The Different Drummer

Deporting Children to Die Is Not Pro-Life

Trump’s War on Immigration considers killing a young child because she was born in Mexico. Does life begin at conception and end at the border?

“Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing.”

– George Carlin

On the campaign trail, Trump maintained that his efforts at mass deportation would be concentrated on violent criminals who posed a threat to public safety. As he reassumed the Presidency, the definition of “criminal threat” was expanded to include anyone…