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A Delphi forum for discussing breaking news, memes, various topics of interest. From the serious to the silly, we discuss the top stories in the news, on Twitter, and in your social media world. Every day, a different story.
1/30/19
"Six months before Kevin entered the U.S. with his one-year-old daughter, the Trump Administration had pledged to stop most family separations at the border. But in this case they took Grethshell, wailing, from his arms: https://t.co/3ZzKD0y1Hf"
Read more from Twitter1/30/19
Family separation is continuing into the new year. This Honduran 1-year-old was taken and put into foster care a month ago.
— Hannah Dreier (@hannahdreier) January 30, 2019
Her mom gets one video call a week. In this call, the toddler will not look at her mother and cries to be held by a foster parent. https://t.co/xD8QIGEofZ pic.twitter.com/0wqpmSb2UY
1/31/19
*This* is the face of Trump's war on immigrants. A 17-month-old baby. Juliet. Returned last night to her mom. Asylum seekers from Honduras. Separated & detained by ICE for 2 months. This is the scene from SFO. Listen to her cries. Bear witness. This is trauma. This is too much. pic.twitter.com/sRvnn464Df
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) January 30, 2019
2/2/19
"BREAKING: Tonight the Trump administration filed documents that don't dispute the recent report that there may have been thousands more separated kids. They're arguing it would take too long to figure out where those kids are because they have no tracking system."
Read more from Twitter2/2/19
People being held in ICE detention sites are going on hunger strikes to protest conditions. ICE is force-feeding them. None of this should be happening in America. https://t.co/y7wdN0IyzL
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 1, 2019
2/3/19
Better to fix the system so they don't feel the need to go on a hunger strike.
2/4/19
US wants to avoid pulling what may be thousands of migrant children from 'sponsor' homes to rejoin parents, saying it "could be traumatic to the children." https://t.co/F4QSj2esun
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) February 3, 2019
2/5/19
The Trump Admin says it would be too difficult to try to reunite 1000’s of separated families.
— Nick Knudsen
“Analysts would have to work 8 hrs each day for btwn 7 & 15 months to ‘even begin reconciling’ data on separated families.”
SO DO IT!! #CrimesAgainstHumanityhttps://t.co/4FC841JX36(@DemWrite) February 4, 2019
2/5/19
Notwithstanding the trauma of ripping kids from their real parents—refusing to return kids is by definition genocide per Int’l Law
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) February 5, 2019
Article II: Genocide means any of the following:
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another grouphttps://t.co/r6lg04176U https://t.co/VHGvBkp4Re