E.J. Montini of the Arizona Republic picks up where I left off in yesterday’s post about the Central American refugee children in Nogales. Politicial hacks treat immigrant kids like rotten fruit:
Hundreds of young border crossers from Central America were shipped by bus from Texas to Arizona and stacked like rotting fruit in a warehouse, and instead of saying, “How can we help?” the first thing Arizona politicians and political candidates said was, “Who can we blame?”
I blame them — for a lack of compassion, of conscience, of humanity.
It’s a long list, stretching from Republican gubernatorial candidates like State Treasurer Doug Ducey to members of Congress to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to Gov. Jan Brewer to elected officials whose names you wouldn’t recognize (for good reason.)
The word Wednesday is that a coalition of civil and human rights groups has filed an administrative complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security demanding that the department reform policies that, according to a press release from the group, “have permitted enduring and widespread abuses of children in the custody of U.S. border officials.”
[The press release from the ACLU is below.]
