“this administration’s disastrous policies...” pic.twitter.com/SJiBORWtVr

— Petty Is Praxis (@rtyson82) June 2, 2018

Former Secretary of State seems to have changed her mind, because in 2014 she said, 'just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay.'

Former Secretary of State seems to have changed her mind, because in 2014 she said, 'just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay.'

Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, expressed her dissatisfaction with the Trump administration’s immigration policies in a series of nine tweets.

Clinton, she wrote, is “horrified by what is happening to immigrant kids and families because of this administration’s policies.”

The former First Lady of the United States also tweeted that there is “no more important test of our country than the way we treat the most vulnerable among us, especially children,” adding that she is, as a mother and a grandmother, “devastated” by Trump’s immigration policies.

Widely liked and retweeted, Hillary Clinton’s Twitter thread seems to have garnered a lot of attention from her followers and critics alike. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, Glenn Greenwald, retweeted another user’s post, along with a screenshot of a 2017 Newsweek article, pointing out Clinton’s change of heart.

According to Newsweek, in a 2014 interview with CNN’s Christine Amanpour, former Secretary of State, much like Donald Trump, suggested immigrant children should “go back.”

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Why were so many parents sending their children on the dangerous journey to get across the border into the USA? And why did Hillary make the statement that "We need to send those parents a message not try to send their children to safety? It might have had something to do with the Honduran coup that she supported.

Hillary Clinton admits role in Honduran coup aftermath

In a recent op-ed in The Washington Post, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a review of Henry Kissinger’s latest book, “World Order,” to lay out her vision for “sustaining America’s leadership in the world.” In the midst of numerous global crises, she called for return to a foreign policy with purpose, strategy and pragmatism. She also highlighted some of these policy choices in her memoir “Hard Choices” and how they contributed to the challenges that Barack Obama’s administration now faces.

The chapter on Latin America, particularly the section on Honduras, a major source of the child migrants currently pouring into the United States, has gone largely unnoticed. In letters to Clinton and her successor, John Kerry, more than 100 members of Congress have repeatedly warned about the deteriorating security situation in Honduras, especially since the 2009 military coup that ousted the country’s democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. As Honduran scholar Dana Frank points out in Foreign Affairs, the U.S.-backed post-coup government “rewarded coup loyalists with top ministries,” opening the door for further “violence and anarchy.”

The homicide rate in Honduras, already the highest in the world, increased by 50 percent from 2008 to 2011; political repression, the murder of opposition political candidates, peasant organizers and LGBT activists increased and continue to this day. Femicides skyrocketed. The violence and insecurity were exacerbated by a generalized institutional collapse. Drug-related violence has worsened amid allegations of rampant corruption in Honduras’ police and government. While the gangs are responsible for much of the violence, Honduran security forces have engaged in a wave of killings and other human rights crimes with impunity.

Despite this, however, both under Clinton and Kerry, the State Department’s response to the violence and military and police impunity has largely been silence, along with continued U.S. aid to Honduran security forces. In “Hard Choices,” Clinton describes her role in the aftermath of the coup that brought about this dire situation. Her firsthand account is significant both for the confession of an important truth and for a crucial false testimony.

First, the confession: Clinton admits that she used the power of her office to make sure that Zelaya would not return to office. “In the subsequent days [after the coup] I spoke with my counterparts around the hemisphere, including Secretary [Patricia] Espinosa in Mexico,” Clinton writes. “We strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot.”

Clinton’s false testimony is even more revealing. She reports that Zelaya was arrested amid “fears that he was preparing to circumvent the constitution and extend his term in office.” This is simply not true. As Clinton must know, when Zelaya was kidnapped by the military and flown out of the country in his pajamas on June 28, 2009, he was trying to put a consultative, nonbinding poll on the ballot to ask voters whether they wanted to have a real referendum on reforming the constitution during the scheduled election in November. It is important to note that Zelaya was not eligible to run in that election. Even if he had gotten everything he wanted, it was impossible for Zelaya to extend his term in office. But this did not stop the extreme right in Honduras and the United States from using false charges of tampering with the constitution to justify the coup.

This bears repeating:

Clinton, she wrote, is “horrified by what is happening to immigrant kids and families because of this administration’s policies.”

I'm sure that many people in other countries are equally horrified by what this country does to other countries regardless of the cost of human lives.

h/t wotb and lone star mike