Posted on 06/17/2018 6:44:08 PM PDT by EdnaMode
On Sunday, a day we as a nation set aside to honor fathers and the bonds of family, I was among the millions of Americans who watched images of children who have been torn from their parents. In the six weeks between April 19 and May 31, the Department of Homeland Security has sent nearly 2,000 children to mass detention centers or foster care. More than 100 of these children are younger than 4 years old. The reason for these separations is a zero-tolerance policy for their parents, who are accused of illegally crossing our borders.
I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.
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. 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. We also know that this treatment inflicts trauma; interned Japanese have been two times as likely to suffer cardiovascular disease or die prematurely than those who were not interned.
Americans pride ourselves on being a moral nation, on being the nation that sends humanitarian relief to places devastated by natural disasters or famine or war. We pride ourselves on believing that people should be seen for the content of their character, not the color of their skin. We pride ourselves on acceptance. If we are truly that country, then it is our obligation to reunite these detained children with their parents — and to stop separating parents and children in the first place.
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“” The problem is, stupid liberals like Mrs. Bush don’t care about the facts. They only care about an opportunity to exploit these kids for their cheap political agenda. It is disgusting. “”
This needs repeating. They are shameless ba$tards hiding behind fake civility and hypocrite guilt tripping
Was he a victim of secondhand smoke? What was that brand name please? Inquiring minds etc...
Useful idiot.
I feel a lot more for the children of the fathers who were killed or horribly maimed in her idiot husband’s ill thought out war. Perhaps Laura Bush should search for
Saddam’s “weapons of mass destruction” or the Holy Grail - her time would be better spent than on coordinated policy attacks with their dear friends, the Clintons, and she would have as much chance of finding either one.
She ran a stop sign and plowed into his car, killing him.
Big BUMP!
It’s their parents fault for bringing them here illegally. Put hem on a bus with Sesame Street playing on the overhead and send them back.
They should put these families in libraries. The adults can read pretty much anything and the kids have the young readers section.
Not surprised from a woman who supports abortion
>> Where was the outrage when Obama was keeping the kids in cages?
Same BS goes for the reporting and outrage on the homeless.
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat. Facilitating parent corps include Disney and Comcast. Don’t patronize these corps — they piss in our shoes daily.
It is so sad to see the daily disrespect the invaders show our great country. There is a legal way to apply to come to the U.S.A.
You know human smuggling and illicit drug smuggling is a huge business. It is so corrupting. American citizens bear the financial burdens and awful consequences of this horrible situation.
I find it so disappointing that a former First Lady would chose to support the invaders and not American citizens.
I am sure her neighborhood has illegals living there...as live in help. They need the addition of MS-13, the criminal, welfare, and addicted segments too though.
OUTSTANDING comments BUMP!
Yes it is. Her careless negligence robbed someone of all their hopes and all that they might have been; and she tore a loved one from a family, leaving a hole that could never be filled. This is your life, Laura Bush.
Laura, slip out back and have another glass of wine and another cigarette, and think about it.
Why would she even raise her mole head above the hammer deck?
Why is this Breaking News?
Sorry Laura. It’s none of your business. This has been going on for years. The “parents” knew they were going to be separated from their children prior to breaking U.S. laws and sneaking into the country. Hopefully, the Border Patrol is checking to see if these kids actually belong to the “parents” they are being separated from.
“...This is a woman who favors the murder of babies, so you can’t take anything she says about caring for children seriously...”
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And she passed on that acceptance of baby murder to her offspring.
You and other liberal women, care only about the children you want, now pretend to care about little brown children, who if they were living in the inner cities, would be attempting to convince their mothers to abort!
Please crawl back under the hole you and others like you come from!
” I would hate to give the name of this unique and old fashioned part of America here. “
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Yes,keep it to yourself———it’s nice to know such a place exists.
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