Updated 11:30am 5/31/18
Apparently the status of the YouTube video originally posted here has changed to “This video is unavailable”. It’s not clear whether it was removed by YouTube or by the manager of the channel (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee). For a while this morning it was still available on the Facebook page for Full Frontal as a post and I was preparing to update my post to use the Facebook version, but even that Facebook version is no longer available.
While I continue to investigate other avenues of access for the original video, here’s something from MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes that covers the same topic. Samantha Bee’s segment included an excerpt from this video.
Here’s the original post:
Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee takes on the current administration’s new policy, as it is being implemented by the Department of Justice under Jeff Sessions, of separating children from their parents when taken into custody by Immigration officials. YubaNet reported that testimony by Richard Hudson, Deputy Chief of the Operations Program for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), at a May 23rd Judiciary Committee meeting revealed that during the 13 day period from May 6th through May 19th, 638 parents traveling with 658 minor children were prosecuted under the “zero tolerance” policy. That’s roughly 50 children a day being separated from their parents. Compare that to the New York Times report that 700 children were separated from their parents from October 2017 to early April 2018, a seven-month span. [NSFW: language]
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The RINJ Foundation, a global women’s group filed a complaint with the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights on May 24. I am putting here a link to the complaint. It’s the only real action that is being done to stop this and it can take a very long time in the UNHRC.
The US has dodged the signing of tough international treaties. Two that stand out are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention for The Rights of A Child. These are non-binding believe it or not, but they are the standards for common law.
Four people in the US stand out as violators of human rights of the parents and the children: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen; Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions (AG), and John F. Kelly, Trump’s current chief of staff.
Unequivocally the policy of Trump/Sessions/Nielsen/Kelly of confiscating children before any kind of hearing has taken place is a violation of the Rights of a Child. (Look at section 9). These people are xenophobic but more than that, they are power-drunk. The three secretaries follow a bad order but won’t take the moral way out and resign in protest. It looks like Nielsen was headed for the door but Kelly talked her out of leaving. How can a woman commit these horrible acts? Trump himself tweeted on 26 May that it was a horrible policy to separate children from their families. He added that it was Obama’s plan, not his. He was right on one count. Clearly he knows what is happening is immoral and unlawful.
These men should be charged in the USA. Somebody needs to get to the Supreme Court and seek an injunction against this conduct.
The ACLU says that UAC are being sexually and physically abused by DHS and ORR. Why give them more kids?
I am afraid my country is going to hell. I am away working in SE Asia and this week people have shaken their heads at me (obviously American). These Trump administration are destroying any appeal America may of had. I want to be proud again. I can’t be proud with the sound of hundreds of crying children in my head–children that bullies ripped away from their parent’s loving arms.
https://rinj.press/index.php/news-rinj-press/may-2018/un-human-rights-complaint-against-trump-for-confiscation-of-migrant-kids-in-depth/
I don’t know if anyone else is getting this, but this video won’t play here or anywhere else I can find.
This is kind of freaking me out.
We’re looking into it.
Wow. It appears that Samantha Bee’s harsh language criticizing Ivanka Trump (as a “feckless c*nt”) may be responsible for the disappearance of the video from several platforms (YouTube, Facebook, TBS web page).
I’ve updated the post to acknowledge the issue and provide a sort of “backup” video that deals with the same subject, but of course, it doesn’t do it with Samantha Bee’s trenchant wit.