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6/16/18
Another story you'll want to read by a journalist whose own past painfully surfaces as he covers this story. Click on the birdie to view on Twitter.
when i was four, i was taken away from my father during an intense custody battle and placed in a group home for several years by an idiot judge. we went to parks and zoos, too, and then i’d cry myself to sleep most nights. the trauma left me bent for years. this is child abuse. https://t.co/3rsFfkIptX
— dell cameron (@dellcam) June 16, 2018
6/16/18
Family separation as a right-to-life issue: “One bishop...reportedly suggested “canonical penalties” — which could refer to withholding the sacrament of Communion — for Catholics involved in implementing the Trump policies.” From WP’s @mboorstein? https://t.co/9BObscab7E
— Nick Miroff (@NickMiroff) June 15, 2018
6/16/18
"Trump administration officials held a conference call to defend family separation at border & demand apology for @JoeNBC calling practice Nazi-like. None was willing to be quoted by name. https://t.co/ClnuCRUqga"
Read more from Twitter6/16/18
"Other governments have separated mothers and children"
Read more from Twitter6/16/18
""A message is being broadcast across the nation that migrants should be seeking asylum through official channels, and it's just not possible. What we're seeing on the ground is that people are being turned away." More at @npr: https://t.co/O6tk7Jrzy4"
Read more from TwitterDespite the sorta happy ending to this story, it's really not, given the policy that's featured in the rest of the thread.
6/16/18
President Trump has calculated that he will gain political leverage in congressional negotiations by continuing to enforce a policy he claims to hate - separating immigrant parents from their young children at the southern border, according to White House officials. On Friday, Trump suggested he would not change the policy unless Democrats agreed to his other immigration demands, which include...
Read more from www.washingtonpost.com6/17/18
"Over 60 Cities Protest Family Separation at the United States Border https://t.co/juSg7XOrCX via @TeenVogue"
Read more from Twitter6/17/18
Soon I'll be heading inside this Border Patrol processing center where immigrant families are separated in McAllen, Texas. I was there in 2015, requested to see it for months. Will Facebook live afterward on @latimes pic.twitter.com/VSIxmVGGmW
— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) June 17, 2018
6/17/18
Today, while we celebrate fatherhood, our country is systematically ripping children from the arms of their parents. What will we allow our nation to become?
— Sally Yates (@SallyQYates) June 17, 2018
6/17/18
On #FathersDay please remember all the fathers in Central America who are fleeing poverty and persecution in search of a safe life for their families. This is why parents come to the border with their children. Because they want a decent life for them. Because they love them. 1/ pic.twitter.com/dPoGGPIkci
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) June 17, 2018