"Behind the statistics are the stories: a crying baby taken from her mother's arms and handed to social workers as the mother is handcuffed and taken away, her parental rights terminated by a U.S. judge; teenage children watching as parents are dragged from the family home; immigrant parents disappearing into a maze-like detention system where they are routinely locked up hundreds of miles from their homes, separated from their families for months and denied contact with the welfare agencies deciding their children's' fate."Read More: As thousands of parents are deported, US citizen kids face fallout; some placed for adoption
Have we really done so well at taking care of the children that we already have in the foster care system, that we should be creating more so-called “orphans” by ripping apart intact families?
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heidi · 663 weeks ago
i heard reports from alabama that undocumented immigrants were giving temporary custody of their children to friends so that, in the event that they were deported, their children would be safe. a politician cited that as a reason why they aren't good people and don't subscribe to our same values because he just couldn't imagine giving up your kids rather than just following the law and going home.
what it really speaks to is the home that they would be going back to. can you imagine a place that is so bad that you would give up your children rather than take them there with you? that man can't, apparently, and he should count himself lucky because of that.
Reena · 663 weeks ago
"he just couldn't imagine giving up your kids rather than just following the law and going home. " Anyone making statements like this should thank God, or whoever they see as the greater power, that they haven't lived a life where such a decision was imposed on them.
This situation is truly disgusting.
shannon2818 53p · 663 weeks ago
sundayk 33p · 661 weeks ago