1ClassyLady 68F
3126 posts
6/18/2018 9:51 pm
Crying for 'Mami' and 'Papá' at a Border Patrol detention center

According to ProPublica, the recording captured 10 Central American ages 4 to 10 who had been separated from their parents and brought to the unnamed facility within the previous 24 hours. The article describes the crying “‘Mami’ and ‘Papá’ over and over again, as if those are the only words they know.”

A border patrol agent is heard saying “Well, we have an orchestra in here. What’s missing is a conductor.”

Photo 1: who’ve been taken into custody rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, on Sunday.

Photo 2: A two-year-old Honduran girl cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.

Photo 3: All 5 first ladies speak out on family separations at border.

Photo 4: New 'TIME' magazine cover shows Trump looking down at crying migrant . (No, Trump didn't meet that girl, it is just a photoshop only)







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1Bowman 71M

6/26/2018 12:30 pm

    Quoting TC8657:
    If you look closely you will note the girl in Photo #2 is the same as the one on the Time cover. Further, it is well known that the media has been substituting photos from the Obama era detention centers, not the Trump administration.

    And the little girl on the cover of Time, and in Photo #2, -- according to her father -- was NEVER separated from her mother... it was just media propaganda.

    Whether you like Trump or not... you should be offended by the media's constant attempt to hoodwink you.
Many as yourself Assumed this little girl was one of the kids taken away. She's not and no one in the media said she was. She has been used as a symbolic gesture of the age & upsetting of these children they refer too.


1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
6/23/2018 7:35 pm

    Quoting TC8657:
    If you look closely you will note the girl in Photo #2 is the same as the one on the Time cover. Further, it is well known that the media has been substituting photos from the Obama era detention centers, not the Trump administration.

    And the little girl on the cover of Time, and in Photo #2, -- according to her father -- was NEVER separated from her mother... it was just media propaganda.

    Whether you like Trump or not... you should be offended by the media's constant attempt to hoodwink you.
I do know the Time magazine photo was a "photoshop", they didn't really meet. I have said in this blog "photoshop". Please read carefully before you jump the gun on me.

I do understand Trump actions on "illegal migrants" have his rightful reasons. But not all migrants are drug lords, **ts, criminals, .... He humiliated the whole race - Mexicans or Latinos. I mean there are good people and bad people in every country. We have White trash, White criminals in our country too.

I understand why Trump wants to impose the tariffs on steel and aluminum that effects on Canada the most, Mexico, and Europe. I know Trump wants to fulfill his campaign promises, so he does his way like a dictatorship. He is NOT totally wrong, but he is NOT kind person.

Like I have said in my other blogs, I don't like Trump's bully personality, aggressive behavior, arrogant attitude, mocked minorities, i.e. Blacks, Muslims, Mexicans, .... and women. I don't like he praised NRA are good people.

Trump had said "if I stand on 5th Avenue and randomly shoot someone, I won't lose a vote", "if they take away her (Hilary Clinton) security's arms, see what will happen?", he has vendetta with Obama and "Obama birth place", his Russia "pee pee" tape, his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, the adult movie star, Stormy Daniels, .... There are just too many to mention.

I am pro "Green environment", "peace on earth", I disagreed many things with Trump, but I don't hate him. Although I wasn't born in USA, but I have been "Neutralized citizen" for 38 years. I have studied in an University in Southern California and became Calif licensed pharmacist. I am a good citizen, never violated any law (misdemeanor or felony) or even traffic ticket. Knock on wood!!

I have my "First Amendment" right to speak out for what my thoughts are. Honestly, I don't like "2nd Amendment" at all. Too many gun violence in schools, movie theater, concert in Las Vegas, ... If Australia can buy back those assault weapons, why can't we??

USA has became a world "laughingstock" since Trump sworn into White House.



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
6/22/2018 7:00 pm

First lady Melania Trump took a trip to the US-Mexico border on Thursday to tour an immigrant children's shelter, but her trip is getting attention not only for her action, but also for her wardrobe choice before and after the journey.

"It's a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today's important visit to Texas, I hope the media isn't going to choose to focus on her wardrobe," East Wing communications director Stephanie Grisham told CNN in a statement.

Later, President Donald Trump said the jacket's message was a shot at the media.
"'I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?' written on the back of Melania's jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!" he tweeted.

What do you think? Why did Melania Trump choose this controversial jacket to wear before and after the trip to US - Mexico border? Did she send a message to Americans? Does she care about those Mexican families?



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1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
6/20/2018 12:59 pm

Trump signs executive order to keep children and families together at border

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday, (June 20, 2018 ), to halt the splitting up of families after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border under the administration's "zero tolerance" policy. Trump's reversal follows widespread criticism of the separation of children, some young enough to have been placed in "tender age" detention facilities, from their parents.



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1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
6/19/2018 7:51 pm

    Quoting  :

I don't like Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller, Roseanne, and DOJ - Jeff Sessions,... and they stay.

Trump has Russia probe, Stormy Daniels scandal, the metal tariff on Canada, Mexico, the separation at US - Mexico border, meeting with dictator Kim Jong-Un, ....



Honesty is the best policy.


HeartsDesire88 64M
1 post
6/19/2018 6:22 pm

Thanks for another news report Ri Chun-hee.


1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
6/18/2018 10:25 pm

All 4 former first ladies have joined the current one, Melania Trump, in an unusual united political front expressing horror at children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Mrs. Trump did not go as far as some of her predecessors, though, and criticize the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy that has led to the separations.

But Michelle Obama took to Twitter, in support of Laura Bush, to say, "Sometimes truth transcends party."

Mrs. Obama, a Democrat, wrote those words as she re-tweeted Mrs. Bush, a Republican, who first spoke out in an opinion piece Sunday in The Washington Post.

"I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart," Mrs. Bush said on Twitter as she shared her column.

Hillary Clinton, speaking at a women's event in New York, said the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy that has separated children and parents at the southern border was a "moral and humanitarian crisis."

Their outrage and call for reforms come after nearly 2,000 minors were separated from adults in the six weeks following Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement of the zero-tolerance approach to illegal border crossings.

In perhaps the most surprising response from a first lady, a statement from Mrs. Trump's office said she "hates" to see families separated at the border. Her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said Sunday, "She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart."

The statement said Mrs. Trump hoped "both sides of the aisle" can change immigration laws.

The senior among the first ladies, Rosalynn Carter, spoke through The Carter Center: "The practice and policy today of removing children from their parents' care at our border with Mexico is disgraceful and a shame to our country."

Mrs. Carter led a delegation to Thailand in 1979 for a firsthand look at the plight of Cambodian and Laotian refugees, recalling today the "trauma of parents and children separated by circumstances beyond their control."

Mrs. Clinton, former first lady, secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee, said at an awards lunch for the Women's Forum of New York that the separations are not required by law and are not grounded in any religion. The latter refers to Sessions quoting a Bible verse to defend the administration's policy.

"We are a better country than one that tears families apart," she said.

Anita McBride, executive-in-residence at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University in Washington and a former chief of staff for Mrs. Bush, said Monday these first ladies are well-known for standing up for women's issues.

"This issue certainly has tugged at people on all sides of the aisle, whether they're elected officials or private citizens. Sometimes in our lives, in our country, in our history, people who have a high profile and an opportunity to speak out do so," she said.

Carl Anthony, a first ladies historian and author in Los Angeles, said it's rare but not unprecedented for a majority of all living first ladies to weigh in similarly on political and catastrophic events. Eleanor Roosevelt actually contradicted her husband on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and on European refugees during the same war.

"The fact that Mrs. Trump even issued a statement on the immigration policy is in and of itself worth raising an eyebrow or two because it's so unusual for first ladies to voice an opinion that could suggest a departure with at least the administration, if not their husband," Anthony said

Asked whether there was any daylight between the president and first lady on the issue of family separation, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders chose to instead address the administration's dispute with Democrats. "I think we've made it abundantly clear that the daylight exists between Democrats and Congress and their ability to change this law," she said.

And as for the criticism from Laura Bush, Sanders said that while "we share the concern" Mrs. Bush voiced about children, Sanders pointed blame back at the Bush administration, saying, "Frankly, this law was actually signed into effect in 2008 under her husband's leadership."

In 2008, President George W. Bush focused on the problem of minors crossing the border without their parents and signed a law unanimously passed by Congress that called for such "unaccompanied minors" to be released into the "least restrictive setting."



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1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
6/18/2018 10:08 pm

Humane Society International is the international division of The Humane Society of the United States. Founded in 1991, HSI has expanded The HSUS's activities into Central and South America, Africa, and Asia.

I think "Humane Society International" should go to the Mexico and USA border to see how inhumane the situation over there. They are innocent children separated from their parents. Those children will have trauma for the rest of their lives. This is very cruel that U.S. government take away those children's parents. Who take care of them? Without parents, children will become problem children.



Honesty is the best policy.