{"id":30377,"date":"2018-06-18T13:37:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T13:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30377"},"modified":"2018-06-18T13:37:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T13:37:56","slug":"signs-of-cracking-among-the-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30377","title":{"rendered":"Signs of cracking among the ‘base’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am heartened to learn of some second thoughts among Donald J. Trump’s most ardent supporters regarding this ghastly policy of “no tolerance” along our southern border.<\/p>\n

It’s the policy that allows U.S. Border Patrol and immigration agents to seize young children from their parents as they enter the United States illegally.<\/p>\n

Trump blames a “Democrat bill,” which doesn’t exist, for the policy.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the Bible — as stated in Romans 13 — gives the Trump administration all the authority it needs to invoke this intensely cruel policy.<\/p>\n

Now we hear from, say, the Rev. Franklin Graham, one of the president’s most ardent supporters. Graham has declared his opposition to the policy.<\/p>\n

Oh, and then former first lady Laura Bush has weighed in with an op-ed column in which she declares the policy “immoral” and said it “breaks my heart” to learn of children being put in cages along our southern border.<\/p>\n

The current first lady, Melania Trump, has waffled a bit, calling on “both sides” to cease this humanitarian crisis. I understand the first lady’s difficult spot. But “both sides” aren’t required.<\/p>\n

Only one side<\/em> is needed to fix it. That would be the president, who can end this hideous policy with a phone call and a signature.<\/p>\n\n

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I am heartened to learn of some second thoughts among Donald J. Trump’s most ardent supporters regarding this ghastly policy of “no tolerance” along our southern border. It’s the policy that allows U.S. Border Patrol and immigration agents to seize young children from their parents as they enter the United States illegally. Trump blames a … Continue reading Signs of cracking among the ‘base’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[708,1424,5804,2234,2239,7213,2745,6075,7827],"class_list":["post-30377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-border-patrol","tag-donald-trump","tag-franklin-graham","tag-ice","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-immigration-policy","tag-laura-bush","tag-melania-trump","tag-no-tolerance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30378,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377\/revisions\/30378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}