The Blue Gaze of an Obscenely Wealthy Infant

i was like this post looks familiar and then realized it was plagiarized word for word from a year-old post by one of my mutuals

This anti-AfD op-ed depressed me immensely, especially this bit:

Wenn man fiskalisch konservativ ist, kann man auch die FDP wählen. Wenn diffuse Abstiegsängste einen quälen, wenn man das Gefühl hat, die CDU mache nur Politik für Besserverdiener und Gebildete, dann sollte man überlegen, ob die SPD oder die Linke die eigenen Anliegen nicht besser vertritt.

My (bad) translation: If you are fiscally conservative, you can also vote FDP. If you are tormented by fears of being replaced, and you feel that the CDU only represents the wealthy and well-educated, then you should consider whether the SPD or Die Linke better addresses your concerns.

Children were taken from motel rooms without the parents knowing why or what was going on. Children and parents were asked by ICE/border agents to take pictures together, and were then asked to stand several feet apart for separate photographs, and then the children were taken with no explanation. There was no reason given during these separations because there was no official policy and nothing documented. 

The reason many families will never be reunited is because the unique ID # of each family, given as they first crossed into the border, was deleted and changed after the children were taken. Those children were reassigned ID #s as unaccompanied children after they were forcibly separated from their families. As in, the system shows that all of these children crossed into the border alone, and there is no official record of who their families are. Again, this was done without any official policy in place. 

After all of this came to light: that’s when the Trump administration announced their “zero tolerance policy” at the border. For them, if everything had gone according to plan, nobody would know about this. Many families will never be reunited because that was never supposed to be an option to begin with, this was supposed to happen with no official evidence.