Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) on Wednesday called out President Donald Trump, who appeared in a photo discussing immigrant family separations with mostly white male members of Congress.
Kennedy tweeted that Trump should consult someone other than white men before enacting his version of immigration reform.
“I would encourage @realDonaldTrump & his fellow GOP white guys to consult a not-white-guy in their efforts to enact comprehensive immigration reform in less than 24 hours,” Kennedy tweeted.
Might just be my cautious side but it feels like there could be unforeseen consequences like entire families being indefinitely locked in cages. Just my 2 cents.
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) June 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/TheYoDude/status/1009524965199106048
Spoken like a true Kennedy. John and Bobby are smiling on you.
— Chris Jackson (@ChrisEchelon) June 21, 2018
Like they consulted the Indians when they "DISCOVERED" America…OR Maybe the slaves who were happy to be on the plantation, or women about legitimate rape… Yep White men always come up with all the best solutions when left to their own devices… lol
— blake roberts (@blakeguy13) June 21, 2018
If they had the divine power to do it, they would paint the ENTIRE universe in their own 'old white' image.
— Antonio Edwards (@antoniodjtone) June 20, 2018
Joe Kennedy is white????? pic.twitter.com/4EyTy9hIQX
— Han Yolo (@peter_naps) June 20, 2018
Why are you, a WHTE guy, holding onto a seat that a black person deserves?
— Free Tommy Robinson (@stumpin2020) June 21, 2018
Facing a political crisis, Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday, which he claims will solve the problem of separating families at the border. He was photographed at a table of mostly white men who would make the ultimate decision on the fate of immigrant Latino families trying to enter the U.S., Diversity Inc. reported.
Trump took office with the least diverse presidential Cabinet in decades — the first without a Latino member since former President Ronald Reagan appointed the first Latino nearly 30 years ago.
The Republican-controlled House, which is almost 80 percent white, is expected to vote today on two broad immigration bills — one, more conservative, the other, more of a compromise. Neither is expected to pass.
Trump’s decision to separate thousands of families at the U.S.-Mexico border produced outrage from Democratic and Republican lawmakers and many foreign leaders, according to The Hill.
Three days ago, an HHS official told me I could not enter a taxpayer funded tent city that from all appearances was nothing more than a prison for children. And yet Speaker Ryan and House GOP have held ZERO hearings on this crisis. #KeepFamiliesTogether https://t.co/35ApNuoGn4
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) June 20, 2018
Worldwide, there are 13 million displaced Syrians in need of humanitarian assistance. In the first 3 months of this year, the US had accepted 11 – or 0.00000085% – of them. On #WorldRefugeeDay we commit to do better. #RefugeesWelcome
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) June 20, 2018
The rushed executive order is creating added chaos, and has done nothing for the 2,300 children already taken from parents who are awaiting prosecution, CNN reported:
“CNN reported Wednesday that the order did not contain any procedures for how to reunite children now in the care of the federal government with their parents … ‘Frankly, I think the way the order is drafted is not executable,’ John Sandweg, a former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.”
U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) runs 113 detention facilities across the U.S. and works with state and local jails and private prisons to operate hundreds more, CNBC reported.
It costs around $319 a day to maintain a family bed, which keeps mothers and children together in a family residential center, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
But as of April, children have been separated from their parents more often than before. The Trump administration created ‘tent cities’ to hold thousands of separated children. Those beds cost $775 per person per night, the Department of Health and Human Services told NBC News.
