Kirstjen Nielsen Beats Back Fake News

RUSH: And again, we are smack-dab in the middle of yet another manufactured media crisis about the supposed Donald Trump policy that purposely, wantonly separates young families who are simply seeking a better life by crossing the border of the United States illegally.

Thank God for Donald Trump not backing down at all.

In fact, he’s doubling down on all of this.

The networks combined 176 minutes of “separated kids” coverage so far. Outraged anchors and correspondents – ABC, CBS, NBC — are attacking Trump for separating children from parents at the border. Monday morning shows were overwhelmed with this stuff. Ninety-four minutes of coverage on the detainment policy. It’s like 90% of Trump’s coverage is negative, ongoing, and 176 minutes of separated kids coverage in pretty much that same length of time.

It is not the United States is evil. Quite the contrary! We are housing and protecting them. We already have families in Guatemala, El Salvador, sending their kids to us to take care of them. They are already separating and sending their kids to us to take care of them, and we do! You know, the law can be a b-i-itch when it’s followed. Here’s more from Kirstjen Nielsen, as she was on fire. Jeff Zeleny of CNN — who is snarky as he could be. I watched this thing yesterday. (impression) “How is this not child abuse, huh? Huh? How is this not child abuse?”

NIELSEN: The vast majority, vast, vast majority of children who are in the care of HHS now — 10,000 of the 12,000 — were sent here alone by their parents. That’s when they were separated. Ten thousand of those currently in custody were sent by their parents with strangers to undertake a completely dangerous and deadly travel alone. We now care for them. We have high standards. We give them meals. We give them education. We give them medical care. There is videos. There’s TVs. I visited the detention centers myself. That would be my answer.

RUSH: What’s the problem with that? Anybody have a problem with that? “How is this not child abuse? How is…?” Child abuse? Child abuse! You really want to talk about child abuse? There’s no child abuse going on here, other than these families in these supposed war-torn areas of Central America separating their own families and sending their kids unaccompanied on a journey all the way through Mexico to get to the United States.

Everybody knows why. They get here, and they are protected and taken care of. Nobody separated anybody in the case of 10,000 these kids. They arrived alone

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