David Simon creator of The Wire tweets about immigration and ICE

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4. The thing is

The US has a long history of killing or helping kill women and children... It was just out of sight, out of mind.

And sure, we're helping starve MILLIONS of women and children in Yemen.. But they're brown and poor so who cares I guess.

The US watched the Saudis, with US weapons and support, bomb not one but TWO pediatric hospitals in Yemen and their response? Selling them billions more in weapons, helping the Saudis cover up their crimes in the UN, and fear mongering about Iran to justify mass murder of civilians.

Which is the same MO as during the Cold War.

It's hard for me to take the concern of many Americans very seriously when they've chosen to remain ignorant or chosen to justify much worse for generations.

And in THAT context, this is utterly predictable.

A reminder as well that Sheriff Arpaio refused to investigate HUNDREDS of child rapes because... Dun dun dun... The parents of the raped children were brown.

And that guy is a HERO to millions of Americans.

How in this context is ANYONE shocked at what ICE is up too. These kids are lucky that worse hasn't happened to them.