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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe day has arrived. Trump has begun ORDERING the DEATHS of CHILDREN!!
It is simply Hitler-esque!
Trump and Stephen Miller are pure evil.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/medical-deferred-action-deportations
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)I've caught a lot of crap on DU for suggesting that the concentration camps for migrants are not much different than the ones in Germany in the 1930s and 40s. Been screamed at, "But they aren't exterminating people." My response has always been, "how do you know what is being done? Tens of thousands of migrants are unaccounted for."
Whenever in history a leader has demonized and dehumanized a group of people who are then imprisoned in secret, atrocities have happened. Without exception. Trump has told his Border Patrol that immigrants need to be punished and suffer, he has told them that these immigrants are "animals" and "not even human." He's been clear that they need to be treated in the harshest ways. Our own members of Congress can't even get to see most of these detention centers, we have no idea what the conditions are like in the worst places.
It is not a matter of if, but of when mass graves are found. History doesn't have a single example of what is happening where atrocities didn't occur under these conditions with a leader calling for harsh and inhumane treatment. So whether it will be found that that a rogue group of guards took a group of migrants into the desert and executed and buried them or that it was more systemic than that. Mark my words, there are mass graves right now filled with innocent immigrants.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)It makes me sick, but it's true. We didn't even have a march for the kids. Three marches for women, one for the scientists, & zero for kids in cages. Not that I think a march would change anything. And I don't know what to do. I don't have the resources or support network to travel to the border or to DC, & protest for a week, much less for weeks on end. Not many people do. So I'm stuck writing & calling my members of congress, a mostly broken institution at this point. It's certainly not capable of stopping this nightmare.
I'm sick about this whole mess & can't believe our only solution is to wait until November 2020 & hope the GOP doesn't lie, cheat, & steal another term for this destructive inhumane piece of shit.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)No marches for kids in cages. Shameful. How sickening it is to be Good Germans.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And he's only 2 1/2 years into his first term. I guarantee that if he is given a second term we will look very much like Nazi Germany did at the end.
He is hateful, evil, vengeful and completely immoral. He has already shown that he has no regard for the law. There is no telling to what lengths he will go to eliminate his perceived enemies and those that he believes are inferior.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)must call this regime what it is a crime against humanity. We need to call it a crime of humanity. This is Stephen Miller, fuck him.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)turning every metropolis into a Hong Kong.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)and we must stop this, all I keep on thinking about is Handmaids Tale,
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Has become a PARTISAN issue (as has saving democracy in America).
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)should appeal to Europe and Japan to take these medical refugees and create a gofundme account for each and everyone of them. This would be a good time for Tom Steyer to head up this effort to prevent the unnecessary deaths of these children.
I'll donate.
We are not monsters like Trump and Miller.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)we are sitting ducks for this regime, who is next??? us??? tRump is an animal.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Inhuman, utterly compassionless being that Hitler was.
There are few to compare him to.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)kskiska
(27,045 posts)I wouldn't put it past him to "dispose" of them.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Evil Fuckers.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)everyone was asking where are the girls?? you think now what happened to them human trafficking possibility.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)You CAN'T overreact to this actions of these disgusting hoodlums!