0% of Senate Republicans have joined the 100% of Senate Democrats who have signed onto the bill to end this policy, but the New York Times considers it bipartisanship because of some tweets.
This is incredibly difficult to look at. I fear this will continue and he will commit even worse crimes against humanity. I believe the UN is sitting on June 27 to discuss the humanitarian aspects of Trumps decisions here.
Glad to see major network coverage of this
So sorry that this isnt snakes but… wow.
The quotes with his face are in Spanish as well as English. This is a reeducation center.
Remove children from parental influence, hold them long enough for them to captor-bond for survival, surround them with a new ideology 24/7. The youngest ones become blank slates, and the older ones wear down and adapt just to belong.
The next step would be to with hold all contact from their parents indefinitely. You could then punish them for speaking or learning their native tongue, and teach them domestic and hard labor skills and “employ” them outside of the camps to [insert synonym for “it builds character” here]. Since they aren’t actually citizens, minimum wage and labor laws don’t apply to them.
Ask the Native Americans and Austriallian Aboriginals how well this system works.
Here’s a call script for your Senators and/or representatives – scroll down to “Tell your members of Congress: Condemn the Trump administration’s separation of families.” This is especially important if you live in a red state.Trump is trying to claim that the separation of families is due to a “law” enacted by Democrats – there is no such law. This is a Trump administration policy. It’s important for Republicans to know we don’t believe his lies, and that we know exactly who is responsible for this. Calling Democratic members of Congress helps, too – even if they already support keeping families together at the border, it will help to continue to encourage them to take action.
One thing to add. Find out if your representative has children or grandchildren and ask,them how they would feel if it happened to them. Play to empathy
This thread contains an amazing list of concrete ways to help fight the appalling ways that our immigrants and their children are being treated. Please donate, call, and spread this info!
By the way, the OP of that thread made a new one today and it is here.
OK, so, I have been thinking about what can be done, and here are a few things.
1) Contact your Congressional representatives and let them know that this is an important issue for you. Tell them how you feel about this human rights violation in which our entire federal government is now complicit. Ask them to support legislation that will make the separation of families at the border illegal.
2) While you are on the phone, ask them whether any of these immigrants, adults or children, are being processed through holding facilities in your state/district. Not all of this is going on at the border. Some of the media attention to this is coming from Seattle, where hundreds of detainees are being sent from the border to SeaTac Federal Detention Center. Totally foreseeably, Buttercup’s enthusiasm for the mass detention and punishment of immigrants and asylum seekers has overloaded the existing system, and these people are not only being separated from their children but shipped to detention facilities all over the country.
3) If they say they don’t know, ask them to find out and to send you an email with the information.
4) If you find out that your state/district has one of these facilities in your backyard, contact your local Indivisible chapter or whatever organization you normally work with and start organizing. Ask your representative to visit it. Hold a demonstration outside it. Inform people in your region of its existence. Whatever. Be one of the people who makes this a headache.
5) Are you a person of faith? Have you contacted your faith community about this? What are they organizing? If they are not doing organizing, why not?
6) While you’re at it, you may want to write in to the Washington Post and tell them that their story on Casa Padre should have read a little less like a puff piece in a travel industry magazine. Totally driven by the owners, who are allowed to control the narrative and provide most of the information; features a photo of a large game room where “Children can play pool and foosball.” Yes…I note that in your photo, exactly NO children are actually playing with this equipment. Is that because you have 1400 kids in that facility and 10 foosball tables? ASK THEM ABOUt WHAT THEY ARE NOT SHOWING YOU.
If you need help and/or want to help others, head to Informed Immigrant to find organizations near you working to support undocumented immigrants.
Check out Celeste Pewter’s twitter for up-to-date call scripts and resources for contacting your reps and fighting for human rights:
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