Responds to

 “A House Divided by Immigration Status,” National Public Radio

Caitlin Dickerson, “Baby Constantin,” New York Times

Former First Lady Laura Bush, “Separating Children…Breaks My Heart”

In this three articles we can see everything families endure to provide a better living for their children. In “A House Divided by Immigration Status” we can see a family that migrated many years ago from Mexico to United States to provide a better future for their children and in fact they did, two of then are in college and the other one is a college graduate, out of the three: One as DACA,  another is a US citizen, and the last is in the limbo since she is not a “legal resident” like her parents. Despite the fact that they all speak English, all they know is the American culture and that they all came to the country at a very young age and that they have being living in the country for years, the family is now at risk of being separated by Donald Trump who is now the President of United States and is targeting immigrant families who are undocumented with his zero tolerance policy.

“Baby Constantin” is a clear example of family separations being imposed by the new president since he stepped in the White House.  Baby Constantin is the youngest child that has ever been separated from his family by the US Government at only 4 months old. The baby from Romania was taken away from his father while trying to enter United States seeking asylum. After a big controversy and scandal all over United States and a long legal process, baby Constantin  was finally able to reunited with his parents in Romania after spending months with an adoptive family and in shelters. Where the people who  work there had prohibited to show love and affection towards the kids who were taken away from their parents.

The letter from Laura Bush “Separting Children.. Breaks my Heart” shows how every parent in United States felt towards the zero tolerance policy imposed by the current administration. In this latter the former first lady states that this was not the way to protect our borders and that United States pride itself for being a moral and humanitarian Nation and what the government was doing was against our principles. Furthermore,  she explains that separating children from their parents have many consequence beside traumas and concluding that every child deserves human kindness, love and compassion.

In these three different communication artifacts we can see that  the zero tolerance policy is wrong, it is only separating families, not protecting the US border or US citizens. The baby Constantin case is a cruel example of what this policy actually does, every child has a right and deserves to live and be part of a family. Family is the foundation to any house, State and Nation and if any country or government violates this foundation it clearly shows it doesn’t care about its citizens. This is not only an unhumanitarian policy, but also a discriminatory one that discriminates against family as a whole. Bringing charges against a minor who can even speak, read or write and is not mature enough to understand the context of what he is being charged for or what is going on, should be abolished.

Questions

Should a child who can’t speak, read and write be charger for a crime he/she doesn’t understand?

Is there a law that protects families from being separated?

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