Heather Cox Richardson:
In the early hours of Sunday morning, in the middle of a three-day holiday weekend, the Trump administration attempted to take children out of government custody and ship them alone to their country of origin, Guatemala.
open.substack.com
There's one piece of "good information" that is missing (deliberately?) from that article:
Exactly who was waiting in Guatemala for those children?
The article mentions those children being sent back to their own country
"alone to their country of origin, Guatemala". Yes, they were sent alone, because someone sent them alone to the US. But are those children actually "alone"? Are there no adults with them on the planes? The article mentions those children have been
"held according to law until they can be released to a relative or a guardian living in the U.S." but doesn't talk about whether any of those children even
HAVE relatives or a guardian available in the US. The article mentions those children were being put on flights to Guatemala
"where they may face abuse, neglect, persecution, or even torture". It appears the court didn't attempt to establish whether those children actually faced any such conditions before issuing its ruling.
What the article doesn't address is whether the parents of those children were waiting in Guatemala for their return...only to find out that bleeding hearts in the US prevented the scheduled arrival of children who have been alone in the US for months, or maybe even years. The article says the court tried to contact someone from the government but doesn't mention whether the court actually called the government officials who were at the airport with the children. I think that would be the
FIRST people to call. Not some office in DC. And what the article doesn't address is what happened later, when the court conducted their hearing. Did the court even
HAVE that hearing at all? What was the result of the hearing...if it did happen? Could it be those children
HAVE already been through the process and the government was taking the next step...returning them to their families?
And finally, the article makes a big deal about
"Sunday" and
"Labor Day". What does that have to do with it? Guatemala doesn't have Labor Day and any parents and relatives in that country waiting for the return of their children probably don't give a rat's ass if it's a Sunday when their kids are returned.
Lots of spin and nonsense in that article and a lot of (deliberately?) missing information. Heather Cox Richardson should be ashamed of herself.
