Cruelty on the border; cruelty north of the border

It’s time to put some real perspective on the “immigration” (illegal immigration) and the family separation issue.

Here are real numbers on family separations.

In recent weeks, an average of 46 children a day are being split from their parents at the Mexican border and placed in some form of foster care, either in a government institution or with a family.

Compare this to the average for children entering foster care in the United States every day – 747 of them in 2016.

There were 273,539 of these kids – a staggering figure.

Compare this to the number of children who currently have at least one parent – nearly all fathers– in a prison – 1,700,000 of them.

Compare this to the number of children who experience the divorce of their parents every year – 1,000,000 of them.

That’s 2,739 children separated from at least one parent every day – about 60 times as many as the illegal immigrants on the Mexican border.

Why don’t these figures appear on the front page of the New York Times?

Why aren’t they part of a searing expose on CNN?

Of course, this says nothing about 65,000,000 surgically Aborted Babies in the U.S. since 1973.

The problem is that Americans have become used to the appalling way that so many children are being treated in their own country.

It’s just part of the cultural wallpaper, right? Or, “children are resilient, they will get over it” is what many parents say when they get divorced, why are we not so concerned about these children in our own household?

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