The left is separating children from their parents

The left is trying to use the issue of children being separated from their parents who are illegal immigrants. They offer no solution, and in fact, did the same when Obama and others were in power. The left turned back an entire shipload of immigrants fleeing Hitler who would have all perished had not the British taken in most of them later on. So the left, which was for slavery back in the day, is just making noise and being the usual hypocrite.
Hypocrisy is the mother of much irony, and it does not go completely unnoticed. The lefty paper the New York Daily News is constantly being reminded of this by its own readers, such as Bob Bergin from Danbury, Connecticut, who wrote in on 22 June to spell it out like this:

If Melania Trump commits a crime and is taken into custody, Barron would be separated from his mother. That's how it works.

Another reader, James Quinlan from Yonkers, wrote:

What kind of parent takes their child with them to knowingly commit a crime - illegally cross the border?

When children are separated from their families by illegal immigrants, who cares? What about the 15 year-old in the Bronx who was macheted to death by a gang? Who is noting that these gang members all speak in Spanish, not English, where are their visas? Are they dreamers? If so, what do they dream about, murdering American children and then taunting and threatening the parents? Trump wants these people out of the country and then more families would be together - and alive. If the left gave a damn they would support ICE and round up all MS 13 and Trinitario members. Instead, we get to pay to feed them and their translators?

Separating black women from her kids in New York City

The following is from teh New York Daily News editorial column. It appeared on 23 June, 2018. It is about how the liberal city of New York is separating people from their children, and also offers an insight into cannabis use in a positive way. This is not to say I support people dropping out and smoking dope. But cannabis is a useful medical substance with no lethal or long lasting side effects, and sometimes it is used by honest working people who want to avoid dependency on a single drug that has been prescribed to them. I support the legalisation of cannabis for medical uses and recreational use for people over 21. For more info on that issue, check out www.hempforvictory.blogspot.com

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Shakira Kennedy, NYC

At a press conference this week, Mayor de Blasio said, “We will do everything we can to stop the federal government from separating parents from their children.”

But the city itself is needlessly splitting up New York families through the Administration for Children’s Services. I know because my own family is at risk.

Ironically, the mayor made his statement at a press conference in which he announced a new policy to reduce marijuana arrests. I myself have had my life upended by senseless marijuana enforcement. And the mayor’s new policy will do nothing to help people like me — because it is ACS, not the NYPD, that is targeting me.

I am a 28-year-old loving mother and a taxpaying citizen. I have a beautiful 7-year-old daughter in a gifted and talented program and two beautiful twin baby boys. I would do anything for my children.

What Is This?

Unfortunately, during my pregnancy with the twins, I suffered from extreme morning sickness and could not keep food or water down. I sought the best medical care, and my doctors told me I needed to gain weight for the health of my babies.

But the medicine they prescribed didn’t work. Nothing did, until I tried cannabis.

Making sure to tell my doctor everything, I disclosed that I smoked cannabis and it helped me eat normally. That’s when I became a victim of circumstance. When my children were born, they tested negative for marijuana. But still the hospital called ACS.

I made clear to ACS that I had to use marijuana under unique circumstances — but that I would not continue to use it. I asked to schedule a drug test to prove that it would no longer be in my system.

They made me go to court or face the loss all three of my children. Then, instead of ongoing drug-testing, I was compelled to go to an outpatient rehab program three days a week for an addiction I don’t have.

Now, I have complete strangers from ACS coming into my home and telling me what to do as a parent.

Unless I am able to win my case in Family Court and get my record sealed at a later hearing, I will be blacklisted for alleged child neglect — and unable to get any job near children until my twins turn 28.

Even as the state appears to be moving toward full marijuana legalization, most of the other parents in my rehab program are women and men of color who were sent there by ACS due to marijuana use.

People call mass incarceration the New Jim Crow. As a black woman, I am living the New Jane Crow.

Before ACS got involved, the father of all three of my children and I were doing well and planning to get married. Then, ACS scared him away, accusing him of neglecting our children by smoking marijuana while our daughter was home.

Now he is out of contact. He was my support and they ruined that.

Whatever you believe about cannabis consumption while pregnant, you should know that middle-class white mothers join in Facebook groups crowing about the benefits of marijuana, and they never seem to be investigated by ACS.

I am the face of another reality. While we fight to legalize this drug, we have lots of urgent work to do to unravel the many pernicious consequences of prohibition at the local level. That includes punishing parents simply for marijuana use.

Kennedy lives in Brooklyn.