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Thousands Of Children Dumped Into Squalor By Bush’s Deportation Policies
firedoglake.com - 8/15/2008
Thousands Of Children Dumped Into Squalor By Bush’s Deportation Policies
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Photo by Marco Pelaez, La Jornada We've already seen, here in the States, the travesties created by the Republican push to deport illegal immigrants: police-state tactics, the bastardization of justice , the destruction of families , the inhuman treatment of cancer victims . But that's just the beginning of the ugliness. Then there's what happens afterwards -- particularly to the ...

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Bush's deportation policies dumping thousands of children into squalor
Orcinus — ... often, victims of abuse by coyotes and criminals. All this is in violation of international conventions on children's rights, which clearly state that children are not to be deported, but repatriated. Of course, to this administration, such conventions are just so much paper to be wadded up and discarded -- just like the human beings they sweep up in their inhuman raids. [H/t to Henry Fernandez.] [Cross-posted at Firedoglake.]

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