Too bad that will be their last job, no one will want them as employees
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I know, but you get way up in the hills in Central America and itâs different even from a war-shattered Europe. The reuniting could be done, and I hope it will. Daunting task though. Nightmarish. I literally have bad dreams about discovering one of my cats after it had been lost, neglected and malnourished. These are cats that I doted on in real life, that were never lost and never lacked for anything. But the fear that someone else could mistreat them obviously runs deep. What a parent and child go through, in this situationâunimaginable.
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July 1st is Canada Day. I celebrated it last year and will do so again this year.
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It just keeps getting worse and worse.
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I hope, but then they have to live with what theyâve allowed to happen. I wish them nightmares and monsters under their beds.
ETA: Not allowed to happen. Supported and never spoke up even when they knew it was horrificâŚ
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It is unimaginable.
I know those dreams.
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You may be right. But I think the idea of America burns stronger in many of the places they come from than it does here in the complacent United States. Honestly, some of the most patriotic true believers that Iâve known have been people who fled their home countries to come here. Not to discount his obvious racism, but maybe even more than âturning into Democratsâ, thatâs what autocracy-yearning Trump fears about them.
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I came here to say what you wrote. Trump thinks MS 13 is vicious, wait until we encounter mothers with sharp knives cutting out hearts in memory of their babies. We are just determined to make enemies for life all over the globe.
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Yes! Under this criminal Administration, enabled by an equally complicit and corrupt Congress, we are careening down the road of becoming just another mega-State that violates human rights in horrific ways. We are losing the moral right to claim that Americans are âdifferent,â that we are a democracy that values human life in ways other states donât. Itâs clear that as a âdemocracy,â we have elected a vicious lunatic and wannabe dictator, and that our system is not strong enough to self correct because of the degeneracy of our politics.
The damage caused by Trump to our international reputation is incalculable. Trump is the best investment Putin ever made. He must be laughing himself to the point that heâs pissing his pants.
I only hope that in the time left to me we can begin to see a turnaround. Itâs not going to be easy.
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If you read nothing else today, take a moment to read this excellent op-ed by Alabama native Kyle Whitmire.
The politics of hate and the sepsis of the soul
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Blitzer does an excellent job,
This is from Joshâs current piece about the head of ICE interview. This is how obvious this situation is, that even Wolfie can be like a journalist. Fuck.
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I hope all trumpsters burn in HELL!
Every single one of them are Satanâs soldiers!!!
That guy is an freaking asshole. Bitching about Obama?
What scum these people are. Heâs a thug.
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I was just thinking of how this reminds me of the way prisoners were shipped off to Guantanamo and locked away with no plan for resolution.
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Kidnapping, with a side of child abuse. Supersized.
The GOP is destroying the lives of thousands of human beings in yet another failed experiment at forcing ideology to serve as policy.
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During the Argentine Dirty War, late '70s, early '80s, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children were kidnapped from âsubversivesâ or born to mothers in detention. Many, if not most, of the parents were eventually disappeared. The governmentâs reasoning was that in order to prevent a new generation being raised into new subversives, the babies and young children would be taken away and adopted into military or politically-connected families.
Family separation, permanent separation, was a government policy, as punishment and as âdeterrentâ. A couple of hundred or so have been found and reunited with grandparents or other relatives; most are simply gone.
But what will happen to the children here? If the parents are deported, the government isnât going to spend a dime on searching for them. Are they going to warehouse the kids? Foster them out until they turn 18? Dump them somewhere over the border? The government has already said they have no plans to provide more shelter space. They have no plans to reunite them. They have no plans.
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I believe this is exactly what will happen, but itâs fraught with risks, such as losing track of guardians, babies so young their names are lost, and parents sent back to the war zones they sought to escape being killed in the violence.
Itâs so horrifically sad.
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I obviously got a bad crop of peyote, because this is just fâing surrealâŚ
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The only thing thatâs made us special is a system of government built to be resilient against attacks on our democratic ideals and our collective determination to make it work. All the mumbo-jumbo about resources and land and people comes back to the fact that every time our country has succumbed to shameful expansion, itâs followed that with bull-headed attempts to make our system of government work. We have a horrible, horrible history but somehow weâve always, eventually, come through better. A work in progress, but there was progress, and there was work.
This feels different though. I vaguely remember Vietnam and Watergate, and sharply remember Reagan and Central America. And of course the Gulf Wars and Guantanamo. But for every one of those things, as angry as I was, I was angry at the hypocritic politicians and bureaucrats and insiders who acted against our values, who betrayed our country in one way or another.
But now. I feel like the nation itself is coming apart.
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He seems niceâŚ
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