This is truly despicable:
THE HILL – Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday dismissed a legislative proposal backed by Republican leaders to keep immigrant families together at the border, arguing that President Trump could fix the problem more easily with a flick of his pen.
“There are so many obstacles to legislation and when the president can do it with his own pen, it makes no sense,” Schumer told reporters. “Legislation is not the way to go here when it’s so easy for the president to sign it.”
Asked if that meant Democrats would not support a bill backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to keep immigrant families together while seeking asylum on the U.S. border, Schumer said they want to keep the focus on Trump.
“Again, the president can change it with his pen,” he said, warning that Republicans would likely try to add poison-pill provisions to any immigration bill that came to the floor.
“Unacceptable additions have bogged down every piece of legislation we’ve done,” he said.
Schumer’s opposition to a legislative fix means there likely won’t be a quick end to the emotional images of immigrant children being separated from their families unless Trump backs down and reverses his “zero tolerance” policy.
Democrats want to keep the pressure on Trump instead of having Congress assume responsibility for the growing crisis.
Schumer is claiming that he doesn’t want to legislate a fix because Trump can fix the problem himself. But here’s the snag in that logic.
If he truly believes that Trump is out of control, that he’s ‘abusing children’ at the border by separating them from their families, they why the hell not jump at the chance to rein in the president and stop this ‘outrage’? That’s the job of Congress after all, isn’t it?
What Schumer says doesn’t make sense unless you realize that he only wants to use these children as a campaign prop! He doesn’t want the crisis to stop, he wants it to keep going so they can milk it for all the political leverage they can get out of it.
What a schmuck!