Trump Separating Families Is Inhumane
At the same time Donald Trump was ripping families apart at the border, caging children and screaming about chain migration, he was using chain migration and a big $$$ lawyer to get Melania Trump’s family into the USA.
Stephen Miller’s America: Trump’s Aide Behind Splitting Families
Ari Melber examines the role of Stephen Miller in creating Trump’s immigration policy that is now separating families at the border, showing footage of Miller in high school that demonstrates his use of “combative trolling” and breaking down the history of Miller’s attempts to block any compromises on immigration.
Judge Rules COVID-19 Poses Danger to Migrant Children in Detention Center so they Must Be Released
Living Conditions At A Migrant Detention Center Are ‘Appalling’
Nationwide outcries have led to the transfer of nearly 300 children to other migrant detention facilities because the living conditions at one location in Clint, Texas, were so bad. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez and Cal Perry join Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi to break down the latest.
Nearly 2,000 children were separated from their families during a six-week period in April and May, as the Trump Administration cracked down on illegal immigration with a “zero-tolerance” policy of separating families at the border.
Listen to children who’ve just been separated from their parents at the border
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.”
These are the faces of family separation
Meet four families caught in the policy and politics of the Trump administration’s shifting strategies on immigration. Young children who have endured the harsh reality of family separation are at the heart of the CBS News documentary “The Faces of Family Separation,”
Trump launched his campaign for president with the same anti-immigrant rhetoric that is now fueling his nativist policies. Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed that immigration causes crime, called immigrants “animals” and “an infestation,” and referred to those seeking asylum as invaders. This fear-mongering rhetoric is an attempt to dehumanize immigrants in order to desensitize Americans to Trump’s policies. Since taking office, the Trump administration has:
- Ripped children from their parents’ arms and forced them into inhumane detention centers;
- Tear-gassed families with young children at the southern border while trying to legally claim asylum;
- Shackled pregnant women during and after childbirth;
Abruptly ended DACA and TPS protections for more than one million young people and longtime U.S. residents, throwing families and communities into uncertainty and turmoil; and, - Been negligent in the deaths of at least 7 children in the custody of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection after more than a decade in which no child had died.
These anti-immigrant policies are a threat to the social fabric of our nation. As the largest, most diverse, and most progressive generation in American history, we must send a clear and unequivocal message that we oppose the Trump administration’s immoral immigration policies.
Trump Has Quietly Cut Legal Aid for Migrant Kids Separated from Parents
Left: Migrant children at a Kansas City detention center in 2014. Photo by AP/Eric Gay, File. Right: Donald Trump. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty “The saddest part is, this all came when there was all this media attention on the lost children.”-Camila Alvarez
Trump Quietly Cut Legal Aid for Migrant Kids Separated from Parents. A program that provides help to unaccompanied minors was slashed just as the government has instituted policies that split kids from parents.
Chaos and Cruelty for Immigrants Held in Brownsville, Texas
In the federal courthouse in Brownsville, in the space of 75 minutes, 63 people were read their charges, asked to plead guilty or not guilty, and sentenced. Handcuffed and chained at the waist, they had to stoop to raise their right hands.All this for a misdemeanor: entry without inspection.
