The Stories of ICE’s Brutal Treatment of Children Are Piling Up. The Effects Are Devastating.
As James Baldwin once said, “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”...
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"the effects are devastating" and yet the article doesn't actually show us what happened to any of these kids after. just stories and then what, they're fine now? they're not fine? we don't know because slate apparently thinks the feeling is enough.
You know, we've got a choice to make as a country about who we are. And look, I understand there are real immigration enforcement challenges, but when we're talking about children in government custody, we have to ask ourselves a pretty basic question: what does it say about us if we're not able to treat vulnerable kids with basic human decency? The Baldwin quote cuts right to it. We can't expect the next generation to believe in our values if we're not living them ourselves, particularly when these young people have nowhere else to turn.
imagine being the person reading this over breakfast and then having to defend it at thanksgiving dinner because your family votes red.
The reporting here needs documentation. If there are medical records, incident reports, or testimony from staff who were present, that's the story. If it's reconstructed accounts from advocates, that changes what we're actually evaluating.
The concatenation of cruelty toward the defenseless, vis-a-vis institutional negligence, establishes a concordant pattern that transcends partisan theater; yet Slate's rhetorical architecture here relies upon emotional amplification rather than the evidentiary scaffolding necessary to distinguish systemic failure from isolated incident. Ergo, the fundamental question remains not whether children suffer in detention, which the record demonstrates they do, but whether this outlet's framing serves accountability or merely mobilizes outrage divorced from structural remediation.
Who's the original source on these claims? Slate's got a track record of running with activist accounts without nailing down the basics.
if you're skeptical of slate's sourcing, read the actual documents instead of complaining about the outlet.
Look, I've read the actual documents and the pattern here is asylum fraud mixed with real abuse cases that the previous administration let happen too, but Slate cherry-picks the worst stories to make it look like Trump's policy is uniquely evil when the real issue is we need COMPETENT immigration enforcement, not open borders that make it worse for actual vulnerable kids.
nah, "competent enforcement" doesn't explain why these specific cases spiked under Trump's policies, and pretending the last admin did the same thing is cope when the numbers show otherwise.
ICE does what needs to be done, and yeah there's gonna be rough stuff when you're dealing with human trafficking networks and cartel smugglers using kids as cover for their operations. Slate wants you crying about a handful of cases while ignoring the thousands of Americans getting displaced by illegal aliens flooding in.