For some sick reason, the right has decided that an argument for the wall and their anti-immigrant policy is that they somehow care about women refugees being sexually assaulted trying to make it to America, such as the GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel:
It's an insane argument, because if you actually cared about these women you wouldn't be supporting Trump's immigration policies.
The GOP Chairwoman's talking point was one that Donald Trump used during his State of the Union speech, and it annoyed the hell out of New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof:
It's not just the hypocrisy of an idea that somehow a wall at the souther border is going to magically prevent sexual violence from occurring in Honduras. It's the manipulation of facts by the highest officials in our government manipulating information that makes their motives rather insidious.
Doctors without Borders has pointed out that the Trump administration is manipulating facts about a humanitarian crisis to push an anti-humanitarian agenda.
Doctors without Borders noted this to Kristof:
Doctors without Borders writes:
In a surprising twist, the president, vice president, and the secretary of homeland security have recently seized on data from a 2017 report by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which reveals the extreme violence suffered by our patients in their home countries and along the migration route, in order to make the case for tough border enforcement. Administration officials are essentially cherry-picking our data to justify policies that would trap vulnerable people in places where their lives are at risk—and they are ignoring our recommendations about how to address the very real medical needs of migrants and asylum-seekers.
"When citing our figures," notes Doctors without Borders, "Administration officials generally do not mention that almost 40 percent of patients surveyed said that they fled their countries due to violence, and that close to 44 percent of them had experienced the murder of a family member over the prior two years."
As Doctors without Borders points out, people migrating have a legitimate fear of facing "death or violence if sent back to their countries," so a wall makes no logical sense, nor will it prevent people from coming north.
Doctors without Borders: "No wall, nor even the threat of violence along the journey north, will prevent people from fleeing if their lives are in danger back home."
This humanitarian argument is a complete fraud. They don't actually care about the threats women face of sexual, so the fact that they are admitting that it's real, nevertheless, still want the wall. Shows how truly fucked up these evil sons-of-bitches are...
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