CBP Separates Bahamian Child From Family Evacuating Hurricane

A Bahamian child is currently being detained in a Florida facility after immigration officials separated her from her family, who had sought refuge from the devastation of Hurricane Dorian.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1247753

So many souless people …

Did Trump somehow change them or were they always this cruel in their hearts?

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This is called using the excuse of potential child abuse by a close relative to commit actual child abuse by state apparatchiks.

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Amerika, go look in the mirror. We all look like trump now. But everyone knows about trump, even the quisling GOP, willing to trade 30 pieces of silver for the soul of the country. THEY are the real danger to the country now.

Register people to vote. Get to the polls. Run for office. We’re better than the monsters at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Right?

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The only church Trump goes to is Our Lady of Perpetual Cruelty.

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By the nature of its mission, CPB and ICE are naturally going to be recruitment magnets for the worst kind of people unless a deliberate effort to screen them out is made, and no such effort was made. Bigots, power-trippers, sadists, and worse will are mixed in with the “I just needed a job” people and they are all going to be looking to the top for cues about where the boundaries are.

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If there are rules about verifying the child actually belongs with the adults, these rules provide specifics as to how long the separation can remain in force, how the child is cared for, and how to reunite the child with its parents or relatives.

CBP, please provide specifics.

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The forum is tomorrow night, right? Can someone please work this into their pontifications on the useless questions they will be asked, so that maybe someone other than TPMers will pay attention to this?

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Cruelty and stupidity meter already maxed out, no change. But “His House Children’s Home, an HHS-run migrant detention center” i.e. a Christian detention center?!

“His House Children’s Home is a private non-profit, faith-based organization dedicated to restoring the lives of children from newborn to 18 years of age.”"

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They always have been that cruel. Trump just provided them with the safe space to be themselves.

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What is WRONG with these people?

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Beyond FUBAR. Going start flying my American flag upside down.

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So much for the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

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“A CBP spokesperson told the Herald that the agency made ‘multiple attempts’ to contact the girl’s family members but were ‘unsuccessful’.”

The family’s home was destroyed. They have no address for mail. They have no telephone for calls.

The machine can either serve humanity, or crush it.

Clearly, the Trump/GOP/CPB/ICE machine has made its choice…

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A fucking cat5 hurricane spent two days parked over the Bahamas and the CBP couldn’t contact family. No shit Sherlock! No excuses for these heartless moronic MAGATs.

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Are we sure she wasn’t a smuggler? A drug dealer? A bad bad person? I mean, she wasn’t white, correct?

This country has lost its soul and I fear we may never get it back…

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I have come to the conclusion that “these people” are simply mean and evil.

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Thank Shrub for starting this.

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“When encountering minors, there are legal requirements that CBP must follow that are in place to ensure the safety of the child.”

Jes following order folks. No sense to get riled up about nothing. Paperwork ya know. Sieg … um never mind.

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