Terecht was en is er veel ophef over het scheiden van ouders en kinderen door de VS overheid bij het illegaal inreizen over de VS - Mexicaanse grens. In het hieronder opgenomen artikel van
ACLU gaat de schrijver Jeffery Robinson in
op de lange geschiedenis in de VS van het uit elkaar trekken van
families..... Zoals bij de concentratiekampen in WOII voor Japanners die (al lang) in de VS woonden (en
Duitsers, vreemd genoeg worden die in dit verband weer niet genoemd).... Waar de vaders van deze gezinnen voor het
overgrote deel al eerder werden geïnterneerd in kampen waar ze werden
onderworpen aan dwangarbeid......
Voor de ergste gevallen moet je terug
naar de genocide op de oorspronkelijke volkeren van wat nu de VS wordt genoemd (het gestolen land), zoals het Navajo volk (ook wel Dineh volk genoemd), mensen die ten onrechte worden aangeduid als indianen. De kinderen van deze volkeren werden van hun ouders afgenomen en op
speciale 'kostscholen' geplaatst: -waar ze hun taal niet mochten
spreken, -waar hun haar werd geknipt, -waar ze werden vernederd en -waar ze werden
groot geschopt en gehersenspoeld met het verfoeilijke christelijke geloof......
Uiteraard geldt voor de slaven uit Afrika hetzelfde, al werden de kinderen van deze mensen niet naar scholen gebracht, maar
zo snel mogelijk ingezet als arbeidskracht, ofwel tewerkgesteld als kindslaven.........
Heden ten dage lijkt het er zwaar op dat de psychopathische Trump administratie al van meet af
aan niet van plan was om de kinderen van vluchtelingen uit Latijns
Amerika te herenigen met hun ouders....... 'Een mooi afschrikwekkend
voorbeeld' voor mensen die nog van plan zijn naar de VS te vluchten
(voor het overgrote deel op de vlucht voor de gevolgen van VS
bemoeienissen met het land van herkomst in Latijns Amerika....).....
Een overeenkomst met kinderen van de oorspronkelijke volkeren uit dit deel van Noord-Amerika: de door de VS overheid ontvoerde kinderen van gevluchte ouders uit Latijns Amerika, moeten de bloederige vlag van de VS eren, bovendien zouden ze de verfoeilijke valse teksten van het VS volkslied op moeten kunnen zeggen, althans zo meldden meerdere bronnen de afgelopen weken....... Hoe cynisch kunnen zaken zijn in het gestolen land dat men 'Amerika' durft te noemen......
Lees het indrukwekkende artikel van
Jeffery Robinson:
America
Was in the Business of Separating Families Long Before Trump
By Jeffery
Robinson,
ACLU Deputy Legal Director and Director of the Trone Center for
Justice and Equality
JULY
6, 2018 | 1:00 PM
Children
are crying for their parents while being held in small cages. The
attorney general tells us the Bible justifies what we see and the
White House press secretary backs him up. Be horrified and angered,
but not because this is a new Trump transgression against real
American values. America was in the business of separating
families long before Trump.
I
am not talking about spurious claims that Obama did the same thing or
the valid comparisons to how our criminal justice system uses a cash
bail system that every day rips
children from
their families before they or their parents have been convicted of
any crime. The true story is that the United States has a
well-documented history of breaking up non-white families.
When
we sent Japanese Americans to internment camps, families were often
separated when
fathers were sent hasty relocation orders and forced labor
contracts. In some cases, family members (usually the father)
had been arrested earlier and sent to a different camp.
Forty
years later, the U.S. government apologized,
provided reparations of $20,000 to every survivor of those internment
camps, and blamed the “grave
wrong”
on “racial prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political
leadership.”
Sound
familiar?
The
separating of Native American families was more intentional. America
deliberately tried to wipe native culture from our country. According
to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian,
beginning in the late 1800s, thousands of American Indian children
were forcibly sent to government-run or church-run “boarding
schools,” where they were taught English and forbidden to
speak their native languages.
An
exhibit at the museum includes a quote from Richard Henry Pratt,
founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, stating: “In
Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing
the Indian in our civilization and when we get them under, holding
them there until they are thoroughly soaked.”
The
boarding schools forced children to cut their hair and give up their
traditional clothing. Their meaningful native names were
replaced with English ones. Their traditional religious practices
were forcibly replaced with Christianity. They were taught that their
cultures were inferior. Teachers sometimes ridiculed the students’
traditions. These lessons humiliated the students and taught them to
be ashamed of their heritage.
“They
tell us not to speak in Navajo language. You’re going to school.
You’re supposed to only speak English,” John Brown Jr., a Navajo
who served in World War II as a code talker by using his Navajo
language for tactical communications the Japanese could not decode,
told the museum in a 2004 interview. “And it was true. They did
practice that, and we got punished if you was caught speaking
Navajo.”
And
then, of course, America enslaved Blacks for 246 years. Separating
enslaved families was done for profit, for punishment, or simply
because a seller or buyer wanted it that way in the 17th, 18th, and
19th centuries.
“Destroying
families is one of the worst things done during slavery,” said
Henry Fernandez, co-founder of the African
American Research Collaborative (AARC) and
a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. “The federal
government maintained these evils through the fugitive slave laws and
other rules which defined African Americans as property with which a
slave owner could do whatever they wanted.”
Each
of these policies, Fernandez said, begins with the assumption “that
the idea of family is simply less important to people of color and
that the people involved are less than human. To justify ripping
families apart, the government must first engage in dehumanizing the
targeted group.”
“The
Weeping Time” exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of African American
History and Culture documents the U.S.
history of separating children from
parents. “Night and day, you could hear men and women
screaming … ma, pa, sister or brother … taken without any
warning,” Susan Hamilton, a witness to a slave auction, recalled in
a 1938 interview. “People was always dying from a broken heart.”
A
report in the Maryland
State Archives includes
a narrative from a man named Charles Ball, who was enslaved as a
child and remembered the day he was sold away from his mother.
“My
poor mother, when she saw me leaving her for the last time, ran after
me, took me down from the horse, clasped me in her arms, and wept
loudly and bitterly over me,” Ball recalled. “My master seemed to
pity her and endeavored to soothe her distress by telling her that he
would be a good master to me, and that I should not want anything.”
Ball
added that when his mother’s persisted, his master hit her with a
rawhide whip.
Thousands
of former slaves looked for lost relatives and children who had been
sold away from their families. They placed thousands of ads in
newspapers. Those ads are now being digitized in a project called
“Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery,” which is run by
Villanova University’s graduate history program in collaboration
with Philadelphia’s
Mother Bethel AME Church.
Our
history of separating families is no older than our use of the Bible
to justify transgressions against humanity. In
1667, Virginia
law stated
that if an enslaved person became Christian it did not mean freedom
because the only way that conversion could happen was through the
“charity and piety of their masters.” When Texas
withdrew from
the union it declared that enslaving people was justified by “the
revealed will of the Almighty Creator.” William
T. Thompson,
the designer of the Confederate Flag said, “As a people, we are
fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man
over the inferior or colored race.” Jeff Sessions is simply
the most recent person to try to justify an indefensible policy by
referring to the Bible.
On
June 14, Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited biblical
scripture Romans
13 to
claim support for the Trump administration’s forced separation of
immigrant families. “I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his
clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the
government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order,”
he said.
As
it happens, this is the same
passage cited
by loyalist preachers who said America should not declare
independence from England; it was cited by southerners defending
slavery; and, it was cited to defend authoritarian rule in Nazi
Germany and South African apartheid.
Zie wat betreft het 'vluchtelingenbeleid' van de VS:
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Jeff Sessions: 'asielzoekers zijn alleen welkom in de VS als ze kunnen bewijzen dat ze overleden zijn t.g.v. geweld..........''
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