On this page alone, we've shared FACTS and our outrage at the situation. CHILDREN are suffering because of this administration's "zero tolerance" policy. No one can undo the past on immigration but we should be concerned about the present course of action and how it will progress in the years to come. For the few misrepresentations out there, there are plenty of FACTS... for those willing to "dig beneath the surface". It's not that difficult.

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Not to that ridiculous extent, no. But there was definitely criticism of Obama’s drone strikes from CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, etc, complete with photos meant to make you think of the children. Certainly they didn’t get the traction that the current story does, but I think that says less about the media and more about Americans’ cognitive dissonance with regard to the collateral damage that comes with securing their safety.

Couldn't have said it better.  Agree 100%.

Some? What kind of stupid fuckery is this? Can you just stop? I'm an adult, and I still vividly remember the times I was lost in the mall. I still remember sobbing my eyes out for hours when my sister was born, because my parents dragged me out of bed and dropped me off at a friend's house without really explaining why my mom needed to be taken to the hospital. Certainly, I was able to overcome the trauma, but equivocating over whether young children are traumatized by being stripped away by strangers in a foreign country is fucking stupid. The answer is yes, it's traumatic.

No, what helps Trump are voices like yours that suggest that outrage over children being separated from their parents is out of order. It's not. This "rational", "middle-ground" attitude is harmful. It's voices like yours that are recentering norms so that the middle ground lies between Nazis and anti-racists. That's not the middle.

Whatever the reason, whatever responsibility the parents hold, traumatizing children as a matter of policy is wrong. Suggesting that people are being manipulated into outrage doesn't make it less wrong. Suggesting that media attention to the story plays into Trump's hand doesn't make it less wrong. There are lots of shades of gray with regard to how we should handle immigration. This is not one of them.

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See, I'm able to express my outrage toward Trump’s cruel immigration policy AND also pay attention to Cohen's potential flip, the Russian probe, the Trump-Putin summit, etc. It's what well-informed people do. No distraction to me.

Most importantly, I'll do what I can during the Mid-Term election and encourage 'the pendulum to swing the other way'!

-C!

The Nazis didn't start full bore separating families, killing immigrants, killing and banning citizens, and forcing people to try to get out of the country however they could. However, I see too many similarities between Germany in the 30s and the US right now... including a backstabbing, lying, charismatic leader who wants to be leader forever.

Little children in cages - I suppose all the images I've seen COULD be faked... but those separated and isolated children are being held somewhere, and I'll bet it's NOWHERE as nice as a Trump Tower hotel. Maybe you'd not call it kidnapped... but they have been forcibly separated from their parents and there is no mechanism or process to restore these families.

Ms. Jansen, it would appear that we are seeing two different stories... I am willing to accept factual reporting from different sources, whereas you are skeptical. Maybe I'm right... maybe you're right. To me, it doesn't seem the kind of gamble I could afford to be wrong on - thus my outrage.

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How is that hysterical BS? The detainees were kept in metal enclosures. Those are cages. My last job, we had an area to lock up old equipment. It was a metal enclosure, similar to where we saw children detained. We referred to that area as a cage. 

So what are you saying is BS? That they were children? That they were detained? That they were kept in a cage? Which part of this is hysterical BS?