Homeland Security Head Needs to Go
Yesterday, Kirstjen Nielson, White House aide who was elevated to Secretary of Homeland Security last year after John Kelly was moved to chief of staff, gave up whatever was left of her reputation yesterday by standing at the briefing room podium lying to the American people in a continuous stream. Most infuriating is her repeating ad nauseam that the brand new, cruel policy of separating children from parents who are fleeing violence and corruption in their home countries is not a policy, but a non-existent law passed by Democrats. This outrageous lie, whipped up by in-house white supremacist Stephen Miller and repeated continuously by Jeff Sessions and Trump himself, is shameful. To utter it from a White House podium is inexcusable.
Let’s be clear here – Nielson is lying when she says that she is “enforcing the laws passed by Congress”. Technically, she is correct, but her agency CREATED this problem, and then enforcing a law that doesn’t need to be used. Here’s how she is doing that: Refugees are coming to ports of entry to ask for asylum. They are being turned away at those ports of entry because ICE has slowed entry to a trickle. After days of waiting on bridges and in lines, they are crossing illegally in desperation, then turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents. THAT’S when the “zero tolerance” policy is at its most cruel; these refugees are then arrested, thus “enforcing the laws passed by Congress”, their children are taken by force because children can’t be jailed with their parents. This problem is wholly created by Trump and sycophants, then lied about from the podium of the White House briefing room. It’s immoral and criminal.
The UN Human Rights Office has condemned this new practice as unconscionable and declared it “state sponsored child abuse”. Republicans have finally awoken from their gerrymandered-in coma and are now speaking out against this new policy. However, at the eye of this storm is Kirstjen Nielson, who is blatantly lying for Donald Trump trying to get back in his good graces after privately opposing this new policy. This is what I don’t get about people like Nielson who sell their souls to a cretin like Trump. What do they gain from that? Why are they clinging to likely the most immoral president in US history? How do people like Nielson sleep at night? How can they do this day after day? What are they planning on doing AFTER destroying their own reputations and then being cast aside?
Whatever rationalization Nielson adopted to justify this, it’s our duty, as Americans, to hound her out of office. Maybe we can’t get rid of Trump (yet), but we can certainly deprive him of the tools he uses to prosecute his idiotic policies and repeat his lies and enable his immoral conduct.
Mika on Morning Joe covered this very thing this morning!!
1Here is the phone number for Homeland Security:
21-202-8495.
Flood their comment line and let them know we aren’t OK with this no what.
It’s pretty much a given that anyone in his misadministration has sold their soul. Some of them to several bidders.
3More phone numbers:
Attorney General: 202-353-1555
White House: 202-456-1111
Let them have it! Every day.
4Look up your senators and congressman, phone or email.
These young children are at high risk.
Thanks for the numbers! I emailed Nikki Haley, suggesting she report Trump’s human rights violations to the General Assembly and the Security Council.
5What we have here is. The Bully holding the littlest kid and hitting him or her and telling the rest of us he won’t stop till we all give the Bully our lunch money. SAD!!
6Even worse it seems from recent items that the administration has no plan or interest in returning these children to parents after the parent is deported.
7This is Miller’s policy. Over at RawStory they have a long list of douche-isms that he used/did. This is *definitely* a revenge against the normals kind of assault.
8rastybob, you are correct . Give him money to build the wall or as I say” that Damn stupid wall” and he will let the children go! Bully behavior not doubt. This is outrageous behavior ,I am NOT proud to be an American today. I am ashamed.
9HE’S A TERRORIST! He does horrible, despicabe things, then threatens to do more of the same unless we do what he wants.
Well, terrorist or cranky 2 year old, same-same.
10When contacting everyone we can, especially Congress varmints, whenever possible emphasize that appeasement does not work with the tantrum ***king moron and his sidekick Stephen Miller. It’s not ‘just’ about their st00pid border wall. They want to end student visas, but one example of their many ‘future demands’ that will not stop no matter how much they are given in return for a cessation of their taking children hostage. It’s no secret what Miller, Bannon and the white supremacists want.
11Kidnapping. Abduction. Child abuse. Treating innocent children like enemy combatants. All because someone thinks they are children of a lesser God. What the Golden Gibbon does not realize is that there will be somebody out there who never before in their life has ever considered taking out somebody with a rifle but finds in their mind that there is no other alternative. Of course, he has been cautioned about this. Does he care? No. Why should he. He is genetically predisposed to not give a damn. Cannot wait for Mueller to make his final report. It may go quite a ways to clearing this all up.
12Maggie:
I think fascist state sponsored abduction and mass abuse of children might work as a definition.
13Yeah fire her so the DSCC or DCCC can recruit her as a candinate against one of those dangerous progressives.
14Minn. establishment d’s are doing that with one of the twits adminitration enablers now. ( painter)
But heaven forbid the dnc must keep progressives like Bernie out of the running to make more room for these thuglicans to run as a D.
Anybody remember how one of the justifications for us fighting in the middle east was that it was better to fight terrorists over there so we don’t have to fight them here? And how anyone with half a brain new that our occupations and torture and so many other of our actions were inspiring hatred of Americans and creating terrorists?
15Hmm, I wonder how that applies to our current situation.
I guess the main difference is that we’re doing it right here at home.
Bottom feeders like stephen miller know this.
They’re counting on it.
Because when these innocent children grow up and take up arms against us it’ll just be more ammunition for the bottom feeders.
“See, we’ve been telling you all along that they’re animals. It just proves that we were right to keep them in dog kennels.”
“Even so, there will be no full-throated condemnation of the Trump administration’s immigration policy from Gentzel, who voted for the president, as did the vast majority of his congregants. For many conservative Christians, the brutal headlines of children torn from hysterical parents are weighed against other concerns, chief among them what social conservatives call religious liberty regarding issues of marriage and abortion.”
https://goo.gl/6hsnGD
Yeah, if those bereft, terrified children were fetuses, white evangelicals would be losing their minds over this.
16What separating a child from parents does to child’s brain.
“The effect is catastrophic,” said Charles Nelson, a pediatrics professor at Harvard Medical School.
Their heart rate goes up. Their body releases a flood of stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline. Those stress hormones can start killing off dendrites — the little branches in brain cells that transmit messages. In time, the stress can start killing off neurons and — especially in young children — wreaking dramatic and long-term damage, both psychologically and to the physical structure of the brain.
https://goo.gl/4jwPg9
17This is a horrible situation ! The ass in the WH is using this to get his damn wall and and other things he’s pushing. We need to round up him and all the other idiots put them in a big transport plane, fly over the volcano in Hawaii and push them all in !! Sorry for the foul words.
18msb: Trump and Haley are withdrawing the US from the Human Rights council.
19Watching the BBC World News, the lede story starts with the most disgusting image I’ve ever seen before:
a video clip of SOBOTUS, Donald J. Trump, the grasping, greedy, treasonous, Russian-operated bastard resident of OUR White House, HUGGING a goddamned AMERICAN FLAG.
I briefly felt like retching, quickly followed by white hot anger at such a desecration of the symbol that so many have served. (I am far from a hypocritical ‘Murikan paytreeot’ ‘flag-waver’ type)
I have seen many troubling sights in my (long) life, many probably inconceivable to most of the gentle(r) Salon denizens, death and destruction, but this was the worst ever, bar none.
20Not as it is, a banal image, but because of what it represents, the pure evil emanating in EVERY direction from this ‘man’ and his fascistic cabal of a regime that has (so far) pulled off the first coup-de-etat in US history..
F*ck Trump, and the GOP asses he rode in on.
(sorry Momma)
Debbo, if that study result might apply to seniors, that ‘stress kills brain cells’, I (and many others) shouldn’t have even two brain cells left to synapse together anymore…oh…wait…
21While driving to the grocery store today (I have very exciting life) I heard on NPR that the very charming Miz Nelson worked under G.W. Bush, and was one of the people who shared a large portion of the poor response of the government after Katrina.
22The bad news is that Nielson won’t go away even if she’s forced out of her current job as head of DHS. She is a re-tread from W’s days — very high up in FEMA. Remember Brownie and Katrina? She was right in the middle of that shit show. If the Darth Vadar of politics, Dick Cheney, can hang on from the Nixon years right through to his stint as the Shadow President in W’s term, you can bet that ‘ole Kirstjen will be lurking in the bushes waiting for the next Republican administration. These people are political zombies — they never die.
23The DHS Secretary didn’t get to eat her dinner. She stupidly went to Todd English’s MEXICAN restaurant here in DC and was promptly verbally attacked by the patrons there. The poor darling had to leave without her food. I hope this happens to a whole bunch of these (mal)administration cretins. Of course, they will always be welcome in the Trump hotel’s restaurants.
24The Heritage Foundation. Take a good look at what it has been doing.They have been functioning as an employment agency for the White House. Ergo: Betsy DeVos et al. The Golden Gibbon’s reliance on this bunch has left any number of jobs in government unfilled and when questioned about this, the answer is usually something about “cleaning out” or budget relief as a result of a smaller number of people to pay. The HF is rather like the Kremlin. Both of these outfits are fine with taking years to get what they want, one way or another.
25Here’s the video of Ms. Nielsen at the Mexican restaurant:
26https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/20/dhs_sec_kirstjen_nielsen_driven_out_of_mexican_restaurant_by_democratic_socialists_of_america_shame.html