Rachel Maddow Cries On The Air Over Trump Abuse Of Migrant Babies

Rachel Maddow broke down in tears while trying to report on Trump stashing babies that were ripped away from their parents in kiddie prisons.

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Maddow was trying to report on this AP story when she lost it:

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Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.

Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis. The government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where city leaders denounced the move Tuesday.

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Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents.

If Rachel Maddow is crying, America is in trouble

Rachel Maddow is one of the coolest political analysts in media. If she is crying on the air, what we are witnessing in the United States is a level of cruelty and inhumanity that should have people on the streets.

DO NOT NORMALIZE WHAT TRUMP IS DOING. THIS IS NOT IMMIGRATION POLICY.

A policy is not human rights violations and child abuse.

This is bigger, and if America could get outraged about the Bush torture program, millions of people should be on the streets threatening a political revolution if Trump does not end this policy.

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Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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