Ivanka Trumpfaced the wrath of social media this holiday weekend after she tweeted a gauzy photograph of hercuddling with her youngest sonamid reports that the United States government has lost track of 1,500 migrant children who entered the country at the Mexican border.
After sharing multiple photos of her “lunch date” with 2-year-old son Theodore on Instagram, Trump, 36, tweeted a picture of the pair sharing a hug on Sunday.
“My ! #SundayMorning” the mother of three captioned the photo.
Responding to Trump’s family-oriented social media share, MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid wrote, “You’d almost never know her father’s administration, to which she is an adviser, was brutally separating migrant children from their asylum-seeking parents and lost track of 1,5000 of them.”
Ivanka and her son.Ivanka Trump Twitter
“Isn’t it [just the] best to snuggle your little ones — knowing exactly where they are, safe in your arms? It’s the best. The BEST. Right, Ivanka? Right?” added actorPatton Oswalt.
Jim Carrey, who frequentlyexpresses his opposition to the Trump administrationthrough controversial portraits, shared his take on the situation alongside a searing picture of ICE agent separating an anguished mother from her screaming child.
“1500 innocent children ripped from their mothers’ arms at our border.Lost in Trump’s ‘system’. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddle masses yearning to breathe free — and we will torture them for wanting a better life. From Shining City to Evil Empire in under 500 days,” he captioned the artwork.
Earlier this month, while speaking at the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies’ 2018 spring conference, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new “zero tolerance” policy regarding illegal immigration.
Prior to his daughter’s controversial social media message,President Donald Trumptried toblame the “horrible law” on Democrats.
“Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law,” he wrote on Saturday, adding, “we MUST continue building the WALL!”
ButThe Washington Postnotes thatthere is no lawspecifically requiring the government to separate children from parents who enter the country illegally.
It was the Trump administrationthat made the decisionto refer anyone caught crossing the border illegally for federal prosecution — a policy that has already led to more children being separated from their parents at the border.
In response to the outrage over the lost children, there will be arally in San Antonio, Texas, on Thursday.
source: people.com
