The United States is facing a national emergency of unprecedented intensity at our Southern border. Armed thugs have murdered families, brutalized hundreds, and kidnapped and stolen children. They are not criminals from the drug cartels. They are the minions of Resident Donald Trump and the Republican Reich. They have locked thousands of children in hot desert cages, and even though the courts have ruled against them, their abuses continue.
Nearly nine months after the Trump administration officially rescinded its policy of separating migrant families who have illegally crossed the border, more than 200 migrant children have been taken from parents and other relatives and placed in institutional care, with some spending months in shelters and foster homes thousands of miles away from their parents.
The latest data reported to the federal judge monitoring one of the most controversial of President Trump’s immigration policies shows that 245 children have been removed from their families since the court ordered the government to halt routine separations under last spring’s “zero tolerance” border enforcement policy. Some of the new separations are being undertaken with no clear documentation to help track the children’s whereabouts.
Images of crying mothers and children at the border last year prompted an intense backlash across party lines, with all four living former first ladies and Melania Trump expressing horror at the policy. But despite President Trump’s June 20 executive order rescinding it, the practice was never completely suspended…. [emphasis added]
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Yesterday the House bill to rescind Trump’s bogus emergency was rescinded.
We’re still seven short of an override of the coming veto.
Nobody understands the real emergency better than Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]
Oregon leads the way! We need to keep their plight on the front burner.
RESIST!!
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15,000 children in child prisons!! ugh! Our 1st national emergency is this ID in the WH, and his cronies!!
Get him OUT!
Our so-called representatives in government want to protect fetuses up to the moment of birth, but don’t give a rat’s arse about children who have already been born. If they’re the wrong color or nationality – yank ’em away from their mammas and lock ’em in dog kennels!
Did Tillis shoot himself in the foot? He’s a GOPIGGER, in N.C….I doubt he will loose. Let’s see what happens with the 9th district election, as a possible indicator. Still, one never knows, do one?
I believe that the GOPIGGIES are, once again, if not just about always, on the wrong side of history. They are interested in nought but remaining in power, regardless of the effect on the society as a whole, the very society that gave them such a plush life style.
You never know Mitch. We can hope that when Trump campaigns for him, and you know he will unless the Reich, fools that they are, choose another candidate, the people remember all his bullshit lying etc. I am so trying to hold onto some hope.
Thank goodness for Sen. Merkley. We would have never found out how dire this situation was and still is without him being the first government official to try to get the facts and he is still working his tail off to keep the facts coming. We need 534 more representatives like him.
We have some – but we don’t have all that we need – and you know the only way THAT gets done, so I won’t belabor it.
Thanks. I already have to both.
Off topic, but another project of Senator Merkley –
To sign on as a citizen co-sponsor to Senator Merkley’s SR11 opposing going into war in Venezuela
Earlier today, I listened to some of the testimony of Kirstjen Nielsen before the Homeland Security congressional committee. She doesn’t call the cages in your picture “cages”. Then what the hell are they? The kids are locked in a chain link fence. She said improvements have been made — there is a bench and a port-a-potty in each cage. This is absolutely disgusting! Further, as noted in Jeff’s video, kids are walked from place to place in lines with a guard at the beginning of the line and one at the end. She has previously noted that there was no policy on family separation, yet the chairman obtained an official copy DHS policy on it. Nielsen lied about it as we know. In addition, “Some of the new separations are being undertaken with no clear documentation to help track the children’s whereabouts.” Obviously, the Reich does not give a rat’s ass about these families and other migrants.
I think it was in another video that Texas Democratic Congressman Al Green quoted “The Colossus” and then went into a brief bit about immigration. As he noted, Al Capone came to the US and became a mobster and killer. Is he so different than the migrants crossing the southern border? Green was spot on!
Boy, Jeff sure does ramp up his advocacy! He definitely is a gem!
BTW, IMO, the real national emergency are the terrorists in the US federal government — the Republican Reich and their Fuhrer, Drumpfenfarten.
This is awful Treatment for these young children. It would be different if it was their won kids.
When I think how it may affect them all of their lives, Trumpy, and his crew should be locked up in there too!
Truly despicable what this idiot in the W. H. keeps causing. Torturing these innocent children and their parents. He is a heartless bas*ard that needs someone to knock some sort of sense into his brainless mind.
Signed the petition Joanne listed.
Framing this block in such a way that it had to come to a vote and Republicans were forced to show their hand was a brilliant move by the Democrats (a Pelosi plan, I believe?), but even with 12 Republicans stepping across the isle, everyone knew that Drumpf would veto it immediately, as he did, and that it’s very unlikely they’ll have 2/3 of the vote to undo his veto. But the message is clear.
However, in all the melee around the National Emergency, most tended to forget that not all children taken from their parents before the judge ordered against it, have been returned to their parents, and that, even worse, children are still being separated from their parent(s) and put in cages. So what is this judge going to do about Drumpf and his minions knowingly breaking the law and ignoring the court’s order?
It’s all part of the same strategy: wreak so much havoc that opponents no longer know what to act on next and have them completely exhausted morally and physically by running after the facts and not being able to change much. Thank goodness for people like Merkley, who stay put, i.e. not run for president and continue their fight for justice against the Drumpf regime and keep reminding the world of the dreadful things still happening in Drumpf’s name.
Thanks, hugs, and Amen to all!