Valenti writes: "What parents - and their children - face as Ice agents seek to punish undocumented people is beyond cruelty."
A one-year-old from El Salvador clings to his mother after she turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents on December 7, 2015, near Rio Grande City, Texas. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
The US Is Ripping Immigrants' Families Apart. That's Torture
29 May 18
What parents – and their children – face as Ice agents seek to punish undocumented people is beyond cruelty
s a parent, there are few things that haunt your nightmares more than the idea that you might somehow lose your child. That they would be taken from you, and that there would be nothing that you could do about it. The ability to protect your child – to make them feel safe – is as vital as oxygen.
And so I can’t imagine what parents are facing as the US government forcibly separates families in an attempt to punish undocumented immigrants. It’s beyond cruelty – it’s torture. Particularly when you think about what young children, who don’t speak the language and who are in a new country, must be feeling as they’re treated like criminals.
As low as politics in this country has gotten, this beneath even the worst of us. Or at least, it should be.
How outraged I am
On a scale of one to 10, children are literally being abused by the US government and there’s no number that can relay the horror of that.
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