Letter by Connie Reguli Please Feel Free to Copy and Share

I shared this with the Reading Eagle.  They have yet to print it.

I have submitted the following to the Tennessean, New York Post and Washington post. 
Please feel free to copy and upload to your local papers.

Main stream media cannot get past this narrative that it is cruel and inhuman to remove immigrant children from their parents when they cross the Mexican border illegally. On any given day of the year 500,000 American children are living away from their parents in the legal custody of the government and in the homes of strangers called “foster parents?” The government statistics show that 85% of these children were removed from their homes under vague allegations of neglect or lack of supervision and the factual basis may be because the parents refused vaccines or sought a second medical opinion; a child is late for school, misses a doctor’s appointment, or plays outside. 
More important is understanding the federal funding scheme that provides the financial incentives to remove children from their parents and keep them in foster care far beyond the time the parents may need to rehabilitate. 
Parental rights are terminated by the Court and the foster parents adopt the children. After adoption, the foster parents continue to receive the $3,000 per month until kids reach 18 years old. This is a whole new government dependency sub-group in the name of best interest of the children. The children are the victims of social engineering. The narrative that it is wrong to remove children from the parents deserves a much broader and comprehensive discussion than children removed at the border. 
The child removal business is well over twenty billion dollars a year. And, just like the military and the prisons, it is a well-oiled private industry with over 114 lobbyists in Washington. Stop removing children from parents. It is another chapter in American human rights violations. 
Connie Reguli 
615 661 0122
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