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[HairOfTheDog]

I still believe one of Trump’s motives in green lighting child separations was to gain leverage for border wall funding.

Of course it is and he said as much last Friday when he said he would not change the policy unless Democrats agreed to his immigration demands, which include funding a border wall.

Thanks, Duchess. I found the Trump interview you referenced summarized at Washington Post. I hadn’t seen it previously.

Clearly, by his own account, Trump hoped to use the children to force wall funding and other immigration demands. While he and some of his most dishonest supporters, including members of his family, keep trying to blame existing law and Democrat policies for the inhumane shitshow of Trump’s own making, only the most gullible and uninformed are buying it.

Trump was trying to force Republicans to pass one of two Republican bills and ensure both bills included his $25 billion wall funding. However, even with the wall funding now included in the bills, there’s deep skepticism that either bill will get enough Republican votes. The far right Freedom Caucus won’t sign anything that includes ‘amnesty’ for DACA recipients and the moderates don’t support the extreme positions in the competing bill.

It seems obvious to me that falsely blaming Democrats, who haven’t even been asked for input on the bills and already have draft bi-partisan immigration legislation ready, was Trump’s attempt to shield vulnerable Republicans up for re-election in immigrant-heavy districts. Fail.

Im glad the strategy failed due to public and press pressure levied at the Trump administration and Republicans up for re-election in November.

I wasn’t able to find a clip of yesterday’s interview with Republican congressmen Jeff Denham from the California. He represents a district where immigrants are key to economic viability and are valued members of the community.