• echo@lemmy.today
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    15 days ago

    Do you have anything at all that supports this wild-ass claim? Right now this just sounds like a Trump puppet statement.

  • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    The kid in the pic was being returned to his father in Cuba after his mother kidnapped him and risked his life on the crossing to the US during which she died

    Not this wasn’t a traumatising moment it could be argued it could have been handled better but also his US relatives weren’t willing to let him return to his father peacefully, I think the look of terror on his face here is just the natural reaction of a young kid who went through that ordeal and is taking cues from the relatives holding him who have armed strangers kicking in their door, not a reaction to be returned to Cuba in and of itself

    The Kid(Elián González) later became an engineer and a member of the National Assembly of People’s Power and never attempted to return to the US under his own volition so I think its safe to say he was happy with the results in the end

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      15 days ago

      For 1 Cuban kid returned, there are thousands of immigrant kids severed from their families. Some are even killed.

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        15 days ago

        True but this picture shows the opposite: it’s not a kid being separated from his immediate family, it actually shows a kid who’s has previously been separated from his immediate family being seized from the people who were holding him so that he could be returned to his father

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            15 days ago

            I guess so, if your post was meant to imply that El-Sayed supports family separation then why choose a picture that shows the opposite of that?

            Or if you meant to say that El-Sayed is against separation and supports the repatriation of children kidnapped and smuggled into the US back to their home countries and families, why bring up the thousands of immigrant kids severed from their families and sometimes killed when I clarified that the context of the picture is the opposite of separation?

  • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    Okay, but Elian Gonzalez was kidnapped. Kids belong with their parents. He’s now thriving. He’s an engineer and just became a lawmaker in the National Assembly.

    It’s not their fault American cops are stupid fat pigs with machine guns.

    Fuck them and the Miami gusanos.