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Colorado Gov. Signs Executive Order to Prevent Family Separation

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed an executive order today that prevents any state agency from separating a parent and child for immigration purposes.

“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s policy and practice of separating children from their parents when arriving at the southern border is offensive to our core values as Coloradans and as a country,” Hickenlooper’s executive order says. “The administration announced a ‘zero tolerance’ policy in the spring of 2018 resulting in family separations. The administration has recently stated that the purpose of the policy is to intimidate immigrants and deter crossings.”

The text of the Order reads in part:

“No state agency may deprive any person of services or benefits to which he or she is legally entitled because of a person’s immigration status, except as required by state or federal law.

...No state agency may use any state resources, including but not limited to moneys, equipment, or personnel, for the purpose of separating any child from his or her parent or legal guardian on the sole ground that such parent or legal guardian is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws.”

You can read the Order here. [More...]

Via the Denver Post:

“I think it’s fair to say it’s a rebuke,” the governor said of his executive order. “But it’s also just saying: ‘It’s not going to happen in our backyard.’ We are very clear that this is not something that is acceptable. It’s hard for me to imagine that this is happening in the United States of America at the scale it is — at any scale.”
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    Pro publica audio (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 04:23:24 PM EST
    pretty hard to hear

    Looks like the HHS secretary is being given her chance to prove her love of dear leader by defending this at the press briefing.  Probably setting her up as the fall person when it implodes.

    Which it will.  This will not stand.  It may take a major tragedy which becomes more likely by the day as populations rise.  But it's becoming pretty clear this has a short shelf life.

    If not short enough.

    Homeland Security Secretary (none / 0) (#2)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 04:27:03 PM EST
    I meant

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    Just (none / 0) (#4)
    by FlJoe on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 04:41:59 PM EST
    watched the perfect Aryan spokesmodel, doubling and even tripling down on the pogrom, didn't have to squint to hard too see the arm-band. Deflected every criticism with the "just following orders" routine. Way past Godwin indeed.

    Sources are saying she was rushed to the WH to handle the presser so her marching orders came straight from the top. tRump for now, is choosing this hill to die on, unfortunately the cynic in me gives him a better than even chance to survive this.

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    Well, "just following orders" (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by Zorba on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 05:03:56 PM EST
    Didn't work during the Nuremberg trials.
    Human rights abuses are human rights abuses.  There are no excuses.  Period.

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    The Nazis did not have (none / 0) (#7)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 05:09:11 PM EST
    FOX news

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    Although (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 05:10:14 PM EST
    This is even being criticized on FOX or so I hear.

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    Oh, but (none / 0) (#9)
    by Zorba on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 05:11:08 PM EST
    They had plenty of Nazi propaganda out there, even without TV.

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    Sure (none / 0) (#10)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 05:14:11 PM EST
    Where do you think the right learned how to do this.

    Still, I think it's a different world.  Nazi propaganda had little effect on the people who decided their fate.  Not so true now

    Of course I hope you are right

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    For example (none / 0) (#11)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 05:16:53 PM EST
    Oh (none / 0) (#5)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 04:59:02 PM EST
    He will survive.

    I just think it's starting to be hard to see how they don't find a way to start backpedaling this.

    The backlash is clearly growing.

    But

    Read the comment below.  This is about the 35%.  They love this.  

    I guess it just depends on how much the 65% is willing to swallow.

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    The (none / 0) (#13)
    by FlJoe on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 05:31:23 PM EST
    backlash is indeed the heaviest I have ever seen, especially from Republicans. For a while I thought tRump was going to try to pin it on Sessions and finally be rid of that troublesome elf, but that window of opportunity appears to be closing and tRump shows no sign of building a life boat, otherwise.

    My theory is that tRump sees the children as the ultimate bargaining chip in his dealmaking with congress. He is absolutely unable to fathom the moral repugnance and in his mind he would be weak and foolish to give it up. His base of course eats it up and he could give a flying fk about the optics or the backlash.

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    Nielsen (none / 0) (#14)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 05:36:42 PM EST
    Begins to look like the goat.  Her never liked her anyway.

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    Normally (none / 0) (#19)
    by FlJoe on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 06:30:42 PM EST
    I would agree with you, but something smells different this time, maybe down the road he will fold. IMO, tRump is pathologically obsessed with the wall and he is pathologically afraid of appearing weak, especially to his base. Ripping apart families, shooting a man on Fifth Ave, being the quintessential bully, it's all the same to him and his cult, it's his whole ethos. This particular battle will be a hard one to walk away from.

     

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    I think you (none / 0) (#20)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 07:43:40 PM EST
    are right. He has been telling his friends who have been blabbing to the press or maybe someone in the WH that he has been appearing "weak" on immigration. The only way to get rid of this odious policy is to have the GOP vote on it and then Trump will veto it and they are going to have to vote to override his veto. I mean this is going to entirely land in the lap of the GOP for the most part when it comes to solving this problem. These children are going to probably suffer much much more sad to say before they can be freed.

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    Many calls (none / 0) (#32)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Jun 19, 2018 at 10:25:33 AM EST
    On both sides for Neilsen to go.

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    I also am suprised (none / 0) (#17)
    by ruffian on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 06:19:01 PM EST
    he hasn't used this excuse to fire Sessions. I guess the week is still young, but this seems to be his favorite Bannon/Miller initiative.

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    I don't think (none / 0) (#21)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 07:47:47 PM EST
    he is going to fire Sessions after I read that the GOP went to him and told him that if you fire Sessions we just won't fill the post.

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    The 35% (none / 0) (#18)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon Jun 18, 2018 at 06:26:32 PM EST
    is brain washed Fox idiots so you're right about the 65% but apparently there's 65% of the country that is against separating families according to the Q poll.

    Calling seems to be having an effect on them and polling because Ted Cruz did a 180 and has now decided that he needs to sponsor a bill stopping the family separations. Isakson is thinking about signing onto the Feinstein bill and I told his office to tell him thank you from me. However Perdue has no opinion and my representative supports family separation.

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