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Lots of people talking & being quoted re the separation, caging & othr abuses of Central American migrants,following th #Debate2020. 0 of those quoted are Central American. I just wrote a book based on decades of experience w these & other matters, but nobody& #39;s asking. Here& #39;s why
The first and most important reason is because the Democrats and their allies in media knew that actually existing Central Americans would have to share a difficult truth: the caging & separation of 1000s of Central American kids like the 1 in this pic began w Obama & Jeh Johnson
Obama separated over 5000 children fr their families--in 2011 alone. As is happening w Trump, many of those children separated fr moms were never reunited, lost in foster care or separated by a border. U can read re & hear screams n this @RaceForward rept: http://bit.ly/2N2RH43 ">https://bit.ly/2N2RH43&q...
Some volunteers & I documented then media& #39;s willingness to utterly erase C Americans fr our own stories for the @CJR. We studied 100s of stories re Trump child separation in 2018 & found 0 Cen American sources/experts.Who replaced us? Obama Adm officials. http://bit.ly/2txiiy9 ">https://bit.ly/2txiiy9&q...
The Democrats & their media allies know that C Americans being inconvenient truths.Their concern was so great that they even created astroturf groups like #FamiliesBelongTogether, which was founded by former Obama Admin staff, Obama. & Clinton campaign staff or ppl close to them.
You can see some of the founders of #FamiliesBelongTogether in this @glamourmag piece. I called C American orgs across the US & asked how many participated in protests orgzd by this then-unknown group & found tht 0 had. http://bit.ly/2A3rAFx ">https://bit.ly/2A3rAFx&q...
@fams2gether & some of th operatives that founded it join Obama offcls as some of th most oft-quoted sources n stories re Trump& #39;s C American child separation. It& #39;s almost like Dem operatives call their editor friends to say C Americans can& #39;t speak to C American child separation.
I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that reporting that Obama caged and separated 1000s of kids, many of whom were never reunited w their parents, would devastate Obama, Biden & Dems image. The liberal imagination can& #39;t sustain these difficult truths.
Editors, political operatives, reporters and many others prefer to protect Obama & the Dems then admit that the very hideous practices they self righteously condemn Trump for began with Obama & Jeh Johnson. This is what I call political enabling of catastrophic policies.
