, but other than that....
We can safely assume that Stephen Miller had a role in pushing this policy idea, but we can also say with certainty that Donald Trump was pushing this idea, because he's told us.
"Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only," tweeted Trump earlier today.
"The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!" added the orange-skinned fascist.
I'm sure you could tell Trump that Fredrick Engles was a contemporary critic of Karl Marx's, give him a made up argument and Trump would run to Twitter, or bring it up at a rally.
Although some have given former Acting Solicitor General, Neal Katyal, a hard time for being "shocked," by this news, I'm not going to go down that road.
"The President of the United States of America tweeted this afternoon that he is considering transporting human beings he has captured for concentration in cities populated by Americans he considers his enemies," government ethics attorney Walter Shaub tweeted.
Trump and his acolytes show the world on a daily basis that America is decaying.
Not only has Donald Trump tweeted about this evil policy idea, he doubled down on this idea during a press conference at the White House.
It began with the man who has expressed no sympathy in any way to immigrants, somehow now cares that people who are traveling through the southwestern deserts can end up dying in the desert due to exhaustion and thirst:
Trump went on to threatened Democrats to either get in line, or he'll take these refugees (because that's what they are), dump them on their streets, and has the audacity to call into question other's ability to have empathy and sympathy for people who have as little as refugees:
Trump proceeded to double down on this evil idea:
This awful and terrifying news comes with another report that an 11-year-old girl from El Salvador is to be deported without her family. America is sending a little girl back to a country ravaged by violence, and she'll be going back alone. The United States government has essentially signed this girls death warrant.
"In 1983, I was in a United Nations camp for Guatemalan refugees in Honduras," journalist and author Chris Hedges wrote in his book 'Losing Moses on the Freeway.'
Hedges continues:
Those in the camp had fled fighting. Most had seen family members killed. The refugees, when I arrived on a dreary January afternoon, were decorating the tents and wooden warehouses with colored paper. They told me they would celebrate the flight of Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus to Egypt to escape the slaughter ordered by Herod of the Children. Why I asked one of the peasants, was this an important day? "It was on this day that Christ became a refugee," he answered.
I knew this Bible passage by heart. I had heard my father read it every years. But until moment, standing in a muddy refugee camp with a man who may not have been able to read, I did not understand it. This passage meant one thing to me and another to parents who had swept children into their arms and fled to escape death.
Chris Hedges notes that he learned more about that passage from this peasant than he could have from a theologian.
Trump's Christian supporters, especially evangelicals, have proven that they are not Christians. They are white nationalists, and Christian fascists.
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