Where do the Children Play? Comment on the Lost Immigrant Children in America

The most important story to hit MSM and social media over the last week is the American ICE/Border Patrol separating children from their parents, while attempting to attain refugee status at the Mexican border. Some reports have revealed children as young as 54 weeks, being dragged from their mother's arms, and so far, over 1400 of these children have been lost.

The Trump administration are unsurprisingly blaming the democrats, distancing themselves from these actions, considering the gravity of this unconscionable scandal. That said, this has been going on since at least 2013 under Obama. However, these acts or “legal kidnapping” have continued under Trump's draconian immigration stance. AG Sessions doubled down on this Nazi behaviour, even blaming the parents themselves, coming to the border, and avoiding any and all, responsibility.

 In fact, AG Sessions has bragged about separating these children from their parents, stating that these actions act as a “deterrent” to any other asylum seeker heading to the US border in the future. This is utterly unproven and absurd for any person with even a dash of humanity in their respective souls.

One should ask if these allegations of lost children are actually true. Well, yes. During a Senate committee hearing meeting, Steven Wagner, a representative for the Department of Health and Human Services, stated that they had lost track of 1475 children, placing them with “adult sponsors” in the United States. A report from the Associated Press, stated:

“From October to December 2017, HHS 7,635 children the

                                  Agency had placed with sponsors, and found 6,075 of the

   children were still living with their sponsors, 28 had runaway,

   five had been deported, and 52 were living with someone else.

                                 The rest were missing, said Steven Wagner, acting assistant

                                  secretary at HHS.”

The rest were missing?! The HHS has even gone as far to say that once the children are thrown into the system, it is not their job to find them. This is shocking, considering the HHS dragged these children from their biological parents, put them in cages, then, gave them away to strangers. One needs to ask, are these “adult sponsors” properly vetted. If so, who vets them? Is it the HHS or some unknown governmental body that holds no ethical or legal responsibility for their actions?

It has become all too evident to me, at least, that politicians will either finger point or claim ignorance for any “mistake” or scandal during their time in power. In Trump’s time in office, he will never apologise or take responsibility for a drop in the economy, for example, but will take ownership for any good that is occurring in the country. But this is not the economy or the unemployment rate; these are young human beings who, under his watch, have simply fallen through the cracks, disappeared. Where are they?

What is even more egregious, and really downright horrifying, is that since this story broke and went viral on social media, over 10 days ago, no one in the government, including law enforcement agencies, have said a single word as to what is being done to find these lost children. Nothing.

What has dominated the “news” is the firing of a TV actress, Rosanne Barr, for her racist comments on twitter. And, consequently, Trump’s tweets on the matter, playing victim again, wondering and asking CBS for an apology for their coverage of him. President Trump is a baboon, a racist narcissist, playing only to his so-called “base”. He does not care about these children because they are brown and “foreign”.

Indeed, someone, particularly the HHS, needs to take responsibility for these lost children. This is a “scandal” that rivals any I have heard of for years. But the MSM, and independent news outlets, like Democracy Now, since the story broke, have done zero follow up. To my mind, this is totally unacceptable on so many levels. I hope that there is a brave journalist out there who is doing an investigation into the government. On so many levels too, for the corruption in American politics is rife.

Where are the children?