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ZERO Tolerance: Kids at the Border

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Protest in Los Angeles, (Reuters: Patrick Fallon)

by Cheryl Dean

Probably you have seen what is taking place at the US-Mexico border in the past few weeks. A “zero tolerance” policy was issued in mid-April 2018 by Jeff Sessions the Attorney General of the US at President Trump’s insistence. This means that anyone crossing the border illegally will be prosecuted and their children will be taken from them.

And the US Attorney General has quoted the Bible in support of the plan.  He said:

“I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government, because God has ordained them for the purpose of order. Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful.”

What! This is unheard of. The parents will go to immigration jail and their children will go to detainment camps or facilities. The US government says it “doesn’t like to see this but it’s the Democrats’ fault.” If they would just support the building of the wall, this wouldn’t be necessary, so take it up with the Democrats. 

What is happening is extremely cruel and seriously damaging for both the parents and the children. These children are already in a state of chaos and suffering from a horrendous long journey to get to the border. A US pediatrician has stated that this kind of separation from parents or relatives will leave these children will irreparable damage.

These children are likely the most vulnerable population in the world. Government  employees will be responsible for their well-being, and if history means anything, many children will be neglected, abused in many ways, malnourished and traumatized.

They are also separating boys from girls in separate facilities, so many siblings will also be torn from their brothers or sisters. Even infants from breastfeeding mothers have been taken away. WHO DOES THIS!!! It is totally unbelievable.

Lawmakers in favour of this use the excuse that when Americans go to prison they don’t get to take their children with them, so why should these criminals.

The two are not comparable. These children have no one else, no other relatives or family friends to care for them.

It was reported by several US lawmakers who yesterday went to one of the facilities holding these children, that they were all being held in chain link cages!

I realize the authorities have to try to keep track of these kids, but it seems like they are prisoners instead. So far, the official count is 2200 children since mid-April (none weeks ago) have been separated from their parents, but it’s likely much higher.

We have heard about (but I can’t verify it) an elderly woman, a grandmother who had custody and raised her 16-year-old grandson. She made the trek to the official US border crossing seeking asylum and she went to immigration jail and her grandson who had autism and epilepsy was taken from her. This happened in 2017. Imagine the pain and trauma suffered by both the grandmother and the grandson. This is cruel and unusual. God only knows the condition of this boy now. This breaks my heart.

My eyes were opened to the corruption and injustice in the US five years ago, in regard to the outrageous shooting (and knifing?) of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but I never thought they would stoop this low.

Permanently damaging little children for the sake of politics.  I repeat PERMANENTLY DAMAGING CHILDREN for the sake of politics.

And don’t tell me this is the only alternative is to massive illegal entry. Separating children from parents is not needed. The US should make up its mind about jailing immigrants or whatever they have always done, and do so without taking the bizarre step of breaking up families.

The chief of Department of Homeland Security, just stated on CNN “We do not apologize for separating families”. This is a nation on its way to crumbling into the dust like the Roman empire did, and rightly so.

What must the world be thinking. Jesus said “Suffer the little children come unto me”. NOT “be the cause of children’s suffering.”

UPDATE: Jeff Sessions Criticized by his church.

According to the WASHINGTON TIMES of June 19, 2018: (in an article by Gabriella Munoz):

Over 600 members of the United Methodist Church have signed a formal complaint against Attorney General Jeff Sessions for “chargeable offenses” in the church this week.

The complaint stated that its goal was to reach “a reconciling process that will help this long-time member of our connection step back from his harmful actions and work to repair the damage he is currently causing to immigrants, particularly children and families.”

The letter levels four specific charges against Mr. Sessions: child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination, and dissemination of doctrines contrary to United Methodist Church doctrine.

Three of the charges are based on Mr. Sessions’ “advocacy for and implementation of” the administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy.

The complaint cited the attorney general’s use of Romans 13 in the Bible to justify the family separation policy “in stark contrast” to the church’s commitment to “supporting freedom of conscience and resistance to unjust laws.”

Romans 13 says “Render to Caesar that which is Caesar’s and to God that which is God’s.” I think The attorney general has really missed the bus on that one.

— Cheryl Dean is a Canadian watcher of the goings on south of the border. See her many articles at GumshoeNews, about the Boston Marathon bombing

 

 

 

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33 COMMENTS

  1. It does not seem as though Trump or Sessions thought this plan up by themselves.

    So who did think it up, and what hold do they have over the prez and AG?

    Or is the whole thing, like Marathon, a test of how cowed the people are?

    Every mother, left wing, right wing, or no wing, should be onto this one.

    • Mary, instigator of this system was Paedophile-In-Chief Bill Clinton, US President at the time. The Obama administration enforced it strongly, so the Democrats are hypocritical lying scum to be sounding-off about it now!

      I understand a prime motivation for the segregation is to ensure the adult isn’t an MS-13 mule for child sex-trafficking.

      It is all moot now anyway, as Trump has overturned the ruling. I hope that you and Ms. Dean will thank him for such a heartfelt action?

  2. PERMANENTLY DAMAGING CHILDREN for the sake of politics. Its an agenda. Rumours of walmarts being fitted out for sorting seem to be accurate now. Rumours of trafficking the children will likely be true. Left or right the agenda goes on, and will as long as people buy into the political lies.
    Thanks Cheryl, very unpalatable area, but it needs to be written about (witnessed- if you like). Till we grow up and deal with it. In the mean time, the statue of liberty should be sent back to the deitists .

  3. “A spokeswoman for the first lady said: “Mrs Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform.”

    Both sides of the aisle? There should not be any “aisle” in Congress. The US is not run by the party system (as is the Westminster system of Australia, itself a BIG mistake).

    Wake up, Mrs Trump. Find out who thought this up and report back to Gumshoe please.

  4. This was reported on INFOWARS

    “Family separation on the border only occurs under one of the following conditions: 1) If a migrant adult falsely claims to be a parent, or 2) is a threat to the child, or 3) is charged with a crime, such as illegal entry.

    The Obama administration did separate families, sometimes by thousands of miles by deporting male migrants a long distance from their point of entry under the Alien Transfer Exit Program.

    In contrast, the Trump administration hasn’t changed the rules, except perhaps by not separating families by thousands of miles – and by not giving “free passes” for illegal border crossing.

    During the Obama administration, migrants who claimed to be with their family weren’t criminally prosecuted, and this ultimately led to child trafficking as more migrants crossed the border with kids they falsely claimed as their children.”

    Now to talk about Manus Is.

  5. Same ol’ same ol’.

    Christianity has been doing this to children since its genocides of the America’s indigenous following east coast settlement.

    The Spanish Catolica slaughtered five million in the Americas, most of these children.

    On Samar Island in 1901, in the Philippines, the US machined-gunned their allies: 420 men, 2714 women, and 8294 children.

    The CIA’s Operation Phoenix in Vietnam tortured and killed 30,000 civilians, half of them children, and in front of their parents. Across Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, five million died, half of these children.

    The US starved to death, by sanction, half a million Iraqi children. A similar number of children died in North Korea, the same way. But this was after fire-bombing 20% of North Korea’s population, half of these children.

    The same US is now ramrodding Marines into sovereign nation allies, including Norway and Australia. The deaths will come later.

    Nothing like a bit of context, fellas.

  6. “Family separation on the border only occurs under …., or 3) is charged with a crime, such as illegal entry.”

    I think it is #3 that Cheryl is writing about. It is Greek to me why “illegals” can’t be deported. (Personally I am opposed to open immigration for Oz, US, and everywhere.)

    Is Honduras persecuting its citizens?

  7. Oops. It kinda looks like I am blaming Americans here. Just to democratise my criticism, the Anglican and Catholic churches kidnapped 65,000 English children and placed them in orphanages or in slavery, in Rhodesia, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Their parents were told they were dead.

    The same Churches stole 2000 Aboriginal children after they were removed from their parents, ostensibly because of neglect.

    20% of all these kids were sexually abused.

    • Tony it would help if you would name sources.

      Does not sound plausible to me that “parents [of 65,000 kids] were told they were dead.” Wouldn’t Ma and Pa ask to see the body?

      In Robert Louis Stevenson book Kidnapped, the guy sells his nephew David Balfour to work for 20 years in North Carolina. Tony, I think, as you do, that genocide is in the air. But the desire to make money by hurting someone is not the same as the impulse to wipe out a tribe. Most of your examples sound like “real” genocide.

      On the other hand, maybe the massacre in the Philippines was “for fun.” (I mean the thrill of the kill.)
      What do you think is behind this specific Walmart-housed thing?

    • Hi Mary

      The 65,000 children is the final figure drawn from the intervention of social worker Margaret Humphries, documented in her book “Empty Cradles”. The Murdoch media never mentions these children, nor do the Lowy-controlled universities and think tanks.

      As to the Aboriginal figures, these are what are bandied about by critics of the Stolen Generation saga which, by the way, was grossly distorted by the Commissioner for Equal Rights and Equal Opportunity. As far as I know, I am the only person who perused all of the NT files (three agencies) and many of the children claimed to be stolen were in fact rescued from horrific neglect by teams of housing commission officers, welfare officers, and police.

      I plan to campaign to make government release all of these files to the public.

      As to genocide: we have all heard about the poor health of Aborigines, but the true figures and circumstances are much worse. The official figures are grossly diluted using the term “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders” which includes the vast majority of “Aborigines”, at least half of whom you would not visually identify as Aboriginal. And Thursday Ilanders have nothing in common with Aborigines whatsoever.

      The actual sick Aborigines live in the cultural/linguistic delta of the Centre, Kimberly, and East Arnhem Land. If you look at the death rate among NT Aborigines who speak an Aboriginal language as a first language, the percentages soar dramatically. The Bureau of Statistics knows this but is powerless to redress the distortion.

      Here in Nhulunbuy, bodies are stacked to the mortuary ceiling. Funerals are delayed for several months. Everybody is dying, some fast and some slow. Most are dying in slow motion from the moment they are born.

      Government beats its collective breast at even the mythical death rate but never admits the real cause; which is zero communication.

      The reality is, for fifty years, all Aboriginal development efforts have adhered to the same failed formula of western culture application transmitted in English language. This does not and cannot work; either for health, education, employment, or social cohesiveness.

      For almost all NT traditional Aborigines, English is a third, fifth or even seventh language. Very few understand English, and for those who do appear to speak English, every word has a different meaning to what you or I would understand these words to mean. This is because language expresses culture, which entirely changes the meaning of every word or concept.

      The only conduit to saving NT Aborigines from cultural and partial extinction, is for government officers to learn Aboriginal languages. The anthropologist Elkin told government this 80 years ago and I did the same for 40 years.

      But government follows corporate dictums, which demand the cultural extinction of Aborigines wherever there are minerals or gas; and, preferably, relegation to compliant and brain-damaged remnants living in ghetto communities.

      That, Mary, is genocide… Aussie colonial style.

  8. Seems pretty plain to me what the root cause of this problem has been from the get go – open borders – as this country had under the previous Labor federal government that allowed 50,000 illegals to dictate that they had every right to come here!

    And it seems to me that the root cause has also encouraged those folk who believe it is their human right to enter the United States illegally while avoiding the legal process of applying for entry as a migrant – who would do such a thing? Terrorists, Drug runners, criminals on the run, etc, etc, yet none of that is mentioned in this article that only concentrates on the emotional aspects of the children involved in such blatant illegality in attempting to persuade the U.S. federal government into dropping the ball on illegal immigration.

    There is no mention by the author of how these kids are being used as pawns by their so called parents or worse, people smugglers to gain access to the United States.

    Such actions by those who know they have little or no chance of being accepted as a legal migrant
    is deemed illegal immigration, and for a reason that the writer of this article has entirely missed the point of.

      • True Mary.

        Any person who would rip a baby or infant from its mother is, by definition, a psychopath or sociopath.

        i do not believe such a person should be permitted to live.

    • Nemesis, I appreciate your comment and I do understand all you are talking about. I just feel that in this situation innocent children should not have to suffer so greatly. They did nothing wrong. I don’t agree that children are being used as pawns by their own parents. Should the parents just leave their children behind, just abandon them. Very few parents would ever do that. They want a better life for their children. If people steal and smuggle children in and claim to be the parents, then obviously they should go to jail and those children should be returned to their real parents. There must be a better solution than to cage and traumatize innocent kids who can’t speak for themselves. It’s just plain wrong.

  9. No gov seems to learn anything from history because they don’t care. So many of them are sociopaths and psychopaths. It would be a step forward for humanity if people would step up and stop this current evil before countless innocent little children are damaged for life or go missing or die in these detainment facilities. This could be stopped right now and I pray it will.

    • Hi Cheryl

      I suspect you may be aware of the book written by a US psychologist, who applied standard profile diagnosis to hundreds of CEOs and politicians and found that most were either suffering from narcissist personality disorder (NPD) or were actually sociopaths or psychopaths.

      Naturally, he made a lot of enemies, especially among media owners (who figure highly in this category) and so the public does not get to hear about it.

      I hope you repeat your assertion as often as possible.

  10. I always enjoy Gumshoe News but I think you should take deep breath. Earlier this morning in news from the U.S. it was disclosed that Mrs.George Wublu Bush had spread this so-called news blaming the Trump Administration for she thought was true. Enquiries have revealed that it was her husband passed the Law earlier in his Presidency. Maybe Google her latest remarks.
    Than you

    • Gaz, not that it matters who started it, but Trump and Sessions are happily taking the blame for it.

      This caper is a big mistake. There a millions of Cheryl’s.

      You go, Cheryl!

  11. So which senators visited? Cheryl has provided the names, and the name of the pediatrician:

    It is Dr Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

    Senator Jeff Merklay of Oregon, Sen Chris Van Hollen of Maryland,

    Rep Peter Welsh of Vermont, Rep David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Rep Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, Rep Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas.

    Now let’s see what they’ll do about it.

  12. Where, I ask, is the United Nations Organisation, in all of this. They were supposedly set up to prevent disasters such as this. Why are they not supplying humanitarian aid to these people in Mexico or further south, so that there is no need to illegally enter a foreign country.

    When I say humanitarian aid, I mean REAL aid, not an excuse for NGO’s, such as the Clinton Foundation, to rip the system off. Unless a person is under physical attacks, he or she should be required to stay in the country that they were born in and helped to live to a reasonable standard.

    If those companies and individuals that have an abundance of finance were to pay the taxes that they are legally required to do,then there would be more resources to buy over- produced foods and clothing for these poor people.

    The real problem is that these situations are deliberately designed by the likes of the Cabal. They want discontent and people struggling to exist. This is how they continue their stranglehold on control. There is plenty of real wealth in the World, that if distributed fairly, there would be no starving millions.

  13. Cause and affect. America has caused havoc, south of the border, and all over the world. These immigrants will be looking for work at extremely poor rates of pay, why. Conditions are worse where they are, and they see no future for their children. They will tolerate this for the children. The using of children not theirs to gain entry is a demonising ploy. See John Howard, ask him about children overboard. Mexico has vast resources, and had great fishing etc. No reason for want if your hard working and have that. America did its thing there, and for that they are liable, this illegal immigration tag is bull (where is the victim,except them). Big bully merica stamping on the face its neighbour.

  14. At the risk of annoying everyone with my repetitiveness: Simon says “Big bully America stamping on the face its neighbour.” I say it is not America.

    It may look like America. It may fly Boeings that have a red, white and blue logo, but it’s a non-nationl group.

    It isn’t Israel either. That state is a speck on the map and is scheduled to be wiped off.

    Mal is right that they do this [the Walmart thing] to stir us up. So let’s get stirred up already.

    • When I meet Americans personally, I am usually impressed by them, I like them, smart funny aware. Simon, these are the ones that travel I am told. One day, because of family, I had a multiple deployed yank child stay with us for a week or so. He was a Virginia boy, from a generations of them. The family had the huge house, the old style barns, white post and rail fencing, loverly. He enlisted because of 911, and family tradition. Some family were taking him to war memorials and banging on about great military type stuff. He was a nice boy so he went along and listened to talk of common allies with history etc. I could tell he was bored, but I liked he would humour them. After a few days, trust was built and just me and him started talking real. He was relieved that someone could understand the grunt or sapper. I knew he was PTSD, he only coming to terms with the idea himself. 2 stints in Afghanistan, and 1 Iraq. He explained that the grunts knew the good leaders, from other ones like maddog mattis , and shocked me, by being so open about “what goes on out there”. This is why they are so messed up, they know the constitution, and they know after being there, that they are an empire, not what they thought. They are separated then. The gov uses this to restrict the access to guns through mental laws, and tries everything to destroy them when they return home. These boys are very good disiplined soldiers and are a major threat should they invoke the constitution and form a militia. Like Stockholm syndrome, he became a contractor, to the US military, in a similar trade to mine. Again shocking me with what booze h a etc are doing out there (still).
      America is a problem, Americans are not. Americans are possibly the only answer to America.
      Israel is the same thing, and it is no speck. Bristling with nuclear arsenal , biological, phycological expertise. Most Israelis genuinely believe they are under attack.
      They now are IT experts as well, look where bibi went to college, look up operation talpiot.
      Simon stirred up – check
      Americans are very patriotic and a easy mark for me to stir up. They need to get over the exceptional nation stuff. Puts them on the high horse, blinkers them to what spreading democracy really means.

      • True, Simon, but last time I looked the US was 39th on the global literacy scale; and when someone atypically observant noted that high school kid’s inadequate vocabularies prevented them from reading their text books, instead of launching a national vocab expansion campaign, all the text books were rewritten with little words.

        Moreover, 70% of Americans cannot name their own vice-President.

        This and other attributes (LOL) tell me that the power elite in the US is driving the national knowledge base downwards, for obvious reasons of easy control. Very effective and it is now too late to undo the damage before the US disintegrates financially, socially, and politically… the prelude to martial law.

        Americans are nice. I particularly like people from the South and California. So I feel sad for them.

        As for Israel, no way, mate. I know a lot of Jews who do their own surveys in the US and in Israel (to be precise, 97% Ashkenazim in both countries) and see mass sociopathy.

        People like Israel Shamir, Schlomo Zand, Peter Meyers, and Gilad Atzmon, are very much exceptions to the rule. AIPAC is very much in control of the White House. The Zionist banker alliance is the NWO.

  15. Today Trump says he will be signing “something” tomorrow to stop the separating of parents and children. This is great news if it actually happens. This goes to show that if enough people are outraged and let that be known, that sometimes things can change for the better. Bravo to all those people to spoke out publicly. Many children’s lives will be saved from irreparable damage.

  16. If I may, I would like to provide some historical context to the US illegal immigration issue; especially the Mexican component.

    Large parts of south-west United States were the best parts of Mexico, stolen by the white American power elite (Alamo is the resonating saga).

    Second, the US power elite has been ripping that nation apart for a long time, and supporting right wing dictatorships (as in Cuba and every other Latin nation).

    Wealthy Americans enjoyed wetback cheap labour from Mexico, many of whom intermarried US indigenous Mexicans.

    Since post WWII, some 15 million Latinos have moved into the US, the illegals threatening social security and education.

    The rebel organisation, La Raza, has sworn to re-capture America’s South-West, and it is hard to deny the morality and justice of their position.

    Meanwhile, the global banker elite has precipitated wars around the world, deliberately creating the refugee crisis; with resonance in the US.

    In 2003, Gilchrist and his Minutemen began chasing people back across the border.. Their position was self-defense. All nations must protect their borders if they want to maintain a viable economy. (Hilariously, if you check their membership you will find my name. They still haven’t clicked that Darwin is not a small southern village).

    As I recall, the current attack on illegal immigrants was instituted by Clinton. Trump merely enforced that law.

    Finally, it is always wrong to separate mothers and children from their mother. It causes devastating trauma. Few politicians are normal enough to grasp this.

    • As we all know the NWO is wholly dependent on busting up families whether by subtle or not so subtle means.

      And the “asylum” issue is an absolute can of worms. I mean, if some one tried to bust into my property would I repel him at the front gate or lock ’em up in the back shed ? Wouldn’t the latter indicate that there was a bit more at stake than common trespass ?

      A Country that doesn’t have the will or capacity to deal with “unlawful entry” in a clean manner certainly can’t lay claim to any sort of nationhood.

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