On an Easter Sunday that also happens to be our first one in an epic national and worldwide coronavirus crisis, it is totally legitimate to ask ourselves what kind of people occupy the White House. How could they be so callous toward these children whose lives have been the constant target for persecution?
I refer to this cruel and vile action of booting these children out of the country based on a change in administrative rules around three weeks ago on March 21st.
It's the kind of decision that should make us all shudder.
It's horrific to read that to perform this operation, they erased laws that provide protections for children from getting trafficked and putting children on a track for asylum in a U.S. immigration court. Instead, U.S. officials got the green light to "quickly remove people without standard immigration proceedings." Apparently, five out of twenty-three such children had tested positive for COVID-19 in early April and were among those deported.
Melania Trump then came to mind as I recalled the trip that she took to the U.S.-Mexico border to visit migrant children in detention centers wearing a stylish, if vulgar and mean-spirited, green jacket that read, "I really don't care, do u?"
This wasn't a "bizarre" act, as the article expressed. Nor did her jacket refer—as Trump said in a Tweet that day—to the allegedly "Fake News Media."
Rather, her behavior was consistent with her husband's recent callous and horrific acts of policy, as a response to an apparent coronavirus outbreak where children were returned without their parents to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. We've known that they're evil all along, but somehow not everybody does in the U.S.
This story screams for justice. Again, it is incumbent and urgent that all of us of good conscience vote in November and get these horrible people with hearts of darkness out of the White House.
-Angela Valenzuela
"U.S. deports 400 migrant children under new coronavirus rules."
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. immigration officials have rapidly deported nearly 400 migrant children intercepted at the U.S.-Mexico border in the past two weeks under new rules billed as seeking to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States, according to government data seen by Reuters.
I refer to this cruel and vile action of booting these children out of the country based on a change in administrative rules around three weeks ago on March 21st.
It's the kind of decision that should make us all shudder.
It's horrific to read that to perform this operation, they erased laws that provide protections for children from getting trafficked and putting children on a track for asylum in a U.S. immigration court. Instead, U.S. officials got the green light to "quickly remove people without standard immigration proceedings." Apparently, five out of twenty-three such children had tested positive for COVID-19 in early April and were among those deported.
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This wasn't a "bizarre" act, as the article expressed. Nor did her jacket refer—as Trump said in a Tweet that day—to the allegedly "Fake News Media."
Rather, her behavior was consistent with her husband's recent callous and horrific acts of policy, as a response to an apparent coronavirus outbreak where children were returned without their parents to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. We've known that they're evil all along, but somehow not everybody does in the U.S.
This story screams for justice. Again, it is incumbent and urgent that all of us of good conscience vote in November and get these horrible people with hearts of darkness out of the White House.
-Angela Valenzuela
"U.S. deports 400 migrant children under new coronavirus rules."
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. immigration officials have rapidly deported nearly 400 migrant children intercepted at the U.S.-Mexico border in the past two weeks under new rules billed as seeking to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States, according to government data seen by Reuters.
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