Today, I heard that the US government had successfully reunited 57 of the 103 babies and toddlers taken from their parents.
What about the other 46?
Our government decided not to give them back to their parents because they were suspected to be criminals, or their parents were deported, or something else.
None of the newscasters asked the obvious question? What will our government do with these infants? Even if a parent has a criminal record, do they lose their parental rights? Does the government have the authority to do this? What about the toddler whose parents were deported? Do we have no obligation to reunite them?
Will there be a baby auction at HHS soon?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Horrid but I’m not surprised since Trump will always be Trump who is worse than a toxic dump.
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And remember, these kids are NOT UNited States citizens, so I guess when they turn 18 they will be deported to countries they have never known where they no longer have family.
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Don’t be surprised if Trump doesn’t wait to deport them and his loyal deplorable supporters will cheer if he does. After all, to Trump’s rancid brain, all immigrants no matter what age are criminals and rapists.
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Clearly an obvious example of psychological projection.
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Trump’s rancid brain doesn’t think — it twitches. There is no psychological projection, whatever that is.
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Isn’t this just human trafficking wrapped up in “immigration wrapping paper?” I have read about individuals with power and money who pick up young people and make them work to generate income for them. This human trafficking fiasco is making owners of detention centers very wealthy! Don’t you think the government had all those detention centers notified in advance to accept immigrants? Notice it is the very young refugees, who cannot speak for themselves, where the government took the least steps to document their identity. Will the government officials who implemented this human trafficking debacle be held accountable in a court of law?
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Many of the detention centers operate for profit and they are thrilled with the new load
One in Tacoma is paying migrants $1 a day for labor
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Some parents may have entrusted their children to someone in the hope that they would have a better future. The insistence on a biological connection is shortsighted.
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And what about the 2000 or so others ?
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Turns my stomach.
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This who situation is beyond horrific for parents, children and all of us who care about families and people who are just trying to do the best for their kids.
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What a bunch of evil amateurs running our government! I cannot even imagine how parents feel without their children.
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While Trump has a sick mind, there are those in his administration, who are behind this kidnapping. There is a need to is single them out so they can be harassed as kidnappers. Could State charges be applied?
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And this “uncovered news” is happening while we breathlessly watch Thai soccer players rescued from a cave…The media should follow this more closely and have some sort of countdown every night
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Collecting international children is an American hobby. It’s largely (but not exclusively) an evangelical thing – growing God’s army. After the Haitian earthquake a bunch of American missionary groups descended on Haiti and just started picking up random children to take home for adoption. Such exploitative practices are why so many countries have closed adoption to the U.S.
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CNN has a live protest from England on its site. How refreshing to read all of the anti-Trump posters. No wonder our Great Leader doesn’t like Britian…not all the people are worshiping him as they did in Saudi Arabia.
The “Trump Baby” protest balloon is flying high over Parliament.
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I don’t what to do but this is just madness. It is legalized kidnapping. Somebody needs to pay!
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Mary Horsley: I worry about the direction that the US is taking. Imagine how much worse it will become with the GOP continuing in power through gerrymandering, voter repression and conservatives on all levels of our justice system. Trump, with the help of his loyal followers, is destroying this country.
I lived in a third world country for two years. It wasn’t a bit fun. I felt like I was in the twilight zone and would never get out. The wealthy, when they control everything, do not care about anyone else.
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What I don’t understand is where ICE, DHS or ORR or whatever agency, derives its authority to determine who is a fit parent. First our government renders the kids unaccompanied, then claims extraordinary powers to keep them so.
I read about the case of a grandmother contacted by one of these agencies about a child in their care. They specified that the child would require a room of his own before he could be released to her custody. The woman moved out of her $400 a month one bedroom apartment and rented a $1200 a month two bedroom, which she will not be able to afford for long, such was her desperation to take custody of this child. None of my kids had rooms of their own for many years of their childhood and they suffered no long lasting trauma as a result. Me either, having no room of my own until I was in my twenties.
I know the ACLU has its hands full right now shaking these kids free, but it seems a challenge to these obstacles thrown up to prevent people from regaining their children could be challenged along these lines.
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Christine: My parents lived in a two bedroom house their whole lives. I slept in a second bedroom and my brother slept on a foldout couch in the living room. We survived.
I feel terrible about what is happening to not only the immigrants since their families are being torn apart but to workers [Janus], same sex marriages [will they survive a conservative court?], tax breaks for the wealthy [corporate power continues to dominate], the environment [who needs clean water, air or food that isn’t contaminated?], the demise of respect for government agencies such as the FBI and CIA, the lack of respect for journalists, the alienation and put down of our allies and the acceptance of Trump as a sexual predator.
I make comments on other news sites and sometimes get attacked for believing there is anything wrong with Trump. Anything against him is fake news. Trump verbally attacks British Prime Minister May and then says it is fake news that he attacked her. The guy is a complete looney.
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Just as sickening is how many people have no problem with what is happening at the border, not to mention the sycophants following orders in the courts and detention centers. We have lost our moral compass as a society…
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I’m sure our Agent Orange will say this is proof that Rosenstein needs to be fired and that all of our intelligence agencies now produce fake news. What will it take to bring down this IDIOT???????? Of course, Putin will once again say that Russia wasn’t involved and Trump will ‘believe’ him. How could Putin’s puppy not respond with complete loyalty?
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The New York Times
Breaking News Alert
July 13, 2018
BREAKING NEWS
Twelve Russian intelligence officers were charged in the hacking of Democrats’ emails, days before President Trump meets with Vladimir Putin
Friday, July 13, 2018 12:14 PM EST
Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, on Friday announced new charges against 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign. The announcement came just a few days before President Trump is expected to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Helsinki, Finland.
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Well, under Obama kids were put in foster care and some even put up for adoption. There’s an article making the rounds on FB of a Guatemalan mother losing the fight to get her kid back. It shows that no one reads stories, just headlines, because the article is from 2012
I’ve been posting articles about this topic for years, with no one paying attention. But change the actors and all of a sudden people give a damn.
Interesting.
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LaLaura: “But change the actors and all of a sudden people give a damn.”
This is a travesty against humanity no matter who is doing it. I know that Obama deported a lot of people and that disturbed me. If he was also infliction harm on children, please find an article and post it. Many unaccompanied children from S. America were put in foster homes. That was better than cages or prisons.
We know that hurting parents by taking away their children is a policy that Trump openly endorses. He has proven over and over again that he hates these people whom he has labeled “criminals”, “rapists” and “drug dealers”. He has even labeled children as criminals. This type of blatant discrimination is news and it has been brought out. Obama was never this sick.
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I think the difference is that Obama never boasted that it was great to separate children from their parents.
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While Obama separated families, he didn’t open up the door to a multi-billion dollar internment business being run by the private sector, under the auspices of ICE…
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This is sickening….”…growing effort to keep immigrant children in government custody”.
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Detaining Immigrant Kids Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry
By MARTHA MENDOZA AND LARRY FENN / AP July 13, 2018
(SAN ANTONIO) — Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds.Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained unaccompanied and separated children soared from $74.5 million in 2007 to $958 million in 2017. The agency is also reviewing a new round of proposals amid a growing effort by the White House to keep immigrant children in government custody.
Currently, more than 11,800 children, from a few months old to 17, are housed in nearly 90 facilities in 15 states — Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington…
http://time.com/5338098/family-separation-immigration-trump-billion-dollar-industry/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=social-button-sharing
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How do we stop those who worship at the altar of avarice? Is greed and how to make money no matter how much suffering they cause the only thing they value?
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This is very profitable for the corporations that own the detention facilities
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This is definitely Making America Great Again.
The British are showing more common sense than many Americans. How much longer to we have to put up with “Baby Trump”, the real bloated version. Their version was a big fat balloon with a cell phone and a diaper with one big pin.
We get the same version but one that watches Fox for his news and rules by Twitter.
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RollingStone : ICE Officers to Asylum Seekers: ‘Don’t You Know That We Hate You People?’
…Backstory: “I am afraid of returning to my country, because my cousin will kill me and my children. I caught him raping his step-daughter. He is a drug trafficker and he has killed more than 45 people. He told me, in writing with a note on my door, that he is going to dismember me. He has threatened my children as well. We had to flee….The police in my country cannot do anything to protect us.”
Testimony: “When I first spoke with ICE officers, they told us, ‘Why did you come from your country?’, ‘Don’t you know that we hate you people?’, ‘We don’t want you in our country.’
“My two children… fled with me and came in with me… They separated them from me, and they took me to court, where they condemned me as a criminal. No one asked me if I was afraid to return to my country or why I fled… There was no opportunity for me to say goodbye to my children. When I came back to the “dog kennel” (perrera), where we were being held, my boys weren’t there anymore… I didn’t know where they were…
“I am seeking refuge in the USA. We are being treated like criminals in chains and everything. I’m just seeking refuge.” …
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ice-officers-to-asylum-seekers-dont-you-know-that-we-hate-you-people-697727/
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I LOVE it!! The US doesn’t want him either. [You can watch NYT videos without being a paid subscriber.] We need more countries to speak out against this ignorant want-to-be-dictator.
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VideoVIDEO: Trump Blimp Floats in London
By MAEA LENEI BUHRE
The blimp is part of anti-Trump protests that have been organized across Britain for President Trump’s visit.
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Sickening. We are pariahs in the eyes of the world for our brutality. How sad that even if the child next to you was your brother or sister, you couldn’t touch him. Trump is the problem. How low can this country get? I detest him. He hates immigrants but loves Putin. What horror with the Orange Monster bring on the US next?
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Cleaning toilets, following rules: A migrant child’s days in detention
…Last week, in trying to comply with a court order, the government returned slightly more than half the 103 children under the age of 5 to their migrant parents.
But more than 2,800 children remain in these facilities, where the environments range from impersonally austere to nearly bucolic.
Some elements of these detention centers seem universally shared, whether they are in northern Illinois or South Texas. The multiple rules. The wake-up calls and the lights-out calls. The several hours of schooling every day.
Most of all, these facilities are united by a collective sense of aching uncertainty — scores of children gathered under a roof who have no idea when they will see their parents again.
Diego Magalhães, a Brazilian boy, spent 43 days in a Chicago facility after being separated from his mother, Sirley Paixao, when they crossed the border in late May. He did not cry, just as he had promised her when they parted. He was proud of this. He is 10.
He spent the first night on the floor of a processing center with other children, then boarded an airplane the next day. “I thought they were taking me to see my mother,” he said. He was wrong.
Once in Chicago, he was handed new clothes that he likened to a uniform: shirts, two pairs of shorts, a sweatsuit, boxers and some items for hygiene. He was then assigned to a room with three other boys, including Diogo, 9, and Leonardo, 10, both from Brazil.
The three became fast friends, going to class together, playing lots of soccer and earning “big brother” status for being good role models for younger children. They were rewarded the privilege of playing video games.
There were rules. You couldn’t touch others. You couldn’t run. You had to wake up at 6:30 on weekdays, with the staff making banging noises until you got out of bed…
https://shar.es/a1bkrH
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