Infamy

We in the United States can no longer say "This is not who we are." 

A team of lawyers inspecting a Border Patrol facility near El Paso, Texas, found hundreds of children—more than two dozen of them sick, some separated from their families, and all without adequate food, drinking water, and sanitation—neglected by the federal government. “Data obtained by The Associated Press showed that on Wednesday there were three infants in the station, all with their teen mothers, along with a 1-year-old, two 2-year-olds and a 3-year-old. There are dozens more under 12. Fifteen have the flu, and 10 more are quarantined.” 

Including jailed children forced to take care of other jailed children. Three girls said they were trying to watch over a 2-year-old boy “who had wet his pants and no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt when the legal team encountered him.” Others said they’d gone weeks without being able to take a bath or even change their clothes. Weeks, when under the law, Border Patrol is not supposed to be detaining them longer than 72 hours.

Trump administration officials were just in court arguing that they shouldn’t have to provide so much as soap and toothbrushes to jailed children. This, this is how and why they keep dying in U.S. custody. “In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention,” said Holly Cooper of the University of California, Davis’ Immigration Law Clinic, “I have never heard of this level of inhumanity.”  Link

If this doesn't enrage you, you have no empathy. If we fail to throw these monsters out of office in 2020, we own this and all the consequences. If we do not prosecute all who were involved in these atrocities, from the bottom to the top, we have failed in our moral duty to humanity. If we do not stop this now, we are all culpable.

I can't even imagine doing this to children. Shame to those who do it day after day willingly.