Trump Laments “Pain And Suffering” Of Migrant Families Just Hours After Calling Them “Hardened Criminals”

The below happened just last night:

President Donald Trump says Central Americans trying to traverse Mexico and reach the U.S. border aren’t “little angels” but “some hardened criminals.”

On Friday while Trump was campaigning in Arizona, migrants burst through a Guatemalan border fence and started to stream into Mexican territory, rushing a phalanx of police with riot shields. About 50 pushed through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated.

Asked what evidence he had that they were “hardened criminals,” Trump told a reporter at a defense roundtable in Scottsdale: “Oh please. Please. Don’t be a baby.”

Contrast that with this morning’s tweet.

If the Democrats would stop being obstructionists and come together, we could write up and agree to new immigration laws in less than one hour. Look at the needless pain and suffering that they are causing. Look at the horrors taking place on the Border. Chuck & Nancy, call me!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2018