Family Separation Policy
There are few things that have disturbed me as much as the news in America over the past week. 2,000 children have been separated from their families, now kept caged in converted abandoned shopping centres and halls. Their crime? Their parents trying to get into the US to seek better lives. Whether for genuine asylum or for economic migration, who knows. To be honest, who really cares? I don’t. Put yourself in their shoes for a minute. Children, some have been described as babies, in a strange, foreign country. Away from their parents, away from their culture and potentially their language, crammed in with other children who are equally scared and in fear. They must be terrified. It just makes me feel sick. In all the photos that I have seen, I have only seen young boys. What has happened to the girls? Where are they? Are they safe? I have so many questions haunting me. What safeguards are in place for these children? Who is in charge of looking after them, and are the ‘carers’...