#FamilySeparation – Inhumanity, the New Trump Policy

Since Trump took office in the US, the immigrant debacle has transcended from precariousness into a complete tragedy. Recently, Trump and his administration released what is called a “zero tolerance” policy towards immigrant children residing in the US illegally. Prosecution was declared for all such individuals crossing the border.

As a result of this policy, families are being separated at the border creating suffering like none other.

The immigration surge met a new high during Obama’s reign but has not been tapped into since 2014. However, Trump has kept the matter of immigrants under the radar since even before his presidency. As a result, adults, mainly from Mexico and Guatemala crossing the border are being torn away from their kids. Innumerable numbers of immigrant children are being detained into camps for minors as parents are being taken into custody. A civil rights attorney from Texas, Jennifer Harbury released an audio recording that has left the world shook. The recording voices children urging to be reunited with their parents.

A child is heard crying out “Papi, papi.” A female toddler is heard sobbing asking to be reunited with her aunt and volunteering her number just to be able to call her.

To make matters worse, the humanity of those orchestrating this have irked the citizens of the US and across. A patrol officer is heard joking about the wailing children calling their cries an “orchestra.”
If your heart can take it, here is the video: The claims being made by children who are unable to fathom why they are being separated, is nothing short than heartbreaking. Though children are being separated at the border; the ones residing in the US for years are also unsafe.

Fathers have been arrested from their place of residence, leaving the children clueless, alone and scared.

A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the US-Mexico border. Source:Getty

This has spurred an online debate amongst people.

Several can be seen questioning why these concerns weren’t raised during Obama’s tenure. However, a majority is still baffled at the audacity with which children are being punished for no apparent fault of their own. People have taken to social media to express their anger and hate towards Trump’s falsified sense of power and success.


The audio is heartbreaking and truly makes one wonder how humanity has stooped so low that the heart wrenching yelps of helpless children has become a country’s policy. This is especially true considering the recording played in the White House as the administrators waited for a press briefing to begin. Several representatives of the White House and of Homeland Security denied even having heard it. The Homeland Security officer, Kirstjen Nielsen, went on to justify and support Trump’s policy stating he “did not create a policy of separating immigrant families at the border.” Nielsen went so far as to draw a stark comparison between confined and incarcerated individuals to families being separated at the border.


This makes one wonder where Trump wishes to take his policies and how low his attempts will fall as long as he is able to “build a wall.”

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