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Taking Children from Their Parents Is a Form of State Terror
New Yorker May 9, 2018
By Masha Gessen
Hostage-taking is an instrument of terror. Capturing family members, especially children, is a tried-and-true instrument of totalitarian terror. Memoirs of Stalinist terror are full of stories of strong men and women disintegrating when their loved ones are threatened: this is the moment when a person will confess to anything...
Last weekend, independent Russian-language media published hundreds of photographs from protests that preceded Mondays inauguration of Vladimir Putin, who has claimed the office of President for the fourth time. In many of the pictures, Russian police were detaining children: primarily, preteen boys were having their arms twisted behind their backs by police, being dragged and shoved into paddy wagons.
Ella Paneyakh, a Russian sociologist who studies law-enforcement practices, observed in a Facebook post that the police had clearly been directed to target children. A possible explanation, she suggested, is that social services, which will process the minors, is even less accountable than the regular courts are...The threat is clear: children who have been detained at protests may be removed from their families...
A few hours after Putin took his fourth oath of office, in Moscow, Attorney General Jeff Sessions addressed a law-enforcement conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. He pledged to separate families that are detained crossing the Mexico-U.S. border.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/taking-children-from-their-parents-is-a-form-of-state-terror
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)don't increase the funding to allow for more judges and attorneys to process asylum claims or to deport where appropriate.
Just fill already full prisons with more people and create more private prison industry facilities...
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