Eoin Higgins at Common Dreams writes—Causing 'Profound' Trauma, Trump Administration Detained Recording-Breaking 70,000 Children in 2019.
The U.S. held a record 69,550 migrant children in detention facilities in 2019, a Tuesday report from The Associated Press and PBS Frontline found, leading to major psychological and physiscal harm and lasting trauma.
"No other country held as many immigrant children in detention over the past year as the United States—69,550," said AP tech reporter Frank Bajak in a tweet promoting his colleagues' work. "The physical and emotional scars are profound."
The story lays out in excrutiating detail the emotional pain of victims of President Donald Trump's child separation policy, focusing on, among others, a Honduran father whose three-year-old daughter can no longer look at him or connect with him after being separated at the U.S. border and abused in foster care.
"I think about this trauma staying with her too, because the trauma has remained with me and still hasn't faded," the father told AP. […]
In a statement, Families Belong Together chair Jess Morales Rocketto decried the abusive policies.
"The U.S. threw 70,000 children into cages under Donald Trump's administration, detaining more children than any other country in the world," said Rocketto.
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2009—FRC would support a primary challenge against Snowe:
On Tuesday, we learned Maine Republicans would dump Olympia Snowe in a primary challenge vs. a conservative. One day later, TPM reported that the social conservative group Family Research Council would also support a primary challenge against Snowe.
"Well of course there is an audience that would love to see Olympia Snowe out of office, within the ranks of social conservatives, that's for certain," said Mackey.
A new survey from Public Policy Polling (D) found that a generic conservative challenger would lead the moderate Snowe in a Republican primary by a whopping 59%-31% margin.
"I think a couple years ago, we wouldn't have thought it was possible," said Mackey. "However, those numbers are interesting, and I think those numbers might just track the fact that a lot of Americans are waking up to the liberal policies, what they mean and how they're playing out. And it may be affecting her, with her votes for the stimulus, and breaking from her party. And we would like to see a conservative have a chance to remove her from office up there."
If the results in NY-23 didn't make it clear to Snowe that the odds are against her political survival in the GOP, then these bits of information should help push her along that path. Her best shot at staying in the Senate is to switch to the Democratic Party, and at the very least voting for cloture on a health reform bill with a public option.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: We’re burning through Trump excuses at an incredible rate, with public hearings a day away. Grifting outbreak at HHS. An imaginative impeachment path, reviewed. Trump gets lumps from yet another federal judge. More on Gucciardo & Allen.
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