Children as young as 13 are ‘trapped’ in a state with no access to abortion, lawyers and advocates say
Donald Trump’s administration is concentrating all pregnant children being held in federal immigration enforcement custody into one group shelter in south Texas, a state where abortion is outlawed with no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest.
Since last summer, more than a dozen pregnant minors, some as young as 13 years old, have been moved to a facility in San Benito along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a joint investigation by The Texas Newsroom and The California Newsroom, citing sources within the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Department of Health and Human Services.
The agency is responsible for children who entered the United States without a parent or legal guardian or who were separated from their families by immigration authorities.
Relentlessly pursue justice for the Trump-Epstein class. At a minimum all those implicated in the files need to be investigated, and we should jail anyone found of any wrongdoing associated with Epstein or the ongoing coverup.
As establishment Repugs and Dems have already admitted, this would decimate the current power structure and we would need to replace the majority of our elected officials as a result. This would be the perfect opportunity to institute a national standard of ranked choice voting, and abolish the electoral college, so that FPTP is a thing of the past and we can move beyond the 2 party uniparty rule.
There will be much more to do of course, but I think this would be a fantastic start.