Posted on 06/23/2018 5:59:55 AM PDT by Drango
The cries of children pierce our hearts. Scientists say they're meant to. They move us to love and protect children. This response is healthy; it's human; and it keeps humanity going.
As Dr. Marc Bornstein at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development told The Scientist, "the infant cry and the caregiver response, have developed together to ensure the survival of the species."
Public figures, including the pope, bishops, senators of both parties, and every living spouse of a president spoke out against the Trump administration policy that separated more than 2,300 children crossing the border from their families. Laura Bush said the policy was "cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart."
But the cries of children, from a recording at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facility obtained by ProPublica, seemed to reach into and wrench so many hearts.
The cries of children brought down walls of indifference.
Politicians, including Republicans, rushed to distance themselves, if not outright denounce, policies that caused such manifest pain. Governors, including a couple of Republicans, withdrew their National Guard units from border areas to avoid being a part of those policies. Airlines said they would refuse to fly groups of children who had been taken from their families. Several airline attendants said they would walk off any flights that tried to transport those children, to keep them from taking off.
The cries of children pricked consciences across the country. It made people look into their lives and wonder what they might do — what they should do — to help those children.
The executive order signed by the president to end family separation apparently does nothing to reunite the 2,300 children who have already been torn from their parents. Reports place some of those children hundreds, even thousands, of miles away in detention centers that have not been opened to the press and public officials, save for a carefully approved visit of the kind Melania Trump made on Thursday.
But we know — and must find a way to report — about the children and families who are still locked up and being kept apart. There are still cries to be heard.
NPR claims to be "balanced", so ask the Ombudsman, when was the last time an on-air, talent, host delivered a conservative opinion? (hint never happened)
Too bad we cant record their cries as thier skulls are pierced or crushed during abortion. Those babies without a voice... what about them?
What utter crap.
Ah, but those cries are sweet. Almost as sweet as the cries of children whose pain can be used for political advantage against Trump.
When my girlfriend cries....I give her everything she wants AND more. Funny effect tears have on men.
FU Scott Simon!
We are paying the salary of this idiot.
A million dead babies crying every year and Stalinist NPR doesn’t give a damn about them.
Barack Obama defended hospitals leaving aborted babies that are born alive gasping for air to die hours later in linen closets.
FUNPR
Contact the Ombudsman.
https://help.npr.org/customer/portal/emails/new?i=8
Womp womp...
How about all the cries of American children whose parents were killed by illegals? Raped by illegals? Sent to the hospital by drunk driving illegals?
Those don’t count?
This is just leftist propaganda.
Tell me again why they get our tax dollars?
I’m not indifferent about this situation. I still think all these illegals should be reunited, in Mexico where they belong - after being biometrically identified and barred forever from entering the US, once the wall is up.
The metaphorical crying children called Democrats are well aware that literal crying children are useful for manipulating emotional voters.
After their immigration victory, look for mewling, puking infants to be the soundtrack of every political issue.
I wonder if they considered the cries of the children of murder victims killed by illegals, or just the cries of illegals.
NPR has their drawbridge up...
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Murdered babies can’t cry. Aside from being psychopathic lunatics, LIBs are blood soaked perverts .
Oh, how their hearts BLEED
Such GOOD people
Love those illegals and hate those babies in the womb
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