{"id":35961,"date":"2019-03-15T10:18:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35961"},"modified":"2019-03-15T19:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T02:18:29","slug":"the-national-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/15\/the-national-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The United States is facing a national emergency of unprecedented intensity at our Southern border.\u00a0 Armed thugs have murdered families, brutalized hundreds, and kidnapped and stolen children.\u00a0 They are not criminals from the drug cartels.\u00a0 They are the minions of Resident Donald Trump and the Republican Reich.\u00a0 They have locked thousands of children in hot desert cages, and even though the courts have ruled against them, their abuses continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0315Trump-Immigration\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/0315Trump-Immigration.jpg\" alt=\"0315Trump-Immigration\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nearly nine months after the Trump administration officially rescinded its policy of separating migrant families who have illegally crossed the border, more than 200 migrant <strong>children have been taken from parents and other relatives and placed in institutional care, with some spending months in shelters and foster homes thousands of miles away from their parents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest data reported to the federal judge monitoring one of the most controversial of President Trump\u2019s immigration policies shows that <strong>245 children have been removed from their families since the court ordered the government to halt routine separations under last spring\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d border enforcement policy.<\/strong> Some of the new separations are being undertaken with no clear documentation to help track the children\u2019s whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Images of crying mothers and children at the border last year prompted an intense backlash across party lines, with all four living former first ladies and Melania Trump expressing horror at the policy. But despite President Trump\u2019s June 20 executive order rescinding it, the practice was never completely suspended&#8230;.\u00a0 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/09\/us\/migrant-family-separations-border.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yesterday the House bill to rescind Trump&#8217;s bogus emergency was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SzVjpfVHYNE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rescinded<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SzVjpfVHYNE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We&#8217;re still seven short of an override of the coming veto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Nobody understands the real emergency better than Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9NLgvI0Jv88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Merkley<\/a> [D-OR]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9NLgvI0Jv88\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Oregon leads the way! We need to keep their plight on the front burner.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is facing a national emergency of unprecedented intensity at our Southern border.\u00a0 Armed thugs have murdered families, brutalized hundreds, and kidnapped and stolen children.\u00a0 They are not criminals from the drug cartels.\u00a0 They are the minions of Resident Donald Trump and the Republican Reich.\u00a0 They have locked thousands of children in hot <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/15\/the-national-emergency\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}