4 Most Heinous American Policies Towards Families And Children

Some terrible things Americans did in history of human race.

The United States Of America is a self-acclaimed protagonist of justice and human rights but stained by its dark history of being racist and mistreating coloured families and children.

The US government has always actively supported horrendous policies that tore apart non-white families.

Anyone who wasn’t from the same race had to face the consequences. From stealing native American children and giving them to the whites to sending young Japanese Americans to committal camps, there had been many policies that were part of their racist schemes.

This article will learn a bit more about some of the racist policies that have always been a part of the USA’s policies.

Deporting Own Citizens To Mexico During The Great Depression

Nearly two million people were deported to Mexico illegally by the United States government during the Great Depression in a move known as Mexican Repatriation. Among the exiled people, 60% were US citizens.

The argument was that only true Americans were more deserving of the jobs taken by the people of Mexican ancestry.

Furthermore, in cities and counties participating in the exercise, their officials would go company to company and search for any Mexican sounding name or anyone who had a Mexican accent were the primary targets for the deportation teams. These people were arrested and deported to Mexico.

Things were much worse in the cities where the people in power or the raciest authorities supported this racially inspired program.

These people wholly ignored that millions of their citizens were deported to Mexico.

Even in states and cities with rich Mexican history like California and Los Angeles, things weren’t better.

The government cordoned off areas which were suspicious and randomly expelled individuals whom they thought were better off in Mexico.

Middle Eastern Children Detained In Military Custody For Absurd Reasons

The United States Of America had been at war for decades, and during this time, there have been many allegations made against them — one of them being the abduction of children.

For eight years, the USA has detained about 2,500 children from Iraq and Afghanistan, and the reason the American authorities gave for this cold-blooded action was a security risk.

Any detained child had to face detention for a minimum of 130 days. Children who were arrested in Iraq were kept in the military center at Camp Cropper situated in Baghdad and Camp Bucca located near Basra.

As for Afghanistan, ninety children were abducted for nine years and kept in detention in military camps near Bagram Airbase.

These children were a Special Representative of the United Nations later insisted that the reason presented by the US for the abduction of the children was very vague and didn’t by any means justify their actions.

He further stated that no child should be considered a threat to society but only in the most antagonized situations.

US Government Killed Thousand Of Native Americans So Whites Settlers Could Have Their Lands

Before the year 1830, millions of acres of land in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and North Carolina were occupied and cultivated for generations by the ancestors of Native Americans. Still, only a few natives remained in these lands by the end of the decade.

It is estimated that around 125,000 Native Americans unwillingly left their homes in the southeastern part of the US, and the government forcefully relocated the people to the Indian territories.

The idea was simple: to take the fertilized lands from the Native Americans and give them to the white farmers. At that time, the president of the USA was behind this movement, and he was one of those who advocated in favour of the white supremacists.

The five civilized tribes of Native Americans, including Choctaw, Ponca Ho-Chunk, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Cherokees, started fleeing from their lands on foot when the US army threatened to attack winters of 1831.

Thousands of Native Americans died while they were on their way to alternative grounds. This journey is known as the trail of tears.

Again in the year 1836, the government of the USA forced more than 15,000 Creeks, the Muskogean speaking Natives Americans, to leave their lands, and on this trip, more than 3,500 Natives died.

Furthermore, in 1838 another migration was forced upon the Natives, in which more the 5,000 Cherokee’s lost their lives while the American Forces were chasing them.

Japanese Children Who Were In Committal Camps Were Forced To Live In Animal Pen

Japanese internment camps were established through an Executive Order Of the President of Frank Roosevelt during World War II. From 1942 to 1945, the US government’s policy was to incarcerate all the people of Japanese ancestry, which included US citizens, into these internment camps.

More than 120 thousand Japanese Americans were forced into these internment camps under the mask of national security.

The United States Of America declared the Japanese an enemy race and launched an entire-blown operation against the race. Most of the Japanese forced into these internment camps were US citizens.

These internment camps were the worst place for any individual; families and children were forced to live at the back of barbed wires while being guarded 24/7 by an army of armed guards.

There were various internment camps in multiple locations, like the one in Portland, Oregon, where more than 3,000 people were forced to live in animal pens or outside the city of Los Angeles, where more than 8,500 children and families were coerced to live in the stables.

The conditions described by the survivors of these camps are horrendous. Severe food shortage and next to no sanitation are just some of them.

This grim law was passed in reaction to the Pearl Harbor incident. The internment of the Japanese Americans was one of the most vicious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century.

Final words

The United States Of America is often considered one of the best places to live, and people worldwide move to this country to fulfil their American dream.

We can hope the policies of the nation respects the love given to it by putting a full stop at the atrocities — forever.

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