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Nevilledog

(55,137 posts)
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 01:05 PM Oct 2020

The Trump administration deported nearly 2/3 of the 545 missing parents without their children.



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The Trump administration deported nearly 2/3 of the 545 missing parents without their children.

Now, hundreds of these children — some who were babies when they were separated — still haven't seen their parents 3 years later.

We need accountability.

Lawyer On Parents Separated From Their Children At The Border
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lee Gelernt of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project about parents of over 500 children who can't be found after being separated from them at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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10:01 AM · Oct 25, 2020
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The Trump administration deported nearly 2/3 of the 545 missing parents without their children. (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2020 OP
We need more than accountability. This is evil. N/T Guilded Lilly Oct 2020 #1
Tired of these atrocities being perpetrated with our tax dollars against our will Walleye Oct 2020 #2
These were crimes against humanity committed in our names ecstatic Oct 2020 #3
+1000000 crickets Oct 2020 #4
hope this is a Day 1 agenda for the Biden administration.... dhill926 Oct 2020 #5
They made no effort to track who the parents were, from the start. No attempt lettucebe Oct 2020 #6
This makes me enraged. boston bean Oct 2020 #7

ecstatic

(35,135 posts)
3. These were crimes against humanity committed in our names
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 01:28 PM
Oct 2020

using our taxes.

It's very simple: Everyone involved in green lighting the child separations, split parent /child deportations, forced hysterectomies (or forced pregnancies), and all the other inhumane acts that have occurred and are still occurring under trump's disgusting administration needs to be tried, convicted, and serve prison time. Period.

If justice is not going to be initiated on our soil, then the International Criminal Court needs to get involved, because every country that turns a blind eye to what has happened will be similarly stained.

lettucebe

(2,356 posts)
6. They made no effort to track who the parents were, from the start. No attempt
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 08:39 PM
Oct 2020

at all was made to make sure children could be reunited. Their entire point was to punish people. Those children were kidnapped, IMO. This is a crime against humanity, and hopefully will be one charge that tRump eventually has to face.

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