Try to imagine yourself as a refugee parent. ICE has ripped your young child from your arms. You heard him screaming as they took him away. Finally you learn that the US government has promised to reunify families, and you desperately wait to get your son back. Then the government gives your son to a US family and deports you to your home country. Can you imagine how you would feel? What kind of people actually do such things?
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said Friday that Trump administration officials have told him and his staff that they view placing separated migrant children in foster care as an equivalent to reuniting them with their families.
“The secretary told us on a conference call they do not have an intention to reunify these children with their parents,” Inslee said on MSNBC’s “All in With Chris Hayes,” appearing to refer to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
“They’re going to call it good if they can find anybody else who can serve as a foster parent or anybody else who can serve as familial relationship, and these kids don’t even know these strangers,” he continued.
Inslee claimed that the Trump administration doesn’t plan on complying with a court order requiring that officials reunify all of the immigrant children separated from their families at the border under a since-ended Trump policy.
“It’s clear they do not intend to be humane and it’s clear they will continue on this course until he is removed from office,” the governor said, referring to Trump.
Inslee and five other Democratic governors signed a letter Friday to Trump officials, saying they were “deeply concerned that wholly inadequate resources and procedures are in place to ensure children and parents are reunified safely and securely.”
The letter also states that during a June 29 meeting with governors’ offices, administration representatives “shared that reunification may include the placement of separate children with any long-term sponsor,” including long-term foster care.
“If true, this interpretation appears to blatantly ignore the terms of the court order,” the letter reads.
Democratic Govs. Andrew Cuomo (New York), Dannel Malloy (Connecticut), Tom Wolf (Pennsylvania), Phil Murphy (New Jersey) and Kate Brown (Oregon) also signed the letter…. [emphasis added]
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Here is Chris Hayes as he interviewed Jay Inslee (D).
I asked what kind of people actually do such things. Only one kind could be so vile: Republicans.
RESIST!!
VOTE BLUE!!
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I’m speechless.
On the other hand, we knew this would happen when they started the separation in the first place, particularly since they made NO RECORDS of who was sent where with whom. I fear that no matter how hard we work, we can never reunite all of them and some will be impossible – like the father who killed himself after his kids were taken. We must reunite as many as possible anyway, of course. We must reunite every family we can find out about.
Someone somewhere commented that Republicans have blood on their hands. Someone else responded, “Only until they lick it off.” Yeah. Vampires.
“Depth of Depravity” is what this IS, every day that this goes on….impeach this basturd!
No words,…my gawd, this is absolutely heartbreaking.
VOTE BLUE!!
Twitler’s “Zero Tolerance Policy” is a soulless policy created by a soulless person and ignored by soulless republicans in Congress.
What else did we expect? Kindness?!? Caring?!? Compassion?!?
May they rot in Hell!
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
The lengths of depravity that the GOPIGS, and their Fuhrer will go to in order to play up to the lowest and worst instincts of what some will still call Americans’ is endless! We are creating enemies, and are selling our supposedly cherished Judeo-Christian values down the tubes…fast!
We have been crating enemies with, among other things, our immigration policies for decades: MS-13, ISIS, drug cartels who feed put wish to poison ourselves, and all along the Military-Industrial Complex makes money hand over fist with our perpetual state of war!
No surprise the tRump propaganda machine is cranking out the B.S. as fast as they can.
I share everyone’s sheer and utter disgust in the way that trump is handling this one. But could we have expected anything more from this pile of orange crap? He never intended for these kids to ever see their parents again! That’s why he did this!!
Hello, TC. I have been out of pocket for a while. Send me a message if there is anything I need to do on FF. I’m in and out, but I do check messages. Later, Viv.
I am just seething about this! I will use Peter Navarro’s words . . . There is a special place in hell for the likes of Drumpf, his administration and Republicans. What they are doing, or are complicit in doing is absolutely unconscionable and the height of depravity.
Law and order??? Human Rights??? Rights of the Children??? . . . my ass!!! With Drumpf at the helm, the US should be bounced out of the G7 and should lose the seat on the UN Security Council and with it, its veto power.
The diabolical military juntas of Argentine and Chile did this in the 70s and 80s on; they had the children of their leftist enemies, which they jailed, tortured and “disappeared”, adopted by junta members. Both regimes were endorsed by the US despite it’s knowledge of the atrocities perpetrated by both regimes if not actually aided. Members of both junta’s have been convicted for crimes against humanity since then.
The situation in South America then isn’t exactly the same as in the US now, but unless the American people really unite and take to the streets to protest by the millions, things will continue to deteriorate. It’s not enough to pin all hope on the November elections; more than 2000 children will have disappeared into the system by then.
“What kind of people actually do such things?”
People with an abundance of APATHY or another word for them is SOCIOPATHS!!!!
Thanks and heated hugs! ?