"Trump Administration Argues That Caged Migrant Kids Don't Deserve Toothpaste And Soap"

Excerpt: "The most incredible thing about last week’s decision in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on detained migrant children is that the case existed at all. The court ruled that the Trump administration had to provide basic health and hygiene supplies, including soap and toothbrushes, to the children in its custody. 

Justice Department lawyers had argued that such items weren’t necessary to meet the required “safe and sanitary conditions” to hold kids at immigration facilities. The three-judge panel disagreed.

“Assuring that children eat enough edible food, drink clean water, are housed in hygienic facilities with sanitary bathrooms, have soap and toothpaste, and are not sleep-deprived are without doubt essential to the children’s safety,” Judge Marsha Berzon wrote for the court. One of the panel’s members, Judge A. Wallace Tashima, was himself held at a Japanese-American internment camp as a boy during World War II.

The episode amounted to an act of astonishing cruelty toward the children themselves. It was also an enormous waste of everyone’s time and energy.

... The American legal system spent countless man-hours to decide whether children in federal custody should get soap and toothbrushes."

Excerpted from "Trump's Tax On The National Psyche"
https://newrepublic.com/article/154818/trumps-tax-national-psyche

Trump's America Is A Deliberately Cruel Place And "Christian" "Conservatives" Are The Cruelest

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/trumps-america-is-deliberately-cruel.html



"The Cruelty Is the Point": Trump And Many Of His Followers Delight In The Suffering Of Enemies
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-point-president-trump.html

Conservative Evangelicals On Trump: Racism And Cruelty Are Fine, But Must There Be Swearing?

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/conservative-evangelicals-on-trump.html

"For Trump And Trumpistas Cruelty Is The Point"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/for-trump-and-trumpistas-cruelty-is.html

Momma Said There'd Be Days Like This: "Cruelty Is The Point"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/mommy-said-thered-be-days-like-this.html

"Family Separation And The Deportation Of Parents Constitute Kidnapping And Human Trafficking"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/family-separation-and-parent.html



"When Hate Came To El Paso," Introduced By A Central American Civil Rights Worker
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/when-hate-came-to-el-paso-introduced-by.html



Uncle Sam's Relentless Passion For Belligerence: We Americans Are Not Happy Unless We're Kicking Someone's Ass Or Are Actively On The Prowl For The Next "Designated Victim"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/uncle-sams-relentless-passion-for.html

"My Gripe With Christianity"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-gripe-with-christianity.html

"Are Highly Religous People Less Compassonate?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/are-highly-religious-people-less.html

Absolutism As A Last Ditch Defense Against The Challenge (Threat?) Of Kindness

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/04/absolutism-as-defense-against-challenge.html