The Stanford prison experiment, which helped us understand the worst atrocities in history for decades, is called out as a ‘sham’ at a moment when America is separating asylum seekers from their children at the border.
By Emanuel Maiberg
Jun 18 2018
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The Department of Homeland Security is currently committed to a “zero tolerance” immigration policy on the border with Mexico, which so far has separated 2,000asylum-seeking Central American children from their parents.
If you are not fully familiar with the dehumanizing details of this process, I implore you to read this Texas Monthly interview with a volunteer at a charity who is trying to assist the parents and children who are caught in it.
Generally, a family will arrive at the US-Mexican border, and after being repeatedly denied entry via official crossings, will cross on their own. Once on the American side, many families voluntarily seek Border Patrol so they can officially ask for asylum. It is often at this moment, against established United Nations normsabout how asylum seekers should be treated, that parents are prosecuted as criminals and their children are torn away from them.
Here is a section from the Texas Monthly interview that turned my stomach:
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