Sunday, May 27, 2018

Did Trump Just Go Full Hitler on a Bunch of Catholic Children?



Long-term Target Liberty readers know that I have reframed from calling President Trump the next Hitler. The most I have done is compare some of his economic policies to those of Mussolini.  However, recent shocking reports by the ICE handling under Trump of Mexican and South American children is horrific news.

Bill Palmer is not exaggerating when he writes:
It turns out Donald Trump and his Gestapo have been rounding up Mexican families at the border, separating the kids from their parents, and putting the kids into “sponsor” homes that are such ungodly disasters that they made a point of not keeping records of where fifteen hundred of these kids ended up. They’re claiming the kids are “missing.” It’s easy to figure out that some fraction of them are either in abusive situations...Welcome to the Fourth Reich.
Here's some background from Think Progress:
How does one “lose” almost 1,500 children? 
Last month, Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary of the administration for children and families (ACF), announced at a Senate hearing that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement — which is to say, an office he oversees — was “unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of
1,475 children between October and December.”
The Los Angeles Times reports:
Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in San Diego that illuminates what Homeland Security is doing.

The filing says a mother and her young daughter, who are identified only by their initials, had fled the Democratic Republic of Congo — a country facing a humanitarian crisis from growing political violence with religious overtones — after taking refuge in a Catholic church. The mother and daughter arrived at the San Ysidro border crossing Nov. 1 and immediately asked for asylum. Hearing the mother's story, an asylum officer determined that she had a "significant possibility of ultimately receiving asylum," according to the lawsuit, and allowed the pair into the country as the application proceeded.

At first, they were housed in a motel. But after four days, the government incarcerated the mother, 39, at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and, without explanation, sent her 7-year-old daughter to a children's center near Chicago. In the four months since, they have been in touch only by phone, and only a half-dozen times, according to the court filing. Notably, the mother in this instance has not been charged with entering the country illegally. And there was no allegation offered by the government that she is an unfit mother, nor an explanation of why it did not release both mother and daughter to the custody of an immigration advocacy group.

These are not the actions of a humane government. To separate children from parents is unconscionable unless the child is at risk of harm. It becomes even worse when the separation comes as the family is asking for help and protection from the very people who then suddenly split them apart. This is just traumatizing the traumatized, and it needs to stop.

You also have to wonder about the humanity of the people who have concocted this policy.

There is some speculation that some of the "lost" 1500 have been turned over to child trafficking groups.

Republican Sen. Rob Portman said, “It’s just a system that has so many gaps, so many opportunities for these children to fall between the cracks, that we just don’t know what’s going on — how much trafficking or abuse or simply immigration law violations are occurring.”

A documentary from the PBS program "Frontline" said that the federal government has actually released some of the minors to human traffickers.

Trump is a beast.

  -RW  

36 comments:

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    1. Does the term "non sequitur" mean anything to you?

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  2. Yikes! Hope this sick puppy administration gets Nuremburged just like their ideological muses.

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  3. Is Palmer referencing the same 1500 as has been reported elsewhere? (eg, http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/26/government-has-lost-1475-children-it-sep ) If so, it's not the Trump administration but previous ones. Of course, this doesn't excuse Trump's horrific separation policy which would certainly add to the toll.

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    1. Yes, there are some inaccuracies with that story --it was the Obama administration whose separation policies resulted in the displacement of about 1300 children, and they were not separated from their parents but entered the country unaccompanied, but "The children were unaccompanied minors from various Central American countries who reached the southern U.S. border between 2013 and 2016." These are the same policies that DHS wants to continue and that Sessions, Cotton, Kelly and Trump wet-dream about.

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  4. First of all I would not take anything the media says about Trump at face value. Second, you say he's the next Hitler like it's a bad thing ;-)

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    1. I want to vomit on your face.

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    2. Hitler wanted to preserve his race and nation. To the antiwhites here at TL, there is nothing more evil than the white race.

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    3. Hitler murdered millions of innocent people. I don't care what he was trying to preserve.

      I'm not anti-white. My own ancestry is Celtic and Germanic and I'm not ashamed of it. I am anti-state. I don't care what the excuse is. The state is evil. Find a way to preserve your race without it.

      "But who will preserve my race?" is the lamest objection to libertarianism since "But who will build the roads?" Go knock up a white girl and leave the rest of us alone. All I see is crazy person waving a gun around and screaming some nonsense about his precious bodily fluids.

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    4. Re: Paul Hansen,

      --- Hitler wanted to preserve his race and nation. ---

      He failed, miserably.

      There are no anti-whites in TL, PH. There's a few white supremacist trolls who are irremediably paranoid, though - you, and He-Who-Fantasizes-About-White-European-Males all the time.

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    5. @Paul Hansen

      That’s not true. White identitarians are equally silly as all other collectivist scum.

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    7. @Donxon, thanks, but that's too kinky for my tastes. But if you head to the Gay section of San Francisco or Greenwich Village I'm sure you can find some takers. Do you want me to ask around?

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    8. @Dobson,

      "Hitler murdered millions of innocent people."

      Correction, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt murdered millions of innocent people.

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    9. I already have a lovely Swiss girl.

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    10. Uhh looks like Robert What? could use a refresher in the principles of reproductive biology.

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    11. I dont like Stalin or for or Churchill either. They are all violence worshipping psychopaths.

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    12. "I'm not anti-white. My own ancestry is Celtic and Germanic"

      That sounds about as convincing as someone saying "I'm not racist, I have black friends!"

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    13. What it sounds like is the truth. My families hail Ireland, Wales, Scottland and Germany. Sounds pretty Celto-germanic to me.

      That said there are people in my family who are Jewish, Chinese, Mexican, Black, Indonesian and everyone seems to get along fine because we're not a tribe of losers whose only source of pride is having had the foresight to have been born with the right amount of melotonin in our skin.

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    14. Pro tip: a condescending attitude and sarcasm comes off better when you dont sound like a complete retard. Melatonin regulates sleep in the body. Melanin is the pigment found in the skin.

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  5. Per the Los Angeles Times: "These are not the actions of a humane government." It's sad that anyone could think a government could be "humane," when all it represents is institutional violence.

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  6. It sounds like these people should stay away from the USA since it's so horrible. Perhaps they could improve their own homelands ?

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    1. Maybe the US should stay away from other people's homelands.

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    2. This is one area we agree on. Bring home all US troops back to their own soil. President Bolton won't let this happen though, as he's too busy fighting for Israel.

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  7. They need to be removed as criminals and sent back to their country of origin with their parents and improve their poop hole place. I know He Who Loves Black Males and other Duhversities and other anti-white commentators disagree, but they maybe they should move there and help them find their 'natural libertarian' in their own countries before they come here.

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    1. Disobeying the state is the opposite of “criminal”

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    2. Any immigrants who enter the country illegally should be granted immediate citizenship for demonstrating their stalwart commitment to freedom by refusing to let a stupid government fence erected by some loser busy body crook to get in the way of peaceful commerce. That is the American Way.

      We should deport ICE. We'll let you stick around though because your infantile hysterics amuse me.

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    3. @Donxon

      Agreed (except for the citizenship part, because who cares about a stupid piece of paper from the government...just leave them alone)

      But yes, we need more people who are willing to ignore the dictates of the self-appointed state “authorities” and do what’s best for their families anyway. That attitude is far more “American” (in the good sense of the word) than the pathetic bootlickers that now comprise most of the right wing.

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    4. @Donxon & @Evan, I can't tell if you two are being coy or not, but the problem is you can't have open borders and a generous taxpayer funded welfare state, which is what the US and Western Europe have right now. If someone wants to struggle their way in and make a good life for themselves, God bless 'em. Just don't ask us taxpayers to pay for them (Which we are currently). So which will it be: Open borders or welfare state?

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    5. The obvious answer is the get rid of the welfare state, but why should respecting the rights of immigrants be contingent upon that? The immigrants didn't set up the welfare state, Americans did that using their awesome culture. The immigrants just got here. You may as well tell new born babies that they have to crawl back into the womb until we figure out this welfare problem. It's so stupid. The immigrants are not responsible for the welfare state, that's a really lame excuse.

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    6. If welfare was the real concern, then why isn’t a “welfare wall” ever proposed? Let immigrants in, but don’t let them collect welfare (or vote, or whatever the supposed concern is.) IIRC Trump floated this briefly during the campaign, one of his rare good ideas.

      I’m sure the segregationists will say they can’t go for this because it could get repealed later on, but that’s true of any legislation.

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  8. From the Congo to the Mexico. Why staying in Mexico is not good enough?

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  9. Why wasn't Europe enough for your ancestors?

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    1. @Donxon, my ancestors came from Europe. Difference was there was no generous taxpayer funded "safety net" like there is now. It was up to them, their families and communities. You wanna open the doors and let 'em all in? Fine: just don't ask me to pay for them. Get rid of the welfare state and 90% of them would stay home anyway.

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    2. Why should respecting their rights be contingent upon America's ability to get it's act together? The immigrants didn't set up the welfare state, they just got here. Do you kick your dog if you lose your wallet? It makes no more sense to violate someone's rights for availing themselves of welfare than for walking down the sidewalk. Both are paid for by government theft. Tare we going to lock up everyone who walls down the sidewalk? Im.igrabts are not the problem. Our homegrown ignorance of economic is.

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  10. What's amazing is that 95% of those who are against immigrants believe in God. Hypocrites.

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