Save the Children (No, Not Those Children)

Close the Camps, an advocacy organization for child immigrants in detention camps, posted on Facebook  about the Save Our Children hashtag (I'm not connecting the hashtag here, because that was an awful mess and I don't want to add to their popularity count). The meme said:  "Save Our Children," followed by a montage of photos of immigrant children in our detention camps, cages packed to the gills with them, all looking utterly miserable.  

The final statement?  "No, Not Those Children."  Ouch.  

You can find the image here:

https://www.facebook.com/CloseCamps/posts/2722954831326631

I'm going to be blunt about this: I find it crazy that up here in Iowa, we shut down businesses for lack of workers, schools for lack of students, main street services and towns for lack of taxpayers--and yet, due to their country of origin and the color of their skin, someone on the southern border decides we don't need these people here. 

I'm radical enough to say that anyone who wants to come here and work hard and start their own business and contribute, who isn't going to harm anyone else, ought to be able to come. Or at least, shouldn't be on a 20 year waitlist for family reunification. 

And certainly never caged up like this, worse than animals.