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Originally Posted by Mick
I see the liberal approach here to is to completely bypass the outrage at parents using their kids as leverage to break laws by crossing the borders "illegally". No surprise there then.  . |
I think the liberal approach would be not to put kids in cages.
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Originally Posted by Mick
I certainly know and remember from the President Bush years, a special detention center, Hutto, was built to hold family units, women with children, who were caught at the border trying to illegally enter the country. BUT.... in Obama’s presidency, the center was re-purposed as an adult-only center, presumably because locking up children with the parent is, um, wrong. A shoplifter, who is a parent, doesn't get locked up with their kids. An illegal border crosser should be treated no differently.
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A kid whose parents shoplift don't get put in a cage. Put odd to say locking up children with their parents is wrong when instead their locking up children without their parents.
Either do what they did with Obama, as bad as that policy was, and take care of them in a centre, foster care or something. Better yet do what Bush did and do the special detention centres so you can at least keep families together.
This current situation of not only separating them but putting the kids in cages, some shared with dozens of other kids, is barbaric.
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This is just sick:
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Michelle Brane, director of migrant rights at the Women’s Refugee Commission, met with a 16-year-old girl who had been taking care of a young girl for three days. The teen and others in their cage thought the girl was 2 years old.
“She had to teach other kids in the cell to change her diaper,” Brane said.
Brane said that after an attorney started to ask questions, agents found the girl’s aunt and reunited the two. It turned out that the girl was actually 4 years old. Part of the problem was that she didn’t speak Spanish, but K’iche, a language indigenous to Guatemala.
“She was so traumatized that she wasn’t talking,” Brane said. “She was just curled up in a little ball.”
Brane said she also saw officials at the facility scold a group of 5-year-olds for playing around in their cage, telling them to settle down. There are no toys or books.
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In America of all places.