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Tuesday: "UN office calls on US to stop separating families at border "
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UN office calls on US to stop separating families at border
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GENEVA (AP) The United Nations human rights office called on the Trump administration Tuesday to "immediately halt" its accelerating policy of separating children from their parents after they cross the U.S. border with Mexico, insisting there's "nothing normal about detaining children."
Ravina Shamdasani , a spokeswoman for the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, scolded the United States over the hundreds of children removed from parents who were jailed for entering the country illegally. She said that border control appears to take precedence over child protection and care in the U.S.
"The use of immigration detention and family separation as a deterrent runs counter to human rights standards and principles," Shamdasani said during a briefing in Geneva. "The child's best interest should always come first."
The Trump administration has adopted a new "zero tolerance" policy that has accelerated separations of children and their parents at the border. The policy, announced in April by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, directs authorities to prosecute all instances of illegal border crossings.
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Tuesday: "UN office calls on US to stop separating families at border " (Original Post)
Wwcd
Jun 2018
OP
When Russia invaded America, this stuff was bound to happen. Too many traitors here.
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2018
#3
MontanaMama
(24,240 posts)1. The practice of separating
children from their parents is terrorism.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)2. This is a horror that the US will forever bear to those families.
They are all forever affected by this inhumane cruelty.
How damn dare he order this done to another human being.
Hope he & those complicit all rot alone in a dark prison cell
Eliot Rosewater
(32,541 posts)3. When Russia invaded America, this stuff was bound to happen. Too many traitors here.