Border Boiling Point

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Who wants to build a wall and will do whatever necessary to get his way no matter what most Americans say? As a sign of intense US interest in this issue the news increases. Unfortunately, this is an old story with an evil twist.

POTUS has to realize that it is not only that this looks terrible in the eyes of the world. It is awful for 2,000 children who have been ripped from their parents’ arms over the past month. These policies are cruel, inhumane and certainly not America.

Children separated from their families at the border: A look at how we got here, what’s real and what’s not, and what might happen next. 2K children alone: Trump's self-inflicted domestic crisis https://apnews.com/aa1e05b8eff242c688e194b01bf22322

Father James Martin: Separating kids from their parents is not biblical. Period. https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/father-james-martin…

The media surge to the border as family separation crisis grows https://cnnmon.ie/2JLmaWy

USA: Policy of separating children from parents is nothing short of torture https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/usa-policy-of-separating-chil…

BBC News - Immigration rows: US and Germany compared https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44525628

First lady Melania Trump hates to see families separated https://www.apnews.com/fb50b2029a474630b465ef482ba6ed67

'This Cannot Be Justified': Fox News Priest Rails Against Jeff Sessions for Citing God to Separate Families https://www.alternet.org/cannot-be-justified-fox-news-priest-rails-agai…

Sen. Susan Collins condemns family separation policy–but refuses to back legislation stopping the practice https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/6/17/1772669/-Sen-Susan-Collins-con…

A Congressman who toured a tent-like shelter for hundreds of minors who entered the US illegally says the facility is a byproduct of a flawed immigration strategy: http://apne.ws/Ei1dueN

A group of lawmakers arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border on Father's Day to "further investigate" a new policy separating immigrant families. https://usat.ly/2ykhMsj

CBS was part of a select group of reporters who were allowed to go inside the facility. “We saw people in cages...they looked like kennels that animals would be in,” Begnaud reports https://cbsn.ws/2MA7nM0

Hillary Clinton: Separating families at the border a 'moral crisis' https://www.yahoo.com/news/h-clinton-separating-families-border-moral-c… politics.doseofnews.com #DONews

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