Homeland Security's 'Family Value' Program: The US Government Hunts Its Own Child Separations
📰 THE STORY: An AP article from Minneapolis details how local residents are providing shelter for immigrant children separated from their mother by federal agents, after the agents reportedly 'pounded on the door' of their home, seeking to detain the remaining family members. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: This 'pounding on doors' and child separation echoes the widely
condemned Trump-era 'zero tolerance' policy at the US-Mexico border, which from 2018-2019, saw over 5,500 children taken from their parents. Those actions led to international outcry and comparisons to totalitarian regimes, yet similar tactics persist under different administrations, simply shifting from the border to internal enforcement. The US has a long history of stripping Indigenous families
of their children, from forced assimilation via boarding schools (1879-1970s), to current child welfare interventions that disproportionately target Indigenous families. Double Standard: While Western media and governments condemn 'authoritarian regimes' for human rights abuses, including alleged arbitrary detentions or family separations, similar actions by US federal agencies against migrant and
asylum-seeking families are often framed as 'enforcement' or a 'border issue,' minimizing the human cost. Imagine the international outrage if a non-allied nation’s state security forces were 'pounding on doors' after midnight to separate parents and children. The US government also routinely condemns other nations for denying basic human rights to vulnerable populations, yet its own immigration