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The administration is lying. 500 kids have not been reunited with their parents. (Original Post) spanone Jun 2018 OP
Correct. And they will fall by the wayside and off the news once... LuckyCharms Jun 2018 #1
The administration lied? I am shocked, I tell you, shocked. n/t rzemanfl Jun 2018 #2
About 500 separated immigrant children reunited with families spanone Jun 2018 #3
Hitler had no concern to tell the Jewish Parents where their children had been taken.. !! Civic Justice Jun 2018 #4
+1 uponit7771 Jun 2018 #7
trump has to resign now duforsure Jun 2018 #5
I agree, I have said the same thing. ooky Jun 2018 #8
What is our idea of what should happen and how it should happen? Civic Justice Jun 2018 #6
The never have a plan. They don't know what a plan is. CanonRay Jun 2018 #9

LuckyCharms

(17,459 posts)
1. Correct. And they will fall by the wayside and off the news once...
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 08:23 AM
Jun 2018

Trump does his next horrible unbelievable thing.

spanone

(135,880 posts)
3. About 500 separated immigrant children reunited with families
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 08:31 AM
Jun 2018

This story is all over the news services...


Roughly 500 immigrant children who were separated from their families at the southern border have been reunited with their families since May, a senior administration official confirms to CBS News.

The Associated Press first reported that about 500 of the more than 2,000 children separated had been reunited. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump signed an executive order halting the family separations, but the administration has yet to publicly lay out its plan for reuniting families.

A senior Trump administration official the AP spoke with said many of the children were reunited within days. The official wasn't sure how many of the reunited children remain in custody with their families or how many are no longer in the country. The official told the AP that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with Health and Human Services, are working to set up a centralized reunification process at the Port Isabel Detention Center near Los Fresnos, Texas.

The family separations at the border have sparked outrage and protests, pressuring Mr. Trump to sign his executive order. But that order doesn't necessarily prevent family separations after 20 days, as CBS News' Paula Reid has reported.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/about-500-separated-immigrant-children-reunited-with-families/

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
5. trump has to resign now
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 08:56 AM
Jun 2018

Or be forced out of office for this. Abusing children for political gain , and permanently damaging then for PR so he can claim he's tough, is inexcusable, and a threat to any decent society, but if allowed to escape from doing this , tells everyone its ok to psychologically and physically harm children , especially if they aren't white. We need to refuse him to continue to make this the White Supremacy House of our country. Those republicans in Congress enabling this should be publicly shunned for this the rest of their lives. His consequences should be removal from office , before he gets even worse, which he will.

ooky

(8,929 posts)
8. I agree, I have said the same thing.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 10:42 AM
Jun 2018

He should be impeached AND convicted by the Senate and removed from office right now for committing this atrocity.

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
6. What is our idea of what should happen and how it should happen?
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 10:11 AM
Jun 2018

we may well want to present them with ideals on how to handle immigrants seeking entry to America.

when it comes to people in general and parents with kids, "how would we handle it"... may be the dialog that matters. We can easily know what we don't want to happen and what we detest happening, but can we explain how we want things to happen?

I can... and I will..... the question to each is... can you and will you? explain how you would want it done?

If we are going to detail people for processing and we are spending money to house parents and kids, then we can create the same facilities to house parents with kids in a setting that is humane and respectful, and we can develop a "fair and equitable process where everyone is given the same "equality of opportunity" that was given the influx of Europeans over the past 100= yrs or so.
when they flooded the border of America. We did not separate them, and we gave them a fair shot to be admitted. We can't be a nation that give a fair chance to "white only people", and then turn and have a negative vile method when it comes to people who are non white, and don't come from European countries.

If we spent money to build tents, and use military bases, then we can do it with the EXACT same open regard we gave to the millions of Europeans who flooded this nation through Ellis Island, as well as the Millions more who came by any and many means, including illegal, which includes those who came and overstayed their Visa's and the countless ways that European white people have fled into this country.

If we can create places with attributes while they are being detained, then we can create and use those resource to provide it, while we at the same time "Respectfully", consider their plight with a sense of dignity and integrity, with a system that honors the values we claim to uphold.

We claim to give asylum to people, then we need not have a policy nor attitude that Latin America people from Mexico and Central America are less deserving of asylum as people, when they seek to escape from harms way.

We have massive volume of land in America, and we also have volumes of work that these people are willing to do, that American's are unwilling to do. We can develop a plan and program, where these people can be considered for these works and the areas that these works are needed, because its a fact.. that "White Americans" and "black american's are NOT going to do many of these jobs. No one is going to get a mass of white American who want to work in Vegetable Growing industry, and certainly after the history of slavery, there is not going to be a mass of black american, that are going to go to these fields and pick vegetables, or a variety of other jobs, they were once enslaved and forced to do.

The fact is, when we "know what we want" and know how we can consider and want to address what we want, then we have a better chance of getting that done. But when we only show our detesting attitude about the vile that is being done, without offering up 'ideals as to how it can be done, and show the benefits of having it done by such means... then we are not going to have the same affect to change the minds of Republicans.

We have to show how it can be done, and what can be the positive benefit of doing it a designed way by the ideal and outline, then we have a better chance to support our ideals and the case regarding immigration of people who cross illegally seeking asylum.
The average person who came here knowing they have nothing, and must get away from the violence of their land, they come willing to do what every work they can. They come knowing that Americans are not going to do various jobs and they come willing to do those jobs and do them with a determination and dedication, as they look to their childrens future in the long term, and they are willing to do this work to pave a way for their children to have a better future, and they know... this work... is a benefit and help to America, as their way of showing.. they support America.

That's the message we may want to invest ourselves to promote, to promote the understanding that can support the dignity and integrity of the people who want to come here, they people who need to come here for asylum's sake, and at the same time, demonstrate our sense of dignity and integrity as American, to know our own truth, and understand our own need and benefit of them coming here.

America has an aging workforce, and we have a high volume of America's who are determined NOT to do certain jobs, yet we know those jobs are valuable.

Then we may need to frame our message and promote it, with IDEALS.. of how to do what we must do... to support the integrity we say we have as American, and how we deal and treat those who come seeking asylum.


CanonRay

(14,118 posts)
9. The never have a plan. They don't know what a plan is.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 11:19 AM
Jun 2018

Trump farts, and they all start sniffing the air.

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