Fueling the Fire: The Hot Topic of the Media and the Final Presidential Debate
Editor: Anita Newkirk Hackney
President Donald Trump has fueled the fire and the odds are not in his favor. As the president, he has robbed the transgender community of its equality and shamed them for using public bathrooms. The onus of this, falls on him.
In 2019, about 70,000 immigrant children were in detention centers, which was a 42% increase as compared to 2018. Seven children have died either while in custody or while being detained in these centers. Currently, there are over 500 sets of parents and children that are separated and alone with nowhere to go. These detention centers were one of the topics Moderator Kristen Welker-Won discussed in the final presidential debate on Thursday, October 22.
The day after the final presidential debate, Nick Niedzwiadek from politico.com posted an article about the Trump campaign.
According to Nick Niedzwiadek from politico.com:
“The Trump campaign’s communications director asserted on Friday that the reason some migrant families separated by the administration at the U.S. border have not been reunited is because the parents do not want their children back. Multiple media outlets reported this week that the federal government remains unable to reach the parents of more than 500 children who were separated from their families after crossing the U.S. border, according to recent court findings.”
News outlets, like the New York Times, started posting articles about the missing children a day before the October 22 final presidential debate. There are still more than 500 sets of parents and children separated from each other while they were trying to seek asylum in the land of the free. Now, all these families want to do is to re-forge the familial bonds that were cloven in two when Trump’s administration broke them apart.
According to Nick Miroff from the Washington Post:
“The phrase ‘kids in cages’ has become a catchall for the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement in recent years, to the president’s evident frustration. As he pointed out during Thursday night’s presidential debate, he didn’t build the ‘cages’—the Obama administration did.”
“When moderator Kristen Welker asked about the president’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy in 2018 and the separation of thousands of migrant parents from their children, President Trump immediately tried to skirt responsibility by blaming former president Barack Obama.”
“’They built cages,’ he said, referring to the Obama administration. ‘You know, they used to say I built the cages. And then they had a picture in a certain newspaper, and it was a picture of these horrible cages and they said, look at these horrible cages, President Trump built them. And then it was determined they were built in 2014. That was him. They built cages.’”
“[To defend taking immigrant kids from their parents, Trump blamed Biden] Biden responded by stating, correctly, that the Obama administration did not systematically separate parents from their children at the border, a practice that generated such backlash that the first lady and Trump’s daughter Ivanka joined the groundswell of people who pressured him to end it.”
One could ask, if President Trump was so appalled by these so-called ‘cages’ from the previous administration; why did he use them not only to imprison families, but to separate the children from their parents within those same ‘cages’?
No matter how much the Trump administration wants to blame and accuse former President Barack Obama for building the detention centers, their administration was the one that separated children from their families. There are families that will never be reunited because the children died in the detention centers due to inadequate required materials to care for them. There are also some children who are with their families who must now live for the rest of the lives with the trauma instilled in them by the Trump administration.
According to Christopher Sherman, Martha Mendoza and Garance Burke from apnews.com:
“A 3-year-old girl traveled for weeks cradled in her father’s arms, as he set out to seek asylum in the United States. Now she won’t even look at him. After being forcibly separated at the border by government officials, sexually abused in U.S. foster care and deported, the once bright and beaming girl arrived back in Honduras withdrawn, anxious and angry, convinced her father abandoned her. [. . .] New government data shows the little girl is one of an unprecedented 69,550 migrant children held in U.S. government custody over the past year, enough infants, toddlers, kids and teens to overflow the typical NFL stadium. That’s more children detained away from their parents than any other country, according to the United Nations researchers. And it’s happening enough though the U.S. government has acknowledged that being held in detention can be traumatic for children, putting them at risk of long-term physical and emotional damage.”
“Some of these migrant children who were in government custody this year have already been deported. Some have reunited with family in the U.S., where they’re trying to go to school and piece their lives together. About 4,000 are still in government custody, some in large, impersonal shelters. And more arrive every week.”
Former Vice President Biden now holds a big lead over Trump; but before Election Day, the race for the presidency could tighten depending on the polls. It also depends on what the American citizens want in the next president – a president with character or corruption. The United States needs a president who has a plan to combat Covid-19 and to better the nation. The nation needs a president who will not divide the American people based on their beliefs, sexual orientation or the color of their skin.
Trump has fueled the fire and the odds are not in his favor. He may not have built the detention centers, but he has used them to his advantage. Once he did that, it became a canker blossom for his administration and made it a hot topic for the media and the final presidential debate that occurred on October 22. This election has always been a choice between political parties. Now, however, it is a choice between character or corruption. Whoever the American people choose for president this year, will depend on what they want for the nation.
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