Dem Candidates: Detention of Migrant Children Is ‘Kidnapping’

Democratic presidential hopefuls (fromL) US author and writer Marianne Williamson, former Governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper, US attorney and entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana Pete Buttigieg, former US Vice President Joseph R. Biden, US Senator for Vermont Bernie Sanders, US Senator for California Kamala Harris, US Senator for New York Kirsten Gillibrand, US Senator for Colorado Michael Bennet, US Representative for California's 15th congressional district Eric Swalwell, participate in the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, June 27, 2019. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper called the Trump administration’s detention of migrant children “kidnapping” — and fellow Democratic presidential contender and author Marianne Williamson went a step further, branding the policy as a “state-sponsored” crime.

On the second night of debates for candidates in the wide Democratic field, Hickenlooper decried the “sanction” to “federal agents to take children from the arms of their parents and put them in cages and put them up for adoption.”

“In Colorado, we call that kidnapping,” he said.

Williamson added: “If you take a lot of children and put them in detainment inflicting trauma upon them, that’s child abuse.”

“This is collective child abuse,” she declared. “Both of those things are a crime. If your government does it, that doesn’t make it less of a crime. These are state-sponsored crimes.”

via newsmax