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I'm sure it's an terrible deal. Awful deal. Worst deal ever. I'm sure he could negotiate a better deal where we get to torture prisoners and house them at Trump-owned properties indefinitely.You mean Trump hasn't withdrawn from that yet?
Oh wait...
Detained kids could live in Trump hotel suite for less than tent city [The Silicon Post]
According to NBC News, it costs the Department of Health and Human Services an average of $775 per person per night to house detained children in the temporary shelters near the US border.
Business Insider found several suites available in the Trump Hotel range for less than that, including a junior suite in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., offered at $757 before taxes for the night of June 23.
Let's pause for a moment here for the math.
2,300 children * $775/child/night = $1,741,100 per night
Ya know, it's the law. And we're supposed to be a country of laws.Joking aside, though, why should he honour anything like the Geneva Convention when he won't even honour his own Constitution? Is there a chapter in 'The Art of the Deal' entitled 'Deals are Made to be Broken'?
A decade ago, we went through a situation where the Vice President and Defense Secretary decided that we should torture prisoners. Times were desperate- there had been a devastating terrorist attack and a war. Even though the torture decision was a questionable decision, there was still a process of legal review. There wasn't a Decree from the King saying that it was okay. There were lawyers who looked at the law and there were discussions with Congress.
What has happened here is that a few Trump Administration officials have been instructed by Trump to turn the screws on immigrants at the border, probably in response to stories on Fox News about "immigrant caravans". Someone had the genius idea of separating children from their parents. They probably thought that this would play great with "their base" in an election year.
No one went through the usual processes of, "Is this legal?", "Is it humane?", "Is there another option?", "How do we get those kids reunited with their parents?"
Instead we got this announcement delivered with a grin:










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