Meanwhile NBC News has an interview with a former director of the immigration police who confirms that due to poor record keeping and other bureaucratic problems, some separations may become permanent, leading to thousands of immigrant orphans.
Analysis of data performed by reporters for McClatchy news services suggests that US officials may have already lost track of some 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children. Obviously this doesn't bode well for the children separated from their parents.
While AG Jeff Sessions unsuccessfully tried to dodge Nazi comparisons, Homegrown Hitler lived up to his name by asserting that migrants "infest" America. He says America doesn't need more judges to decide asylum cases, it needs a Wall. But the most chilling and portentous play from the Nazi playbook is his reported intention to accelerate his anti-immigrant venom and use it in his campaign rallies.
Homegrown Hitler is right on track. He's created chaos everywhere--in the federal system, the courts, the country, the world. He's established a cult that consumed a former political party. He's got a police force in ICE. And now he's set to motivate his xenophobic and racist base, in the guise of nationalism, with the twin tools of cruelty and demagoguery.
The conventional wisdom would say this is a political effort to secure the base. But that can't win elections, especially when no electoral college is involved. But it is the Nazi playbook for an eventual dictatorship. Can Brownshirts at the polling places be far behind?
Now that the political establishment is just about unanimously opposed to these family separations--and even one of the most dishonest and evil men in America, Mitch McConnell wants to pass a bill ending them--it will be interesting to see what Republicans catch on to the fact that Homegrown Hitler's efforts are basically separate from them, that he is building a Nazi Party within the Republican Party, and that's going to be increasingly evident in the coming months.
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