{"id":37920,"date":"2019-07-13T02:11:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T02:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37920"},"modified":"2019-07-13T02:11:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T02:11:53","slug":"mr-vpotus-spare-us-the-platitudes-about-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37920","title":{"rendered":"Mr. VPOTUS, spare us the platitudes about detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MikePence%20%23detentioncenters%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pence-visits-migrant-detention-center-near-southern-border-to-see-firsthand-the-humanitarian-crisis__779470_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37921\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pence-visits-migrant-detention-center-near-southern-border-to-see-firsthand-the-humanitarian-crisis__779470_-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pence-visits-migrant-detention-center-near-southern-border-to-see-firsthand-the-humanitarian-crisis__779470_-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pence-visits-migrant-detention-center-near-southern-border-to-see-firsthand-the-humanitarian-crisis__779470_-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pence-visits-migrant-detention-center-near-southern-border-to-see-firsthand-the-humanitarian-crisis__779470_.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This brief comment is directed at you, Mr. Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>I understand you took a tour today of a detention center in McAllen, Texas, where Border Patrol and Customs officials showed you the crowded conditions in which authorities have placed these migrants.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to ask you, sir, to spare the nation any phony platitudes about how &#8220;well&#8221; the detainees are being treated. You said you &#8220;weren&#8217;t surprised&#8221; at the &#8220;tough stuff&#8221; you saw.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am half-expecting you to issue statements denigrating the complaints that are coming from other detention centers, such as the one in Clint, near El Paso. Frankly, Mr. Vice President, I wish you had gone to that facility to see up close what all the protests have been about.<\/p>\n<p>But you didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vice President, there are too many reports of mistreatment of children in Clint. You cannot ignore what I know you are hearing. Oh, sure, the president is in full denial and given that you&#8217;re the No. 2 man, you must feel the need to parrot what the No. 1 man in the government is saying.<\/p>\n<p>Except that it isn&#8217;t true, Mr. Vice President. Yes, you got a taste of what these people are enduring.<\/p>\n<p>For you to downplay, if not outright deny the mistreatment of migrants &#8212; especially the children &#8212; makes you complicit in the lies that Donald Trump keeps blathering.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on you both.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MikePence%20%23detentioncenters%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brief comment is directed at you, Mr. Vice President. I understand you took a tour today of a detention center in McAllen, Texas, where Border Patrol and Customs officials showed you the crowded conditions in which authorities have placed these migrants. I am going to ask you, sir, to spare the nation any phony &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mr. VPOTUS, spare us the platitudes about detainees<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[708,8708,1424,2234,8773,3067],"class_list":["post-37920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-border-patrol","tag-detention-centers","tag-donald-trump","tag-ice","tag-migrants","tag-mike-pence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37920","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=37920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37922,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37920\/revisions\/37922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}