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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by weiming on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:14AM (#17354612)
It seems like we are treating these children well (and I'm glad): "he seemed cheerful, “He shared how he was learning English, playing games and being well treated,” Ms. Ortiz said." [1]

However, I was appalled by the horrible "children in cages" photo taken during the Obama era. How was this allowed to happen? Wish I/we all had known about this, back then.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/immigration-deported-p...

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by deegles on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:52AM (#17354883)
> Under federal law, which adopts the United Nations definition, torture is: “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as … punishing him or her for an act he or she or a third person … has committed or is suspected of having committed.” And though in theory any action inflicting such suffering is banned, that is what is inflicted by separating parents and children in border detention.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0...

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by true_religion on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:43AM (#17356423)
If being separated from your parents is torture, then what about the prison system?
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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by deegles on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:28AM (#17365444)
The U.S. prison system is widely condemned as inhumane, overcrowded, and violent. So yeah, I would say that's torture, too.
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