Well that's perfectly ghastly. I guess you still can't put children in with thier parents when they cross the border alone though
It is ghastly.
The wrong kind of adults will take advantage of children when the opportunity presents itself.
It's doesn't matter if it's the Mom's new BF she thinks she can trust alone with her children or if it's staffers at one of the immigrant detention centers.
("Detention" is an awfully harsh word for it now that I write it...but that's just me...even illegal crossings are misdemeanors - we don't imprison people in the US for misdemeanors generally.)
The point was that yes...more children are at risk in the "camps" and Foster care system and being taken away from those who would protect them after being separated not before.
Sure you can screen children and watch the suspected ones...but the blanket separation of families was done to create fear and appease a base with cruel and racist tendencies already toward migrants or immigrants.
It was condemned by the UN and just about every other human right watchdog out there.
And it was done as a deterrent which is disgusting to me -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump...ly_separation_as_a_means_to_deter_immigration
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https://money.com/trump-family-separation-policy-uber-facebook-google-microsoft/
(not the the Catholics have much room to talk but...) -
https://www.wnycatholic.org/news/ar...igration-policy-condemned-by-catholic-leaders
I'm glad that the policy was eventually stopped, but it wasn't stopped when it was ordered by the courts, the Trump admin kept it up for another year or so.
U.S. immigration authorities separated more than 1,500 children from their parents at the Mexico border early in the Trump administration, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday, bringing the total number of children separated since July 2017 to more than 5,400.
The ACLU said the administration told its attorneys that 1,556 children were separated from July 1, 2017, to June 26, 2018, when a federal judge in San Diego ordered that children in government custody
be reunited with their parents.
Children from that period can be difficult to find because the government had
inadequate tracking systems. Volunteers working with the ACLU are searching for some of them and their parents by going door-to-door in Guatemala and Honduras.
Of those separated during the 12-month period, 207 were younger than 5, said attorney Lee Gelernt of the ACLU, which sued to stop family separation. Five were younger than a year old, 26 were a year old, 40 were 2 years old, 76 were 3, and 60 were 4.
"It is shocking that 1,556 more families, including babies and toddlers, join the thousands of others already torn apart by this inhumane and illegal policy," said Gelernt. "Families have suffered tremendously, and some may never recover."
The Justice Department declined to comment."
"In January 2019, the administration acknowledged that thousands more children may have been separated from their families than the previously reported figure of 2,737, with officials uncertain of the exact number. Investigation showed that the child separation policy had actually begun in the summer of 2017, prior to the zero tolerance policy announced in April 2018.
Federal officials said there were no plans to attempt to reunite these children because "it would destabilize the permanency of their existing home environment, and could be traumatic to the children."[30][31][32] In May 2019, the administration acknowledged that at least an additional 1,712 migrant children may have been separated from their parents even before the "zero tolerance" policy was implemented.
[33]"
The administration can make up as many justifications as they can but it's quite clear that they did it on a political whim with little to no regard or understanding or the overall impact and cruelty.
Then too NOT try and find the parents of the children forcibly separated due to some BS about "destabilizing" their lives is lazy and unconscionable.
Deporting parents separated from their children, while the US govt. starts putting the children up for adoption is tantamount to kidnapping imo and many others.
Seeking asylum is not a crime in this country, no matter where you are from.
To treat them all as criminals, including the children, is flat out racist and wrong in my eyes.
These kids are going to be severely traumatized by the actions of our govt.
They are not stealing our jobs, destroying the economy or any such thing.
The US has always scapegoated this or that race for the perceived ills of the country...statistically they commit crime at a much lower rate than those born here.
Take a look at the tax giveaway that was passed...
"What share of the tax cuts went to the rich and the poor? The richest 1 percent received 9.3 percent of the total tax cuts, the top 5 percent got 26.5 percent, the top quintile received 52.2 percent and the bottom quintile got 3.3 percent."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlik...rich-get-all-of-trumps-tax-cuts/#139e3dc9f209
We got screwed...not to mention the deficit has exploded by trillions of dollars.
Not just that but...
Nearly 80 percent of American workers (78 percent) say they’re living paycheck to paycheck, according to a
2017 report by employment website CareerBuilder. Women are particularly vulnerable: 81 percent of them report living paycheck to paycheck, compared with 75 percent of men.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/shu...n-5-us-workers-live-paycheck-to-paycheck.html
That's 4 in 5 Americans...so the job numbers can be low and the stock market can work for those with lots of money invested....but 4 out 5 are struggling to just pay the bills each month.
Not to mention...
"$38,000
The average American now has about $38,000 in personal debt, excluding home mortgages. That's up $1,000 from a year ago, according to Northwestern Mutual's 2018 Planning & Progress Study, which also reports that "fewer people said they carry 'no debt' this year compared to 2017 (23 percent vs. 27 percent)."
Or the steady increase in homelessness the past 3 years alone.
Hardly the amazing economy....I wish it were.
Oh, I forgot...you mentioned that the "blue wave" failed to regain the Senate along with winning back the house majority - well they did not because they were not up for reelection with the House in 2018...we will see what happens in the 2020 elections.
One can only hope that Mitch McConnell is at least ousted.
Take care!
Have a good one my friend!
