The cries from the detention center broke our collective hearts. The Trump administration’s ongoing lies have enraged us. These photos of Trump’s first “tent city” for immigrant children — really, prison camps — in Tornillo, Texas are downright terrifying.
CBS reporter David Begnaud has been on the frontlines of this horrifying human rights crisis, bringing us photos from inside the detention center yesterday. You know, the ones with the kids in the cages. The kids in Tornillo will be in tents in the middle of a desert with temperatures topping 100 degrees.
The kids torn from their families by the brutal aspiring dictatorship may never see their parents again — and that’s a feature, not a bug. And it won’t stop here — if we don’t stop it. Trump and Sessions’ racist protege, Stephen Miller, is planning further abuses of immigrants and Latin-Americans.
This is what the entire right-wing movement has been leading up to. Decades of dog whistles and open hatred, tinkering with maps and purging voter rolls — it’s all led up to this.
We have to fight back. Through elections — here are some candidates running against Rep. Steve King and other Congressional backers of the family separation, as well as some local Texas state senators who give the GOP absolute power — and giving to non-profit organizations working for abused immigrants at the border.