Central American migrants waited for food in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors in El Paso in March. By Fitz Brundage Fitz Brundage is the William B. Umstead professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill and the author of"Civilizing Torture," which was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History.
Threats to our safety, perceived or real, have long justified the kind of “tougher policies” that President Trump has demanded for the southern border. He may not be well versed in history, but the president is joining a long line of elected officials who found that rights and basic norms are easily jettisoned when they collide with demands for greater security.
As early as 2014, immigrants-rights advocates appealed to the Department of Homeland Security to investigate more than 100 instances of Customs and Border Patrol agents abusing child immigrants. A quarter of the children reported physical abuse, including sexual assault, the use of stress positions and beatings. Many more suffered verbal abuse, including death threats.
We’re seeing a replay of that ugly history unfold along our southern border. If the Trump administration codifies its get-tough rhetoric into harsher policies, we will see far more allegations of human rights abuses against the men and women charged with securing our border. And we probably will rationalize it by claiming that those responsible are just a few bad apples rather than reckoning with the ways cruelty has been embedded in the policy itself.
More unmitigated bias. Democracy dies in false narratives.
THE USA HAS A HUMANITY CRISIS AT HOME WITH TRUMP !?
What humanity, they put kids in cages.......
Haha 😂😂 that’s funny 🙄 and the humanity ship has anchored up and sailed.
We’ve already lost our humanity...
The United States lost its humanity in 1973 when the murder of human babies became permissible & the law of the land. When the national conscience died our humanity, & since then tens of millions of human beings & their potential descendants died with it. DefundPlannedParenthood
Putting aside the large numbers of racists who support and are employed by this administration, the US has been doing awful things for decades in the name of democracy. Bombing hospitals, making up WMDs, helping coups of governments we don’t like, and on and on.
Working as intended.
What crisis? The Washington Post told us months ago there was no crisis and it was all made up by the President.
Short answer: no Longer answer: haha, nope
What humanity does the US have to retain?
Spare me the hypocrisy and sanctimony. You support killing babies. do you think that retains your humanity
Retain. Lmao
No. When Nazis run the show there’s no honor, no accountability, no limits to their incompetence or depravity.
I thought the Democrats said there wasn’’t a crisis. But I digress
1. Asylum qualification is a tough standard. 2. Most border crossers will not qualify. 3. They know this, and expect legal rejection. 4. Therefore they “have to” cross illegally, or 5. If caught, start a case, then disappear. Solve this problem. Option 1: Wall.
Could the Washington Post retain its humanity if their offices were invaded by thousands of unwanted ppl? Notice I did not say illegals. Does the Washington Post offices have security? If so, why? Let’s open up ur doors n allow ppl to freely make themselves at home.
nope
That ship has well and truly sailed.
Not if Fox News exists
No
Wasn't it the Dems who voted DOWN the humanitarian funding that went through Congress?!
how about asking the Three Amigos of Central America about their humanity and crisis?
Holding people,even little children, let me think of WOII. Ok..they will not be killed but the way they were held is terrible. Not Human at all. Not a state like the USA worthy. Go and do something about it!!
Wait wait wait wait wait, you told me that this was a manufactured crisis and that there was no border crisis that Trump was just making everything up. We could have gotten a handle on this two years ago without a misleading media
Can Washington Compost be on the side of the working Americans for once. Can DemonRats fix the loopholes so these poor migrants don’t become the prey for smugglers? Can you be truthful for once?
Ellis Island wasn’t a far stretch from today....
WP=Illiteracy
We are the most generous nation in the history of planet earth.
No, because the Democrats are to concerned with the Russian hoax to actually do their damn job! Stop denying the crisis and start fixing it already Democrats!!!!
If the crisis in question is the realDonaldTrump presidency, the answer is a resounding NO!
Yes, of course it can. What doesn't help with retaining humanity is the skewed perspective posed by articles such as this. Whip people into a frenzy and you end up with zealots much like the Islamic extremists.
Yes
Name the first country that dropped an atomic bomb during war? Bonus: name the second country?
Not if we roll out the red carpet at our southern border.
When has it ever... yall have some memory issues
Hey, let's ask Native Americans and sufferers under Jim Crow about that legendary humanity we've displayed throughout history. Or, OBJECTION assumes humanity not in evidence.
Before it retains its humanity, it must regain its humanity.
Spoiler: No
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