Saturday, July 7, 2018

They're simply stealing people's children

[Washington state Governor Jay] Inslee was part of a conference call with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar last week, who provided an update on Trump administration efforts to reunite the families it separated as part of a “zero tolerance” policy it says it has now abandoned.

Inslee said Friday he was dismayed to learn that not only was little progress made in reuniting migrant parents and their children, but that officials would not even commit to making an effort to doing so.

  Think Progress
They'll stop taking them away, but they won't give the kids back they already took. 

Washington is one of 17 states, along with the District of Columbia, that is suing the Trump administration, in a bid to immediately reunite kids with parents from whom they were separated at the southwest border.

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“The secretary told us on a conference call that they do not have any intention to reunify these children with their parents. They are going to call it good if they could find anyone else to serve as a foster parent or might have some familial relationship,” Inslee told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes late Friday, when he asked about a June 29 meeting mentioned in a letter addressed to officials on Friday.
This makes me sick to my stomach.

The evil that the rest of the world has known for a long time is plain as day and in our faces now.  What are we going to do about it? 
But this was before a San Diego federal judge issued a preliminary injunction last week to immediately reunite kids with their parents by court-mandated deadlines. It’s unclear whether placing kids in foster care violates that court order.
It violates every principal of human decency and "family values", something the GOP has hammered us with for years to win elections. The GOP is complicit in this Hitlerian horror by enabling the Trump administration, the DOJ and the DHS. If you're a Republican, you need to start checking your conscience.

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