Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Separation Anxiety

Do know that panic when you look up and your child isn't where they are supposed to be? They were there one moment, and now they are out of sight, and all sorts of horrible images flash through your mind. How about when you are waiting for them and you don't see them get off the school bus. Think about how scared you were when you were young and you lost track of your parent in the store or on the playground. Blind fear and panic overtook you. Usually you see your child a moment later in another part of the yard or the store, or they just forgot their backpack and had to run back to their seat on the bus for a moment. Then you breathe a sigh of relief and thank whatever God you believe in that they are there with you and you can keep them safe.
Think of the people whose children go missing, and they never know if they are safe or if they are even still alive. You hear about it on the news and you see movies about it, and your heart breaks for those poor parents who might never see their precious children again. Think of the poor abducted children, scared and in danger and alone, without their parents there to protect them. Some of them enduring abuse and terror, all alone, with no safe harbor in sight.
Now picture these poor immigrant parents, and how their children are taken from them, and they have no way of knowing where they are or if they will ever see them again. It's like that brief moment when you lose track of your child, but there is no sigh of relief seconds later. The unbearable fear and panic just goes on and on, with no end in sight. Picture the poor children, separated from their parents, probably for the first time in their lives, terrified and alone. How would you handle it if the government took your child away from you, and didn't tell you where, and didn't allow you contact with them. You had no idea if they were safe. You don't know if someone is there to calm them and soothe them and protect them. The things that only you know about your child, what scares them, what allergies or medical conditions they have, what comforts them, what special needs they have, and now they are with strangers who have no clue how to care for them.
Do you want to support an administration that does this? No matter how you feel about immigration, is it okay with you that your country is handling it this way? If you support a monster, doesn't that make you just as much of a monster?
Where is your humanity? You need to decide what side you are on, and what being on the wrong side entails and says about you.

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