r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/papergabby • Oct 31 '24
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/ILikeNeurons • Nov 22 '24
Summary How millions of US children would be hurt by Trump’s mass deportation plan: ‘Deep harm is intentional’
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/YuriRedFox6969 • Oct 02 '19
Summary Trump is like the embodiment of a racist cartoon supervillain. There is nothing funny about this.
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/YuriRedFox6969 • Oct 24 '19
Summary Send This To Everyone You Know: It's an Imgur Album Detailing the Abuses of ICE and CBP, as well as articles that explain how most of the guns that the Mexican cartels use came from America, usually through corrupt gun runners in the CBP.
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/iammagicbutimnormal • Jul 04 '22
Summary What it is like to be raised under theocratic law in America:
I grew up in a church like this. I was experiencing really disturbing abuse from my stepmother and my alcoholic father. I was being beaten until I had bruises regularly. My dad would drunk rage beat me. My stepmother would make me strip naked and beat me outside with a gnarled switch from a tree. At age 7 I told my Christian private-school teacher that my “mommy spanks me too much”, and she had me tell the school principal. Instead of protecting me, they called my stepmother and told her what I said.
…So when I told my Christian grown-ups that I was being harmed they thought it would be best to let my abuser know. When I came home from school that day my stepmother was on the toilet. She heard me come in and she angrily yelled for me to come to the bathroom. I awkwardly stood there at the bathroom door while she was squatting on the toilet listening to her tell me that school administration had called her to explain what I had said to them. When she was done with the toilet she stood up and pulled her pants over her hips and then came over to me. She had never stop staring at me in the eyes as she talked and urinated at the same time. She was so fucking psychotic. She came over to me beat me again. She used all sorts of items to hit me; brushes, paddles, her hands, her fists, her kicks, her strength over me, belts, kitchen spoons, switches…
When I was nine I began to hallucinate from PTSD. I remember one morning my parents called the church about it. The hallucinations were terrible and I screamed in fear when I saw them. I will never forget several men from our church coming to our home, sitting me on the center of the couch with my parental units sitting on each side of me, and everyone laying hands on me and praying for Satan to leave my body. I was 9 years old! Not only was I experiencing PTSD from extreme abuse, but now I believed Satan was living in my body and causing me to hallucinate! FML! So no doctor check up, no psych eval. All of these grown-ups recommended an exorcism./s FML!
When I was 11 my parental units were still living their rocky, codependent lifestyle and I was still the center of their abuse. I remember one time they were fighting and they called one of the elders from the church out to counsel with them and with me. He was also my assistant principal and an assistant pastor in the church. He told me the reason my stepmother was acting so poorly was because she was on her period. He then explained that when females are on their period they can get angry and be emotional like she was being towards me and my dad…I am just at a loss for words. A grown man in a position of power telling a little girl that menstrual cycles make women act like my fucking psychopathic step-mother?!?!
After eventually starting my own menstrual cycle and experiencing that throughout my life, leaving home with a car and a couple of hundred bucks at age 20, living on my own as a woman in society, finally finishing my first bachelors (psychology) at age 29, finding my spouse at 31, completed 3 1/2 years of social work in two enormous counties -with a caseload of up to 40 people per month to monitor a Medicaid waiver program for intellectually and developmentally disabled people (IDD), having a child of my own,finishing my second degree and obtaining my license in nursing, worked in step down ICU for 3 1/2 years, inpatient rehab for eight months, and a year of MedSurg on an incredibly busy large hospital in 2019, now doing school nursing for the past year and a half, I am just so shocked that an educated grown man would say this to a girl and think it was appropriate to talk to me this way. It just levels there Christianity knowing how I was treated within the parameters of their interpretation of the Bible. It’s truly sick and I feel sorry for them. Later on I would find out on FaceBook that the same elder’s grown son was a social marketing anti-abortion influencer who was living in the same big metroplex that I had finally made a home and planted my roots in, far away from the people I grew up around. That was very ironic for me.
There was so much I loved about my church community growing up, so many values that I still hold dear today. It is heartbreaking that I could’ve been a part of this community and still so blatantly ignored. I mean, if you’re not gonna help at least stay out of the way? This tightknit Christian community would continue to surround me with piety and self-righteousness, but when it came down to living in Christ’s word they denied me that experience. I know there are countless girls like me that grew up in a fundamentalist Christian environment with high expectations for females, but if you didn’t fit in to their structure/interpretation of “family” you were denied affirmation of your human rights and the abuse was reinforced. These are the same Christians that told me abortion is murder and being a homosexual is wrong. I left everything and everyone I knew at age 20. 25 years later I can tell you it was the best decision I’ve ever made. I have a very different view of Christianity than those that raised me up in it.
That church is still active and the school is still open. They still view Christianity the same way. Honestly, in the zeitgeist we are currently living in, I can only hope and pray that these people are the last vestiges of white supremacy and patriarchal Christianity. It is the same interpretation of the Bible that has been used to excuse slavery, to excuse racism, to excuse sexism, and to turn their backs on the most vulnerable in society. It is a cowardly interpretation. It is unChristian and Christ weeps with all of us.
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/TheHairyManrilla • Jun 27 '20
Summary The IG report demolishes one of the most common defenses of the family separation policy
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/Humble1000 • Nov 02 '23
Summary Councils Face Bankruptcy and Children Left in Danger
solidaritypost.orgr/WhereAreTheChildren • u/quantumcipher • Jul 10 '21
Summary Abuses at Fort Bliss Confirm Children Seeking Asylum Don’t Belong in Detention
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/transtwin • Sep 14 '22
Summary Leaked Documents Show a Record Number of Migrant Deaths
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/ralajessr • Mar 01 '23
Summary Original vid is on the Reading Rainbow TikTok, can’t save that one- first hand accounts of detained children at the US/Mexico border.
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/somegenerichandle • Nov 13 '21
Summary Frontline special "Trafficked in America" (2018)
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/jeffe333 • Jan 15 '22
Summary 10 crises to watch in 2022, according to 'The New Humanitarian' : Goats and Soda : NPR
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/majortom106 • Feb 26 '21
Summary Re: Biden reopening the camps.
So I’ve seen a lot of discourse going back and forth regarding this issue and I want to contextualize a few things. First off, Biden’s treatment of the border situation seems to have been better on the whole. Some progressive people have been dismissing the sugarcoating of these facilities by liberals, and it is worth noting that the facilities seem to have better living conditions based on the pictures I’ve seen, though I reserve the right to change judgement on that.
That being said, I’ve seen a lot of liberals throw up their hands saying progressives are just looking for a reason blame Biden. I think this is wrongheaded, and folks who think this way must realize that this sounds like partisan goal-post shifting to those who think “better” isn’t necessarily good enough.
The problem is these kids are being detained without due process, which is the definition of a concentration camp. Those who think this is the least objectionable alternative to throwing them out on the street aren’t thinking outside of the system that has been around long before Donald Trump, and has been legitimized by both parties. Biden’s failure here is not the camps themselves, it’s that he’s working to improve conditions within the system instead of trying to replace it.
Granted, no president could have abolished ICE in two months, but let’s be real, he’s not going to try. If he does, I’ll praise him as a progressive hero, but we know he won’t. The kids need to be processed and kept track of somehow, or else they would end up homeless, which doesn’t help anyone. If the kids are kept in some type of temporary housing facility, they need to have freedom of movement (so not in a facility that was built 2 hours away from the nearest town to frustrate any attempt at oversight), and they need to be assigned some kind of social worker to help with their needs, like keeping track of court dates, helping them find their guardians if they have one, and keeping them informed of their rights. It wouldn’t be perfect, but it’d be better than detaining them without due process.
The problem with the cages wasn’t Trump. It was the system. Trumo made it worse, but it was bad before him. And Biden’s failure will be operating within the system. We need to abolish ICE.
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/yuritopiaposadism • Sep 15 '20
Summary Mods from /r/politics are taking down articles regarding ICE's crimes for not being "political".
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/ApartheidUSA • Oct 20 '20
Summary Jeremy Scahill: Trump’s Xenophobia Is Horrific, But U.S. Immigration Policy Has Always Been Racist
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/ez_sleazy • Apr 12 '21
Summary Making Sense of the 'Border Crisis'
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/catanddogtor • Sep 02 '20
Summary ICE is in the business of human trafficking - Album on Imgur
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/Elementalillness • Jan 31 '20
Summary MPP (Migrant “Protection” Protocol) aka “Remain in Mexico” policy is explained by RAICES in this 4 minute Twitter video. Please watch.
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/ThePathForwardYT • Jul 07 '20
Summary Trump Screws Over International Immigrant College Students
r/WhereAreTheChildren • u/BEHEMOTHBITCHSLAP21 • Jun 07 '20