The Rights of Children

All across the United States of America, folks are rejoicing over the latest decision coming from ICE, of the Department of Homeland Security, under the direction of the Obama administration, to begin a transformation of immigrant detention policies.

When it comes to the end of children being imprisoned on American soil, this is a victory.

After the suffering of thousands of children and their families, this decision to quit imprisoning innocent children in a privately run "for profit" prison, is a victory, for not only the children, but, for the small group of "we the people" who engaged in the confrontation of human dignity over human cruelty, a group that grew to thousands around that country.

It is also a victory for the hundreds of thousands of other innocent immigrant children in US-America that would have been victims of ICE fulfilling the blueprint of Operation Endgame.

Under President Bill Clinton, the Rights of the Child was never important enough to get it ratified. Under George W. Bush, thousands of immigrant children all across this country were victims of some of the harshest treatment, imprisoned "for profit" by the Bush cronies, and deported by the hundreds of thousands.

Untold hundreds have died under the policies of Bush, Cheney, Chertoff, DHS and ICE.

But more is to be done in the United States and elsewhere.

November 20, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet, with the exception of Somalia, the United States is the only country in the world that has refused to ratify the Rights of the Child.

While in Somalia the parliament has difficulties to gather but soon will ratify that convention, in the US much work needs to be done to get the bill even on the agenda.

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