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New Quinnipiac poll finds that Americans oppose the separation of children and parents by a margin of 66% - 27%, but Republicans support it by a margin of 55% - 35%.

Dear @realDonaldTrump and @SecNielsen: When Laura Bush is attacking your policy, you are losing.

separation of children and parents by a margin of 66% -

yanno, I get that #45 and his supporters are isolationists.

A federal judge on Monday ruled that Kansas’ proof of citizenship voter registration requirement was a violation of the Constitution as well as the National Voter Registration Act.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson had in previous orders temporarily blocked the requirement, which was championed by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Robinson on Monday handed down her final decision on the case, which went to trial earlier this year.

Her 100-plus page opinion also knocked Kobach, who defended the law himself in court, for his “history of non-compliance with this Court’s orders,” and imposed “sanctions responsive to Defendant’s repeated and flagrant violations of discovery and disclosure rules.”

Dear @realDonaldTrump and @SecNielsen: When Laura Bush is attacking your policy, you are losing.

all 4 living former first ladies are on the same side - and have now gone public about it - Mrs. Bush at the front.

-not a law-

As Lindsey Graham has already pointed out, this family separation is a policy of the Trump administration--not a law--and one Trump can immediately end with a simple phone call

Indy media journalist Sharyl Attkisson posts jaw-dropping list of media LIES and mistakes about Trump

1. The Trump Didn't Pay His Income Taxes Myth (Oct. 1, 2016)
2. Trump's Path to the Presidency Is "Nonexistent" (Oct. 18, 2016)
3. MLK Bust Story Goes Bust (Jan. 20, 2017)
4. Fake News About Trump Firing Comey Over More Resources To Investigate Russia (May 10, 2017)
5. Media Meltdown Over Comey's Supposed Plan To Refute Trump's Claim (June 6, 2017)
6. Three CNN Employees Resign After False Story About Supposed Russian Ties To Trump (June 22, 2017)
7. More Russian Collusion-Related Fake News (December 2, 2017)
8. The Infamous First Lady "Snub" That Didn't Happen (July 6, 2017)
9. Three Not Seventeen (July 6, 2017)
10. The Wiretapping Fiasco (Sept. 5, 2017)

There were several false claims regarding this story, but Attkisson highlights it in this way:

CNN’s Chris Cillizza and other news outlets declared Trump “lied” when he stated that Trump Tower had been wiretapped, although there’s no way any reporter independently knew the truth of the matter—only what intel officials claimed. It later turned out there were numerous wiretaps involving Trump Tower, including a meeting of Trump officials with a foreign dignitary. At least two Trump associates who had offices in or frequented Trump Tower were also wiretapped.

Sixty-seven percent of Americans call it unacceptable to separate children from parents who've been caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally.

Much of this is driven by large percentages of Democrats (90 percent) and independents (66 percent) who find it unacceptable, while Republicans are more divided overall, with 39 percent calling it unacceptable, and one in five had not heard enough about it.

Older, very conservative Republicans are more apt to say it is acceptable, while younger and more moderate Republicans do not.

President Trump's handling of immigration, generally, gets lower approval now -- at 35 percent -- than it did in May when it was 40 percent.

Overall approval from Republicans has declined ten points to 73 percent now, from 83 percent in May.

Americans who agree with the separation policy are more likely to be white, very conservative, evangelical, older, and to live in rural areas than those who find the policy unacceptable. They also overwhelmingly approve of how the President is handling immigration, more generally - at a greater rate than any partisan group.

Demokkkrats and children....