"But she is fading every minute she is there. Disappearing."

[demmiblue]

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My wife was a flight attendant and I was an Army officer in Atlanta in the late 90’s. I used to drop my kids off at a daycare that wasn’t bad and had cameras I could watch online. My daughter was maybe 3 or 4. I started noticing her spirit fading.

It was strange. She seemed listless at home and not her usual cheery sunny self. I didn’t get it. I looked at the cameras. The place was clean. The employees seemed nice but busy. I never saw her mistreated. But then I saw it. She was alone. I dropped her off and she sat alone.

They parked her on a bench at a table not unlike these while she ate a snack. She sat in a corner alone much of the time. She played a little but each day she grew more isolated and no one noticed. She was lonely.

So one day I dropped her off and watched from the lobby. My girl walked in and her face went blank. She sat listlessly. She simply disappeared before my eyes. The look haunts me still. I walked in and took her home. Called in sick and took leave to find a new place.

I can’t see this little girls face from this official White House photo of the VP’s visit to the Border Patrol yesterday. But I know what her expression is. She’s alone. Placed on a bench. Given snacks and a TV. But she is fading every minute she is there. Disappearing.

We can argue politics and policy of why she’s there. We can blame her parents or the Administration. But as a parent and veteran I’m horrified that our government is “disappearing” children right now and many think it’s nothing. It’s not. This is a scar on our nation.

This must end. Is there a surge of migrants? Yes. Are our policies causing them to become more desperate? Yes. Is our housing of them horrible? Yes. It’s not about “open borders” or not anymore. It’s about our humanity as a nation. Is this who we are? I’m not. We shouldn’t be.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1150020105469870080.html

[demmiblue]

1. Stealing this photo from kpete's thread (and kicking it)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212272927

[spanone]

2. children looking into the faces of evil.

[demmiblue]

3. And the fact that mother is there...

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The video is cringe worthy:

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The card board box in my recycling bin has more charisma than Pence.

[PA Democrat]

7. Does anyone think those kids are going to say anything NEGATIVE

in front of their captors? They seemed reluctant to even look at Pence.

Additionally, when talking to young children, it helps to get down to their eye level instead of towering over them.

[world wide wally]

13. As a former teacher, I can see what kind of a teacher she is.. Kids have a word for her...

BITCH

(Apologies to anyone else offended)

[IcyPeas]

14. "Boys, I'm the Vice President......"

[Grasswire2]

16. that pissed me off

Can you imagine how Obama would have been with the people being caged?

Or Biden?

Or even John Kasich?

[Botany]

4. Hey Rob Portman tell 'em about all the Russian money you took in 2016

n/t

[keithbvadu2]

6. Intimidating crowd.

Intimidating crowd.

[stillcool]

5. I hate so many people..

I don't even know. This sh*t is so inhumane. I can't.

[Initech]

8. I hate the 63 million that voted for this fucking monster in the WH.

And support and cheerlead his reckless policies that got us here.

[onecaliberal]

11. +1000000

[PA Democrat]

9. I just want to gather those children in my arms.

I can't understand how Americans can turn a blind eye or worse yet, ENDORSE this level of cruelty.

[TryLogic]

10. What are we doing, what are we going to do, to stop it?

[onecaliberal]

12. We're not doing anything. We just gave them more money and got nothing in return.

[liberaltrucker]

15. Those pics look a bit familiar

[marble falls]

17. Damn.

[Karadeniz]

18. That writer says it all. Experts have said that these conditions will permanently damage

These people, esp the children. Are we raising sociopaths? Will a future anger against what they suffered through someday cause some to take it out on members of society who may actually have deplored these conditions? Right now, Trump could be laying the foundation for future violence.

[cp]

19. So eloquent

My heart hurts.

[Ilsa]

20. Over 8000 psychologists and psychiatrists wrote the WH

to advise them that they were ruining these children from ever having healthy psyches.

I think the WH throws away most mail.

[Lonestarblue]

22. The White House doesn't care.

Trump and his Nazi Miller love to hurt people. Those letters about how they are damaging children probably made the day for Trump and Miller. Both are deviants who are capable of any cruelty.

[Aussie105]

21. The most evil thing an adult can do to a child

is to destroy their childhood innocence.

And it is so easy to do for some, it seems.

Special place in Hell for some, I'm hoping.