So this headline showed up on the Birmingham News website Al.com
Gary Palmer: 'Many' parents leaving kids at border; doesn't offer evidence to back up claim
Oh, you mean he just fucking made that shit up. Gary Palmer, my representative (the 6th district in Alabama) really stepped in it. Here is some text from the letter he sent to a constituent who was concerned about children, and babies being taken (stolen, kidnapped from their parents.)
Link to the article at Al.com
There is an option for children to not be separated from their parents," he wrote. "Parents are instructed at the border to take their children and return home, but many of them abandon their children at the border. This policy regarding minors remains the same from previous administrations."
Wow! He just said those parents just left their babies at the border. I can’t believe he was implying parents and families that traveled thousands of miles to save their kids, just dumped them like an unwanted stray dog. Fuck you Gary Palmer. Folks in the 6th district don’t have to vote for you. We have a decent honest candidate running against you. Danner Kline lives in the same lovely city as Gary Palmer, he is a democrat. I endorse this guy, you should too. Here is a snippet from his most recent email to me.
When I think of my own children, there is no hardship I would not endure to keep them happy, healthy, and most importantly -- SAFE.
Today, parents in Central and South America are enduring perilous journeys and crossing thousands of miles to seek asylum at our border. They are fleeing extreme violence, murder, rape, and persecution. They do it because staying where they are is more dangerous than risking the journey. Asylum seekers are not breaking the law. They come here to beg for our mercy -- a form of legal immigration. But now they are being punished in the cruelest way imaginable.
The current administration is taking those desperate people and ripping their children from them. Locking up children as young as 18 months old in what can best be described as dog kennels. An American Civil Liberties Union report released in May documented hundreds of claims of “verbal, physical, and sexual abuse” of unaccompanied children by Border Patrol.
Over the weekend it was reported that a father committed suicide in detention after being separated from his wife and 3 year old child.
This is a horrible crime against American values, international law, and basic humanity. It shocks my conscience. Yet my opponent has remained silent on the issue.
I will not be silent. And as a Congressman, a father, and a member of the human race, I will not back down.
I will fight for the the vision of America as a beacon of hope inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
So you see what a great congressman Danner Kline could be for Alabama, and the country. This is just the beginning folks, I am just getting started. We have many great candidates running in Alabama for the 2018 election.
Let’s do this, flip the 6th, take over congress, take over the state houses, for all of humanity. This is serious.
Here is Danner Kline's website if you would like to donate, volunteer, or learn more about him.