Letters to the Editor
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you should check it out in australia
Been living in australia and am scared that the situation in the US could end up like here...
They put illegal immigrants (refugees from dictatorships usually) of ANY AGE into 'detention centres' in the middle of nowhere. A detention centre is a minimum security prison for all intents and purposes, and they contain children. Some of those children have been in 'detention' (cough*imprisonment*uncough) for YEARS. If a 5 year-old is in detention for only 1 year, that means they've been in prison for 20% of their life... it scares the bejesus out of me that people here are so freaking blase about this, because I can see how this country's right-wing xenophobic government closely mirrors that in the US. Hopefully it won't get so bad at home because the voice of immigrants is a bit louder and more heard in the US, but don't think that it couldn't happen.
Kids in prison for half their lives because their family is trying to flee opression or create a better life for them... sadness.