— from Marc Cohen —
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Over 100 people gathered together on the Eastsound Village Green to celebrate the hoped for reunification of families separated under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, and to voice their concern over the ongoing cruel and inhumane enforcement practices.
Participants brought a variety of signs expressing frustration, incredulity, and anger over the continuing detentions. Despite the brisk rainy weather, everyone stayed to write more than 250 postcards to Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, Representative Rick Larsen, Department of Homeland Security Director Kirstjen Nielsen, SeaTac Detention Center Warden Dan Sproul, and ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan.
It was a successful local contribution to the massive nationwide protest organized by the FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER movement.
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So the next time a parent is criminally charged with child abuse in it’s multiple forms, we should leave the child in the custody of the offending parent? How about if the child is present while the parent(s) are at home cooking meth? I actually have removed children from the care and custody of their parent(s). Comments regarded as offensive by publisher have been removed
None of these parents is being charged with child abuse.
Seeking asylum is far different from child abuse…..it is, in fact, a parents protecting a child that motivates them to seek a better future. Shame on you Mr. Briggs, for even remotely comparing these two.
Mr. Briggs’s comment is offensive.
Dan— Charles’s comment isn’t as offensive as much as it is misguided and uninformed. As Marla pointed out, these parents are hardly the criminals that the president would have his followers believe. We all need to get past his hate and rhetoric and come up with a solution to a very real problem.
Happy Independence Day to everyone—stay safe out there—