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@sophiabush : I have been in tears for days. Looking at these images. Reading about guards in these internment camps refusing to allow caged children to hold each other. Kids as young as 2, sobbing, with no one to console them. That does lasting psychological damage to children. As does being ripped from their parents arms, some so young they are still breastfeeding. There have to be some nonnegotiables in our society. Human rights violations like these should be one. Using children as bargaining chips? No ・・・ Quoting here from @valariekaur, via @sallykohn “FACTS: . 1. More than 2,000 children have been separated from their mothers & fathers since April, more than 100 under the age of four. They are held in tents, big box stores, & warehouses converted into detention facilities. Family separation can cause children “irreparable harm,” stated the American Association of Pediatricians. . 2. The Trump administration claims it is enforcing the law. This is false. *SEEKING ASYLUM HAS NEVER BEEN ILLEGAL.* It initiated a zero-tolerance policy in April to prosecute all undocumented migrants as criminals & separate them from their children -- as a deterrent. The administration has no plan to reunite families it has separated. It has the power to stop this policy at anytime. . 3. The U.S. has a long history of separating families of color, taking Native American & black children from their parents. Here's the truth: Lawmakers can only secure the popular support for such brutal policies if the targets are already seen as less than human. The current administration has primed us to see migrants at the border as "animals," "criminals," & "rapists." Once you strip a people of their humanity, you can do anything to them. Including take away their children. . 4. But we can insist on seeing migrants not as criminals but as mothers, fathers, sons, daughters seeking a different life. They don't have documentation. That's a civil violation, not a criminal one. It does not deserve state-sanctioned to