2 week period, over 600 kids separated from parents - saw live on MSNBC but over now.

[Solly Mack]

This happened recently - this year. Over 600 in 2 weeks. In one 2 week period - over 600 kids removed from their parents.

Michelle Brane - with the Women's Refugee Commission.

Michelle Brané is one of the nation’s foremost experts on U.S. immigration detention and reform. As the Director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women’s Refugee Commission, she advocates for the critical protection needs of immigrant women, children and other vulnerable migrant populations in the United States.

Ms. Brane said this is directly tied to Trump/Sessions policy and actions.

[Pachamama]

1. Of all the sick horrible things that Trump has done, this is possibly the worst of all

Trump has no soul and this is the sickest and cruelest thing he has done so far...

I am so angry and appalled about this and this needs to be stopped immediately

Those poor children are being traumatized and will be for life and we are all complicit if we don’t stop this...

[lame54]

3. I picture Stephen Miller whispering in Trump's ear

[olegramps]

23. I picture Satan during the whispering.

[Solly Mack]

7. States lose children in the supposedly regulated foster system as it is, and it can only be worse

in a cruel system pushed and rushed - especially under an administration that hates regulations of any sort. Absolutely no accountability.

There is no excuse for not knowing exactly where those children are right now.

They released them to someone - they should know exactly who they released them to and all the info on the home/family location.

And if the child isn't where the child is supposed to be, then investigate - don't just say we don't know.

It feels as if we're being told - oh well, shit happens and that it's a low number, so it's not that bad.

One child missing is too many.

[lapfog_1]

10. There are already rumors that some of these children were given to people who traffic children

yet to be proven if they are being sold into sex slavery or to potential adopters here in the US (either is possible in the child trade depending on the age of the child).

If true, I hope these assholes like Miller who are behind this cruel police rot in hell for all eternity. And I don't believe in hell.

[Solly Mack]

13. I'd hope there would be investigations and charges.

But, well, I don't know if there will be.

[Delmette2.0]

2. An what happens to these children?

Where do they go, licensed foster homes? Not likely. We don't have enough of those for our own children, you know the white citizens who abuse and neglect their own children. we have a drastic lack of good foster homes for abused and endangered children let alone taking them away from loving caring parents who are just trying to make them safer.

[Solly Mack]

4. I read an article yesterday where the person they quoted said that due to the

ramped up policy that an already overburdened system with problems has become ripe for more and more abuses and that it will only get worse.

[Delmette2.0]

5. I just want to.cry for the children. nt

[bronxiteforever]

6. K & R for visibility Sick, evil, disgusting you can

Never run out of words to describe this.

[Solly Mack]

8. The government owes those children. Owes their parents.

The government placed those kids somewhere - so where are they?

Though, honestly, you can't trust Trump to ever do the right thing and being found, if they are OK, could make their lives worse.

It's a horrible situation.

[suffragette]

9. John Kelly called it "a deterrent" and "foster care or whatever" in an interview with NPR

Yes, this is policy now. It is appalling.

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610116389/transcript-white-house-chief-of-staff-john-kellys-interview-with-nprFamily separation stands as a pretty tough deterrent.

Transcript: White House Chief Of Staff John Kelly's Interview With NPR

May 11, 201811:36 AM ET

Family separation stands as a pretty tough deterrent.
It could be a tough deterrent — would be a tough deterrent. A much faster turnaround on asylum seekers.

Even though people say that's cruel and heartless to take a mother away from her children?

I wouldn't put it quite that way. The children will be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever. But the big point is they elected to come illegally into the United States and this is a technique that no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long.

Edit to add

Kelly also spoke about initiating this last year, then backed off after pressure and assured Democrats in Congress that they would not do this.

Kelly says DHS won't separate families at the border

https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/politics/border-families-separation-kelly/index.html

Washington (CNN)US Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly on Wednesday assured Senate Democrats he doesn't intend to separate mothers and children at the border -- apparently walking back an earlier statement he made that such a policy could deter people from entering the country illegally.

[Solly Mack]

11. And there are already missing children - it will only get worse.

I don't care how small the number is comparatively - there are missing children. And they are missing because of the actions/inactions of our government/government agencies.

Sadly - I said earlier - we can't trust Trump/Sessions to be decent, to be helpful.

So more children go missing and they simply won't do anything about it. Well, if they did, it would certainly be the cruelest option.

A couple got deported at separate times - first the mother and then the father - and the US couldn't/wouldn't tell them where their child was located..the father was told that his child was "Somewhere in Texas".

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Immigrant-families-separated-at-border-struggle-12938759.php

[suffragette]

14. Yes, it will get worse. Heads up that I updated my post with info from Kelly proposing this in 2017,

then backing off under pressure and assuring Senate Democrats that they weren’t planning on doing this.

Heartless liars.

Fuck him and his effing “whatever.”

[Solly Mack]

15. They don't care.

It's that simple. That cut throat.

The children are pawns in Trump's game.

[icymist]

12. K & R

[onecent]

16. Someone on the tv told us to tell our congressman....So I am in Missouri, does this

mean I alert a senator, governor...who do I contact. If someone knows please tell me. Thanks

[Solly Mack]

18. Write both your Senators and Representatives.

I don't know if it will help but your voice will be added to the numbers outraged.

Claire McCaskill (D) is working on the issue already.


Roy Blunt (R) is your other Senator.

[onecent]

36. Thank you for that, I will write both of them.

[Demovictory9]

17. wow. unreal

[icymist]

19. Here's a video of Sessions announcing this policy in San Diego.

Notice the happy, almost giddy grin he has. He's trying hard not to show it, but he is really loving doing this. The most blatant picture I have seen of him announcing this was in Scottsdale AZ, giving two thumbs up and actually laughing! I can only find the Scottsdale speech in RW news that wants me to unblock my app so they can track my movements so I won't link that here.

This is the policy of cruelty. This is what the GOP is all about.

[Solly Mack]

20. Thanks, icymist. Sessions is one sick person.

[yallerdawg]

21. A policy deterrent to seeking refuge here and humanitarian aide from America.

This is not any kind of America I ever lived in before.

[HenryWallace]

25. Well unfortunately....

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[yallerdawg]

29. Reveling in the possibility of this occuring...

as a matter of policy - rather than not caring to do one's job - is completely different.

I'm pretty sure it has never been our policy to place children with human traffickers - but the present policy as outlined by Sessions and company would increase the likelihood astronomically as a deliberative process initiated from the very top!

It will be much "more than a dozen" if this continues.

[HenryWallace]

41. The issue is a humane and sane immigration policy...

That these problems have been a reality for over half a decade, makes it a non-partisan issue; but no less an issue.

To suddenly discover the problem because the Reprobate-in-Chief openly embraces the policy smacks of hypocrisy (and, in fact, reduces the probability to effect meaningful change by reducing it to a partisan issue).

PS: And no, the same policy and the same outcomes are not “completely different.”

[DesertRat]

22. k&r

[lunatica]

24. And they say it could never happen here

[Solly Mack]

27. Yeah. Some do say that.

That, somehow, all the ugly in America can't coalesce under some slogan/cause or person and commit gross abuses and atrocities.

Never mind our government committed torture/war crimes in the name of Bush for the cause/slogan of the "war on terror" in the interest of "national security".

But I'm sure I digress and the two - hatred/abuse of immigrants and torturing brown people have nothing in common.

[HenryWallace]

26. Its time to take a stance...

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[Solly Mack]

28. Excellent idea! Write, call - demand.

[world wide wally]

30. Fuck this pig and the 60 million little pigs he rode in on.

I'm NOT being nice to them anymore.
Fucking pigs!

(apologies to real pigs everywhere)

[Solly Mack]

33. They don't care. Not about other people and not about what others think of them.

Sessions, especially, takes pleasure in it.

Trump doesn't care who suffers as long as he gets his way.

[world wide wally]

34. Good,

Then since nobody minds, they are worthless, inbred, fucking idiot vermin.
All of them.

[Solly Mack]

35. Piss poor excuses for humans.

Yet they want respect for their ignorance and hate.

[CrispyQ]

31. This Chris Hayes interview with someone from the ACLU, & someone from Arizona state,

involved in immigration for over 10 years, is sickening. There are a few times you can see how angry Chris is that this is going on.

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-administration-separating-parents-and-children-at-border-1242280003606

Our country has been hijacked by people who have no humanity & that Trump's numbers aren't hovering around 10 instead of 35 says a lot about America, like it or not. I have family that still supports this vile man. WTF?

[Solly Mack]

32. Thanks, CrispyQ

It is sickening.

To punish you we're going to take your children and if we lose them...whatever.

[greatauntoftriplets]

37. We now have no leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing groups like Boko Haram.

And yet, he has the gall to blame this on President Obama. These poor children. This is a crime.

[Solly Mack]

38. He's the rapist who rapes the woman then blames her for not stopping him.

[trueblue2007]

39. CHARGE THEM ALL WITH CHILD TRAFFICING

[Solly Mack]

40. I'm OK with charging them with whatever crime or abuse they've committed.