If you haven’t already heard it, take a listen to the chilling and heartbreaking recording below of the innocent border children begging and crying for their parents.
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The audio was recorded last week inside a US Customs and Border Protection detention facility by an anonymous person and published Monday by the investigative nonprofit ProPublica.
Horrific cries of “Mami” and “Papá” are heard over a cacophony of wails and sobs. At one point, a border patrol agent mockingly calls the gut-wrenching cries an “orchestra,” adding “all we need now is a conductor.”
In light of the continued practice of separating children from their families at the border, at least 2/3rds of Americans have now turned their ire onto Donald Trump for allowing the policy. According to the new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, only 28% of Americans believe tearing unwanted immigrant families apart is effective.
Sticking with his motto that “The buck stops anywhere else but here,” Donald Trump continued on Monday to deflect blame away from himself for parents and children being ripped apart at the border.
“The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility,” a defiant Donald Trump said on Monday. “You take a look at the death and destruction that’s been caused by people coming into this country, without going through a process. Republicans want safety and we want security for our country. If the Democrats would sit down, instead of obstructing, we could have something done very quickly.”
However, just as he was pretending his hands were clean, his own Department of Homeland Security Secretary was defending Trump and reiterated the administration’s belief in a “zero tolerance policy.”
“We have to do our job. We will not apologize for doing our job,” Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said. “This administration has a simple message — If you cross the border illegally, we will prosecute you.”
Reporters are listening to audio of kids crying in border patrol facility, moments ahead of press briefing @ProPublica pic.twitter.com/h4d8lGVLXj
— Jorge Rivas (@thisisjorge) June 18, 2018
Amidst the contradictions and finger-pointing, CNN’s Anderson Cooper took to the airwaves to examine how the Trump administration can claim the US is about compassion, yet promote a practice of taking undocumented immigrant children from their families and putting them in government facilities on US borders.
Seeing the tide quickly turning against Trump and, by association, the GOP, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranked Republican in the US Senate, announced on Tuesday that a small group of senators are working on legislation to address the child separation issue, with the possibility of having something ready as early as Tuesday and a vote on it as soon as this week.
Despite what he says, Donald Trump is not interested in a solution. Putting unwanted immigrants and their children behind bars IS his solution!
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WARNING: Some viewers may find the following footage disturbing:
The audio recording and the videos are heart-wrenching for me. In fact, i could only stand to listen to the audio recording one time. That’s it. I can’t take listening to the desperate cries of children.
But I am reminded that this wicked act reflects the hearts and minds those Americans who want Trump to do this. They are 35-40% of the voting electorate, predominantly White and believe this will serve as a “deterrent” to black and brown immigrants coming into this country.
I’m also reminded that the creature currently occupying the White House is literally a 2-legged, “living black hole.”
I pray that Trump, Sessions and all others of that Klan soon learn that their cold, craven and callous efforts Failed.