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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So let them take their kids and go back where they came from.
Go visit a.prisoner on visitation day and see how many kids are.there, then imagine all the kids that don’t get to visit their fathers.
It happens everyday to Americans.
Yes, and what those illegals have done to our country makes me sick. Send them home and let their government take care of them.
how many of these illegals is she going to invite to live in her neighborhood?
“She can get you a guacamole bowl el cheapo from a certain in-law.”
Well played.
L
Did it break your heart when it happened under Obama’s watch?
By the way Mrs. Laura Uber Liberal, the children are well cared for, entertained, good meals, clean and in a nice facility. They will be reunited with their adults as soon as the deportation orders are signed.
By the way again, your husband was funded to build the Wall on the southern border to protect Americans and stop the invasion from the South. Do you have any clue as to why he decided to blow that responsibility off and instead press for massive amnesty which Americans did not want? No? What’s that? You told him to go for amnesty?
Figures.
The Idiots think they have a Winner against Trump ,LOL,maybe Trump should just save money a deport them all
I bet she had NOTHING to say in 2014 when Obama was doing the same damn thing. Here is the thing, there should be NO detention centers, they should be closed, TOMORROW..The left had all three branches of Govt in 2008-2010 and they did NOT give amnesty to 20 mil illegals wanna know why, it was POLITICAL SUICIDE..so they want Republicans to do it now so they lose BIG in November..so the ball is in Trump’s court, he should come out tomorrow first thing and say “I am closing down the detention center and these children will immediately be reunited with their parents or whoever brought them here, and they will be IMMEDIATELY DEPORTED” effective NOW!! PERIOD END OF STORY
Then parents wishing to violate our borders should leave the kids behind to avoid the kids being “taken to the showers” (as has been claimed by MSLSD).
She was in Haiti setting up an organization with the Clinton’s to “help” the children. Tells you everything you need to know about her.
This is an orchestrated propaganda campaign from start to finish and obviously being run by Ryan and McConnell.
The first attack was the pictures of children in camps being mistreated - the shock factor to get everyone “woke” and talking about it. The follow up would’ve been the oorchestrated chorus of outraged leaders demanding change and blaming Trump. This is a twofold attack which would’ve both damaged Trump and given support to the DACA legislation being rammed throug Congress.
It would’ve worked too except they botched the pictures which were taken from Obama’s presidency well before Trump took office.
The pictures shown to be a lie they continue with the plan anyway but it falls on deaf ears and just further proves the fake news running the country.
Tear down the machinery.
And killing somebody with your car breaks mine.
And killing somebody with your car breaks mine.
So...when will the bush family divest much of their holdings so as to provide for these “children” who are “breaking their hearts”? Answer: NEVER. Hypocrites.
Lets get real here. The children are being separated to discourage this abuse of our asylum laws. To discourage this illegal immigration invasion. Word should be getting back to Central America very soon...Invade us and this will happen.
Stop this invasion!
I am so sick of the Arbusto family I want to throw up when they interject themselves into the public sphere. Please go away, Laura. Your family has done more than enough damage already.
Exactly! Every past President that did not enforce our immigration laws is to blame for the current situation.
And the parents who bring their children to the border illegally knowing they will lose their child...what say you of them?
So, in other words, leftist HATE American citizens.
They have no problem at all separating American children from their parents when the children when they commit a crime. How many on the left are upset about how Paul Manifort has been torn from his family, and how the feds terrorized his family when they kicked in his doors and ransacked their house very, very early in the morning!
They not only hate America, they HATE American citizens!
Mark
You know what breaks MY heart, Laura, you idiot?
3,000 innocent babies being killed every day because of abortion, an outrage that YOU and your Obama loving daughters approve of. So shut the hell up Laura, and go draw some pictures with your equally pathetic husband, who is largely responsible for this illegal alien invasion along with your father-in-law.
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