https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/389022-whatever-isnt-an-option-for-immigrant-children
https://twitter.com/HeatherWeaverDC/status/1141522155747905541
Yup. Trump's people want the freedom to break international law, to cage children and parents, to not have any process for keeping track of thousands of children separated from their parents, and all the rest. They don't care.
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
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[3 year old] Jose and thousands of children like him are the faces, names and stories impacted by recent actions taken by the Trump administration to reduce the number of families and children crossing the southern border. These policies include “referring 100 percent of illegal Southwest Border crossings to the Department of Justice for prosecution,” as Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a recent speech. These “zero tolerance” measures mean that more parents will end up in criminal jails while their children are placed into group homes or foster care.
John Kelly acknowledged in a recent interview with NPR that family separation “could be a tough deterrent” to illegal immigration. In that same interview, the White House chief of staff argued that it wasn’t cruel and heartless to take children like Jose away from their parents because, “The children will be taken care of – put into foster care or whatever.”
Community organizations like Bethany stand ready to help these children find loving, temporary foster homes. We were disturbed, however, to learn what Kelly meant when he said “whatever”—and it isn’t what is best for children.
Citing an email sent to staff at the Pentagon, the Washington Post recently revealed that the Trump administration is preparing to hold immigrant children at military bases. Unaccompanied immigrant children or children who have been separated from their parents by the government could be housed at four military bases currently being reviewed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Being ripped away from parents is already a significant trauma for children. Staff at Bethany and the foster families we partner with are picking up the pieces caused by distressing separations every day. The trauma will only be compounded by placements outside of a loving home.
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https://twitter.com/HeatherWeaverDC/status/1141522155747905541
Heather Lynn Weaver @ HeatherWeaverDC
ATTENTION: The party that coined the term "death panels" in an effort to sink the ACA kindly asks that you stop referring to their immigrant detention camps as "concentration camps."
6:44 PM - 19 Jun 2019
Yup. Trump's people want the freedom to break international law, to cage children and parents, to not have any process for keeping track of thousands of children separated from their parents, and all the rest. They don't care.
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.