El Paso & the Trump Separation Policy
So Trump is now separating families when they are apprehended during their migration. We also now know that the feds have lost a lot of kids somewhere in the system. I've seen the outrage from my fellow liberals all over social media this weekend.Thats the work of your party of family values people.
Here's my question for all of you good Democrats out there that want comprehensive immigration reform.
Are you still okay with the fact that we are housing more undocumented immigrants in our downtown jail (at a loss to taxpayers) than any other community in Texas? Because you can't really be all outraged about what Trump is doing when you support a jail contract that has a major local impact of this new national policy.
How do you all feel about that jail contract now that it has the impact of separating families? Remember when so many of you bought that line that people were going to be shipped far away, God knows where, and be away from their families?
Well...the Otero facility is only 6, count them 6, miles from El Paso city limits. Hardly a long way away.
We expanded the jail system at a significant cost to El Paso taxpayers - way more than that ballpark or downtown arena that Max Grossman allegedly cares about. Your tax dollars was spent to expand our ability to house more undocumented immigrants for the federal government than any other community in Texas.
And that makes us the number one separator of families in Texas.
Still feel good about supporting that jail contract?
Still think its the moral thing to do? How long do you think you can walk the tight rope of being outraged at Trump but being completely okay with the jail contract?
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