If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “help” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 2726 S. Beckley Ave • Dallas, Texas 75224 ISSN # 0746-7303 P.O. Box 570769 Dallas, Texas 75357 - 0769 50¢ Serving Dallas More Than 65 Years — Tel. 214 946-7678 - Fax 214 946-7636 — Web Site: www.dallasposttrib.com — E-mail: [email protected] VOLUME 70 NUMBER 39 SERVING THE BLACK COMMUNITY WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR SINCE 1947 June 21 - 27, 2018 Youngest Migrants Held in 'Tender Age' Shelters The Cruelty Must Cease! People who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. (U.S. Customs Nicole Hernandez, of the Mexican state of Guerrero, holds on to her mother as they wait with other families to request political asylum in the United States, across and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP) the border in Tijuana, Mexico. The family has been waiting for about a week in this border city hoping for a chance to escape widespread violence in their home state. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (AP) ‐ Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the The administration’s policy of indifferently dismantling and sep‐ U.S.‐Mexico border to at least three "tender age" shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned. arating migrant families once they cross the southern borders of Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool‐age children the United States is morally indefensible, psychologically damaging in crisis. The government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where city lead‐ to children that are being brazenly taken from their mothers, and ers denounced the move Tuesday. is in direct contravention to the values on which our country was Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their par‐ founded, and pronounces. ents at the U.S.‐Mexico border, resulting in a new influx of young children requiring government care. The government has faced with‐ Any suggestion by United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions ering critiques over images of some of the children in cages inside U.S. Border Patrol processing stations. that the action is biblically based demonstrates a profound misun‐ Decades after the nation's child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the derstanding and distortion of scripture. administration is starting up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents. In fact, what is occurring is mean‐spirited, short‐sighted and is "The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my causing serious damage to the respect that others in the world mind around it," said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which provides foster care have for the United States as a welcoming country for seekers of a and other child welfare services to migrant children. "Toddlers are being detained." better life for themselves, and their families. Bellor said shelters follow strict procedures surrounding who can gain access to the children in order to protect their safety, but that Thoughtful faith leaders in Texas and the nation are protesting means information about their welfare can be limited. what is being done in the name of the United States. Even conser‐ By law, child migrants traveling alone must be sent to facilities run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services within three vative evangelicals such as Reverend Franklin Graham, a support‐ days of being detained. The agency then is responsible for placing the children in shelters or foster homes until they are united with a er of the president, have described separating mothers and their relative or sponsor in the community as they await immigration court hearings. children as “disgraceful.” But U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement last month that the government would criminally prosecute everyone who At a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas the crosses the U.S.‐Mexico border illegally has led to the breakup of migrant families and sent a new group of hundreds of young children organization adopted a resolution calling family unity a “priority” into the government's care. in a civilized society. One well‐known member of the clergy at the The United Nations, some Democratic and Republican lawmakers and religious groups have sharply criticized the policy, calling it inhu‐ convention said that he and his colleagues believed that migrants mane. were made “in God’s image,” and as such deserved better treat‐ ment than that which they were receiving. The leadership of the nation’s catholic community fully agrees with its Baptist brethren. At a convention held in Florida at the Many in Puerto Rico still under tarps as same as the Dallas conclave, a gathering of Roman Catholic Bishops sharply criticized the administration’s policy. storm threat looms The group’s president, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo from Galveston, called families crucial to human existence. “They must stay togeth‐ SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Maria ripped away er,” he said. part of the steel roof from Carmen Lidia Torres Mercado's home in While the mothers and their offspring suffer in bewilderment the Puerto Rican capital. Nine months later, she is still relying on a and pain, the president blames the situation on the Democratic blue plastic tarp to protect her home, even with a new storm sea‐ Party. He knows full well that is false. No administration before this son already two weeks old. one separated children from their mothers as they crossed our Torres points out where rain seeps into the bedroom of her borders in search of American opportunities, and our way of life. small house in a San Juan neighborhood known as Barriada The Republican Party controls the House of Representatives, the Figueroa, where the narrow streets surged with floodwaters dur‐ Senate and the White House. It is within their power to pass legis‐ ing the Sept. 20 storm. But the 60‐year‐old retiree says she has no lation that would reform our immigration policies, and stop this money to fix it on her own and doesn't have the documents prov‐ madness. ing home ownership that she needs to qualify for assistance from The party in power and the White House must cease this cruel‐ the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ty. 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