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America Is Better Than This: Trump’s War Against Migrant Families Audiobook (Free)

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An exposé and cry of outrage on the cruelty and chaos the Trump administration has wrought in the border with kid separations, border blockades, and a massive gulag of child prisons housing thousands.

Jeff Merkley couldn’t believe his eye. He never imagined america could treat susceptible young family members with such determined brutality. Few acquired witnessed what Merkley uncovered just by turning up at the border and demanding to find out what was happening behind closed doors..Read More on the subject of America Is Better Than This: Trump’s Battle Against Migrant Families Contrary to the state stories and comforting videos, he found out mothers and children, newborn infants and newborns, stranded for times on border bridges in blistering heat or locked up in ice-cold holding pens. There were nearly 1,500 males jammed into a former Walmart, a kid tent jail in the desert with almost 3,000 children, and children attempting to survive in gang-filled Mexican border towns once they were blocked from looking for asylum in the United States.Worst of most, there were the kids ripped out of their parents’ arms and sorted into cages in some profoundly warped try to discourage migration. This was the way the Trump administration treated the kid victims of unspeakable violence that had powered them using their homes: as pawns in a power play instead of as humans worth respect and dignity.It was Merkley’s trips — captured go on viral video — that triggered worldwide outrage in the forced separation of kids using their parents. Just by taking a pastime — by caring about the people legally claiming asylum at America’s edges — Merkley helped expose the Trump administration’s battle on migrant households. Along the way, he helped change the tide against some of its worst excesses.AMERICA IS PREFERABLE TO THIS tells the inside story of how 1 senator, without background as an immigration activist, became a leading advocate for reform of the brutal plans which have created a humanitarian problems over the southern U.S. boundary. It represents the heartfelt and candid tone of voice of a concerned American who believes his country stands for something far larger and better.