Juliajms

My vote goes is for a separate thread. Let's have a clean slate.

I think it's sick and disgusting. People need to that kid alone. This is infuriating. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1009895000031875072

I hope this isn't true.

I bet Sessions didn't like it when his church considered kicking him out either.

Yes. Also, I think the courts will stop him from keeping people locked up long term. At least I hope so.

Yes. My god. At this moment we need this story out there and amplified. We need to be shown how these children are living. I don't care if the people doing that aren't perfect or have made mistakes in the past. We are in the middle of crossing the Rubicon here and if we don't turn 45 and his thugs back right now we are lost. I don't care if immigration wasn't at the forefront of someone's mind before Trump started his no tolerance bullshit. We need everyone who is willing to turn up the pressure, donate, call and march to do so right now.

The law is nothing but an excuse for the people who agree with this policy to hide behind. This administration is choosing to enforce this policy en masse. I also agree that this a manufactured crisis and it's working to some extent. They are taking children as hostages. It's a brutal and likely effective tactic.

This is one good place to donate.

Except I think it is the same. I know George Takei does, and he was there. I am Jewish on my father's side, and I honestly never thought I'd see what we're seeing now in my own lifetime. It was inconceivable to me outside the lunatic fringe when I was a child. I'm glad my grandparents, who came up in the Depression and WWII, didn't live to see this - they lost a whole branch of the family in the Holocaust. I think - and my parents think - that what we're seeing with the alt right and the detention is very close to the slow rise of the Nazis and the internment camps. Too close. I think we can't say that enough. To dismiss it is to shield it and give it room to grow and build. Whatever the nuances and the degrees of the crises, the real issues, above all, are the same - hate, fear, bigotry and taking the civil rights of the different, the brown, the other. Yes. One of my friends from Israel was telling me that she thinks it's demeaning to Holocaust victims to compare. No!! if anything is demeaning it's not taking history's lessons into account What kind of person can take a child from a parent's arms? Hardened people. People who are capable of anything. It's Gestapo tactics and mentality. We have to fight this with everything we have or it will go farther. Tell me Trump doesn't have it in him. Absolutely I could never go door to door (too introverted), but I will drive people to the polls come November.

You are a good person and you need to protect your heart and mind so you can fight another day. And yes, it's awful to think of the Native children and the children of slaves who were taken. We can't change the past, but these soulless bastards aren't going to win this time. I know they won't because even that cowardly SOB Ben Sasse was forced to address the child prison camps today.

I can't listen to that audio of children crying for their parents. I can barely make it through the day now and this isn't a time to break. I'm glad it exists though.

I have some hope that there are enough people standing against this policy to stop it. Hopefully, Trump has finally gone one step too far. Even if we win this fight we have to remember that 27% of Americans agree with this policy, which is shameful and even worse than I imagined.

There is no doubt in my mind that we are going to be hearing many horror stories like this for years to come. It's also so unnecessary.

At this point, all I care about is trying to stop the tragedy unfolding on our border. Anyone helping with that is fine by me unless they've raped or murdered. That said, I wish the leadership would get their heads out of the sand and support these women.

But they probably agree with having child concentration camps. I'm afraid to know what percent of the American population is on board with this. If I had to guess I would say 20% which is downright horrifying.

I feel the same and that is very unfortunate. I only wish we had a strong UN with some power and credibility. It's hard to imagine that right now because pretty much all of the strongest, richest and most powerful nations are violating human rights in significant ways, including the United States. "For profit child prison camp". We deserve to be sanctioned and boycotted for this. I do think there are a lot of people who are taking this seriously and trying to stop it, but I'm not sure it will be enough.

Plus, how can we even be on a human rights council right now? That's laughable. Maybe Canada and parts of Europe have some moral authority right now, but we do not. I'm not saying we are the worst, but we have no room to dictate to anyone at this moment.

I think so too. How fitting that Trump is now bad mouthing them at every turn and trying to turn the pubic against them.

^ I'm not sure I've ever wished more for some kind of divine retribution despite not being a believer. This entire administration and everyone helping them implement these crimes against humanity deserve it. Speaking of which does anyone know if these child concentration camps are technically a crime against humanity? If not they should be.

What a nut.

Here's an interesting piece by S.E. Cupp discussing that tweet last night by the GOP chair last night calling for blind loyalty to Trump. I don't agree with everything she says, but I do agree with the main point. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/14/opinions/ronna-mcdaniel-tweet-is-the-death-of-the-gop-cupp-opinion/index.html