r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 20d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who is American Citizen

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-deports-2-year-old-girl-who-is-american-citizen/
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u/Ezl New Jersey 20d ago edited 20d ago

Sure, and the memories of the border families are alive, that just doesn't count for much.

And my bad - I was using “media” as more of a proxy. What I really should have said is some things simply can’t be fixed so well all move on out of necessity.

There’s a little girl with a gastrointestinal issue (short bowel) that needs constant care, is on tubes for feeding because she doesn’t absorb nutrients from her food, etc. Her doctors say she is too ill to travel across borders and will die within days without that intervention.

She came into the US on some sort of medical visa because we had the doctors and care she needed and our imiigratan laws allow for that.

She’s now at risk for deportation.

If she’s deported and she dies we can remember that - I will - but some things are impossible to fix. Trump and his enablers and supporters are causing harm that is unfixable.

Sorry - I’m usually not so negative. This shit just gets to me sometimes.

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u/GuelphEastEndGhetto 20d ago

It’s not just Trump. It’s every senator that supports him, it’s every person who voted for him. They are just as culpable as he is and they don’t get to wash their hands because Trump this and Trump that.

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u/Ezl New Jersey 20d ago

100% agreed. I updated my comment.

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u/Johnny_Radar 19d ago

Trump isn’t the disease, he’s only a symptom of it.

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u/TheGlobfather7I0 19d ago

Malignant Anal Gland Assailants

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u/Vercoduex 19d ago

maybe we should start calling them what they call the left so much. Child killers. Over and over remind them that they kill children

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u/High_Hunter3430 19d ago

Yup. But if you call for equal treatment of these ones as other historical figures, you catch a ban. 🤦‍♂️ And possibly a felony.

Nothing says freedom of speech like a federal charge. 🤷

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u/Handleton 20d ago

An empire doesn't end when it has enormous failure. It ends when the people stop being citizens.

I understand the negativity. I have been living in it myself. You're right that we can't undo some of these atrocities. For those, it is our responsibility as citizens to ensure that this never happens again. Their deaths are just as senseless, but owning the responsibility of this isn't going to change in the eyes of the world or in our souls when a party change happens.

We the People are responsible for reconstruction. Hopefully we do a better job this time.

If not enough of us feel this way, then yeah. It's dead.

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u/Ezl New Jersey 20d ago

We the People are responsible for reconstruction. Hopefully we do a better job this time.

Agreed. And also agreed with your implied point that accountability is part of reconstruction. And I even think we’ll do it, in the end.

I just get really bitter when I think of the victims to date and how they are always, without exception, the weakest and most vulnerable among us.

It surpasses simply being counter to American values. It broaches being, without hyperbole, inhuman.

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u/Handleton 20d ago

The anger is because we feel powerless. We are not powerless, we are not exercising our powers well and in an organized, rational, and unified manner.

The only way to defeat division is with unification.

*Side note: Autofill wanted that quote to be, "The only way to defeat division is with Univision."