U.N. Rights Chief Tells U.S. to Stop Taking Migrant Children From Parents

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

GENEVA — The United Nations’ top human rights official on Monday entered the mounting furor over the Trump administration’s policy of separating undocumented immigrant children from their parents, calling for an immediate halt to a practice he condemned as abuse.

United States immigration authorities have detained almost 2,000 children in the past six weeks, which may cause them irreparable harm with lifelong consequences, said Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights.

He cited the observation by the president of the American Association of Pediatrics that locking the children up separately from their parents constituted “government-sanctioned child abuse.”

“The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable,” Mr. al-Hussein said.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/world/europe/trump-migrant-children-un.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur

[heaven05]

1. how many of these

children will never see their parents again?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. This type of oppression

is something many Americans' ancestors fled from.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. C'mon MSM...turn that frickin wrench until the bolt breaks

[workinclasszero]

4. Trump administration will withdraw US from UN human rights council, report says

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-us-un-human-rights-council-nikki-haley-israel-north-korea-iran-a8401281.html


This is the Child Molester-in-Charge's reply to the U.N.

Now what?

[lagomorph777]

6. Get rid of every single RePutin in every office in the land.

Exterminate their ideology.

[workinclasszero]

9. "Exterminate their ideology."

Before it exterminates us.

"First they came for the Hispanic children but I was not one of them..."

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller

[lagomorph777]

10. Yup - it's no exaggeration whatsoever to say this is the early stage of the American Holocaust.

[workinclasszero]

12. Trump's selection via Vladimir Putin and GOP treachery was and is a coup d'tat

The MSM struggles mightily to normalize Trump's brutal dictatorial regime since the day he took over.

Even now as the United States of America...the United.States.of.America!...kidnaps innocent children from their parents and puts them in dog kennel concentration camps they still defend him and they allow his one hundred lies a day to pass without comment.

The people in this country are on their own in this and they had better rise up in total opposition to the monster in the white house or all democrats and liberals will be well on the way to be imprisoned in Trump's gulag, you can bet your life on that!

[lagomorph777]

13. "all democrats and liberals will be...imprisoned in Trump's gulag, you can bet your life on that"

Unfortunately, we have. Without choosing to.

[pandr32]

16. Good for you calling it a "coup d'etat"

I wish more would.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[DFW]

7. Maybe "to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable," BUT:

However unconscionable it may be, it is VERY Republican, and it reveals the very essence of the mentality of the Trump team. The silence from Republican members of Congress, Republican governors and the Republican media is proof enough that they not only do not find anything wrong with the practice, they approve of it wholeheartedly.

[pazzyanne]

8. I'm waiting for the United States to be sanctioned for human rights

violations by the international community through the UN Human Rights Committee.

[lagomorph777]

11. It's already started.

[pazzyanne]

17. Good, not that tRump will acknowledge being sanctioned. Disgusting!

[volstork]

14. I'm sure nikki haley

will tell them to mind their own business, like the good little fascist she is.

"We will remain a generous country, but we are also a sovereign country, with laws that decide how best to control our borders and protect our people. Neither the United Nations nor anyone else will dictate how the United States upholds its borders."
-- nikki haley, June 5, 2018

[pazzyanne]

18. May I just say

[volstork]

20. Right there with you.

n/t

[Moostache]

15. It is time for a revolution...

This government is no longer of the people, by the people or for the people.

This government and its pseudo-grandiose wannabe-fascists needs to be undone. Waiting for elections in the face of human rights abuses and downright dastardly actions is complicity.

It is time for a general strike. A day of civil disobedience and if that fails, it is time to move to non-violent, massive civil disobedience and disruption of the capitalist god. Once the profits are threatened, the business cocksuckers will either order the firing on the population or replace the current usurper in chief and his cabal....either way, this CANNOT be allowed to stand.

The soul of this nation was assassinated at Sandy Hook, when nothing was done in the face of that evil, I knew we had larger problems than we knew...I just failed to believe it would extend to turning the United States of America into an evil dictatorship unworthy of membership in the civilized world.

[Stuart G]

19. K and R for exposure.