I usually don’t get political on this blog but what is going on these days at the borders with the separation of kids from parents has me very dismayed.
It is so wrong!
I am for strong borders and legal immigration.
Laws should be enforced, yes! But humanely.
What we are seeing here, little kids taken away from parents, however is cruel and inhumane.
As a parent, I cannot even begin to imagine what I would feel if I did not know where my child was and had no way of contacting her or knowing if I would be reunited.
Its terrifying!
But its even worse when I look at it from the child’s perspective :-(
How absolutely frightening for them!
To be in a new place without their family. These are not 15 year olds who, though scared, can at least be explained the process. I am thinking of the little ones, the 2 year old, or 4 year old. At that age, their entire identity is wrapped up in their parents, so without them they are bereft.
It is heartbreaking. I heard the audios of the kids crying for their parents, and it was hard not to cry myself.
I wanted to share an incident this weekend which puts this situation in so much perspective for me.
I had a mammogram appt on Saturday. Beanie came with me since we had another place to go right afterwards. The mammogram place does not allow kids into the actual X-ray room, so I asked my Mom to come along. I left my Mom and Beanie in the waiting room and went in. Now Beanie had been expelined where we were going and that she would be waiting for me.
When I got back, my Mom told me that from the moment I left, Beanie began asking “how long is Mommy going to be gone”…”when will she be back”….”I miss Mommy”… “I need to give her a hug”…”why is she taking so long”….etc the entire 30 minutes I was away.
This is a 5 year old child with her Grandma! A grandma she spends time with literally every day – yet being in an unfamiliar place she kept asking for her mother.
Now think of these kids…with strangers…however kindly they are being treated, they are still strangers. Imagine their terror and fear and what irreparable damage this trauma is doing to them.
Its so very sad!
There must be a better way!
