Wednesday, December 26th, 2018
Stephan: It's Christmas time in America and our government directed by our vulgar criminal president is behaving like ... read this story then ask yourself what adjective comes to mind?
I'm tired of this inhumanity. It repulses me. There is no justification for what this article describes, but it is a powerful lesson. When you studied the Nazis in school did you ask yourself how did the workers in the camps that slaughtered millions live with themselves? I certainly did. It seemed unimaginable to me. Surely Americans could never behave in such a way, I thought. And yet... A second child this month died in custody, one of over 14,000 children now being held in concentration camps for no crime other than their brown skin, and wanting to escape their violent failed societies. As ICE and the Customs Bureau prove, getting Americans to behave in heartless ugly life-destroying ways is easy; just give them a little authority and a paycheck and you discover there are lots of Americans willing to do this nasty work. It is time we acknowledge this about ourselves and stand against such policies, and shun such people.
Members of a caravan of Central Americans who spent weeks traveling across Mexico walk from Mexico to the U.S. side of the border to ask authorities for asylum on April 29, 2018 in Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Mexico.
Credit: David McNew/Getty
“ICE, without a scintilla of human empathy, just dropped more than 200 migrants at an El Paso, Texas bus station a day before Christmas, leaving families with no money or food, most of whom do not speak English and have no means of communication.”
Without notifying local charities and shelters, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) quietly released hundreds of asylum-seekers from federal custody on Christmas Eve, leaving them at an El Paso, Texas bus stop without money, food, or anywhere to go.
According to the Texas Tribune, ICE “agents began dropping off the migrants late Sunday at a local bus station without warning local shelters that usually take in large groups after they seek asylum and are released by federal agents. About 200 arrived Sunday, about 200 more arrived Monday and the total number could […]