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Different Drummer

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Sun Jun 17, 2018, 07:44 PM Jun 2018

We are committing human rights abuses.

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Because of the Administration’s policy of breaking up families at the border, these detention facilities are overflowing with children. Many don’t know where their parents are. Let's be clear: this is a human rights abuse being committed by our government.




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We are committing human rights abuses. (Original Post) Different Drummer Jun 2018 OP
Yep Solly Mack Jun 2018 #1
Tell it like it is democrank Jun 2018 #2
I wish the United Nations would get involved in this. George II Jun 2018 #3
THIS is the Cretin's legacy. Haunt him forever. Every second. Guilded Lilly Jun 2018 #4
Human rights abuses are a prominent thread in our country's history. We tblue37 Jun 2018 #5
This. n/t Different Drummer Jun 2018 #6
Kamala Harris is fast becoming one of my favorite people in DC pazzyanne Jun 2018 #7
it is state sponsored child abuse elmac Jun 2018 #8
RESIST slumcamper Jun 2018 #9
This is another reason Trump wants out of UN Human Rights Council bitterross Jun 2018 #10
We also condoned TORTURE and still have innocent victims locked up in Ferrets are Cool Jun 2018 #11

tblue37

(65,393 posts)
5. Human rights abuses are a prominent thread in our country's history. We
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 08:13 PM
Jun 2018

are supposed to be evoving, but every bit of progress is resisted and where possible unraveled by the bad guys.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
7. Kamala Harris is fast becoming one of my favorite people in DC
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 08:41 PM
Jun 2018

I have been paying more attention to the job she is doing in the Senate and I really like the way she thinks, the way she frames things, and the way she can effectively nail the swamp members to the wall. Go, Kamala!

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
10. This is another reason Trump wants out of UN Human Rights Council
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 09:47 PM
Jun 2018

Not only does he wish to support anything Bibi does, he wants to be a dictator too. Not that being a hypocrite has been much of a problem for him so far.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)
11. We also condoned TORTURE and still have innocent victims locked up in
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 09:58 PM
Jun 2018

Guantanamo Bay. We sent troops to kill ONE MILLION women, children and men in Iraq for oil.
We are not a good country. We pretend to be, but we are not.

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