From Hillary Clinton: Horrific

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From Hillary Clinton: Horrific

June 18, 2018 by still4hill

What’s happening to families at the border right now is horrific: Nursing infants ripped away from their mothers. Parents told their toddlers are being taken to bathe or play, only to realize hours later that they aren’t coming back. Children incarcerated in warehouses and, according to more than one account, kept in cages. This is a moral and humanitarian crisis. Everyone of us who has ever held a child in their arms, and every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged.

Even as I warned this could happen on the campaign trail — that Trump’s immigration policies would result in families being separated, parents being sent away from their children, people rounded up on trains and buses — I hoped it would never come to be. But now, as we watch with broken hearts, that’s exactly what’s happening.

We can be heartbroken, but we shouldn’t be hopeless. There’s something you can do to help.

Today, I’m asking you to take a stand on behalf of immigrant families by making a direct donation to the groups working to protect kids separated from their families by ICE.

The test of any nation is how we treat the most vulnerable among us. First Lady Laura Bush made that case eloquently in the Washington Post this weekend, writing: “This zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.” She’s absolutely right. We should be a better country than one that tears families apart, turns a blind eye to women fleeing domestic violence, and treats frightened children as a means to a political end.

Meanwhile, Jeff Sessions is trying to use the Bible to justify this cruelty. Let me say this: I went to a lot of years of Sunday school and even taught it from time to time, and what is being done using the name of religion is contrary to everything I was ever taught.

I still believe in the vision we share for our country, and I won’t let scared children become victims of partisan politics. Alongside the organizations that Onward Together partners with, we can and will elect politicians and enact legislation to protect the most vulnerable among us — but first, we have to address the urgent needs of families at the center of this crisis.

Make a contribution today, and your donation will go directly to the groups doing this work right now:

Donate now

Thank you,

Hillary

Posted in Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Human Rights, Onward Together, Uncategorized | Tagged child detention centers, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, immigration, Onward Together, Zero Tolerance | 5 Comments

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on June 19, 2018 at 3:09 pm | Reply Brassy Rebel

And now some so-called journalist at The Hill is accusing Hillary of “raising money off of this”. Are you on drugs, lady? She’s not raising money off of it; she’s raising money to STOP it! And a lot of money, at that. It drives some people crazy that Hillary keeps making them look so damn bad.

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on June 20, 2018 at 8:44 am | Reply Brassy Rebel

Tornadoes in Texas this morning. And hurricane season has begun. You can be sure there is no plan for storm sheltering the hostages because so far there has been no plan for anything other than rampant cruelty and abuse.

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- on June 20, 2018 at 9:59 am | Reply still4hill
  
  Disaster waiting to happen. Mean-spirited beyond belief.
  
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on June 21, 2018 at 9:07 am | Reply Brassy Rebel

As a Minnesotan, I would like to apologize for that disgraceful exhibition last night. All I can say in our defense is that there were probably more than a few Wisconsinites and “Yuppers” (people from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula) in attendance. The area around Duluth is strong DFL.

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- on June 21, 2018 at 3:46 pm | Reply still4hill
  
  Whenever I see him hug the flag I get sick to my stomach.
  
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