Children, migrants...

“'Early experiences are literally built into our brains and bodies,' said Dr. Jack Shonkoff, who directs Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child. Earlier this year, he told Congress that 'decades of peer-reviewed research' show that detaining kids away from parents or primary caregivers causes long-term psychological damage, as per the Associated Press. 

The Washington Post report reinforces a whistleblower memo published by Sen. Jeff Merkley in January, which showed that Trump administration officials plotted to subvert official procedure and deport migrant children by denying them asylum hearings after taking them away from their parents.
 
'President Donald Trump’s 'child immigration strategy is immoral and comes from a dark place in the heart of this administration,' said Sen. Merkley, responding to the revelations on Twitter. 'Children are NOT expendable commodities in political battles.'”

~ P. Castagno

https://citizentruth.org/trump-administration-intentionally-worsened-conditions-for-migrant-children/

Don't understand how so many people can honestly think that taking care of HUMAN BEINGS on the planet is LESS IMPORTANT than all of the temporary materialistic STUFF they have gained. Maybe they do it by justifying their mediocre behavior and relying on their own low expectations of themselves and of humanity as an excuse.