U.S. withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

[Jon-Erich]

Jaicee said:

*siiiiiiighs*

I'm sure by now that we're all aware of my government's new policy of state kidnapping wherein we now rip the children of asylum seekers (most of whom are fleeing violent situations in their own countries) out of their parents' arms and simply don't give them back as penalty. You may have also heard about the revelation that said children are now being held in concentration camps (tent cities, collections of animal cages, etc.) and often subjected to physical and sexual abuse by their new, ostensible protectors. Yes, this is America. In 2018. It's hard to believe sometimes, but it really is.

Well anyway, oddly, the UN's Human Rights Council two days ago proclaimed this policy of official kidnapping "despicable " and "unconscionable". The next day (yesterday), just by coincidence, my country withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council, supposedly for other reasons. The decision also comes just a month after we pulled out of our own nuclear agreement with Iran and a year following withdrawal from the Paris Accord on climate change by the same administration, thus continuing a general theme of isolationism that our new border policy in question also expresses. (Further details can be found here.)

Not a worrying sign at all, is it?

I've been hearing different stories about these places where the children are being held. Some call them concentration camps while some images and videos have been floating around that shows what looks like a daycare center or even a summer camp. Also, the parents of these children have no documentation proving they are indeed the parents. Of course they're not going to have documentation if they're coming to the US illegally. The reason why that is a big deal is because a lot of children from Mexico and South America who are brought into the US illegally are victims of child sex trafficking. It is a terrible situation and it could have been avoided decades ago if the drug war had ended and the cartels had gone out of business. This would have meant less crime and fewer people crossing the border. Of course there the talk of building the wall, but that is like putting a bandaid on an infection.

As for the UN, I don't care. The UN is a joke. They're full of scandals of their own. They put countries like Saudi Arabia on a council for women's rights. They can't even do the very job they were created to do. They don't actually prevent wars from happening. In my opinion, the US should stop founding the organization altogether.