Tag: Animal migration

The message was that the issue involving migrant children shouldn’t be about politics; therefore, it should solely be about the children. “Go see a four-year-old child sitting at a table, drawing a picture of a turtle, wondering where his mom is,” Representative Dan Kildee said. Four politicians toured the Bethany Christian Services building Thursday, where dozens of children who were separated from their parents at the border, are being cared for. "Obviously, we're not going to agree on everything,” Kildee said. “But we all agree these children ought to be reunited." Michigan Congressmen Dan Kildee was joined by Congressman Bill Huizenga and Debbie Dingell. The Michigan lawmakers were also joined by Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan. "I want to make sure the border integrity that we need to have is part of that solution,” he added. It was to put politics aside and do right by these children. "We all care about our kids,” Dingell said.

We are being conditioned to expect this kind of treatment for anyone on the wrong side of Trump's whimsical shifts in policy. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? ... Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way. Everyone with any human decency must oppose this. Jen Hoffman provides an "Americans of Conscience" weekly checklist of meaningful actions one can take.