They're Just Kids.

       I wonder if or how members of the ICE department of the federal government have any idea how toxic their work is towards little children? They take these children and after ripping them from their parents, they send them to detention centers. Then, some time later, they take these children in the middle of the night, place them on buses and transport them to a different center. The fact that the new center is close to the Mexican border means nothing to them. They don't know where they are or where their parents are.
       It brings to mind what German Jews must have thought and felt when they were taken to interment camps. And in the war crimes trials after the war, the Nazis and soldiers who imprisoned and guarded them and sent them to their deaths, these guards claimed they were "Just following orders." I wonder how these ICE "guards" feel about what they are doing? Is their answer "I was just following orders?" The war crimes courts usually found those folks guilty. What might our own courts decide? What must other countries think? What will our closest allies think?
       But most importantly, what will these children think years from now? How will they think of America then? Time may heal all wounds, except the wounds of the soul. How many ICE soldiers will have nightmares in their future? How many of those children will have nightmares in their future?
       I get it that illegal entry into our country is a criminal offense no matter the reason, but that's our problem to work out. The forced separation of children from parents is unconscionable and it is our national shame. The time to resolve this inhumane practice is past due.