99-Yr.-Old Nuremberg Prosecutor: Trump Detention of Children A 'Crime Against Humanity'

"It's a crime against humanity. We list crimes against humanity in the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
We have 'other inhumane acts designed to cause great suffering.' What could cause more great suffering than what they did in the name of immigration law? It's ridiculous. We have to change the law if it's the law," he said.- Ferencz was just 27 years old when he was chief prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen trial, at which 22 Nazi officials were convicted of murdering more than 1 million people. More...
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/08/99-year-old-nuremberg-prosecutor-calls-trumps-detention-children-crime-against
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Trump has DESTROYED our moral authority. We no longer can scold anyone. We no longer can rule.

Now it is only a long decline in Pax Americana, till we fight to determine the next ruler.

Used to be, the ugly American was traveling. Now, we are all ugly. Thanks Trump.


By the way, there is no better way of Trumping up terror.

 

WOW and not a word about the abusive parents ;( What I find odd is all these Mexicans escaping the terrors of Mexico and no one is calling for investigations into some of this atrocities going on in that shithold of a country!

 

Was it a "crime against humanity" when Obama was doing it?

 

This is just right wing BS for the gullible base. Obama retained kids that were individual law breakers then sent them back over the border in a matter of days. I get sick of all the stupidity, ignorance, and lying BS for the right that never checks facts.

 

Uh huh

Trump Didn’t Lose 1,500 Immigrant Kids, But Obama ‘Lost’ 4,159

 

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-holding-more-immigrant-children-shelters-ever-949099

What part of ILLEGALLY entering this country and going to a prison facility while the kids you brought with you that may or may not be your kids go to a school/redreation facility bothers you?

 

Liar .... Obama did exactly the same thing . Check yourself !

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of children unaccompanied by parents or relatives are flooding across the southern U.S. border illegally, forcing the Obama administration and Congress to grapple with both a humanitarian crisis and a budget dilemma.


Boys lie down as they rest in bunk beds at the shelter for underage immigrants and repatriated minors "Mexico, my home" in Ciudad Juarez May 27, 2014. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
An estimated 60,000 such children will pour into the United States this year, according to the administration, up from about 6,000 in 2011. Now, Washington is trying to figure out how to pay for their food, housing and transportation once they are taken into custody.

The flow is expected to grow. The number of unaccompanied, undocumented immigrants who are under 18 will likely double in 2015 to nearly 130,000 and cost U.S. taxpayers $2 billion, up from $868 million this year, according to administration estimates.

The shortage of housing for these children, some as young as 3, has already become so acute that an emergency shelter at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, has been opened and can accommodate 1,000 of them, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in an interview with Reuters.

The issue is an added source of tension between Democrats and Republicans, who disagree on how to rewrite immigration laws. With comprehensive legislation stalled, President Barack Obama is looking at small, administrative steps he could take, which might be announced this summer. No details have been outlined but immigration groups are pressing him to take steps to keep families with children together.

The minors flooding over the border are often teenagers leaving behind poverty or violence in Mexico and other parts of Central America such as Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. They are sometimes seeking to reunite with a parent who is already in the United States, also without documentation.

“This is a humanitarian crisis and it requires a humanitarian response,” Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski said in an interview. The Maryland Democrat, a former social worker, has likened the flood of unaccompanied children to the “boat people” of past exodus movements.

Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on Mikulski’s committee, said, “The need is there, you know the humanitarian aspect of it, but we’re challenged on money.”

Immigration groups lobbying for comprehensive reform argue that children are being hit hardest by the political deadlock.


Girls stand in a dorm at the shelter for underage immigrants and repatriated minors "Mexico, my home" in Ciudad Juarez May 27, 2014. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

 

On target, remember Free Range children and the state going after them? If a parent took a child walking across the state of Nevada to reach California because they could not afford a car what do you think would happan?

If a parent gave up a 12 yo daughter to a complete stranger to walk them across Arizona and that person raped the daughter the state would go after the rapist and parent.

This is Prog logic.

 

Anyone with any self respect should tell the ICC to go **** themselves. Withdraw, repeal, secede.