Amnesty International: USA: POLICY OF SEPARATING CHILDREN FROM PARENTS IS NOTHING SHORT OF TORTURE

[deminks]

https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/usa-policy-of-separating-children-from-parents-is-nothing-short-of-torture/

The sickening images of children cruelly separated from their parents and held in cages as a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ policy of ‘zero-tolerance’ will leave an indelible stain on the reputation of the USA, said Amnesty International today.

“This is a spectacularly cruel policy, where frightened children are being ripped from their parent’s arms and taken to overflowing detention centers, which are effectively cages. This is nothing short of torture. The severe mental suffering that officials have intentionally inflicted on these families for coercive purposes, means that these acts meet the definitions of torture under both US and international law,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Americas Director.

“There is no question that President Trump administration’s policy of separating mothers and fathers from their children is designed to impose severe mental suffering on these families, in order to deter others from trying to seek safety in the USA. Many of these families come from countries experiencing generalized violence and grave human rights violations, including Honduras and El Salvador. This is a flagrant violation of the human rights of these parents and children and is also a violation of US obligations under refugee law.”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the “zero-tolerance policy for criminal illegal entry” on 6 April 2018. Since the policy came into effect, more than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents or legal guardians at the US border. Children’s rights are violated in multiple ways: they are detained, they are separated from their parents or guardians, and they are exposed to unnecessary trauma that might affect their development.

Statistics obtained by news media suggest that thousands more migrant families may have been separated by the Trump administration even prior to this new policy.

Amnesty International recently interviewed 17 asylum-seeking parents who were forcibly separated from their children, and all but three of them had entered the USA legally to request asylum.

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Stop this immediately and reunite the families.

[duforsure]

1. Child abuse is what it is.

We already know he's a sex abuser from his own mouth, and we had a pretty good idea it was even worse, and now everyone knows, he's a child abuser too.

[tblue37]

2. K&R for visibility. nt

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[workinclasszero]

4. A crime against humanity is what Trump's child gulags are!

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[highplainsdem]

5. K&R

[lamp_shade]

7. Kick for visibility.

[Cha]

8. It is Torture. "In the United States, I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punis

Link to tweet

Mahalo for Amnesty International, deminks

[kamalafan]

9. When are we going to have sanctions put upon us?

Because I can see that happening where the UN votes to put sanctions on the United States over human rights atrocities currently happening. I wonder what Republicans excuses will be then?