• DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    I’m not American, and Obama did order war crimes, but I remember things being a little different.

    I remember children being sent to the USA on their own, because it was believed that minors without guardians would be allowed to stay in the country instead of being deported.
    I don’t remember the USA government stealing children.

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      4 days ago

      Obama created the process where they would deport the parents, but the children would be hold prisoner there, waiting to see a judge.

      Then Trump increased the time to see a judge into several months, turned the prisons into torture centers, and increased the frequency it all happened.

    • 草泥馬@mander.xyz
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      3 days ago

      That’s because Americans have collective amnesia and instantly forgot how bad the last president was the moment the next comes into office.

      Nearly 45,000 such parents were removed in the first six months of this year, says the federal department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

      At least 5,100 U.S. citizen children in 22 states live in foster care, according to an estimate by the Applied Research Center, a New York-based advocacy organization, which first reported on such cases last year.

      And an unknown number of those children are being put up for adoption against the wishes of their parents, who, once deported, are often helpless to fight when a U.S. judge decides that their children are better off here.

      https://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/08/26/parents-deported-what-happens-to-us-born-kids

      Oh and not only was Dronebama the king of ‘kids in cages’, he was also allowing those children to suffer horrible abuses.

      The allegations include reports of physical, verbal, sexual and psychological abuse of migrant children and the denial of clean drinking water and adequate food.

      https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/23/613907893/aclu-report-detained-immigrant-children-subjected-to-widespread-abuse-by-officia