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Saturday, March 09, 2019

Today's Must-Read: "Save the Children!"

Have you noticed that Republicans only seem to care about children before they're born? That goes double for the Trump regime, especially is the children are brown. However, they're not getting away with it:

In a legal blow to the Trump administration, a federal judge ruled Friday that all migrant families separated during the government’s border crackdown should be included in a class-action lawsuit. But he stopped short of immediately ordering the Justice Department to track them all down.

U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in California said the universe of separated families should extend beyond the 2,700-plus children taken from their parents last spring, and include families forced apart as early as July 1, 2017, and the months afterward, when the Trump administration was denying that it had a policy of separating families.

And just to underscore how repellent most people find this practice, the judge is a Republican appointee.

Read the whole thing -- it's pretty appalling, except for the part where Trump gets slapped down.

(Footnote: And have you noticed the outcry from Trump's evangelical base -- the "family values" crowd -- on his treatment of these families? Yeah -- I thought not.)

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