Border Patrol Recorded Joking About Children Sobbing For Their Parents
"ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying 'Mami' and 'Papi' while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday."
"ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying 'Mami' and 'Papi' while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday."
"Children as young as 18 months who arrive with their parents have been forced into government custody while the adults serve brief sentences for the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry before going to immigrant detention centers. In some cases, they are deported without their children."
"There’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence—especially not when the government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits, track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of your home."
"Subsequent reporters pushed back against the false claims the press secretary was making—namely that their family separation policy was 'the law' and not a specific policy choice pushed by President Trump and promoted at the DOJ by Sessions on multiple occasions."
"There were two big temptations to the American Republic of the 1950s; subsequent generations gave in to both of them."
"The ACLU’s move from neutral protector of civil liberties to partisan advocate of liberal politics is both a symptom and consequence [of extremes gaining power]."
"Your government has separated these children from their families and is detaining them in warehouselike conditions."
"Unfortunately, shows of force are sometimes the only thing that works to repel an attacker."
"These are not actions by rogue agents. They are systematic, and they come straight from the top."
"The system includes mandatory facial-recognition scans at gas stations and Wi-Fi sniffers that secretly collect data from network devices. Over the past two years, the technology has helped authorities round up an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims and lock them up in clandestine camps that China calls 're-education centers.'"