Celebrity Peter Fonda has completely lost it over the family separation that’s going on at the border, saying protesters need to garget school kids and take Barron Trump and put him in a cage with pedophiles.
If you read his Twitter timeline, you’ll see he first tweeted an article by NBC which shoddily reported that in Feb 2017 DHS discussed how to deal with the issue of the asylum process being abused. One of the solutions was to separate children from so-called parents. Which is entirely reasonable when you consider that the system is being abused by child traffickers. But NBC didn’t mention that in their report, nor did they call them ‘so-called parents’ as I did. And they suggested the main reason for this separation was to curb the high numbers. As I said, really shotty reporting.
But I digress. Peter Fonda then lost his mind on the issue and started tweeting out ALL CAPPED crazy tweets:
Wanna stop this fucking monster? Really wanna stop this giant asshole? 90 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE STREETS ON THE SAME WEEKEND! THESE REPUBLICAN ASSHOLES ARE ALL IN ON IT! THE CHIEF ASSHOLE IS HAPPY WE ARE ALL VERY UPSET. WE HAVE TO GET EVEN MORE ANGRY WITH THESE REPUBLICANS
— Peter Henry Fonda (@iamfonda) June 20, 2018
He then began advocating the targeting of SCHOOL KIDS!
And then put Barron Trump in cage with pedophiles!
Someone suggested to him that school kids should be left alone and Fonda doubled down on scaring the ‘F—‘ out of them:
Wow. I think Peter Fonda may be off whatever meds he’s taking because this is just INSANE.
We’ve been bringing you as much truth on this issue as we can, but here’s a little more from Ben Shapiro debunking the lies:
1. Trump Created Separation Of Children From Illegal Immigrant Parents. This is plainly false. In 1997, the federal government made an agreement in a case called Flores not to keep unaccompanied illegal immigrant children in custody beyond 20 days. The settlement said nothing about accompanied illegal immigrant children – children who crossed the border with their parents. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals then ruled that accompanied children also could not be held in custody under the terms of the settlement. This meant that the government either had to release whole families, or that the government had to separate parents from children.
2. Immigrants Seeking Asylum Are Being Punished For Seeking Asylum. This is plainly untrue as well. Immigrants who come to points of entry to seek asylum aren’t actually illegally in the country – they’re not arrested. They’re processed through ICE, and their children stay with them. If, however, illegal immigrants cross the border illegally, the Trump administration now treats them as criminals. If they choose deportation, they aren’t separated from their kids; if they choose to apply for asylum, they stay in the country longer than 20 days, and their kids have to be removed by operation of law.
I’ll add that separation only occurs if “there is no custodial relationship between ‘family’ members, or if the adult has broken a law.”
Shapiro goes on to point out:
The big mistake made by the Trump administration here came courtesy of Stephen Miller and John Kelly, both of whom reportedly stated that the administration was separating kids from parents as a sort of deterrent. That’s idiotic. The deterrent is arrest and deportation, not separating children from parents. That’s why the House is attempting to pass some sort of fix here to keep kids with their parents.
But with that said, the media coverage of this issue has been patently irresponsible. Trump isn’t forcing children away from parents. He’s enforcing the law on the books. The legislature can fix that law at any time. The facilities he’s using are the same facilities Obama used. Pretending that this is Japanese internment (as Laura Bush suggested) or the Holocaust (as General Michael Hayden suggested) is ridiculous. This policy ought to be fixed. But lying about it isn’t designed to fix it. It’s designed to prevent a fix by allowing Democrats to play political football with children, believing they’re winning a victory by holding Trump’s feet to the fire with pictures of crying children.
I don’t completely agree with Shapiro here. Taking kids away from asylum seekers who can’t prove a custodial relationship is done to protect those kids, and it will act as a deterrent from people who want to abuse the asylum process. So I can see why Miller and Kelly would have suggested it was a deterrent. But they probably should have been more clear about it.
UPDATE: Peter Fonda has deleted the worst of his tweets, but I’m put them back with screenshots I took.