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FOX News: Your Source for Racism

In case anyone has missed the fair and balanced news coming from our friends at Fox, here's a sampling of the agenda they're pushing this week. And keep in mind, some of the country actually believes this trash:

The Fox & Friends crew Foxsplained to viewers that migrant children aren’t really being kept in cages.
They're “merely chain-link walls” to create rooms.

Laura Ingraham laughed off the suggestion that tearing kids, including babies, from their parents and sticking them in cages inside a former Walmart amounted to child abuse. Ingraham stated the child prisons are “essentially summer camps!”

Tucker Carlson weighed in with his brand of white supremacy: "No matter what they tell you, this isn't about helping children. A lot of people yelling at you on TV don't even have kids, so don't for a second let them take moral high ground.Their goal is to change your country forever."

Not to be outdone, Carlson’s guest, acting ICE Director Thomas Homan in a completely tone deaf complaint said comparison to Nazis is unfair because “they are simply following orders.”

Lastly, Jeff Sessions tried to negate growing, legitimate comparisons between internment camps and border facilities & indefinite lock-up of migrants. Hitler whipped up nationalism using many of these same techniques, scapegoating Jewish people and immigrants. But Sessions claimed they're nothing like the Nazis because Hitler wouldn’t let the Jews leave Germany.
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Niburu · 56-60, M
So what are your proposed solutions?
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Niburu Honestly? I don't know. But it starts with US citizens coming to the realization that fear-mongers and those with a specific agenda are playing the American people against each other. Until we stop politicizing every single issue and refused to put any party before true patriotism - which I Define as working for the greater good of one's country - not even a first step will be successful.
Niburu · 56-60, M
@Graylight well I can't argue with that.
My initial thought is we actually/obviously need more facilities and better facilities.
Also WAY more properly trained personnel.
I was thinking of smethinh like a bunch of mini Ellis Islands.
You can keep everyone together, go through a vetting process, and then ether allow them to enter or send them home while still being contained.
Using Either several large building or maybe some trailer homes.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Niburu Maybe reopening Ellis Island or any adjoining Island in that area isn't a bad idea if its intent is humane living quarters for people between one country and another. Contrary to what many conservatives believe, nobody wants wide open borders. But there's a great chasm between open borders and internment camps.
Niburu · 56-60, M
@Graylight What do you do then? Ellis Island was essentially an "internment camp". Anything that is going to contain people before allowing them to enter the country is now going to be labled as such.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Niburu We start by keeping families together. We continue by recognizing once again those seeking refuge and asylum above and beyond simple immigration. We fix an extraordinarily broken naturalization process.
Niburu · 56-60, M
@Graylight You are again identifying the problems but not offering any actual solutions.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Niburu Well, I'm not part of the government or the HRC. This is kind of a committee-based, experience-heavy topic, no?
Niburu · 56-60, M
@Graylight Well yes this going toing to take a lot of planning, policy review, and actual facilities construction.
And $$$$.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Niburu True. Always money.