Immigrant Children Separated At Border
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Thanks to Donald Trump, immigrant children are being separated from their parents and families at the border. Where is the outrage, America??
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It’s an exercise in cruelty and inhumanity. In an attempt to deter unwanted (brown) immigrants from crossing into America at the US/Mexico border, the Trump administration has instituted a new policy of separating parents from children. Here’s how it works: Those families who come into the US without the proper documentation or who might be seeking asylum are called into a room and told the children must first be taken to shower — but will return. Then, after getting the immigrant children alone, they are detained permanently and kept from reuniting with their parents.
According to the latest tally from the Office of Refugee Resettlement, 11,000 children are currently being detained in US border shelters. In fact, between April 19th and May 31st alone, nearly 2,000 children were removed from the protection of their parents and taken into federal custody.
Now religious leaders, medical professionals and more are calling for Trump to put an immediate halt to the separation of immigrant children from their families.
“It’s disgraceful, and it’s terrible to see families ripped apart and I don’t support that one bit,” said evangelical leader Franklin Graham, son of “America’s pastor” Billy Graham and a prominent Trump supporter.
“I’ve never been in this situation where I’ve felt so needlessly helpless,” said Dr. Colleen Kraft who watched an inconsolable child cry for her mother. “This is something that was inflicted on this child by the government, and really is nothing less than government-sanctioned child abuse.”
“Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso,” said former First Lady Laura Bush in a Sunday Op-Ed column. “These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history.”
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Donald Trump believes once the word gets out to these unwanted immigrants that crossing into the US means all immigrant children will be held captive, parents will have second thoughts or will simply avoid trying altogether. However, when asked on Friday why he would permit such a barbaric practice, Trump pulled a “Trump” by deflecting blame and making the responsibility about anyone except himself.
“I hate the children being taken away. The Democrats have to change their law. That’s their law.”
NO, DONALD! There is no law that requires the mass separation of immigrant children from their parents at the border. The practice is YOUR OWN and stems from a White House policy change announced April 6th by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who called for the criminal prosecution of anyone attempting to cross the border illegally as a deterrent. Previously, these cases were handled by immigration courts in a process that did not require families to be separated. However, the Department of Homeland Security said earlier this year it believed separating families would be the “most effective” way of attempting to prevent unwanted immigration at the southern border.
At the base of the Statue of Liberty, a plaque reads: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Has Donald Trump and his cronies forgotten these historic words? Is Trump correct to institute this policy exclusively against brown people at the US/Mexico but for no other people attempting to make their way into America? Are the psychologically scarring and blood-curdling screams heard from the young and innocent immigrant children during the separation process worth it in the long run if it means reducing “illegal” immigration?
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Thanks for covering this deeply disturbing DJ. Wish I could I could say that I am shocked by such an evil act being carried out by the government of my own country -America. But sadly, I am not.
As you stated: “It’s an exercise in cruelty and inhumanity.”
And the truth is IT -the craven and heartless act of tearing young children away from their parents and doing whatever the H*ll White men in power want to do with them – IS as American as apple pie and the American flag. See American history regarding Native Americans Indians, Africans and slavery, AND Japanese interment camps during WW II.
I have much more to say about this but it will have to wait until I return from a job-related meeting.