Biden DOJ pick helped reassign staffer who balked at family separation

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Pres. Biden's acting AG signed off on a decision to remove a prosecutor from his position after the prosecutor’s superiors complained he was not adequately prosecuting migrant parents separated from children, according to documents reviewed by NBCNews

's pick to run the Justice Department temporarily, Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson, signed off on a 2017 decision to remove a prosecutor from his position after the prosecutor’s superiors complained he was not adequately prosecuting migrant parents separated from their children, according to documents reviewed by NBC News.Trump

In a memo sent to Wilkinson on Sept. 11, 2017, Stern’s superiors said he was not adequately performing his duties because he was “very concerned" about cases in which he was asked to prosecute an immigrant parent who had been separated from and did not know the whereabouts of their child. The parents in question had been separated from their children in the El Paso area in what is now recognized as a pilot program for the Trump administration's 2018"zero tolerance" policy, which intentionally separated more than 3,000 migrant families.

 

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Dividin’ Biden put in a high number of anti-America Commies into high positions.

He’s a hold over until Garland can be confirmed. So by definition he’s from Trump’s administration. Biden had to assign someone already at DOJ as acting AG until his cabinet could be confirmed. The headline is intentionally misleading and menacing.

You have to read the entire article. There are details that explain this misleading headline.

Not like Biden’s choice is confirmed or anything yet ... stop making this sound like Biden put him in this job. 🙄

If you are a dem who spent one second screaming at Trump for keeping kids in cages and you have nothing bad to say about this than you are a hypocrite. No kids in cages. Period It doesn’t matter who is President. Biden’s failure to stop caging kids is criminal.

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There is a profoundly important issue that is being grotesquely under covered in the media, particularly the business and tech media. It concerns the actions of 140 House Members led by GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy and 7 US Senators on the night of January 6, 2021. This should not

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Wilkinson should be demoted!

Nonono POTUS is this a truth!?!?

Don't mess with Biden!

uhhh guys he fired the prosecutor that was not comfortable prosecuting migrant parents separated from their children. this is a bad thing. stop the prayer hands

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