Today Donald Trump continues to lie and blame Democrats for the separation of children at the US/Mexico border (watch above), but a few of his former Presidential challengers (on both sides of the aisle) are making it clear the President needs to stop the lying and change his policy.
JUST IN: “That is an outright lie,” Hillary Clinton says of Trump White House saying separation of families at the US border is mandated by law. pic.twitter.com/iTMEmzRzss
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 18, 2018
BREAKING: The U.S. government released horrifying footage of a child detention center in Texas. Together, we must defeat this inhumane and un-American action. pic.twitter.com/NGUyhQJ6TB
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 18, 2018
Children shouldn’t be used as a negotiating tool. @realDonaldTrump should end this heartless policy and Congress should get an immigration deal done that provides for asylum reform, border security and a path to citizenship for Dreamers. https://t.co/OOjv0vNeVg
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) June 18, 2018
Our country is tearing kids from their moms and dads. I can’t believe it. Can you imagine it happening to your family? pic.twitter.com/pQ33aAfIvr
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) June 18, 2018
Senator Marco Rubio is the son of Cuban immigrants, but his statement is more watered down compared to Bush and Kasich. His office told News & Guts:
“The senator believes the ideal scenario is that families be kept together and returned expeditiously back to their country of origin. We sympathize with the people that are coming here. America is the most generous country in the world and ideally, you wouldn’t put people through additional trauma once they came into the United States.”
We reached out to Senator Ted Cruz, but have yet to receive a reply. Last week he seemed to defend Trump’s policy.