New Yorker: “Taking Children From Their Parents is a Form of State Terror”

Masha Gessen has been sounding the alarm for a while! Let’s learn from her …
‘The New Yorker’s Masha Gessen, a renowned LGBTQ Russian American journalist and activist, compares the Drumpf administration’s policy of ripping children from the arms of their parents to tactics employed by Putin.’

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My family was once on the rough end of America’s immigration law, when faced with the threat of my same-sex spouse having to go back to her country of origin.  Because of DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act) LGBT people could not marry with federal immigration rights to sponsor a same-sex spouse to remain in the United Sates. The possibility that I could be separated from my spouse and toddler daughter was simply terrifying. I lived with a feeling of terror – the unknown – as we sloughed through looking for solutions.  We did everything we could to hold our lives together, but it debilitated us at every level of our existence. It was costly and cruel.  That is true persecution!

Since the Obama era, we had attained marriage equality and our federal right to equality in immigration.  I had hoped America had moved forward. I had hoped we were headed…

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