"They Separated Him From His Wife and Child at the Border. Then He Took His Own Life."
A new Washington Post report underscores the devastating toll of family separation.
Bryan Schatz Jun. 9, 2018
"Two days after 40 Democratic senators called on the Trump administration to end its “inhumane decision” to separate families at the border, the Washington Post reported that a Honduran father who had been separated from his wife and child suffered a mental breakdown and committed suicide while in a padded room at a Texas jail."
OK, Obama put kids in cages by one account. I thought Trump wanted to do the opposite of all Obama did, but his people say Obama did it so we do it? How is that consistent with Trump's anti-Obama binge. Trump is cherry picking to hurt, or think / hope he hurts Democrats. What an immoral idea!
OK, illegal entry is crime people can be arrested for, but we do not need to push the envelope of depravity into depriving people of human rights. Taking these kids is torture and traumatic! It is inhumane!
Apparently the law is written to arrest people who entry our country illegally, but the 100%, no exceptions Homeland Security arrest policy, and Justice Department processing is putting people in jail who are abiding by the lawful procedures like seeking sanctuary and coming thru the proper ports of entry.
ICE is arresting legal immigrant spouses (married to an American citizen) who are coming into the immigration office to prove they are married to an American as the required first step in seeking legal status as a citizen. In one case discussed on the radio, a woman was arrested, and not allowed to go out to the parking lot where her husband was waiting, tell her husband she had been arrested. Why is ICE so cruel and ugly?
There are children taken from immigrant parents in an old Walmart building. How are they being treated? Is anyone monitoring the contractor holding them prisoner?
When the parent is sent back to their country of origin it can take months to reunite the kids taken with the parents, and THAT is immoral, but, we are to believe, that is the law.
How can this be happening in America? If a Senator is not allowed to see how the kids are being treated, what is up inside that building?
"The Daily 202: Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents"
By James Hohmann June 4, 2018
"THE BIG IDEA: As the sun set Sunday night, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) went to a shuttered Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that has been converted into a detention center for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents. He asked for a tour. Instead, the government contractor that runs the converted store called the cops. An officer filled out a police report, and the senator was asked to leave.
The half-hour incident at a strip mall near the southern border with Mexico underscores the lack of transparency from President Trump’s administration about its intensifying efforts to break up undocumented families caught crossing the border, the centerpiece of a “zero tolerance” policy announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month to deter illegal immigration."
I think this is a sickness . . . It is scary and ugly if the kids are not seen by any outside authority. They are KIDS!
"The senator said he tried to go through proper channels to arrange a site visit but was rebuffed. Merkley said he’s also sought to figure out just how many kids are being held at the old Walmart, where the parking lot is packed with employee cars, but he still cannot get a straight answer. He sees the new policy as a moral stain on America, and he’s determined not to let it slip from public consciousness. That's why he staged a public confrontation. A staffer live-streamed the whole thing on Facebook.
What are the "proper channels" to see these imprisoned KIDS!
