At the border, they took infants away from mothers immediately after childbirth

[lostnfound]

Joy Reid just mentioned it in her discussion of Stephen Miller. “No word” of where the infants were taken.
I’m not surprised, but special place in hell for anyone who would do that. Special place in hell for all of us, for not stopping it.

Nice Christmas story. Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus in a manger for just a minute or two, and then baby Jesus is gone. Sold By Herod’s handmaiden for some pieces of silver, perhaps.

[demmiblue]

1. Trump Administration Separates Some Migrant Mothers From Their Newborns Before Returning Them to Det

“I don’t know if they lose their babies for good,” one doctor said. “But I do know the process is torturous for them.”

This is the third article in a Rewire.News series on the treatment of pregnant migrants under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy. Read the first article here, and the second article here.

It has been almost a year since President Donald Trump signed the executive order purporting to end his policy of separating parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border. However, his administration’s broader zero-tolerance policy continues today—and because of it, a particularly heinous form of family separation is playing out in Texas.

As Rewire.News reported in part one of this series, migrants prosecuted under the “zero-tolerance” policy are remanded to U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) custody, and this is when lapses in medical care happen. Advocates told Rewire.News pregnant migrants detained in USMS custody are not receiving adequate services, and they are shackled when accessing prenatal and postpartum care. Some women are even shackled during birth, as Rewire.News reported in part two of this series.

Advocates also report that some asylum seekers in the Western District of Texas who have given birth in USMS custody were forced to hand over their newborns to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). Reuniting with their newborn hinges on their release from federal custody, and whether they can access legal help to navigate the child welfare system. We learned that women who find their way to advocacy organizations appear to be reuniting with their newborns, but Rewire.News was unable to verify what happens to the children of women who do not have access to legal help.

Late last year, Dr. Shelly (a pseudonym), an OB-GYN in the Western District of Texas, said there were multiple cases where pregnant migrants who had just given birth at her hospital were forced to give their children up to Texas DFPS.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/05/28/trump-administration-separates-pregnant-migrants-newborns-before-returning-detention/

[lostnfound]

2. Sociopaths like Miller would be outraged if the government took a single extra dollar from them

They are outraged that the government takes money out of their paychecks but can’t be bothered about children.

[CrispyQ]

3. "Special place in hell for all of us, for not stopping it."

We didn't even have a march for the kids in cages.

And I'm part of the problem. But honestly, I don't know what to do. And I think others feel the same. I don't have the support system or financial wherewithal to drive to a detention center & protest for a week, much less weeks on end. My rep & one senator are dems & Cory Gardner isn't going to do a damned thing, although I do call him on a regular basis. I honestly don't know what else to do. Donate to the ACLU? SPLC? I can do that.

[bdamomma]

14. This is being done in our names

70.000 children have been taken away from their parents. I'm waiting for a whistleblower to blow this horrendous act up too. Unless crimes against humanity is warranted for this filthy regime. Horrible just horrible. This will come back to bite us.

[JoeOtterbein]

16. I called my three; Smucker, Tomey and Casey. It anger-hurts me that no one, including...

...Casey, even bothered to get back to me after I begged them to come with me to sit in front of one of these camps in protest.

I feel like a complete failure.

[Lulu KC]

4. We will all be paying for this in 15 years

when the early childhood trauma emerges in angry youth. He is messing with mammalian biology and there will be hell to pay.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. I think tRump is not mammal and I know Miller is lizard. . . . nt

[Lulu KC]

8. Agreed

But that does give lizards a bad name.

[llmart]

5. How many major news outlets have talked about this on the nightly news?

Instead we get all sorts of stories and pictures and videos of that ugly piece of shit, Iwanka and her so-called "women's empowerment" shit.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. It's child abuse. Bonding is important for normal development of the child. . . . nt

[littlemissmartypants]

22. And a classic example of violence against women.

https://www.thehotline.org/is-this-abuse/abuse-defined/power-and-control-wheel/

It's actually remarkable how much of the wheel parallels our current state of affairs. Just substitute "she" & "her" with "the American people" and it's amazingly revelatory.

[flying_wahini]

9. The DeVoss family are involved, too.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/

[BuffaloJackalope]

10. If they don't want to be called Nazis, maybe they should stop acting like Nazis.

[2naSalit]

11. 21st century slave trade...

out in the open and funded by taxpayers.

[Volaris]

12. Mexico should file for crimes against humanity charges, if theres a way for them to do that

[LiberalArkie]

13. China Covers Up Killing Of Prisoners To Continue Harvesting Organs For Transplant: New Report

https://slashdot.org/story/19/11/16/1953213/china-covers-up-killing-of-prisoners-to-continue-harvesting-organs-for-transplant-new-report

The practice, described as "state-run mass murder" and valued at $1 billion each year, has supposedly been outlawed in the country. But a new report, published on November 14 in the BMC Medical Ethics journal, refutes this, accusing China of a "systematic falsification and manipulation of official organ transplant datasets," as the killings continue.

[JoeOtterbein]

17. Jeeze...I hope Trump and Miller don't know about this.

They obviously both need a heart!

[LiberalArkie]

18. I had read that a system was not set up to match children with parents. So once a child

leaves the side of the parent, the child is lost as far as the parents are concerned.

[lostnfound]

20. They definitely returned the wrong baby to the wrong parent at least once.

https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/evev87/a-mother-was-given-back-the-wrong-baby-after-hers-was-taken-at-the-us-border

[Farmer-Rick]

15. I'm sure there is another Epstein waiting to cash in on

Those separated children and plenty of the filthy rich who like abusing them.

God, there is just so much evil there in what Traitor Trump did. And Trump's Slovenian sex worker went out with that coat trying to convince everyone to not care about those babies. I know America will be paying for this Traitor Trump crime for a long time.

[jmowreader]

19. That's how the buyers want them

I've said this before: Trump is not stealing babies (just) because he's a mean, low-down, despicable bastard. He's stealing them because the "Christian" "adoption" agencies need children to sell, and they can't get them from Russia anymore.

[lostnfound]

21. Ban on Russian adoptions. Wow I hadn't thought of that.

Wonder if Devos depended on those.