Obama in a Koch brothers ad is more shocking than anything Trump said
May 18, 2018, 6:44 AM
Charles Koch speaks in his office at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kan. (Bo Rader/The Wichita Eagle via AP, File)
(Bo Rader/The Wichita Eagle via AP, File)
Who was the president referring to when he said the following about immigrants?
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“We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before.”
Websites on the right said he was referring only to MS-13 gang members. Websites on the left said he was de-humanizing all immigrants – regardless, you shouldn’t be calling any human being an animal.
What amazes me is that we’re still parsing the president’s language in immigration. He doesn’t like immigrants who sneak in. Never has! To the point that families crossing illegally are now being separated from their children.
OK, that is similar to what we do with farm animals.
But setting that aside for a moment, the real action on immigration isn’t in the White House. It’s in the House of Representatives where all of a sudden Democrats and Republicans are banding together to force a vote on a compromise immigration bill. They even have the support of the Koch brothers! The same billionaires who opposed Obamacare. In fact, they bought this ad to support the Dreamers, which begins with a clip from Barack Obama.
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That, to me, is way more shocking than anything the president said.
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