"This isn't Nazi Germany"

The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday said President Trump's “zero tolerance” policy separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border “amounts to child abuse.”

  The Hill

It surely does. I've been using the label "child abuse" on all my posts about this horror.

“I can’t describe to you the room I was in with the toddlers,” [Dr. Colleen] Kraft said. “Normally toddlers are rambunctious and running around. We had one child just screaming and crying, and the others were really silent. And this is not normal activity or brain development with these children.”

Kraft added that the emotional strain the children in these facilities are under produces a condition called “toxic stress” and that it inhibits the development of their brains.

“It disrupts their brain architecture and keeps them from developing language and social, emotional bonds, and gross motor skills, and the development that they could possibly have,” she said.

Kraft stated that Trump’s policy amounts to “government-sanctioned child abuse.”

It seems a lot of us in the nation are ok with that.

[Attorney General Jeff] Sessions appeared on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” amid a growing uproar over the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy to combat illegal immigration. As part of the policy, thousands of migrant children have been separated from their parents.

Ingraham noted that some opponents have compared the practice to "concentration camps," while others have condemned it as a human rights violation.

“Well it’s a real exaggeration. Of course in Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country,” Sessions said.

  The Hill

What does he think the cages are doing? He should have said, "At least we're not going to put them in ovens."

“This is a serious matter,” he continued. “We need to think it through, be rational and thoughtful about it. We want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it but people who want economic migration for their personal financial benefit and what they think is their family’s benefit is not a basis for a claim of asylum.”

If they're merely starving or unable to house their kids or just give their kids a chance at a better life, they can fuck off. We'll take those kids away from them; then they'll realize how good they've got it in those shithole countries they're from. In the meantime, everybody's kids go to concentration camps. If you don't like it, don't come here.

I think that's a pretty good reading of Sessions' attitude. The POS has no heart, and his brain is as shriveled as his body.

On Monday, he reiterated his argument that prosecuting anyone who crosses the border illegally can serve as a deterrent against illegal immigration.

"Hopefully people will get the message ... and not [come] across the border unlawfully," Sessions said.

They will if they can't get across lawfully, which so many can't. And, that still doesn't address the monstrous policy of separating them from their children; torturing children to deter immigration.

Asked for clarification on Sessions's comments, a Department of Justice spokeswoman told The Hill that "the Nazi comparisons that others are making" were just a "desperate attempt to distract from the fact that their policies led to the number of families illegally crossing the border jumping five-fold over the last four years.”

Could be. Policies like invasion, economic sanctions, destabilization.

Now, look what you've made us do...increase drone strikes, increase sanctions and tariffs, turn our backs on our neighbors, and throw children into "summer camps". Do I have that right?

[Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen] Nielsen argued her department was merely enforcing the laws on the books, adding that "Congress alone" could put a stop to the policy.

They're going to pound that lie into the ground.

Earlier Monday, [...] Nielsen rebuked a reporter who asked if separating families was intended to "send a message."

"I find that offensive. Why would I ever create a policy that purposely does that?" she responded. 

May I refer you to Jeff Sessions?

More than 600 members of the United Methodist Church signed onto a letter Monday condemning Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant parents and children at the U.S. border.

In the letter, the group of churchgoers, including clergy and church leadership, accuse Sessions of child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of the doctrine of the United Methodist Church.

They note in the letter that Sessions is a member of Ashland Place United Methodist Church, in Mobile, Ala.

  The Hill

Shame the Mobile church while you're at it, eh?

"While other individuals and areas of the federal government are implicated in each of these examples, Mr. Sessions - as a long-term United Methodist in a tremendously powerful, public position - is particularly accountable to us, his church," the letter reads. "He is ours, and we are his. As his denomination, we have an ethical obligation to speak boldly when one of our members is engaged in causing significant harm in matters contrary to the Discipline on the global stage."

Maybe take a page from the Catholics: excommunicate him.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) blasted the Trump administration over family separations late Monday, saying the U.S. is not Nazi Germany.

  The Hill

Give us a couple of months. We're working on it.

"This is the United States of America. It isn't Nazi Germany, and there's a difference. And we don't take children from their parents until now and I think it's such a sad day."

The difference is negligible.

"Children are being used by some of the worst criminals on earth as a means to enter our country. Has anyone been looking at the Crime taking place south of the border. It is historic, with some countries the most dangerous places in the world. Not going to happen in the U.S.," the president said.

What other country in the world has mass killings on a regular basis? What other country is the source of demand for the drugs that are the bane of existence for so many on both sides of the US-Mexican border?