Tom Toles for June 20, 2018

Just a note: most are actually from Guatamala, El Salvador, and Honduras.

Branding, Tom? Please don’t give them any ideas. Next thing you know, they’ll be tattooing numbers on the kids to help keep track of them.

Great comic. Sad state of affairs.

Separate cages in separate cities.

This is a Republican approved Hotel, they give it 5 stars.

“We’ll leave the light on,” says little Jeffy.

“Yeah! It’s a summer camp and resort! YEAH, THAT’S THE TICKET!”

I bet the Republican Travel Guides rate it a 5 Swastika Hotel and Resort…

Lincoln, TR, Ike, DT … one of these is not like the others.

Nope. Not gonna reply directly, you Russian troll bot.

After watching Kirstjen Nielsen talk to the press, I think we can see that Joe Arpaio is more suited to explaining Trump’s policies on immigration.

I used to hear from my gun nut friends that they maintain an arsenal to keep the democrats, Nancy, Barak or Hillary in particular from taking their freedom. I always pointed out that it is the republicans I fear the most. Had no idea I had the gift of prophecy.

No matter how often the message is massaged, JoanSimpson is still lying.

“Donald Trump is enforcing an immigration law that President Bush signed into law in 1997, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.”.

Wow, what a mishmash. Bush was not president in 1997, Clinton was. There was no law in 1997, it was the Flores v Reno settlement (as JS notes further down in the comment).

Snopes: “However, neither the 1997 Flores settlement nor a 2008 human trafficking law cited in that release in any way stipulated that the government separate children from their parents:”

I wonder how people who eagerly consume the kind of stuff JS spews manage to keep from wondering why this separation of children hasn’t been going full force since 1997.

P.S. The Snopes page is https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-law-separate-families-passed-1997/

Posted this several months ago. Now more relevant than ever.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. has a display listing “early warning signs” of an encroaching fascist government.

1.Powerful and continuing nationalism2.Disdain for human rights3.Identification of enemies as a unifying cause4.Supremacy of the military5.Rampant sexism6.Controlled mass media7.Obsession with national security8.Religion and government intertwined9.Corporate power protected10.Labor [sic] power suppressed11.Disdain for intellectuals & the arts12.Obsession with crime & punishment13.Rampant cronyism & corruption14.Fraudulent elections

Tяump and all of his ReTяumpliKlans, every one of them, have shown themselves to be proud evil incarnate. We as a nation have been shamed beyond measure.

Victorian Britain had more mercy toward the children of debtors than today’s US does toward the children of illegal immigrants. USA! USA!

And Kim Jong Un gave him the blue prints. Modeled after one of the “tough” NK interment camps that impressed The Donald so much.

The new Trump Hotel, immigrants check in but their children don’t check out.

We’ll leave the lamp of liberty on for you.

Suffer the children?

Nah.

The children suffer!

Yes, during WWII we sent Japanese Americans to camps. I guess we didn’t learn much.

Conservative pundit David Brooks: What’s most significant is this: The Trump administration immigration officials have become exactly the kind of monsters that conservatism has always warned against.For centuries, conservatives have repeated a specific critique against state power. Statism, conservatives have argued, has a tendency to become brutalist and inhumane because a bureaucracy can’t see or account for the complexity of reality. It tries to impose uniform rules on the organic intricacy of human relationships. Statist social engineering projects cause horrific suffering because in the mind of statists, the abstract rule is more important than the human being in front of them. The person must be crushed for the sake of the abstraction.

Trump is doing this all on his own. He doesn’t like people of color and that includes refugees from countries damaged by the US Drug Wars.

The Republicans are practicing for them liberal cities. Will anyone stop them when they come for your family?

Two faced Trump says that Toxic Trump’s policy of kidnapping children is wrong and liar Trump says he will stop it or something, who knows what goes on in that idiots head.

FYI…. The private prison system is making a killing on this…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that in 2016, private prisons held nearly three-quarters of federal immigration detainees. Private prisons also hold an unknown percentage of people held in local jails in Texas, Louisiana, and a handful of other states.

Wonder what kind of kickback the GOP is getting.