“This practice—overly suspicious government officials seizing children from their parents—isn’t confined to Minnesota.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/18/cps-mom-baby-cops-kidnapping
“Now the FBI has managed to anger both major political parties and much of the country. It’s demonstrated its capacity for political meddling and misuse of power—even if people disagree on who was on the receiving end. That offers a rare opportunity to pull the plug on a dangerously powerful agency at a moment when its potential for bias, arrogance, insubordination, and plain incompetence are on public display. Let’s kill the FBI while we can.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/19/after-the-ig-report-lets-kill-the-fbi-wh/print
“‘Many kids are having nightmares, can’t eat, can’t sleep … don’t know where their parents are. The last image they have of their parents is shock and fear … the memory never goes away.'”
“ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying ‘Mami’ and ‘Papi’ while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday.”
Read more: https://people.com/human-interest/border-patrol-agent-jokes-migrant-children-separated-parents/
“Children as young as 18 months who arrive with their parents have been forced into government custody while the adults serve brief sentences for the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry before going to immigrant detention centers. In some cases, they are deported without their children.”
“In 2015, I asked President Obama to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (‘family detention centers’) he opened in Dilley & Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core.”
Read more: https://twitter.com/ImmCivilRights/status/1008902662828511232?s=19
“There’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence—especially not when the government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits, track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of your home.”
“Subsequent reporters pushed back against the false claims the press secretary was making—namely that their family separation policy was ‘the law’ and not a specific policy choice pushed by President Trump and promoted at the DOJ by Sessions on multiple occasions.”
Read more: https://www.mintpressnews.com/biblical-enforce-law/244044/
“There were two big temptations to the American Republic of the 1950s; subsequent generations gave in to both of them.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/ike-was-right/
“The ACLU’s move from neutral protector of civil liberties to partisan advocate of liberal politics is both a symptom and consequence [of extremes gaining power].”
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/391682-the-final-nail-in-the-aclus-coffin