Morgan wrote:
I have read of some atrocities going on as such as losing over 17,00 children, I have to ask myself, can this be true?
Last month, Steven Wagner, an official with the department of health and human services, told a Senate committee that his agency had “lost track” of 1,475 immigrant children who had been seized after crossing the US-Mexican border; some of these kids, it was feared, had been turned over to human traffickers.
That also:
The ACLU and the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School have also charged that US border guards beat and abused migrant children, and threatened them with sexual violence.
and...that a Honduran mother had been separated from her 18-month-old toddler for two months. We’ve seen images of children caged in cells like stray puppies at a shelter; two, three and four year old children huddled on cots under thin Mylar blankets; of weeping parents embracing their terrified children while immigration officers wait to grab the tearful kids.
One has to ask is this who we are? Is this who Lady Liberty shines her torch for? Wasn't this the country held out its arms to the downtrodden seeking refuge? now we pull children away from mothers, or family, as the Nazis did, pulling families apart?
Is this the way to go? or who we've become? There must be another way.
We use to be the country known for its humanitarian ways now we have the UN and foreign countries objecting to our inhumane practices. Welcome to the Trump administration and making us great again.
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Hey Morgan, 88° today and 106° this time next week. Moving in a few weeks so going to enjoy the heat till then.
What you posted us horribly. Except it is mixed with half truths. The children in cages are photos from 2014. I've looked up several resources to verify that the parents are missing and with near certainty the children are with the parents and the entire narrative is drama and false as you will see below and also can verify.
As I've said before, in our new political world it has morphed into extremes never before seen. We are no longer able to have any trust in what we hear and read. I have over the last decade watched CSPAN and taken in entire speeches by the congress and senate only to see later on a news network pieces edited that would convince anyone watching that something very different was said than what actually was. To this day it frustrates and confuses me how a once trusted source could or would intentionally deceive and fabricate a false narrative. Now it has evolved into "nothing" and I mean nothing can be trusted coming from (I'm estimating) 80% of what we hear or see. Over the last few years I have had to eat crow from inaccurately posting information or a reply to a post, a strike to my ego. I have also seen others in this forum eat crow, so at lest I have company in error.
Democratic politicians, journalists, and top staffers in Barack Obama’s White House whipped themselves into a frenzy Sunday, attributing “disturbing” photos of migrant detention centers to President Donald Trump — before discovering the photos were taken during Obama’s second term as president.
The first wave of viral photos, showing immigrant minors sleeping inside enclosed cages, were featured in an AZCentral.com article — but that didn’t stop far-left activists from decrying the photos.
Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau urged followers to “look at these pictures,” adding that the forcing the Trump administration to return the children to their parents was the “only debate that matters” right now.
Farveau, who later deleted the tweet, admitted to sharing photos taken under his former boss’s watch — but still found a way to shift blame onto the Trump administration.
“These awful pictures are from 2014, when the government’s challenge was reconnecting unaccompanied minors who showed up at the border with family or a safe sponsor,” he wrote.
“Today, in 2018, the government is CREATING unaccompanied minors by tearing them away from family at the border.”
Antonio Villaraigosa, former Los Angeles mayor and California gubernatorial candidate, said the photos left him “speechless.”
This is not who we are as a nation,” he added.
Villaraigosa later deleted his post.
When confronted on why he deleted the tweet, Villaraigosa completely sidestepped the question.
“Taking children from their parents whether it’s under a Democrat president or a Republican one doesn’t make it any more right,” he snapped. “The key issue is not when it started, but when it will end.
“It’s wrong. It’s wrong for Democrats. It’s wrong for Republicans. It’s wrong for Americans.”
CNN reporter Hadas Gold deleted her own tweet, claiming it gave people the “impression” that the photos were recent.
No you did not “give the impression”. You flat out said it.
New York Times Magazine‘s Editor-in-Chief Jake Silverstein called the photos “disturbing” before deleting his tweet. Shortly after, Silverstein claimed he made the massive factual error because he was “distracted [with his] family on the weekend.”
“Correction: this link, which was going around this morning, is from 2014. Still disturbing, of course, but only indirectly related to current situation. My bad (and a good reminder not to RT things while distracted w family on the weekend).”
Linda Sarsour, the co-founder of the Women’s March, opted to leave her tweet up, later slamming the U.S.’s immigration system, which she described as a “disaster” long before the Trump administration.
Civil rights activist Shaun King, no stranger to spreading fake news about law enforcement, urged his followers to read the dated article.
“I saw this photo floating around and didn’t know if it was real. It is,” he fumed.
“Children of immigrants are being held in cages, like dogs, at ICE detention centers, sleeping on the floor. It’s an abomination.”
The inaccurately portrayed photos prompted AZCentral.com to issue a public clarification.
“Photos of children at a migrant holding facility have gone viral on social media,” the paper’s official account tweeted. “The pictures are from 2014. They were originally posted with this azcentral article about unaccompanied migrant children who were transported to a facility in Arizona.”
While AZCentral’s story claimed to have the “first” look at the Obama ICE detention centers, the paper published its photos nearly two weeks after Breitbart Texas first revealed leaked images of these facilities in June 2014. The Breitbart Texas scoop set off a national debate on illegal border crossings that pushed immigration to the forefront of America’s national elections in both 2014 and 2016.
In their “continuing coordinated effort to criticize all things Trump,” charges The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland, media have “dragged illegal aliens out of the shadows — and into the sight of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.” That’s because of their sensational misinterpretation of Senate testimony that federal officials (after a cursory check) had been unable “to determine with certainty” the whereabouts of 1,475 unaccompanied children. This became a narrative that “the Trump Administration lost nearly 1,500 minors and they were at risk of being victims of traffickers.” But, as one activist wrote, “They aren’t missing! They are almost certainly living with family members who almost certainly don’t want to interact with the government and we shouldn’t ask them to.”
Take care and have a wonderful day,