So people will run from the danger on their heels, but they will head deeper into the desert; following the most dangerous routes, to enter into this land of possible safety. As they do this more refugees, and the children in their arms will die - in the deserts, locked in the backs of freight trucks; trapped in cargo containers baking in the heat of 105 degree sun.
And the millions of us who have had a small taste of the cruelties of these systems will watch and the our nightmares will join the nightmares of the parents and children cruelly trapped in a no win situation of one of the cruelest administrations on the planet. Welcome to the New Untied States.
This is a policy deliberate in its cruelty to whip a "base" to hate these created "others" who it is claimed are coming to "infest" the United States. It is a deliberately cruel policy where the horror is being used to push through two other policy goals - to build an expensive and dangerous wall, and to recraft immigration into the United States to effectively ban the "brown" people from crossing into the United States. It is a deliberately expensive policy to throw hundreds of millions of dollars into the private "corrections" industry and to undermine the system of justice via mass trials and not allowing the victims of the policy legal representation - or even advice - thereby creating an entire class of people who are denied due justice rights. If that does not scare you, it certainly should.
And we watch, and cry, and rage, and yes I hope rise up and stop these actions that are anathema to any level of human rights.
(Article changed on June 22, 2018 at 20:27)
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