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Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 02/04/19 - The Trump administration deliberately inflicted cruelties including child separation on asylum-seeking families in order to discourage immigration, and now the 48,000 detention-center victims are money-makers for private prisons, paid per-person per-day, and some are using force-feeding to keep hunger strikers alive in there and keep the cash coming in. Thom wonders if this is who America is today?

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Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Thom's take - Intentional cruelty was used by the Trump administration to frighten possible future asylum seekers from coming to America. And with 48,000 people presently in detention, many of them children, and many children placed in foster homes, now the administration is claiming it would be too difficult to return the kids to their families. Thom is utterly disgusted, and so are his callers, who add detail and dimension to this obscene situation. - Thom reads from 'The Wretched of the Earth' by France Franon. - Congressman Mark Pocan, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, considers with Thom the looming prospect of another possible government shutdown. Callers phone in with questions from climate change to net neutrality to the stigmatizing of Medicare for All as *gasp* 'socialism'. - Bob Ney is also disgusted with the administration's refusal to return the tens of thousands of kids separated from their families illegally at the border. And them an alarming analysis on Trump's military buildup on the Iraq-Iran border.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.0

Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

0:20.0

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way, Tom Harbin here with you.

0:27.0

There are thousands, perhaps as many as over 10,000 children that the Trump administration viciously

0:35.1

and cruelly intentionally separated from their parents with

0:39.2

intentional cruelty in the hopes that that cruelty, the word of that cruelty, would get back to

0:45.6

Guatemala and Honduras and El Salvador and cause people to say, you know, I really don't

0:49.7

want to put my kid through that kind of hell. I'm not going to go try to emigrate to the United States.

0:54.3

And how do we know this?

0:55.3

Because both Kristen Nielsen and John Kelly, her mentor, told us this.

1:00.4

They have been right up front about this right from the get go. We are going to inflict enormous pain on these little children and their parents and that pain we want communicated back to people in Guatemala and Honduras and El Salvador and Mexico as

1:16.3

well so that they don't send their kids here.

1:18.8

So now the courts are saying you have to reunite these kids.

1:24.2

And this story shows up in today's AP news.

1:27.7

And why this isn't the lead story

1:29.3

in every single newscast in America?

1:31.4

I don't know. But this is it, it's by Elliot Spagot, it is the

1:35.6

Associated Press AP News.com and the Trump administration says it would require

1:40.7

extraordinary effort to reunite what may be thousands of children who

1:48.5

have been separated from their parents and even if they could because they don't want to do the extraordinary effort,

1:56.0

even if they could, the children would likely be emotionally harmed by being

2:00.6

reunited with their families.

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