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| Sadly, it won't--republicans just do not care. |
It's been said that when one makes a mistake more than once, the first one can be an accident but by the second one it begins to look like carelessness.
For the second time in less than a month, a child whose family was seeking asylum here in the U.S. has died under the care of the Department of Homeland Security. At best, this looks like indifference on the part of the Trump Administration. At worst, it's out and out cruelty. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen issued a statement which sounded a lot like she was more bothered by having to issue the statement than she was by the child's death. Donald Trump predictably blamed the Democrats for our immigration policies, ignoring, of course, that republicans have controlled the federal government for the last two years and could have implemented their horrid policies at will (and faced an even worse backlash at the polls than they did last November).
Anyone want to imagine the republicans reaction had either of these children died under the Obama administration? It would have been the first and second time that republicans ever cared about people of color, and it would have been more about scoring political points than the loss of the children.
Anyway you slice it, two families have now suffered the most horrific nightmare a family can suffer, and the Trump administration bears all of the responsibility. And whatever evil should befall those whose indifference and cruelty allowed the two deaths will be richly deserved.
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee
