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This morning on C-span's Washington Journal the guest, Sarah Pierce from the Migrant Policy Institute, a non partisan Study Group, is on to discuss the crisis of Trump's policy of separating the kids from parents at the border.
She said the parents are automatically put into the custody of the Federal Authorities and within days are taken to a mass trial at court. Then the parents are immediately sent back to the country they came from - without being reunited with their kids.
The kids are effectively kidnapped and made orphans by Trump's Government.
Eventually they are either sent to live with sponsors - family member here in the country or put into foster care.
Many family members will not come because the Trump Administration will finger print them and send those prints to Homeland Security, given to ICE.
So we have babies and toddlers kidnapped from their parents and made orphans and dumped into the foster care system.
We have traumatized kids who the workers are not allowed to comfort or touch left in limbo for months only to be 'lost' in a system while the parents in another country are helpless and do not know what happened to their children.
This is our America today
PJMcK
(22,056 posts)If Trump's administration keeps these immigrant children in the U.S., what becomes of them?
This policy is bad in so many ways but the treatment of these young people is abhorrent.
lovemydogs
(575 posts)I don't think anyone knows.
Except the parents are deported while the kids are lost into our system eventually.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)and then they should be arrested. This is so wrong.
Wounded Bear
(58,728 posts)Have to support our most successful industry since the 90's.
lovemydogs
(575 posts)Children before the age of 3 who are not loved, bonded to the parent will develop psychopathic tendencies.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)that would grant them permanent status here I assume. As a parent, if I imagine myself escaping a war zone with my child then I want the child to have a shot at life even if we are separated. I dont want my child to be sent with me back into war zone where we both will likely get killed?
Terryfing. But if this is the case, we may expect MORE families trying to cross no less! This isnt a deterrent but a mass scale children traffiking. And it is all justified to them with a bible, adopting a child gives them the moral high ground. The unintended consequences to our country will be astronomical inclusing economy.
lovemydogs
(575 posts)No one knows.
Ilsa
(61,700 posts)a primer by trump and his republican party.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Or terrorist. I remember read about the Uni-bomber, who had a medical emergency and the doctor told his parents not to touch him for a month. Mother said, he was never the same.
Ilsa
(61,700 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)It was interesting.
Ilsa
(61,700 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)in the hospital due to an allergy. How he was pinned to a bed, this was 1943 I think. Went to the hospital a few times.
Ilsa
(61,700 posts)Thank you. Now we think of the children being held in baby jail now.
Damn, are we making a stew of dysfunction, and we know better now.