Connie Schultz: You, Too, Would Do This to Save the Life of Your Child

[babylonsister]

https://www.creators.com/read/connie-schultz/05/18/you-too-would-do-this-to-save-the-life-of-your-child

You, Too, Would Do This to Save the Life of Your Child
By Connie Schultz
May 9, 2018

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In two speeches this week, Sessions bellowed his latest version of "zero tolerance" for undocumented immigrants. The self-avowed Christian calls them "illegals," and we know why. If you can pretend they're not human, you don't have to think about what your God knows you're doing to them.

"If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you as required by law," Sessions said. "If you don't like that, then don't smuggle children over our border."

He's just confirming what we already knew. The New York Times' Caitlin Dickerson reported last month that "more than 700 children have been taken from adults claiming to be their parents since October, including more than 100 children under the age of 4."

Say that out loud: more than 100 children under the age of 4. Think of them as your own, if that's the only way you can imagine the anguish of those innocent babies. This trauma will affect them for the rest of their lives.

Sessions likes to cast himself as a defender of the unborn. Like too many so-called pro-lifers, his concern for children ends with his desire to control a woman's womb. Boy, do I know that type. In recent weeks, hundreds of preprinted "pro-life" postcards have flooded our home mailbox. Occasionally, they include scrawled postscripts, such as this anonymous warning: "God! is watching You — You will Be JUDGED one Day?"

Not one of these notes has mentioned those hundreds of children who've been separated from their parents. If you cherish children, how can you remain silent in the face of this assault on their lives? If you're a person of faith, do you think God's not watching?

Most of my hate mail about immigrants comes from men. I don't easily give up on people. So my hope is that many Republican women are sickened by this administration's willingness to punish innocent children.

Where are you, my sisters? Where are you, mothers, aunts and grandmothers — any woman who loves a child?

Is there a limit to what you would do to save the life of a child you love? Why, then, would we ask any less of parents who are fleeing the most dangerous countries in the world to save the lives of their children?

Yes, there are laws. And there are rules — God, yes, more by the day. But if your child's life were at stake, is there any law you wouldn't break, any border you wouldn't cross, to keep your child safe? To keep your child alive?

Every American who cherishes a child understands the same fierce force of that love. I know it, and you know it. It's time you let your members of Congress know it, too.

You want to save the lives of children?

Well, there they are, innocent and terrified, screaming for parents who tried to save them.



Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and professional in residence at Kent State University's school of journalism. She is the author of two books, including "...and His Lovely Wife," which chronicled the successful race of her husband, Sherrod Brown, for the U.S. Senate. To find out more about Connie Schultz ([e-mail]) and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

[Blue_Tires]

1. The children aren't white and their mothers don't speak English

which means the general public won't give a rat's ass because Fox News has drilled into their heads that the mother is just a future welfare leech, the son a future gang member, and the daughter worst of all is destined to spawn more welfare leeches and gang members once she turns 15...

[Ohiogal]

2. Sadly, you are correct, Blue_Tires

Connie is a graduate of my alma mater (Kent State). I wish I had known her when I was there at the same time.

She always puts my exact feelings into such eloquent words.

[gratuitous]

3. Sessions' fealty to the law is a curious thing, isn't it?

A serial perjurer in his sworn statements and testimony to Congress, AG Sessions is very scrupulous about everyone else following the law he so blithely flouts.