“We cannot allow this evil to continue,” said one commentator after reading a CNN reporter’s description of an immigration court hearing in Harlingen, Texas on Monday, where children as young as 3 appeared without legal representation and were asked by a judge whether they wanted a “voluntary” departure from the US or a deportation order."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-deports-children
#migrants #children #deportation #refugees #humanrights #barbarism
@Persona When I was three, I was hauled into a hearing and asked who I wanted to live with, my mom or my dad. It gave me nightmares for YEARS. And that was a CUSTODY hearing where I got to go home with a parent who, in theory at least, loved me.
This is child abuse.