Torn from immigrant parents, 8-month-old baby lands in Michigan
Source: Detroit Free Press
Four days ago, a Homeland Security official proclaimed: We are not separating babies from parents.
Yet in the middle of the night, two baby boys arrived in Grand Rapids after being separated from their immigrant parents at the southern border weeks ago.
One child is 8 months old; the other is 11 months old. Both children have become part of a bigger group of 50 immigrant children who have landed in foster care in western Michigan under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance border policy.
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According to Mills, some of these displaced children got picked up right at the airport by a foster family, while others wound up at a foster care center, begging to talk to their parents. Many have gone 30 days or more without talking to their parents because their parents can't be located, she said.
Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/06/20/baby-boys-separated-immigrant-parents-michigan/714527002/
SamKnause
(13,101 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Lock them up. Throw them in Gitmo. Throw away the key.
riversedge
(70,204 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)dhill926
(16,337 posts)AllyCat
(16,184 posts)How can anyone do this?
tblue37
(65,340 posts)Hekate
(90,673 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)FUBAR. I think of the early genocide of the First-American nations by white americans and how some of the children from their decimated nations were given to white families to raise.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)Sorry, gallows humor.
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)The DeVos family owns Grand Rapids. Coincidence? I think not. They're probably profiting off of this somehow. Scum like DeVos and Trump usually stick together.
dawnie51
(959 posts)who can be raised without any memory. Child labor for the older ones? I never thought to see this shit in my own country
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)... through a for-profit Christian adoption agency, to born-again parents.
I see Betsy DeVos' hand in this.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Trump people who instigated this should be prosecuted.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)does it make no difference.
I smell an opportunity for a federal study grant here.
Unless, of course, Dr Mengele has already documented his findings on the subject.
I think Mr Godwin just checked in on this thread
yurbud
(39,405 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)Dr Mengele, a "physician" at Auschwitz, conducted many inhumane experiments on (mostly Jewish) prisoners. Patient survival was not a priority.
Under Trump, the survival of immigrants is not a priority.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)was when I asked him when Trump had EVER done anything for anyone other than himself.
There is no honest answer other than never.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)progree
(10,904 posts)United {1}, American Airlines {2}, and Frontier Airlines {3} have said they will not knowingly fly immigrant children that have been taken from their parents, or words to that effect (some argue that some of the statements aren't quite that strong)
{1} https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210762128
{2} https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210761997
{3} https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210762428
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Is the rethug governor that spineless? How about Alaska? That's even farther away.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)raise them to be little warriors for Christ. These shelters are run by Evangelicals.
Most likely, they will never see their families again.
Afromania
(2,768 posts)Ring.. Who are these foster families they have lined up to take these kids? What their relation to to this whole thing? Sending these kids all over damn place in secret and telling us they don't know where they are. They aregoddamn child traffickers in the truest sense of the term. Rip these kids from their parents to give the to who the fuck ever?!?! Trump his people and his supporters are evil, this shit is base level evil.