Trump's lapdog AG
by digby
I don't know why a man of his age and experience would feel the need to be such a supplicant to a fool like Trump, but his history of lying and secrecy along with the fact that his brain has clearly been rotted by Fox News indicates that's he's just another older, white Trump voter.
Here's his latest Trumpy decision:
President Trump said he wants to get “tougher” on immigration as he purged the senior ranks of the Department of Homeland Security. Bill Barr is following through.
The attorney general announced late last night that migrants who come to this country seeking asylum may wind up jailed indefinitely while they wait months or even years for their claims to be considered. Barr’s 11-page decision applies to migrants who have already established “a credible fear of persecution or torture” in their home country.
This is the first time that Barr has used his position as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer to overrule precedent-setting decisions made in immigration court. His ruling reverses a decision made in 2005 after an Indian man entered the United States from Mexico and sought asylum. The clear intent is to deter people from trying to seek asylum, no matter how credible their claims.
-- The latest hard-line move comes on the eve of the release of Barr’s redacted version of special counsel Bob Mueller’s 400-page report, which details Russian interference in the 2016 election and purportedly lays out evidence on both sides of the question about whether Trump sought to obstruct justice during the federal investigation that followed. Members of Mueller’s team have privately expressed frustration about the way Barr characterized their findings in his initial four-page summary letter.
They don't have the facilities to hold these people. So they are going to build internment camps. For real.
I never thought I'd say that Jeff Sessions was more acceptable than anyone in this country but he seems to have had a tiny bit more integrity than Bill Barr who is making Marr Whitaker look like an ok guy.
He's delivering.
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