We are better than this

[bigtree]

Martin O'Malley ?@MartinOMalley 3h3 hours ago
@DHSgov holiday plans for raids to round up/deport Central American refugees fleeing death are wrong. We are a better nation than this.



A group of young migrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico borderare stopped in Granjeno, Texas, June 25, 2014.

U.S. Planning Operation To Deport Central American Families
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/24/460925279/u-s-planning-operation-to-deport-central-american-families

Gabriela Domenzain ?@GabiDomenzain 4h4 hours ago
@DHSgov always buries #immigration news on Fridays after 6pm. This year they chose Xmas Eve to announce massive raids are back. Nauseating.

Mike Connolly ?@LunchLid 8h8 hours ago
This is a pathetic excuse for policy. It's who we are now as a country. But it shouldn't be.


from July 11, 2014:

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley broke publicly with President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday, calling for a more humane policy toward the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors who have illegally crossed into the United States.

“It is contrary to everything we stand for to try to summarily send children back to death,” the Democratic lawmaker told reporters. O’Malley also criticized the “kennels” in which those who have been detained are being kept and calling for the children to be placed in “the least restrictive” locations, including foster homes or with family members in the U.S.

“Through all of the great world religions we are told that hospitality to strangers is an essential human dignity,” O’Malley said. “It is a belief that unites all of us. And I have watched the pictures of young kids who have traveled for thousands of miles. I can only imagine, as a father of four, the heartbreak that those parents must have felt in sending their children across a desert where they can be muled and trafficked or used or killed or tortured. But with the hope, the hope, that they would reach the United States and that their children would be protected from what they were facing at home, which was the likelihood of being recruited into gangs and dying a violent death.”

Hillary Clinton told CNN last month that most of those detained should be sent back. “They should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families are,” she said. President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the parents of the migrants need to know that “it is unlikely that their children will be able to stay.”

read more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026628573

[elleng]

1. I am SO glad he said this, bigtree.

We are SO much better than this!

[bigtree]

2. god, yes

...or, we should be.

Sometimes, I just don't know, elleng. How many people here, on a board which evidently has members who identify themselves as progressives, will bother themselves to speak out on this issue? It should be overwhelming support and advocacy here, but, when you have a major candidate who has already taken the position of sending the children back into harm's way; and, another who obsesses on whether they're taking someone's job...

[elleng]

3. Well, I do think our better years have passed,

UNpleasantness is on the move. We WERE better than this.

[restorefreedom]

4. again OM is on the right side of ethics

honestly i don't know what the (bleep) obama is thinking on this. i get more and more disappointed in him almost with each passing day. its getting harder to see the differences between him and some republicans. probably will get flamed for saying so, but this is beyond the pale.

[bigtree]

5. O'Malley deemed “real hero for the immigrant community.”

Lis Smith ?@Lis_Smith
@GovernorOMalley deemed “real hero for the immigrant community.” Who else could you say that about in #2016? No one. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigration-2016-issue-upped-martin-omalleys-candidacy-n366666

[restorefreedom]

6. he has been very consistent, which the current admin sadly has not. nt

[CrispyQ]

7. Are we better than this?

In Denver last week:



http://theantimedia.org/denver-cops-break-up-homeless-camp-in-the-middle-of-a-snowstorm/

This is what we do to the homeless in our own cities.

on edit: I love MOM. I wish the media would give him more air time, but then reason doesn't sell as good as hate & fear.

[elleng]

9. Not so much, anymore.

[lovemydog]

8. Yes, we are better than this.

Thank you for your informative posts bigtree.

Happy holidays to you.

Happy holidays to all who work for an America that lives up to the ideals of our Statue of Liberty.

[bigtree]

10. Happy holidays to you, lovemydog!

[mmonk]

11. Bueno