❝ When you’ve already separated families, thrown children in cages, and held them in conditions that “could be compared to torture facilities,” it’s a bit of a challenge to come up with your next act. Evil takes creativity, and once you’ve forced migrant kids to go weeks without a shower or change of clothes and fed them expired food, it’s tough to continue nailing those Hitler comparisons. Somehow, though, the Trump administration always rises to the occasion…
❝ Severely ill immigrants, including children with cancer, cystic fibrosis, and other grave conditions, are facing deportation under a change in Trump administration policy that immigration advocates are calling cruel and inhumane.
… The program granted stays of deportation in two-year increments and didn’t promise immigrants a future in the United States, just access to care in a time of need, said Dr. Sarah L. Kimball…Boston Medical Center…
❝ …The outrages now come with such regularity that each tends to distract from the last. But it’s important to protest not just these changes, but also their overriding intent: to remove all vestiges of compassion from the immigration system and make life as miserable as possible for immigrant families. Can this administration sink any lower than threatening to deport kids with cancer?
Once again, I see no need whatsoever to separate the fools who continue to support this thug – and the scumbag, himself. We all see what his time in office contributes to diminishing human rights, human dignity. He doesn’t care. I see no reason to believe those who support this fake president and his policies are any different.
“Faced With Criticism, Trump Administration Reverses Abrupt End to Humanitarian Relief” (NYT 9/2/19) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/02/us/trump-immigration-deferred-action.html
Includes a link to the remarkable story of Maria Isabel Bueso, for whom deportation would be a death sentence.
Maria was 7 years old when she came to the United States from Guatemala at the invitation of doctors who were conducting a clinical trial for the treatment of her rare, disfiguring genetic disease. The trial was short on participants, and thanks to her enrollment, it eventually led the Food and Drug Administration to approve a medication for the condition that has increased survival by more than a decade. Over the years, her parents have paid for the treatment that keeps her alive with private medical insurance and last year, she graduated summa cum laude from California State University, where she worked with the school to start a scholarship for students with rare diseases.
(10 hours ago): “At press time, there has been no decision on Bueso or others targeted for deportation.” http://pioneerpublishers.com/PPublishers/concord-girl-fights-for-her-life-on-congressional-stage/