Tuesday, June 19, 2018

U.S. opening prisons for babies


In his documentary Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, Max Ophuls confronts a former Gestapo officer. He demands to know "WHAT CRIMES AGAINST THE REICH COULD A TWO-YEAR-OLD GIRL COMMIT?" The Nazi locks himself in his apartment.

I didn't believe it until now, but Trump really is Hitler.
Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents.

“The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which provides foster care and other child welfare services to migrant children. “Toddlers are being detained.”

Bellor said shelters follow strict procedures surrounding who can gain access to the children in order to protect their safety, but that means information about their welfare can be limited.
https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Youngest-migrants-held-in-tender-age-shelters-13008778.php

I'm often appalled but never really surprised by any horrible thing any president does, but I never imagined this.

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