I don’t know why this didn’t sink in earlier … but a comment by NBC News correspondent Gabe Gutierrez made me realize that the people who crafted this terrorist kidnapping have evidently taken the extra step to strip away ANY chance these children have of familial comfort by putting siblings in different locations.
Mr. Gutierrez is one of the excellent MSNBC team covering the southern border crisis. During an on-air report today, Guterriez said he had spoken with a migrant/refugee woman who said that one of her children was in one place and “one was in a different state.”
The enormity of this hit me like a ton of bricks … not only are children being torn from their parents, but from their brothers and sisters as well. WHY? Is this a one-off or is it part of official policy?
It was clear early on that inflicting suffering through inhumane treatment was a feature-not-a-bug of the “Zero Tolerance” policy. I wish there was a word for the depths of sad/angry/horrified I keep channeling through … I just know we all have to keep bearing witness as these layers of cruelty are exposed.
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