Thread: U.N. rights chief: Migrant family separations "unconscionable"

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Might be that people don't particularly care about the plight of criminals in violation of US law....many of them over and over again.

The bleeding hearts have a bovine army ready and waiting to get angry on command. They don't mind turning their heads away as tens of thousands of kids are being slaughtered in some hell hole, but a few they can get pics of are definitely worth bringing a gov down to save.

Worst of the lot are politicians that try to squeeze a few points from the blood of these kids they so dearly wish to help, just ahead of their sheep that queue round the block for their rightful dose.

Those are the exact same, hard-working Latinos, who stand-up, shoulder-to-shouldertogether with all other U.S. citizens, when called upon to do so.

People like the U.S.A.G. wouldn't have a clue, about those ^ Americans. Tragically many of those same (so-called "wet-back") American soldiers have made the ultimate sacrifice,

in their quest to ultimately become U.S. citizens. The U.S.A.G. should be ashamed of himself.

The United Nations.
Human rights.....?

Since when?

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

That's VERY dramatic. Once again, tough shit. The parents made the choice to try to improve their chances by bringing the kids. You really are quite the bleeding heart, aren't you? You need to live for a few years in one of the many available shitholes of the world in order to broaden your perspective.

You need to broaden your own perspective, sir. The topic thread concerns the mistreatment of citizens from a neighboring North American country; not the many other shitholes around the world.

Mexico is not a shithole, and if you had ever spent any serious time there, then you would know that. For heaven sake, man, have some compassion. It costs you nothing to do so. Try it, you'll like it.

In addition, the real reason behind the new deportation policies, is the fact that the U.S. government is morally bankrupt; karmically falling apart, at the seams, and too far gone to recognize it.

Originally Posted by taxexile

it would seem that the only people putting the childrens lives at risk of serious health consequences are their parents when they bring them along as they attempt to enter a foreign country illegally. what do they expect, a lego set and a free pass to disneyland?

strange, but hardly surprising given his origins, that he fails to include the palestinians in his opprobium for the habit of sending their children to the gaza front line whenever they want to throw stones and petrol bombs across the fences into israel

Your's is a typically ignorant redneck's reaction, by taking a given scenario totally out of context. No surprise about that ^.

Originally Posted by uncle junior

Bleeding heart pansy. They entered the country illegally or were about too. They shoild have stayed home. Serves the bastages right for trying. America is no place for immigrants from shithole countries.

It's about the kids you piece of shit.

These despicable kunts

Lawyers and medical providers visiting Rio Grande Valley shelters describe play rooms of crying preschool-age children in emotional crisis
A woman carries a baby as immigrants are dropped off at a bus station shortly after being released from detention
Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents. Babies and toddlers are being held at tender age shelters.
Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in south Texas, it has emerged.


Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying pre-school aged children in emotional crisis. The Associated Press learned that the government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where city leaders denounced the move on Tuesday.


Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents at the US-Mexico border, resulting in a new influx of young children requiring government care. The government has faced withering critiques over images of some of the children in cages inside US Border Patrol processing stations.


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Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is starting up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents.


“The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which provides foster care and other child welfare services to migrant children. “Toddlers are being detained.”

Bellor said shelters follow strict procedures surrounding who can gain access to the children in order to protect their safety, but that means information about their welfare can be limited.

By law, child migrants traveling alone must be sent to facilities run by the US Department of Health and Human Services within three days of being detained. The agency then is responsible for placing the children in shelters or foster homes until they are united with a relative or sponsor in the community as they await immigration court hearings.

But US attorney general Jeff Sessions’ announcement last month that the government would criminally prosecute everyone who crosses the US-Mexico border illegally has led to the breakup of hundreds of migrant families and sent a new group of hundreds of young children into the government’s care.

The United Nations, some Democratic and Republican lawmakers and religious groups have sharply criticized the policy, calling it inhumane.

Steven Wagner, an official with the department of health and human services, defended the shelters.
“We have specialized facilities that are devoted to providing care to children with special needs and tender age children as we define as under 13 would fall into that category,” he said. “They’re not government facilities per se, and they have very well-trained clinicians, and those facilities meet state licensing standards for child welfare agencies, and they’re staffed by people who know how to deal with the needs — particularly of the younger children.”

Until now, however, it’s been unknown where they are.
“In general we do not identify the locations of permanent unaccompanied alien children program facilities,” said agency spokesman Kenneth Wolfe.
The three centers — in Combes, Raymondville and Brownsville — have been rapidly repurposed to serve needs of children including some under 5. A fourth, planned for Houston, would house up to 240 children in a warehouse previously used for people displaced by Hurricane Harvey, Mayor Sylvester Turner said.

Turner said he met with officials from Austin-based Southwest Key Programs, the contractor that operates some of the child shelters, to ask them to reconsider their plans. A spokeswoman for Southwest Key didn’t immediately reply to an email seeking comment.

“And so there comes a point in time we draw a line and for me, the line is with these children,” said Turner during a news conference on Tuesday.
Doctors and lawyers who have visited the shelters said the facilities were fine, clean and safe, but the kids — who have no idea where their parents are — were hysterical, crying and acting out.
“The shelters aren’t the problem, it’s taking kids from their parents that’s the problem,” said South Texas pediatrician Marsha Griffin who has visited many.


Alicia Lieberman, who runs the Early Trauma Treatment Network at University of California, San Francisco, said decades of study show early separations can cause permanent emotional damage.


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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...mp-separations
What the fuck????
Those utterly despicable odious rotten to the core creeps Trump and co.
One thing, this may be the last straw. They have bared their rotten souls.

Don't try and defend the indefensible.
If the parents have broken the law then let them face whatever justice but there's no need to take the kids away from their parents.
Traumatizing children and putting them in internment camps is what the U.S. will be forever remembered for.
This is utterly sickening. Is the U.S. becoming the nazi state of the 21st century.
I can't believe some of you kVnts are trying to defend this.