We at the True Spirit of America Party hereby wholeheartedly condemn the Trump administration's ruthless, cowardly, and deplorable immigration policy. It started out bad enough with senseless raids against non-criminal and non-violent undocumented immigrants. But in recent weeks, things took an even darker turn. The administration's is literally separating undocumented children (including infants and toddlers!) from their parents (which easily qualifies as torture) as a cowardly and cynical ploy to gain "leverage" over both the immigrants themselves as well as the administration's political opponents. And even caging them in prison-like conditions on top of that while they await their questionable fate. Seriously, how absolutely low can one get?
And for those who say that it's "not so bad" or "it could be a lot worse", we say, compared to what, exactly? Nazi Germany? Soviet Russia? Because that is, quite frankly, a pitifully low bar to clear. And it is worth noting that, not even during the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII (as deplorable as it was) were children separated from their parents.
Future generations will ask everyone who was around when this happened, "what did you know, when did you know it, and what did you do about it?" And you should hope that you can honestly say that you actually had the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing and wholeheartedly opposed such evil and despicable acts that blatantly contravene international law and all that is decent in this world.
UPDATE: On June 20, Trump finally bowed to increasing public outrage and pressure and signed an executive order halting the deplorable practice of ICE agents separating families at the border. But the damage is basically done already, and the rest of Trump's current immigration policy still leaves a lot to be desired overall. And as of August, most of the separated children have still not yet been reunited with their parents even two months later.
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Children shouldn't be separated from their parents. Instead, the procedure should be changed so that parents and children are detained together until their cases for asylum are concluded. Families should be continued to be detained to differentiate between real asylum seekers and between fraudulent asylum seekers. I defend temporary detention because it is the right procedure. An open border with Mexico would encourage more gangs and drug cartel activity in the U.S. The Mexico-U.S. should be effectively controlled. I wouldn't support an open border with Mexico.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that the truth is more nuanced than either side of the debate likes to admit. With such a large influx of people, pragmatism does dictate thay there does need to be a way to properly sift through them all. That said, alternatives to detention do exist as well. Food for thought. https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/issues/alternatives
DeleteDetention is a suitable solution for as long as the detention is not too long for the asylum seekers and for as long the conditions in the centers are set to correct standards for the detainees.
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