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Stunning Cruelty to Immigration Enforcement
Children
separated from
parents
J iLL r iChardson
We’ve
reached
a cruel new phase
in the U.S. govern-
ment’s war on im-
migrants
without
papers. And it should disturb you
no matter what your views on im-
migration.
When undocumented immi-
grant families are detained, they
are being increasingly split up.
Not only are whole families being
rounded up, but parents are being
detained separately from their
children — often states away.
Jose Demar Fuentes, an asylum
seeker from El Salvador, is being
held in San Diego. His one year
old son is being held in Texas.
“What I would give to have my
son close to me,” he told a San Di-
ego radio station through tears.
Some believe separating fami-
lies is a coordinated tactic of the
Trump regime to discourage un-
documented immigration.
Separating parents and children
is so traumatic to the developing
brains of children that it should
be considered inhumane. Maybe
even torture.
by
One study counts how many
adverse childhood events a per-
son suffered and correlates them
with mental and physical health
problems. The study —
online at ACEstoohigh.
com — counts 10 different
types of childhood trauma:
physical, sexual, or emo-
tional abuse, the loss of
a parent, having a parent
suffer addiction or mental
all, and especially separately from
their parents, is predisposing them
to a lifetime of illness.
Families coming from El Sal-
vador like Fuentes are fleeing vio-
lence. They’ll keep fleeing as long
as it remains unsafe. Wouldn’t
you? Odds are you would do just
about anything to keep your chil-
dren from being murdered.
Given what they’re fleeing,
their children might well have al-
we’re making the world a worse
place by unnecessarily traumatiz-
ing them.
Fuentes’ son is one. Are we
really such an inhumane country
that we’ll terrorize a one-year-old
to make a point to undocumented
immigrants that they shouldn’t
come here? A blameless one-year-
old?
There are many ways to resolve
the problems with immigration
Simply having a parent in prison is a trauma
for a child. Being in prison themselves, and
apart from their parents, is even more so. So
detaining immigrant children at all, and especially
separately from their parents, is predisposing them
to a lifetime of illness.
illness, and so on.
Most Americans score at least
a one on the test. But the higher
your score, the more likely you are
to suffer heart disease, suicide, al-
coholism, cancer, diabetes, mental
illness, and more later on.
Simply having a parent in pris-
on is a trauma for a child. Being in
prison themselves, and apart from
their parents, is even more so. So
detaining immigrant children at
ready suffered traumas at home,
and then suffered more on the
journey through Mexico.
By ensuring their trauma con-
tinues once they reach the Unit-
ed States, it’s questionable we’ll
discourage others from coming.
But it’s certain we’ll permanently
harm the health of the children we
detain.
That child will grow up some-
where. Wherever they wind up,
system. Whatever we choose,
surely we can find one that doesn’t
fall on the backs of innocent chil-
dren.
Ideally, we can find a solution
that keeps families together.
OtherWords columnist Jill
Richardson is the author of Rec-
ipe for America: Why Our Food
System Is Broken and What We
Can Do to Fix It. Distributed by
OtherWords.org.