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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenator Merkley finally got to see the facility where the American government keeps children in cage
Link to tweet
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)Just SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mcar
(42,334 posts)Caged people!
hlthe2b
(102,293 posts)trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)THIS MAKES ME FURIOUS. TRUMP, HIS FAMILY & all the GOPigs should be locked up. Not innocent children.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)enabling that.
We need to find out who they are.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Why aren't the people in the photo going over to the cage and comforting those innocent kids???????????????????
Even the anti-Trumpian review committee is in a fascist trance and disconnected from their emotions, from instincts of nurturing. This is so sick.
We MUST have a children's march. Is anyone planning one?
Ohiogal
(32,006 posts)GP6971
(31,168 posts)in handcuffs. I know he isn't, but that's what it looks like.
syringis
(5,101 posts)50 millions died in World War II to save the people from such abominations!
He dared talking about D-Day !!!!!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Period
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)I have no words only anger.
syringis
(5,101 posts)I expressed my thoughts here :
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210679393
I have meticulously described my wishes to Trump, here :
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210679839
I reiterate once again my wishes to him.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Thanks, syringis.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Girard442
(6,075 posts)That is, if they're not already. Also a perfect setup for abuse by the jailers and older kids.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)I ask because if that were me, I'd try at least once to just climb the fuck out of there.
And yes its fucking unacceptable. This is the United States, and our Republicans have screamed at us for DECADES about how Rights (yaknow, like DUE PROCESS) come from Gawd, and NOT the Constitution. Which would imply that those Rights inherently belong to EVERY HUMAN BEING, and it's our governments job via the Constitution to see that those under our governments purvue and control have those GAWD-GIVEN RIGHTS upheld, no matter the inconvenience.
That would include those kids.
So let's see it happen, GOP. Make with the Due Process, or let them the fuck out.
Unless you're scared of a buncha children--cause you're gutless chickenshit COWARDS. AND SO IS YOUR BETA-MALE OF A FAKE PRESIDENT.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)How can anyone justify putting innocent children in cages? What on earth is wrong with us! I feel like screaming!
syringis
(5,101 posts)"What on earth is wrong with us!"
The toxic orange asshole !
I will not offend you calling him "your president". He isn't, he's a genuine piece of shit !
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Unfortunately, there are too many people who support such atrocities and this toxic orange asshole!
Have a good weekend!
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)backtoblue
(11,343 posts)There is an ethical responsibility for Merkley to continue these demands to have access to the kids. Fight on Merkley! We need a hero....
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)...and other necessities.
Cha
(297,323 posts)Sophia4
(3,515 posts)it looks like a violation to me.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)woundedkarma
(498 posts)"2014 visit by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass). Kids still with parents. No photos are allowed in 2018."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/6/1769784/-Asylum-seeking-parents-are-being-coerced-into-guilty-pleas-through-the-theft-of-their-children
It's horrible. It was horrible then. It's horrible now. At the same time, this is someone trolling dems.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)He ranted to his followers that these were not people but animals. Now they are put in cages like animals. No one sees anything wrong with that because he said they were animals.
Time to put the GOP in cages. I hate them all with every fiber of my body.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Getting more Nazi every day.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Break them out. This is so wrong.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)Could HS make things a little more unbearable?
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Large unisex shower rooms?
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)This WAS America....for a long time.
We should change the name to Deplorastan
orleans
(34,060 posts)there are no photos allowed in 2018 apparently and merkley, from my understanding of this article i'm linking to, did NOT go in and see anything.
he has a list of 19 questions about the place:
"Senator demands answers to 19 questions about more than 11,000 migrant kids
Last Updated Jun 7, 2018 4:27 PM EDT
"Days after he was denied access to a federal shelter for child migrants, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, is demanding answers from the Office of Refugee Resettlement about the roughly 11,000 children under the care of the federal agency.
"Under U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' 'zero tolerance' policy on immigration prosecutions, children must be forcibly separated from their families, falsely labeled 'unaccompanied alien children,' and transferred to your agency's custody," Merkley said in his letter to Office of Refugee Resettlement Director Scott Lloyd.
"According to press reports, more than 600 children have already been separated from their families since the implementation of this policy at the beginning of May, bringing the total under your care to a staggering 11,200."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senator-demands-answers-to-19-questions-about-more-than-11000-migrant-kids/
here's the picture from 2014
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/6/1769784/-Asylum-seeking-parents-are-being-coerced-into-guilty-pleas-through-the-theft-of-their-children