BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The tough new ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy enacted by President Donald Trump has led to a general outcry about how the US treats undocumented children, separating them from their parents at the border. Democrats in particular have been raising alarms about the policy, which Trump Cabinet officials say is just enforcing the law and should serve as a deterrent to illegal immigration. But Trump doesn’t want you to blame him for enacting the policy that literally divides families and places children in the custody of the government, potentially for extended period of time while their parents are prosecuted. CNN documented the case of Maria Villatoro, a Guatemalan mother who said she fled deadly violence in Guatemala only to land in detention in Texas and has four children in detention, ranging in age from 2-20 and spread between California and New York. Read this story. But it’s not Trump’s fault, he tweeted Tuesday, even though he enacted the policy. Blame the Democrats, who are saying it’s inhumane, according to the President’s logic: ‘Separating families at the Border is the fault of bad legislation passed by the Democrats,’ he wrote on Twitter. ‘Border Security laws should be changed but the Dems can’t get their act together! Started the Wall.’It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time Trump has enacted a policy that caused a national (or international) outcry, and then tried to foist blame elsewhere.”
-Z. Byron Wolf, “Donald Trump’s ‘don’t blame me’ strategy extends to splitting immigrant families,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 5, 2018 2:56 pm