Trump: "We're taking people out of the country — you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals."
He says the U.S. has "the dumbest laws on immigration in the world."
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 16, 2018
When it comes to demonizing immigrants, the GOP doesn’t mind at all if their “President” Trump says the quiet parts out loud!
Trump on breaking up families: "We have to break up families. Democrats gave us that law. It's a horrible thing we have to break up families." pic.twitter.com/XkpAYuXQpW
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 16, 2018
The comments were part of a lengthy diatribe before TV cameras, warning that dangerous people were clamoring to breach the U.S. border and castigating Mexico https://t.co/0Or18cPqIj
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 16, 2018
Jeff Sessions takes the mic, sharing some gallows humor on immigration: "Congress will pass anything as long as it doesn't work."
"If we all get behind our leader we'll get something done this year that's historic."
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 16, 2018
After the "animals" remark, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy praised Trump as "a new president that understands this problem" of illegal immigration and the rule of law.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 16, 2018
This is the sort of thing that makes me feel Trump makes people worse. Some Trump supporters, including many Christians, will contort themselves into defending this notion https://t.co/3Ay7ml3p51
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) May 16, 2018
Pro tip from someone who’s actually read your Bible: If they can “contort themselves” into defending treating immigrants as other-than-human, they aren’t actually Christians.
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