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Ben Rhodes

πŸ‘€ Speaker
7240 total appearances

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The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

They were only in this country because they were taken here.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

They were forced against their will to be here.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

But still, even them, those people with no connection to America, when they inevitably had babies in American prison camps during World War II, even their babies, uncontroversially, were considered to be American citizens.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

Because those little kids were born in American prisons, which means they were born in America, so they were American, even then, without controversy and without question.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

But right now, under Donald Trump, Donald Trump, who has entrusted the wise and prudent stewardship of immigration matters to geniuses like Corey Lewandowski and Kristi Noem, and now Mark Wayne Mullen, who's maybe having to pull up a bit on the new Trump prison camp archipelago for immigrants because, wait a second, aren't we missing hundreds of millions of dollars somewhere?

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

And has anybody seen Corey?

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

I mean, now, right now, under these geniuses this week, they are going to try to tell the United States Supreme Court that the Constitution has been wrong all this time.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

And even though people born to Peruvians who were being held in U.S.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

prison camps against their will because they were of Japanese descent because we wanted to use them as chits in a prisoner exchange, even though their babies were considered to be American because they were born in America, the whole history of this has all just been gotten wrong all along.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

And they're going to try to tell the Supreme Court this week that Donald Trump is actually the only one who really understands the way this is supposed to be done.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

And so now, from here on out, regardless of what we've done in the past, regardless of what we did even during World War II, when we were really stressed out about this issue, regardless of how we have handled this through the entire history of our nation back to its founding, that's all been wrong.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

And Donald Trump is the only one who knows how to do it right.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

And from here on out, it will be Donald Trump who will neutrally and with an even hand assess your loyalties and your allegiances before he decides if you're really an American.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

Because it doesn't matter if you're born here.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

He's going to pick who's an American and who's not.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

It is just incredible that they are dragging that stinking heap

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

up to the door of the Supreme Court this very week.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

The same week that more than 8 million Americans from every single corner of this country came out full tilt and at full volume to say, no kinks.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

No kinks, no thrones, no golden toilets, no crowns, no kings, no camps.

The Rachel Maddow Show
'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS

That's where we are.