UN office calls on US to stop separating families at border

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:59 pm, Tuesday, June 5, 2018

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations human rights office called on the Trump administration Tuesday to "immediately halt" its accelerating policy of separating children from their parents after they cross the U.S. border with Mexico, insisting there is "nothing normal about detaining children."

Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, scolded the United States over the hundreds of children removed from parents who were jailed for entering the country illegally. She said border control appears to take precedence over child protection and care in the U.S.

"The use of immigration detention and family separation as a deterrent runs counter to human rights standards and principles," Shamdasani said during a briefing in Geneva. "The child's best interest should always come first."

Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, lashed back: "Once again, the United Nations shows its hypocrisy by calling out the United States while it ignores the reprehensible human rights records of several members of its own Human Rights Council."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/UN-calls-on-US-to-halt-separations-of-migrant-12967975.php

[C Moon]

1. Jesus. Nikki Haley can't even defend the evil deed; instead, gives a knee jerk childish response.

[SunSeeker]

3. Yep. All she's got is, "I know you are but what am I."

She is a fucking child abuser, like the rest of the Trump administration enforcing this sadistic policy.

[woundedkarma]

4. Sounded more like...

How Russia is responding to claims it interfered in our election.

We didn't interfere, but if we did, americans have been interfering in elections for decades... also, russia has the best hookers.

[C Moon]

5. :D

[SunSeeker]

2. About time. This is a crime against humanity.

The whole world should be up in arms over the sadistic torture we are inflicting on children at the border.

[christx30]

6. The U.N. has zero power. Anyone on the planet

can shrug off what they say.
This won’t make any kind of difference. The US doesn’t respect the U.N. It’s not like they are going to vote for sanctions against us.
Maybe the U.N. should work on the violence these people are fleeing from instead of going after the low hanging fruit. The violence is a human rights violation.

[SunSeeker]

7. The UN has a microphone. It's better than nothing. At least it brings attention to it.

The violence the central American refugees are fleeing from are hard core drug gangs. Who are this gangs selling to? Americans.

[LanternWaste]

10. It has the power to engender conversation and discussion.

It has the power to engender conversation and discussion.

As accurately exemplified by both this thread and your involvement in it.

As long as the discussion exists, so too does potential for positive change.

[FirstLight]

8. Kick

Not sure if anyone else has posted something more recent as this develops.

After watching Rachel's coverage of Sen Merkeley (sp?) being refused access to a...what? detention center? old wal-mart/refugee camp?

I want to see a FULL UN Envoy coming to the US to survey these cages and "facilities" and then the UN spanking the Trump Admin (*cough* Sessions...there's a special place in hell and History for you, fucker)INTERNATIONALLY...


how about sanctions on the US for Human Right's violations?
How about stopping a modern day Hitler from creating a whole new type of concentration camp?
Ug...all those conspiracy theories about FEMA Camps...


I am literally disgusted and fuming at this BS
Why does International Law, etc. have to move so fucking slow? I respect the rule of Law, but I am just READY for the other shoe to fucking drop!!!!!!!!

[End Of The Road]

11. Wanna get really, REALLY pissed off?

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If so, I recommend reading an article from The New Yorker (May 30, 2018) entitled "How the Trump Adminstration Got Comfortable Separating Immigrant Children From Their Parents." (Sorry I can't link, just google it, no paywall.)

Along with other valuable info, there is a suggestion that some parents may be deported back to their home country BEFORE being reunited with their children... OMG my blood pressure went through the roof reading that.

There is also a link within the article to an earlier article from Vox, and it is also worth reading.

As for the cages and Walmarts... (not discussed in either of the above articles, solely my opinion but based on hours and hours of reading and research), unaccompanied minors are not supposed to be detained at the border for more than 72 hours, because border facilities are not equipped to care for them. Here begins the real SNAFU. None of the government alphabets (ORR, DHS, HHS, half dozen others) were given enough warning about the change in policy to gear up for such an increase in need for housing minors. Most, if not all, of the facilities used are run by non-profits/charities (some secular, some religious) financed by government grants and heavily regulated, some having provided temp immigrant housing and care for DECADES. These places are not caging children, but they're near capacity. And no matter how "good" the facility, separating children and parents is unspeakable cruelty.

One last thought. Minors who arrive at the border without a parent are called unaccompanied minors. Why are children who arrive at the border WITH THEIR PARENTS, and then separated from them, also called unaccompanied minors? Bullshit.

[duforsure]

9. Heard just the other day,

A woman working in the immigration court said they had a 3 week old baby in their court without its parents. That's inhumane , and about as cruel and hurtful as most expected out of trump and sessions. This will be another part of their horrific legacy that'll haunt these morally corrupt people for the rest of their lives for what they're doing.