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Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
IDK, man. It's pretty straight up child abuse to take a 9-year old from their parents, and put them in a place with no adults, no structure, no activities. That's assuming you're meeting all their basic needs for shelter, clothing, food, hygiene, etc.
The real shitter about that whole mess was the separation of suspected illegal border crossers, which was just open door for racism and prejudice to make the decisions.
I'm not saying the powers above wanted racism, but when you have the boots on the ground trying to decide who "looks American" and "talks American" in the blink of an eye, even you and I are definitely going to have a lot more doubt for someone who doesn't sound like a TV show. It doesn't mean we were being racist... it's just that we're in a hurry and easy decisions are easy, and not easy decisions get put aside for someone with more time to sort it out.
It's just... really hard for me to see that as anything but common sense, and that's what makes it hard to not think that the policy was intended to target and hurt brown people. But then, our current administration doesn't care who it hurts, so it's probably not racism.
FFS, Trump has bragged in a recent press conference about not providing as much aid to NY because their governor isn't kissing his ass.
It's not beneath him to allow people to suffer to make a point, whether those people are brown or not.
I'm tempted to troll you and ask how it is you're able to make such moral stands-- but then in saying I'm tempted to, I guess I kinda am...
But really, I concur 100%. Claiming that mass separation of families crossing the boarder is in the interest of the children, without supporting evidence is a blatant retcon to justify the administration's pandering to a xenophobic/law and order/"they're stealing our jobs" segment of its base.
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