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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Really great post. We must not let anyone forget that.
Better yet, build a nice big beautiful wall so they all stay together on the other side of it.
Breaks my heart, too, I almost wish their criminal parents would quit bringing them there.
If such open borders are to be made accessible, one day there will be no United States as we know it. No more peaceful, happy Norman Rockwell like America. Just the awful kind of land these people came from.
Harms way?
These kids have better food, healthcare and shelter than millions of
American kids.
“No more peaceful, happy Norman Rockwell like America.”
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That’s gone already.
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How bout abortion.You were proud to say you are pro-death.Seperating Baby from Mom and Dad with killing the child.
Didn’t you guys buy a lot of acreage in South America????
Load up the old campaign bus and drive them all to their new “home”...family unit completely intact
BONUS: English language lessons no longer needed
Break the law, pay the price. What ever the price is. Simple as that.
They all can come live with you at your house.
The Bush scum own 50,000 acres of land in Paraguay.
Then you and your hubby need to tell them not to come
What does she think the alternative is? Let all the adults roam the USA?
Problem now is that the leftist news media (who hypocritically trashed both Bushes to the extent of hate in those years) now will sobbingly embrace them as they fight Trump.
Quick clips of tearful, wailing innocent immigrant children till be on TV all day every day.
Like the ones where persons of color brutalize a school teacher and the cops come in and they throw glass bottles and a metal hammer at the cops’ heads and then the TV clip starts with “victim” criminals being wrestled to the floor and handcuffed. Only the cops’ muscle use shown. And the persons of color with faces looking up pleadingly into the TV cameras for mercy.
The latin gang members are not shown committing crimes. The alien illegals plotting to sneak into the US with children as pawns or shields are shown as victims. Illegal means illegal, not undocumented.
Spending 1.6 trillion to rebuild islamic societies breaks my heart.
That's gone already
With a smile, I do like to offer my view as a much travelled Canadian citizen in the USA. My differing view is one of encouragement. So vast and diverse is America, compared with cramped old England- my native country. It is too big to absolutely be encompassed by what we see in many areas.
I know where it does exist even if it may be always at risk. I would hate to give the name of this unique and old fashioned part of America here. I might start off an exodus to it. The winters though might protect it.
I think their real goal is to dilute all nations so that there is no longer any national identity.
Then they can regroup former nations into regions, and from there, go to their one world agenda.
Things that apparently do not break the heart of Laura Bush:
- American children being raped and murdered by illegal aliens
This 24/7 criticism is sickening. Let’s just send all children of those incarcerated to join them.
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