Issues Under Fire Lee Bines

The world is under the thumb of a madman and so far, no one has any idea what to do about it.

If allowed to continue at his current pace of destroying U.S. foreign relations and international partnerships, while fueling the flames of America's racial and ethnic differences, Donald Trump could go down in history as the tool Vladimir Putin used to make Russia great again. Podcast below

Everyday this story rages on without a humanitarian solution, is another day of repeated history. And, its because this story is repeated history, is all the more reason why it must be observed carefully and documented accurately. After all, this is the summer the United States withdrew from the U.N. Human Rights Council. So, I want to be able to tell people this is the summer I saw the internment camps being built to house migrants by the tens of thousands with my own eyes. I want to be able to say this was the summer I saw what a prison for young children looked like. But mostly, I want to be able to say this is the summer the President of the United States said judges, courts and due process was just making a mockery of good immigration policy

One can only hope Europe and rest of the free world is no longer taking its cues from the United States because the message being sent from this administration would be devastating to the 68.5 million refugees forced to flee their homes due to war, violence, and persecution worldwide in 2017. This summer, the United States is pitching building walls, closing doors and throwing the welcome mat away. Migrants are no longer wanted. So, don't call us, we'll call you. And it's all being done under the guise of making America Great Again.

Whenever elected officials, reporters, and human rights organizations are barred from unfettered access to U.S. government-run facilities and are forced to smuggle photos out of them, it should raise red flags, eyebrows and lots of questions. It should raise concerns that something is going on that the average citizen would not approve of. And the abuse of children would certainly qualify. So, the longer the Trump administration keeps operating these facilities in secret, the more people will raise their voices in protest. Something is not right and we the people must keep raising this issue until we find out what's really going on behind the government's closed doors.

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