The U.S. immigrant family separation policy needs to cease, June 20, 2018 Gratiana Lovelace (Post #1170)

The U.S. needs to immediately reunite the seized immigrant children with their families.  Anything less is inhumane and disgraceful.

 

Three of our former First Ladies weigh in on the Trump Administration policy of separating children from their families and seizing and incarcerating the children when they cross over the U.S. and Mexico border:

Michelle Obama retweets Laura Bush:

Sometimes truth transcends party. https://t.co/TeFM7NmNzU

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) June 18, 2018

 

Secretary Clinton shares her outrage:

What’s happening to families at the border right now is a humanitarian crisis. Every parent who has ever held a child in their arms, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency, should be outraged.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 18, 2018

 

The crux of the matter is the crisis of children being imprisoned:

http://time.com/5316404/mother-son-immigration/?utm_source=twitter.com&xid=time_socialflow_twitter&utm_campaign=time&utm_medium=social

 

And it gets worse, with babies and toddlers held in “tender age centers”, isolated from their families:
https://apnews.com/dc0c9a5134d14862ba7c7ad9a811160e

An excerpt:
“Doctors and lawyers who have visited the shelters said the facilities were fine, clean and safe, but the kids — who have no idea where their parents are — were hysterical, crying and acting out.

“The shelters aren’t the problem, it’s taking kids from their parents that’s the problem,” said South Texas pediatrician Marsha Griffin who has visited many.

Alicia Lieberman, who runs the Early Trauma Treatment Network at University of California, San Francisco, said decades of study show early separations can cause permanent emotional damage.”

 

Trump Administration is detaining babies and toddlers in “tender age shelters” who may never be reunited with their parents. Babies. Babies. You have brought shame to the nation. We are better than this. pic.twitter.com/QM2C3uHvVg

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) June 20, 2018

 

 

We ask ourselves, what can we do as individuals to help save the immigrant children seized by the U.S. government?  One method is by voicing our concerns to people who can make a difference by contacting our elected representatives–and telling them that we want them to set aside politics and personal gain now and reunite families, and abolish the cruel and inhumane family separations law/policy/procedures that the current administration is using to try to control and deter immigration to the U.S.

 

And listed below is the U.S. government web site where you can find out what your elected representatives are doing, and there also search links to contact them:  https://congress.gov/

I have already contacted one of my U.S. Senators about this issue.  Your turn.

Hugs and Love!  Grati