Forced assimilation (forced pledge in English) to a country which treats these kids like criminals

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...and regularly disparages their own.

Jamil Smith @JamilSmith
Incarcerated immigrant children are being forced to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, in English, to a country that separated them from their parents. One employee told @washingtonpost, "We tell them, 'It's out of respect.'" That's just the start. https://t.co/9tcPY0Merf

__The children have been through hell. They are babies who were carried across rivers and toddlers who rode for hours in trucks and buses and older kids who were told that a better place was just beyond the horizon.

And now they live and wait in unfamiliar places: big American suburban houses where no one speaks their language; a locked shelter on a dusty road where they spend little time outside; a converted Walmart where each morning they are required to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, in English, to the country that holds them apart from their parents.

Why must they say those words, some of the children ask at the shelter in Brownsville, on the Mexican border in Texas?

“We tell them, ‘It’s out of respect,’?” said one employee of the facility, known as Casa Padre, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing their job.

U.S. authorities are compiling mug shots of the children in detention. Immigration lawyers who have seen the pictures say some of them show children in tears.

read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/separated-immigrant-children-are-all-over-the-us-now-far-from-parents-who-dont-know-where-they-are/2018/06/24/c9bc5ba6-7568-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html

[secondwind]

1. Oh. My. God. What have we wrought?

[Trek4Truth]

5. I'm not saying we anymore...it's them and they....I have nothing to do with this horror. nt

[tanyev]

2. Yes, reciting those magic words will turn those children into good little hostages.

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10. Juramento a la bandera de Mexico (Pledge to the Mexican flag)

¡Bandera de México!, | Flag of Mexico
legado de nuestros héroes | Legacy of our heroes
símbolo de la unidad | Symbol of the unity
de nuestros padres | of our fathers (or parents)
y de nuestros hermanos, | and of our brothers,
te prometemos ser siempre fieles | We promise you be faithful
a los principios de libertad y justicia | to the principles of liberty and justice
que hacen de nuestra Patria | that make our homeland
la nación independiente, | an independent country
humana y generosa | humane and generous
a la que entregamos nuestra existencia. | to which we devote our lives.

[bdamomma]

3. How is this any different

what we did during the slave trade?

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11. that, or assimilation of Indian children

____By 1902 there were twenty-five federally funded non-reservation schools across fifteen states and territories with a total enrollment of over 6,000. Although federal legislation made education compulsory for Native Americans, removing students from reservations required parental authorization. Officials coerced parents into releasing a quota of students from any given reservation.

Once the new students arrived at the boarding schools, their lives altered drastically. They were usually given new haircuts, uniforms of European-American style clothes, and even new English names, sometimes based on their own, other times assigned at random. They could no longer speak their own languages, even with each other. They were expected to attend Christian churches. Their lives were run by the strict orders of their teachers, and it often included grueling chores and stiff punishments.

An Indian boarding school was one of many schools that were established in the United States during the late 19th century to educate Native American youths according to American standards. In some areas, these schools were primarily run by missionaries. Especially given the young age of some of the children sent to the schools, they have been documented as traumatic experiences for many of the children who attended them. They were generally forbidden to speak their native languages, taught Christianity instead of their native religions, and in numerous other ways forced to abandon their Indian identity and adopt American culture. Many cases of mental and sexual abuse have been documented, as in North Dakota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assimilation_of_Native_Americans#cite_note-perdue-3

[Blues Heron]

4. Sickening

[Trek4Truth]

6. WTF have they become...truth is they were always this way. This will DESTROY him. nt

[RKP5637]

7. Yeah, welcome to America, let us destroy you and thank us. One nation under Rump. n/t

[ragemage]

8. This admin is following a playbook on how to turn people against your country

So it seems this admin is following a playbook on how to turn people against your country. What better way to take impressionable young minds and turn them against you? Reach our border, be forcibly separated from your parents and guardians, trucked hundreds of miles away into what resembles a prison, given very little information, surrounded by armed guards 24/7. Propaganda shoved down your throats every day. We don't even know how bad it really is yet. Wait until those stories/pictures come out (anyone remember Abu Ghraib in Iraq?)

These are not detention centers, they are forced indoctrination camps, with a side of torture/hopelessness/despair thrown in for good measure.

We are going to turn them into good little terrorists and gang members, turning them into the exact opposite of what this admin was intending. These poor kids will be scarred for life and grow up hating and resenting the US. Some will seek out revenge in the future.
Can you blame them?

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9. kick