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Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 03:01 PM Feb 2019

Trump's worst crime -Kidnapping kids at the border.

Thousands of children, from babies to teens, have been separated from their families at the border.

Many may never see their parents for years. And many others may never see their families again.

Trump's inhumanity has caused this despicable crime at the border. Would-be Latin immigrants have been treated like criminals and had their children stolen from them. No records have been kept to help reunite families.

If our next president is a Democrat, she/he will have to deal with this horror. They will have to try to match thousands of children with parents who may have already been deported.

Trump, and every thug that's enabled him, must be made to pay for this horrible crime against humanity. Yes, -- Crime against humanity.

Imagine your child being ripped away from you and sent to who knows where. Imagine a child losing his mother/father/caretaker being torn away from their loved one and ending up in some American Republican hell. -- This is a crime against humanity. This is a crime against individual human beings who have lost their children or their mothers/fathers, and don't know what America is going to do them next.

Why should anyone doubt that Republicans don't give a shit about the lives of Latin refugees. They don't care if they live or die, or if they ever see their children again.

What kind of people would tolerate this? In most civilized countries, the "great leader" would be dragged from office and then brought to justice. I now hesitate to call America a "civilized" country. After all, what civilization would have put an incompetent, ignorant, mentally challenged fool in charge? What civilized country would look the other way during a mass kidnapping?

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Trump's worst crime -Kidnapping kids at the border. (Original Post) Cyrano Feb 2019 OP
Kidnapping with no real plan on how to return them...even worse. TCJ70 Feb 2019 #1
Here's hoping he ends up like others who've done the same in the past sandensea Feb 2019 #2
How long before the lawsuits start duforsure Feb 2019 #3
Lawsuits? People don't want money. They want their children Cyrano Feb 2019 #6
I honestly think its even worse that kidnapping the kids... Fresh_Start Feb 2019 #4
Human trafficking and sex trade Pachamama Feb 2019 #32
I do believe its human trafficking...sex trade hadn't occurred to me Fresh_Start Feb 2019 #34
This should have 500 recs malaise Feb 2019 #5
The most clearly evil indication that what the Republicans Hortensis Feb 2019 #7
why are media (and politicians) banned from entering these facilities? IcyPeas Feb 2019 #8
Seems that America now has Gulags. No cameras allowed Cyrano Feb 2019 #9
Anyone other then me mgardener Feb 2019 #10
Future terrorists?? What about today's GOP terrorists? Cyrano Feb 2019 #11
Just remember that the Republicans accuse Democrats of things that they themselves are guilty of. LiberalArkie Feb 2019 #12
yes they always project what the are guilty off scarytomcat Feb 2019 #26
I still believe these kids .... dawnie51 Feb 2019 #13
They intentionally planned to keep kids separated BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #14
I lost my dog for 3 hours and went nuts !! I could imagine if it was my child. I ... don't know uponit7771 Feb 2019 #15
Child trafficking is very profitable for Trump's pals who run the camps. keithbvadu2 Feb 2019 #16
Umm, need some details on this Cyrano Feb 2019 #21
Who said they were selling children? keithbvadu2 Feb 2019 #28
K&R, Leghorn21 Feb 2019 #17
Putin must be in a dream state... BlueJac Feb 2019 #18
I'm waiting for our new Congress to intorduce a "Family Reunification Act." slumcamper Feb 2019 #19
Update: Kudos to Michigan 2 & congressman Huizenga! slumcamper Feb 2019 #24
The "crisis" at the border is the product of.... Initech Feb 2019 #20
Exactly! A Crime Against Humanity. Cha Feb 2019 #22
Everyone who was part of this crime should be prosecuted. lunatica Feb 2019 #23
You'd think the Moral Majority would be outraged ... GeorgeGist Feb 2019 #25
Moral Majority? More like the legions of Hell. Brawndo Feb 2019 #31
It's a crime against humanity under international law. Liberty Belle Feb 2019 #27
+1 eShirl Feb 2019 #29
+1. Absolutely. dalton99a Feb 2019 #33
Report: Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Christian Adoption Agency LiberalArkie Feb 2019 #30

TCJ70

(4,387 posts)
1. Kidnapping with no real plan on how to return them...even worse.
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 03:02 PM
Feb 2019

There is no more provable, in-plain-sight crime of this administration than this one.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
3. How long before the lawsuits start
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 03:08 PM
Feb 2019

Against the government, and civil ones for trump and all involved. They will be taken to court for intentionally doing this to the children and their families.

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
4. I honestly think its even worse that kidnapping the kids...
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 03:21 PM
Feb 2019

its kidnapping kids AND giving the kids to supporters or organizations sponsored by supporters with no intention of ever giving the kids back..

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
34. I do believe its human trafficking...sex trade hadn't occurred to me
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 11:14 AM
Feb 2019

i merely thought they were selling babies and children to childrenless couples....now I'm even more appalled at the thought that some of those poor children might be being sexually abused.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. The most clearly evil indication that what the Republicans
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 04:48 PM
Feb 2019

have become have no identifiable limits and that their voters will support whatever their leader does. Citizenship will be no protection if they get the power to get away with kidnapping and imprisoning Americans who try to oppose them.

LiberalArkie

(15,715 posts)
12. Just remember that the Republicans accuse Democrats of things that they themselves are guilty of.
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 05:06 PM
Feb 2019

White helmets carting off injured kids and the kids bodies found later missing organs. I guess kind of like what the Republicans said went on in the basement of the pizza parlor. It seems to be happening all over the world.

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
26. yes they always project what the are guilty off
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 05:56 PM
Feb 2019

stealing kids is low as it gets
please prosecute these abusers and return ALL the children

dawnie51

(959 posts)
13. I still believe these kids ....
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 05:09 PM
Feb 2019

ha ve been adopted out to "Christian homes". At least the young, malleable ones. As for the rest, God only knows. Just a nightmare all the way around.

BigmanPigman

(51,585 posts)
14. They intentionally planned to keep kids separated
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 05:10 PM
Feb 2019

and Stephen Miller is the criminal who should be front and center of a criminal investigation and then try him.

Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
21. Umm, need some details on this
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 05:42 PM
Feb 2019

These camps are a horror and America will forever bear the shame.

But you're suggesting that those who run the camps are selling children (for adoption? for sex? for ... what?).

This is a serious charge. Can you please provide some more detail or some proof?

BlueJac

(7,838 posts)
18. Putin must be in a dream state...
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 05:30 PM
Feb 2019

destroying America from within. Start the cancer, beat the drums of hatred, hate the government, etc...

Unreal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

slumcamper

(1,606 posts)
19. I'm waiting for our new Congress to intorduce a "Family Reunification Act."
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 05:37 PM
Feb 2019

Will they? When? Perhaps I've missed it; I hope so.

If not, this is something that congressional Democrats MUST demand. If not Democrats, then who?

We must not let this horror--amid many of those that have occurred during this administration--die in darkness.

I'm calling my congressman NOW. It's the least I can do. Will you do the same?

Initech

(100,065 posts)
20. The "crisis" at the border is the product of....
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 05:42 PM
Feb 2019

40 years of racists and xenophobes being fed unchecked propaganda that caters to their fear and anxiety. It's a manufactured nothing burger.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
23. Everyone who was part of this crime should be prosecuted.
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 05:46 PM
Feb 2019

It is absolutely a crime Against humanity.

I even think the United Nations should be involved. And maybe The Hague too. Children died as a result of Trump policies.

Brawndo

(535 posts)
31. Moral Majority? More like the legions of Hell.
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 07:23 PM
Feb 2019

They are neither moral nor a majority, never let them get away with claiming either point.

Liberty Belle

(9,534 posts)
27. It's a crime against humanity under international law.
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 06:00 PM
Feb 2019

They should all be prosecuted and imprisoned, and efforts made to track down every child, pay reparations to families as was done when Japanese-Americans were wrongly interned, and do everything conceivable to atone for this to the degree that is even possible.

The Republicans and Trump are hypocrites to call themselves pro-life, hand-wringing over the fate of every fertilized egg when they are being so malicious toward thousands of innocent children already born and feeling terrible pain from these separations.

God only knows if some of them have been trafficked, on top of the other abuses.

LiberalArkie

(15,715 posts)
30. Report: Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Christian Adoption Agency
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 07:10 PM
Feb 2019

The Trump administration says it can’t reunite missing migrant children with their families; instead, many of the children are being shipped to a Christian adoption agency with ties to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Earlier this week the Trump administration told a federal court that it would require too much effort to reunite migrant children with their parents. Associated Press reports:

The Trump administration says it would require extraordinary effort to reunite what may be thousands of migrant children who have been separated from their parents and, even if it could, the children would likely be emotionally harmed.


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