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Remember how America treated the Jews on the St. Louis ?
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:02 pm
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:02 pm
They were refused entry and shipped back to a certain death. There is a high likelihood these kids will be sent back to places where they will be maimed, tortured, killed and raped. Any of y'all that support these children being returned to an environment like this simply have no conscience.
These kids should be allowed to stay. If we would reform the adoption system in this country I'm sure there are plenty of people who would gladly take these children in.
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These kids should be allowed to stay. If we would reform the adoption system in this country I'm sure there are plenty of people who would gladly take these children in.
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Exactly 75 years and one month ago the St. Louis, a German trans-Atlantic liner carrying 938 Jewish refugees, was turned away from the United States, forced to return to Europe. U.S. law didn’t allow them sanctuary.
Today we are preparing to send 45,000 children back to Central American countries controlled by drug cartels that routinely torture, rape and kill children who refuse to work for them. So routinely, so often are children menaced that their families sent them away, alone, across thousands of miles on just the slimmest of hopes that they might be safe.
U.S. law doesn’t allow them sanctuary.
The St. Louis is famous now as a failure of compassion that haunts American history. It is so easy to imagine the despair of those passengers, forced to return to countries that would soon be overrun by the Nazis. It is difficult to imagine an America that would be so cruel and insensible to the terror of others. President Franklin Roosevelt is still held accountable for his failure to respond.
And now we have President Barack Obama promising to send the children back. We have an America demanding that he do so, and in fact, blaming his administration for not securing the borders more tightly so that those desperate Central American families would have had no hope at all that their children might find sanctuary.
But, in fact, the border is secured. The children are in custody. They will be turned back.
There are differences, of course, between these children and Jews on the St. Louis.
These children didn’t arrive on an ocean liner. They walked through some of the most hostile, hot, barren, dangerous country in the world. No one knows how many died. Their parents weren’t with them. They were sent by poor families so terrified for their safety that they paid many thousands of dollars and entrusted their children to criminals hoping they might arrive in America and be safe.
There’s another difference too. America did not fund the Nazis. America does fund the drug trade that empowers the killers these children are fleeing. If Americans didn’t buy drugs, the trade would dry up.
I keep wondering if those families were thinking about the great kindness that Americans are known for. Despite all that America may have done wrong, this is still a country that the world looks to for compassion and rescue. I wonder if those parents thought American hearts would be touched so deeply that there would be a great outcry when their children’s stories were heard.
We have heard their stories now. Stories of children who are publicly stripped naked and gang raped by drug syndicates. Stories of children maimed. Stories of children murdered.
Hearing how callous the world was to the suffering of Europe’s Jews, we are baffled. We wonder how that slaughter could have been allowed to happen. We wonder why countries closed their borders.
I don’t wonder anymore. I’ve listened to the politicians, read the editorials and heard the voices of American citizens demanding that terrified children be sent back into harm’s way.
Our hearts are not touched by these children. We want the law enforced. This is our country. Ours. And we don’t have to share it. Not now. Not 75 years ago.
We haven’t changed at all.
Why? It’s simple, really. A matter of us and them. Yes, these are children whom we’ll send back to be raped, maimed and killed. But they aren’t our children. Our children are precious.
These children. They simply aren’t. Not to us.
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This post was edited on 7/15/14 at 9:17 pm
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:04 pm to Toddy
Were we not nice?
This post was edited on 7/15/14 at 9:07 pm
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:05 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Trying to get banned I see
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:07 pm to Toddy
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Remember how America treated the Jews on the St. Louis ?
That is the ship we sent back to Nazi Germany or Nazi controlled europe right?
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:08 pm to notiger1997
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Trying to get banned I see
No idea what you're talking about
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:08 pm to Toddy
No but I heard about what the Egyptians did to them.
This post was edited on 7/15/14 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:12 pm to Toddy
Looks like someone read that cnn opinion piece today comparing the immigration crisis to the Jews and the MS St. Louis.....
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:12 pm to Toddy
Sorry, I hit the submit button too early. Fixed.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:12 pm to Toddy
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Sorry, I hit the submit button too early. Fixed.
It was better before, TBH, IMO, IMHO, etc
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:13 pm to Toddy
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There is a high likelihood these kids will be sent back to places where they will be maimed, tortured, killed and raped.
Link? Oh you don't have any evidence to back up your ridiculous claim? Quit pulling shite out of your arse.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:14 pm to Toddy
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Sorry, I hit the submit button too early.
Happens to a lot of guys.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:15 pm to Toddy
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Any of y'all that support these children being returned to an environment like this simply have no conscious.
conscience
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:15 pm to DosManos
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Link? Oh you don't have any evidence to back up your ridiculous claim? Quit pulling shite out of your arse.
:tryingnottomakegayjokethatwouldgetmebanned:
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:16 pm to Toddy
Their parents spent thousands of dollars to give to criminals to bring them to the United States. Why don't they stay there and make a difference in the country they came from?
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:16 pm to Toddy
Also, does your ridiculous assertion pertain to all of the adults crossing the border as well? Or is your humanitarianism limited to "the children"? What did Anderson Cooper tell you to think?
The problem is by no means limited to children.
The problem is by no means limited to children.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:17 pm to Toddy
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They were refused entry and shipped back to a certain death. There is a high likelihood these kids will be sent back to places where they will be maimed, tortured, killed and raped. Any of y'all that support these children being returned to an environment like this simply have no conscious.
any evidence of that?
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These kids should be allowed to stay. If we would reform the adoption system in this country I'm sure there are plenty of people who would gladly take these children in.
how about they go back to their parents in central america?
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