Readers' Blog: We must rule out any State visit by Trump
The Government must rule out any visit by President Trump to Ireland following barbaric treatment of migrant children.
President Trump’s “war on migrants” reached a new level in April, when he announced that illegal migrants would be arrested on criminal charges and locked up to await a court date.
This can mean a wait of weeks. Meanwhile, children are separated from their parents and are held in makeshift centres. More than 2,000 children have been taken, bringing the number of migrant minors held by the Office of Refugee Resettlement to 12,000.
The new policy was introduced to deter migrants from crossing the border. This latest outrage should be the absolute last straw for the Government and it should immediately make a public announcement that they are withdrawing any invitation to President Trump to visit Ireland.
One report from a Texas centre describes up to 20 children living in a locked cage, sleeping on thin mattresses with foil sheets as blankets. This new policy is, by his own admittance, supposed to be act as a deterrent to those in search of a better future in the US. This kind of inhuman and degrading treatment of the most vulnerable people is reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s and it is no wonder they are being referred to as Trump’s concentration camps.
