Taking 2000 Children From Parents at the Border In 6 Weeks Is Immoral. Here’s What We Can Do About It

feeling rebloggy

 It may be hard to believe that this is happening in the United States in 2018, that hundreds of children are being snatched from their parents, frequently under false pretenses, often screaming, and placed in vast warehouselike centers like the former Walmart in Brownsville, Tex., where nearly 1,500 boys now spend their days. The parents often don’t know where their children are, or when they will see them again.

In 2014 the Obama administration detained hundreds of families and unaccompanied minors crossing the border, a practice that the federal courts quickly curtailed. But separating families as a matter of unofficial policy is something new and malicious, a function of President Trump’s [ethnoracist] obsession with undocumented immigrants. 

This spring, the administration ordered that everyone caught crossing illegally into the United States be prosecuted. And since children cannot accompany grown-ups to jail, people who had crossed illegally with children had their children taken away. Hundreds upon hundreds of children, of all ages, creating a new industry in mass shelters...

~NY TIMES

READ MORE:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/children-parents-asylum-immigration.html

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17443198/children-immigrant-families-separated-parents

• VOTE IN YOUR PRIMARIES. Put these spiritually bankrupt republicans and useless democrats out on the street. Take away their jobs. Furthermore, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT ELSE YOU CAN GET DONE during primary-season (like get rid of an internationally known rape culture endorsing judge)
• CALL CONGRESS (Use your zip code+ to find your congressmen here:  https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members )
• DONATE - KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE (from NY TIMES ARTICLE)
• https://supportkind.org/resources/how-you-can-help-end-family-separation-and-ensure-protection-for-children/
• PROTEST - PEOPLE TOOK TO THE STREETS IN A NATIONWIDE THIS PAST THURSDAY. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE NEXT ONE.
• VOTE THIS NOVEMBER

We need to do all of these things for BROWN & BLACK MIGRANTS and ASYLUM SEEKERS and also for BLACK LIVES MATTER, NATIVE LIVES MATTER ETC.  

It's ALL HANDS ON DECK TIME 

If we do not hang together,

WE WILL hang separately

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