Hypocrisy: Laura Bush compares Trump’s policies to Japanese internment camps, said nothing during Obama years
In an op-ed published by the Washington Post on Sunday, former First Lady Laura Bush compared the zero-tolerance policies of the Trump administration to Japanese internment camps. The outraged Bush — who did not vote for Trump — seems to have been strangely silent during the Obama years, when children were actually put into cages.
“I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel,” she wrote. “It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.”
She added:
Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history. We also know that this treatment inflicts trauma; interned Japanese have been two times as likely to suffer cardiovascular disease or die prematurely than those who were not interned.
Former First Lady Laura Bush likened the Trump administration's policy of separating families at the border to the internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII. https://t.co/YQziLFyvzR
— Axios (@axios) June 18, 2018
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Quite a few reminded Bush of her hypocrisy and her silence during the Obama years.
https://twitter.com/Mr_John_Clark/status/1008538074199052289
https://twitter.com/pridescarves/status/1008535839255736321
Your hypocrisy knows no bounds. So glad Jeb! isn't in office. (Pictures from 2014.) https://t.co/r6yYYDAv5D
— Amber (@AmberGirl3) June 18, 2018
Bush’s editorial was published on the same day that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the policy does not exist.
We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.
— Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen (@SecNielsen) June 17, 2018
And the demagoguery continues…
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