O/T for Highlights but still about separating kids at the border
So in mulling over the situation in the Clint, TX detention center and reading about it in several other contexts I’m trying to figure out why the House and the Senate are sending more money for border operations.
First the lawyers that are still part of the Flores Settlement that brought us the conditions at Clint. They were down there to check on the conditions that migrant children are living in and how long they are being held. The CBP were notified 2 weeks in advance of their arrival and visit. Clint was not on their list, but were told about it when they were down there.
So the story gets reported out, everyone gets up in arms about the conditions. Then there is the story about the female DoJ lawyer who says in an argument before the judge overseeing the Flores Settlement that the government doesn’t have to provide these children with soap, showers, clean clothes, beds, and toothbrushes. Everyone get up in arms again over her statement.
Then good samaritans go to CBP to give them donations of the things that the lawyers visiting the facility said the children needed, only to be turned away because the CBP has the items and the money buy enough items to solve horrible condition that the children were found living while in detention.
So something is very fishy here, and for once I don’t think it’s the lawyers. Who ordered that these kids not be held in sanitary conditions?
I’m picturing a find-the-hidden-object page with an illustration of a detention center and the objects to find being a toothbrush, a bar of soap, a bed, a blanket, a shower head…
I sent this to my daughter a little while ago. I’ve been sending my grandchildren this magazine since my granddaughter was 3 (she used to call it “her magazine”). I switched to the bilingual version last year, since both have attended bilingual pre-school and (the older one) elementary school.
I thought this letter was wonderfully written, stresses the importance of children and their vulnerability, and doing the right thing. I hope others follow this lead.
I remember really enjoying Highlights as a little kid. So good to know that the source of joyful memories is still being led by people with integrity who believe in children.
I grew up reading Highlights in doctor’s offices. When my grandson was not yet three-years-old, I got him a subscription. I confess I love watching him do the puzzles I loved as a kid, and one of the first things he turns to (even before the Jokes!) is Goofus and Gallant. When he was little, he asked me to explain that each month, but for several years now he’s read it and understood it himself – and he is really happy that he’s Gallant in his everyday life.
Someone here said it’s religiously oriented. I have never noticed that, and I’m an atheist who is often turned off from people who proselytize. It’s simply a magazine that covers things most children are interested in (what to do in the summer, how things work, what to read, etc.) It clearly has a moral bent, stories about people who help others, do heroic things, that sort of fare, but I’ve never noticed any of it couched in religious terms – except stories about respecting other people’s beliefs.
My grandson just celebrated his tenth birthday, and while he doesn’t read it as regularly as he used to (because there are other things he likes now) he still asked me to continue the subscription at the end of last year. I’m really glad I did.
