Torn from immigrant parents, 8-month-old baby lands in Michigan

[brooklynite]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Four days ago, a Homeland Security official proclaimed: “We are not separating babies from parents.”

Yet in the middle of the night, two baby boys arrived in Grand Rapids after being separated from their immigrant parents at the southern border weeks ago.

One child is 8 months old; the other is 11 months old. Both children have become part of a bigger group of 50 immigrant children who have landed in foster care in western Michigan under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance border policy.

...snip...

According to Mills, some of these displaced children got picked up right at the airport by a foster family, while others wound up at a foster care center, begging to talk to their parents. Many have gone 30 days or more without talking to their parents because their parents can't be located, she said.

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/06/20/baby-boys-separated-immigrant-parents-michigan/714527002/

[SamKnause]

1. EVIL FUCKING LIARS !!!!!!!!!

[lagomorph777]

2. Republicans must pay with their careers, their reputations, their money, their freedom.

Lock them up. Throw them in Gitmo. Throw away the key.

[riversedge]

14. They need to be voted OUT

[lagomorph777]

15. That's step 1.

[dhill926]

3. this is vile....and cannot stand....

[AllyCat]

4. This is TERRIBLE!! What is wrong with people?

How can anyone do this?

[tblue37]

5. K&R for visibility. nt

[Hekate]

6. KnR

[heaven05]

7. this is really

FUBAR. I think of the early genocide of the First-American nations by white americans and how some of the children from their decimated nations were given to white families to raise.

[appalachiablue]

8. K & R. Horrendous to do this to babies.

[forgotmylogin]

9. They have the best catapults.

Sorry, gallows humor.

[gopiscrap]

10. what does the rest of the world think of us?

[llmart]

11. Hmm...

The DeVos family owns Grand Rapids. Coincidence? I think not. They're probably profiting off of this somehow. Scum like DeVos and Trump usually stick together.

[dawnie51]

12. Quickie adoptions of the tiny ones.....

who can be raised without any memory. Child labor for the older ones? I never thought to see this shit in my own country

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Some have been sent to Michigan. They will probably be adopted, ...

... through a for-profit Christian adoption agency, to born-again parents.

I see Betsy DeVos' hand in this.

[yurbud]

13. one of these kids is going to die. Infants are in the SIDS vulnerability window

Trump people who instigated this should be prosecuted.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. Does being ripped from parents increase a child's chance of dying from SIDS, or ..

does it make no difference.

I smell an opportunity for a federal study grant here.

Unless, of course, Dr Mengele has already documented his findings on the subject.



I think Mr Godwin just checked in on this thread

[yurbud]

18. I didn't mention Nazis, but it would be apt.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. Right, I brought up Nazis, the fault is entirely mine.

Dr Mengele, a "physician" at Auschwitz, conducted many inhumane experiments on (mostly Jewish) prisoners. Patient survival was not a priority.

Under Trump, the survival of immigrants is not a priority.

[yurbud]

23. survival of Trump is all that matters to him. The one time I stumped my Trump loving dad

was when I asked him when Trump had EVER done anything for anyone other than himself.

There is no honest answer other than never.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. What a great question! I'm stealing it! nt

[Judi Lynn]

16. Nightmarish. What kind of ghouls are we watching, anyway? Thanks for the info., brooklynite. n/t

[progree]

19. I wonder what airline the came in on - the articles doesn't say

United {1}, American Airlines {2}, and Frontier Airlines {3} have said they will not knowingly fly immigrant children that have been taken from their parents, or words to that effect (some argue that some of the statements aren't quite that strong)

{1} https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210762128

{2} https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210761997

{3} https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210762428

[Stuart G]

20. How did this happen ?

[xxqqqzme]

21. Why Michigan?

Is the rethug governor that spineless? How about Alaska? That's even farther away.

[Vinca]

26. DNA may be the only way to eventually reunite parent and child. What a fucking nightmare.

[secondwind]

27. They will be turned over to loving Evangelicals who will

raise them to be little warriors for Christ. These “shelters “ are run by Evangelicals.

Most likely, they will never see their families again.

[Afromania]

28. They are running a trafficking ring, they are honest to god running a trafficing

Ring.. Who are these foster families they have lined up to take these kids? What their relation to to this whole thing? Sending these kids all over damn place in secret and telling us they don't know where they are. They aregoddamn child traffickers in the truest sense of the term. Rip these kids from their parents to give the to who the fuck ever?!?! Trump his people and his supporters are evil, this shit is base level evil.