Family Separation: Make No Mistake, It Was Designed To Be Cruel
Excerpt: The separation of children from their parents at the Southwest border is not simply a policy that has resulted in immeasurable harm, but a policy designed to inflict it. The government blew its Thursday deadline to reunite these families because it never intended to do so...
According to Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) in an op-ed article, this cruelty was by the administration’s design:
The separation of children from their parents at the Southwest border is not simply a policy that has resulted in immeasurable harm, but a policy designed to inflict it. The government blew its Thursday deadline to reunite these families because it never intended to do so.
How else can we explain what has happened to these families? Some 14 million checked bags are managed by the Transportation Security Administration — and that’s just during Thanksgiving weekend. Even high school students can manage a coat check for an evening without losing everyone’s coats. They match each coat and owner with corresponding tickets, and do not store the coats outside the building, or even thousands of miles away from the event.
The administration did not take even these basic measures when it began to separate children — not coats! — from their parents. It did not use corresponding numbers for the files of parents and children, or take photos of families together, or hand out hospital-style bracelets. It did not house families near one another, choosing instead to hold mothers in California and daughters in Chicago, fathers in Texas and sons in New York City.
In fact, the administration seems to have taken a comprehensive inventory of confiscated items — sneakers, toothpaste, rosaries — everything except which child belongs to which parent.
These are the actions of a government that intended to separate families but did not intend to reunite them. It meant to inflict so much suffering that other families wouldn’t make the dangerous trek. No matter how bad the violence might be in Central America, surely these families would choose to stay united rather than come and be separated.
There Is A Deep Strain Of Cruelty In The American Psyche
This Cruelty Is Largely Based On The "Christian" Belief That Punishment Is Not Only Necessary But Godly
Are Highly Religious People Less Compassionate?
Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others
The United States Is A Singularly Cruel, Vengeful Nation. Solitary Confinement For Kids
There Is A Deep Strain Of Cruelty In The American Psyche
This Cruelty Is Largely Based On The "Christian" Belief That Punishment Is Not Only Necessary But Godly
Are Highly Religious People Less Compassionate?
Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others
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