The war on children
By Catherine Rampell
Columnist
September 5 at 6:28 PM
... the report released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services’s .. inspector general ... details the trauma suffered by immigrant children ...
Thousands of children were placed in overcrowded centers ill-equipped to provide care for them physically or psychologically. Visits to 45 centers around the country resulted in accounts of children who cried inconsolably; who were drugged; who were promised family reunifications that never came; whose severe emotional distress manifested in phantom chest pains, with complaints that “every heartbeat hurts”; who thought their parents had abandoned them or had been murdered ...
“Staff in multiple facilities reported cases of children who had been kidnapped or raped” back in their home countries, the IG report states. Other children witnessed family members raped or murdered ...
In August, <the administration> finalized a rule that would make it more difficult for immigrants to receive green cards if they have used certain safety-net services they’re legally entitled to — or if government officials suspect they might ever use such services ... This has already created a “chilling effect” for usage of social services, with immigrant parents disenrolling even their U.S.-citizen children just to be safe.
Last fall, for instance, I interviewed a green-card-holding mother who decided not to enroll her underweight newborn in a program that would have provided free formula (even though the program in question was not mentioned in the rule, and the baby is a U.S. citizen) ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-in-the-midst-of-trumps-war-on-children/2019/09/05/03637e30-d016-11e9-b29b-a528dc82154a_story.html
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These young children are being tortured for no good reason. Stephen Miller should be in prison or in a cage himself. I hate that fucking guy. Bastard.
That shallow thinking conservatives perpetuate the belief that these people are only coming here for “free stuff” when, in many cases, they’re afraid to enroll a child in school or seek medical attention for fear of being discovered and deported. The cruelty perpetuated by our government officials is mind boggling. And conservatives parrot “well they’re here illegally so that’s what they get.”
