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Jeoffry Gordon, MD, MPH's avatar

As a family doc specializing in child abuse trauma, I agree with you 100%. In practice we do have to do more than just think about these unspeakable horrors, we deal with real people undergoing this kind of trauma. Personally I would call what happened to these families - parents and children both - at the border "SOUL MURDER." Justice for this cruelty requires indictments.

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SuZieCoyote's avatar

Another excellent essay, Thom. At the core is our "war on drugs" which has enabled the cartels, gang violence, rampant corruption and terror in Mexico. We made all this profitable with our draconian drug laws. The teeming numbers of immigrants at our souther border are a direct result of our drug policies.

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