AMERICA'S DARK PAST IS BEING ECLIPSED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IMMIGRATION POLICIES.

The United States has a dark past that you will not find highlighted in high school history books: the brutality to slavery, KKK lynching of blacks, bigotry toward immigrants, white violence and resistance during  the integration of the south, racial violence during the seventies, unnecessary wars…

Rounding up of Jews and gypsies in Poland and German during the Second World War is well known; but we omit our history of rounding up Japanese Americans for transportation to detention camps during that same time period. 

We are incensed with the attack on the Twin Towers and the death of three thousand American civilians during nine-eleven; but somehow, we ignore the incineration of half-a-million civilian men, women and children in 1945 when America became the only nation ever to use a nuclear weapon. 

We are apathetic toward  American men and women still fighting a war in Afghanistan and other far flung corners of the world.   Perhaps we are too absorbed watching The Voice or Dancing With The Stars to pay attention to such triviality.  

Progressives seem to be able to rally against a stolen election, or a cry out for the Me Too movement and taking a knee for Black Lives Matter; but all of that pales against the new American atrocity.

Where is the outrage against American concentration camps for children?

Infants, preschoolers, adolescence and teens are forcefully taken away from their parents by ICE agents and placed in children concentration camps (calling them detention centers doesn’t make it any better.)

   Children are placed in cages like animals at a veterinary shelter while waiting transportation to ‘facilities’ run by for-profit private companies. 

  Because of the volume of children and the understaffed bureaucracy many of these children will never be reunited with their parents.  

The Trump Whitehouse, spearheaded by Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, is responsible for this cruel and inhuman policy.

Where is the outrage?  Where are the marches?  Where are the outcries?

A few days ago, Senator Jeff Merkley tried to inspect one of the children detention centers and was barred from access to the government funded facility by local law enforcement. 

 

This is a time for action.   Write your Senators demanding they form a bipartisan children’s task-force and file a request with a Federal Judge for a warrant to inspect unannounced any facility housing immigrant children.   These Senators are representatives of the people and the people have a right to know the conditions in the American concentration camps housing incarcerated children. 

Senators, accompanied by U.S. Marshals, should demand access to these facilities, and the conditions made public. 

This atrocity against children will add to America’s dark history in decades to come. 

the Ol'Buzzard