Look Out DU: Trump Is Trying to Bury Evidence of Child Abuse by Holding on to the Victims

From the New York Times:

And a Health and Human Services official said that more than 2,300 children who have already been separated from their parents under the president’s “zero tolerance” policy will not be immediately reunited with their families while the adults remain in federal custody during their immigration proceedings.

“There will not be a grandfathering of existing cases,” said Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Wolfe said the decision about the children was made by the White House, but he added, “I can tell you definitively that is going to be policy.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-children-executive-order.html?WT.nav=top-news&action=click&clickSource=story-heading&hp&modref=HPCommentsRefer&module=a-lede-package-region&pgtype=Homepage&region=top-news&target=comments

Why not? In signing the order, Trump has admitted that ripping these young children from the arms of their parents and tossing them into jail cells with no one to comfort them except snide, laughing ICE agents, no beds except blanket on the concrete floor, no one to change their diapers except other children-----he has admitted that this is wrong, and that American will not stand for it.

So, why is an official at Health and Human Services promising to hold on to the 2000 plus children who have already been kidnapped, psychologically and possibly even physically tortured?

I know why. They are afraid that a doctor may examine them. They are afraid that someone in child protective services may question them. They are scared that someone will uncover crimes--neglect, abuse--that were sanctioned by the highest officials in the Trump administration. And therefore, they plan to keep the children hidden until their bruises fade, until there is flesh on their bones again and until they either forget their trauma at the hands of ICE or are persuaded that if they talk about, they and their loved ones will be cast into hell. Or at least until after the midterm elections. Four more long months of suffering.

The cover up is beginning folks. I call upon Democratic members of Congress to demand to speak to these kidnap victims. I call upon state child protective service workers to do the same. Demand that the children be given back to the care of their parents. Demand that their home embassies be contacted, too, since as foreigners who have been victimized on US soil, they have a right to be represented by their own governments. These children are guilty of nothing except being children and therefore vulnerable in a battle being waged by vicious thugs who take delight in persecuting the weak.

It makes as much sense to leave these kids in jail as it would make to leave victims of the Holocaust in their concentration camps after the allied liberation. The innocent should not be made to suffer to cover up the crimes of the guilty.