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Related: About this forumRachael Maddow breaks down upon learning trump is imprisoning thousands of little babies
Rhiannon12866
(205,166 posts)The Associated Press broke a story this evening that President Donald Trumps administration has been sending babies to at least three tender age shelters in south Texas. The story and images were so powerful that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow couldnt read it and simply broke down.
Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis, the AP reported.
Sorry, Maddow said several times. Can we put up the graphic? No. We dont have it.
After many pauses, Maddow said that shed just have to hand it off to her colleague Lawrence ODonnell.
The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it, Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, told the AP. Her organization gives foster care and child welfare to migrant children. Toddlers are being detained.
More: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/rachel-maddow-breaks-tears-reading-breaking-news-trump-administration-sending-babies-shelters/
Moostache
(9,895 posts)The monstrosity of this policy is beyond comprehension. it is literally the most evil thing I have ever seen being openly done by my government in my name including the wars of choice in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those atrocities were amoral and crimes against humanity, but at least the Marines in Fallujah were not grabbing hostages and air lifting out children of combatants and sticking them in desert camps...