Julia Cohen on June 21, 2018
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that detention facilities that house illegal immigrants should not be politicized in June 2014, according to a press conference transcript on her official website.
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“Well, I hope that while some may have tried to politicize it, I hope that was not the case,” Pelosi said after being asked about the humanitarian situation at the border in 2014. “[T]his is not about an issue, it’s about a value.”
Pelosi gave the remarks after touring a South Texas Detention Facility and being briefed by Customs and Border Protection on the “influx of unaccompanied children into the United States.”
“We’re here to thank the Border Patrol,” Pelosi said in her opening remarks. “We think they’re doing the best they can under the circumstances … We thank the Department of Defense for what they’re doing, the Department of [Homeland Security].”
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Pelosi has since changed her tune, calling for the resignation of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Twitter Monday and tweeting that “Republicans believe that vulnerable immigrant children do not deserve the same basic human rights protections as their own” on Tuesday.
All Americans must ask, why do Republicans believe that vulnerable immigrant children do not deserve the same basic human rights protections as their own? #FamiliesBelongTogether
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) June 19, 2018
Pelosi also retweeted a tweet from California Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez saying that President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating that families be kept together at the border “fixes nothing” on Wednesday.
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ALL DEMOCRAPS ARE 1st. CLASS CITIZEN A$$WIPES AND DUMB AS A BAG OF HAMMERS!!!!! I CASE MY REST.
Sigh. Why are these idiots so predictable? There are no actual principles involved, just consideration of who happens to be running the show. Obama good. Trump bad. Regardless.
Does Nancy have a clue? And does anyone who supports Nancy have a clue? The Dem’s only drag out the children when they want to score political points but brush off any questions about children of citizens who have been harmed or murdered by illegal aliens and brush off the 3000+ abortions performed each day.
Make up your f__king minds you confused BASTARDS! It never good enough for anyone of you worthless douche bags, but it’s ok if your side does it. None of you M.F. are right! I don’t think any of you know your ass from a hole in the ground! Anything to disrupt the greatest POTUS. You’re all just pissed because he says something and he follows through with it, which none of you “do nothing” liberals do not have that kind of mentality to do. You’re a bunch of power hungry, money grubbing deplorable losers. Get over it and quit being butt hurt and you better get use to being nobodies because TRUMP will win again in 2020 NO DOUBT in my mind. And we have your negativity to thank for it. TRUMP is more popular now than ever. See you’re all screwing yourselves without any help from us. Ha! Down with LIBERALS/DEMS!!!!! BOOOOOOO
This woman is mentally ill. Don’t let her play with any matches.
Nice job Nancy. Why don’t you do our country a favor and just take a flying leap off the Golden Gate Bridge?
Nancy spent 8 years applauding Obama’s policies of separating families at the border without the outrage and “compassion” she is showing now that Trump is President. It shows her dishonesty and disdain for any other opinions other than the democrats who are totally committed to destroying our way of life by obstructing and resisting changes, no matter how beneficial for the citizens, in their on-going criminal enterprises of impeaching Trump at all cost.
You’ve got to understand, locking up children is OK when it’s done by nice people like democrats.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that detention facilities that house illegal immigrants should not be politicized in June 2014, “when Obama placed children in dog cages”.
“We’re here to thank the Border Patrol,” Pelosi said in her opening remarks. “We think they’re doing the best they can under the circumstances … We thank the Department of Defense for what they’re doing, the Department of [Homeland Security].” “High praise form the democrats under a demo- president, funny now that an Republican President trying to clean up the demo mess all hell breaks loose about the children” calling it inhuman and cruel.”
And people wonder why we distrust the lying, murdering traitors of the demos in DC.
Exactly which moronic democrats will remember what she blabbered back in ’14? Democrats have selective memories, only remembering what they choose to.
The blatant Leftist double standard on FULL DISPLAY, comparing Nancy Pelosi’s remarks in 2014 when OBAMA was POTUS, compared to what she’s saying now that Trump is President. LOUSY, LYING, DOUBLE-STANDARD HYPOCRITES! It’s obviious they DO NOT CARE about these illegal children they are weeping and wailing about–only in USING them to attack Pres. Trump and obstruct his efforts to clean up the immigration MESS he inherited from former Presidents, including PELOSI’S IDOL, Obama.
i guess nancy pelosi believes that illegal immigrant children deserve better human rights then the unirted states citizens who are poor and living on the streets, she believes that illegal immigrant children deserve more then our disabled citizens who are expected to live off $900 a month and can only dream of living in a clean safe place with luxuries such as wide screen televisions and video game consoles, i guess nancy pelosi believes that illegal immigrant children deserve to be fed better hten our nations poor children who may have never seen a delivery piza in their lives like the pictures show siled on a table side to side in the detention facilities. I do not feed into social media much and do not have a twitter account but its damn time someone starts a # what about our children and disabled trend!
Has anyone in congress confronted her with this revelation? If they haven’t then all the articles on Fox and associated media are worthless and mean nothing. All of us complaining means nothing. You see, that’s the problem. Nobody in congress has any guts. The Republicans should be standing up every day and confronting her with these things. She’s a hypocrite and a liar. I also think she’s certifiably insane. But, until someone, anyone, stands up and calls her out for the hypocrite and a liar she is, she will just keep it up and many of the dolts will go on believing her.
And, she’s “low key” compared to Maxine Waters and few other democrats.
Leave Nancy Pelosi alone for didn’t you “hear she is a under cover agent for the Republican Party to help the Party anyway she can to defeat the Democrat Party in 2018 election”!! Democrat Party says she is sufferring from a”fatal disease called foot in mouth and the Shut Up Shots they are giving her are not working” Good work Nancy and keep it up for the RED WAVE to victory!!!….
Just what do you Democrats bring to the table for a reasonable solution to our immigration problems? So far I have seen nothing but a bunch of corrupt Congress members back biting our President for his efforts in attempting to find a decent way to handle this mass invasion of parents and their children seeking asylum here in the USA. All that the Democrats have offered up is obstruction and flip flopping on what needs to be done and what has been done. Whatever the President decides to try and do the Democrats are against it and him instead of joining in with the President looking for an end to this immigration madness. All I know is that this mass invasion at our southern border has got to stop!! This nightmare can not continue on with just kicking the can down the road a little more. It is time to take a stand!! That stand being to follow all laws currently on the books governing our southern border to the letter rather the Democrats and Liberal’s like it or not. While we follow the immigration laws that our Congress put into law and on paper be looking for some major changes to these out of date current laws and get laws drawn up that will protect our southern border and bring a halt to any type of invasions to our homeland by mass movements of immigrants. Stop all immigrants at our border and if without proper papers to enter the USA they will not be allowed to enter no matter what reasons they try and present. The only way the immigrants can come into the USA is by way of the front door by gaining proper citizenship the way our law states. Absolutely no back door entries or amnesty to be given to any illegal immigrants. Absolutely no more incentives given to immigrants to allow them to stay here once they have broken our laws for crossing our borders illegally. No financial aid what so ever from now on to be given to any illegal immigrants regardless of the circumstances. We must be tough at our border in order to keep it safe and for the protection of our Country and our people. We must get on changes the screwed up laws we currently have on the books to fit our situation at our southern border with or without the help of the do nothing Democrats and the Liberal obstructionists. It is very obvious that our immigration laws need to be rewritten and with teeth next time around. If the Democrats don’t want to participate and work with the Republicans then go on a head without them. This madness has gone on long enough and with 5 or 6 different Presidents of both parties failing to get the job done it is time for President Trump to get it done before he leaves office..Kick some butt in Congress on making new laws that are needed to close up our border or build that damn wall…No more bickering with the two-faced Democrats on this mess. All they want to do is drag their feet and of course have their voices on the matter be just the opposite of yours..Give them the opportunity to join in on finding a solution to the immigration problems if they turn their asses up against you move on a head without them.. The people need to vote these democrats out of office that are doing nothing but being obstructionists time and time again. They are doing the country or the American people any good the way they have been conducting themselves as Congress members..Stop all of this nonsense at our border start following the laws on the books until those laws needed can be written in a tougher language to where all can understand..no more reading between the lines..Where are our law makers on this? Get it done!!
Pelosi changes her mind on issues all the time to make them fit her current agenda! The democratic party stands for nothing unless it’s something that will garner more votes! It’s difficult to understand how intelligent people cannot see thru the democrats wishy washy ideals!
Nutty nan, from San Fran, just can’t make up her mind, it seems; today, it’s “good”, tomorrow, “it’s bad”, only because “someone else” is stuck with fraudbama’s rules and regs, but none of the dimwits even begin to understand “enforcing the law”, instead of issuing EOs, willy nilly.
Hey Nancy , Trumps Executive Order “Fixes” everything democrats were complaining about so you got nothing anymore .
Those kids were living in fantastic conditions with individual plush bedding, great entertainment and great food and all those images of kids in cages were from Obama’s term .
Not a single one of those images was from Trump , thats how dishonest the media is these days folks they lie through their teeth about every single thing.
Trump is doing such an amazing job , democrats said it’s wide open borders with zero security or they will not negotiate at all .
Vote all Trump people in Nov folks .
First of All and to be Blunt and not PC ” Why should American Citizens CARE about These Media Frenzy and Propaganda ” x There are Laws of the Land on Immigration x Now whether One likes it or Not – An ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL WHETHER 60 YEARS N ABOVE, 25 TO 60, 18-25 , 2-18, NEW BORN to 2 – FACTS ARE THEY ARE STILL ILLEGAL.Period. x Now Whose fault is this Republicans, Democrats, Independents ?? How about the Countries where these Persons came from ? How about Mexico where these Individuals transited or why not ask for Asylum or whatever in Mexico instead of the USA ? Mexico has aided n abetted and is Complicit in this Media Frenzy x The USA should stop ALL AID or Help to these countries and charge them accdly per head of their Citizens that are now in the USA x Why should American Taxpayers carry any expense on this problem x Whoever are the Loudmouths n Attention Seekers – you know who you are – Step up to the Plate n bring out your Wallets, Bank Accts , Properties and make representations to fund these expenses to the tune of $ 135B n up / climbing so that we level the Playing Field and not make SUCKERS OF THE AMERICAN TAX PAYING CITIZENS ?????????????
Pelosi needs to go the sooner the better
“It’s a (Democrat) woman’s prerogative to change her whine.”
Let me share what CLOWN Chuckie Schumer just stated yesterday……Senator Schumer has instructed fellow Democrats not to pass any legislation that could possibly help the children at the border, stating that “It will help voter turnout in the midterms” and that CNN had agreed to help the Democrats with the story line”.
Chuckie is EVIL !………………The liberal media are lying. Trump is not forcibly ripping children from the clutches of their parents; he’s simply enforcing a law that has been on the books for more than 20 years. Furthermore, Congress can fix the policy whenever they want. But fixing it would mean that Democrats could no longer use innocent children as political footballs in their war against Trump, and nothing is more important to liberals than making the other side look bad.
In summation, the liberal media are lying. Trump is not forcibly ripping children from the clutches of their parents; he’s simply enforcing a law that has been on the books for more than 20 years. Furthermore, Congress can fix the policy whenever they want. But fixing it would mean that Democrats could no longer use innocent children as political footballs in their war against Trump, and nothing is more important to liberals than making the other side look bad.
Stuff like this needs to be on a screen when it comes to voting on immigration laws.
GOTTA LOVE NEWS ARCIVES
Exactly!
Blessed are those that vacillate, for they shall be known as YOYOS
DemoCrap’s – the hypocrite party!