GOOD BYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE GEN. JOHN KELLY

When Gen John Kelly was appointed to be the Secretary Of Homeland Security, I was reassured; however, instead of deporting serious criminals, he started to deport illegal immigrant mothers from their American citizen children because maybe they had a shoplifting conviction 10 yrs before.  If the mother had a shoplifting conviction a decade or more before and wasn't deported then, why now?

But Kelly took this so seriously. he looked into the possibility of deporting the American citizen children with the mother.  So I was relieved when Kelly was removed as Secretary and made Chief of Staff to President Trump.  But even there he couldn't restrain himself and picked a verbal fight with an African American U.S. Representative using false arguments.  When it was pointed out to him that his points were not true, Kelly refused to apologize.

Because Kelly was willing to deport illegal immigrant mothers from their American citizen children, it should be no surprise that he didn't think anything was wrong with separating children from illegal parents crossing the border with no intent of ever reuniting the children with their parents.*  He said the children would be well taken care of and "put in foster care or whatever." This was being done to discourage illegal immigration, but it includes people asking for asylum as well.

"They're overwhelmingly rural people," Kelly said. "In the countries they come from, fourth-, fifth-, sixth-grade educations are kind of the norm. They don't speak English — obviously that's a big thing. They don't speak English. They don't integrate well. They don't have skills."*
But what about what used to be called "stoop labor?"  I believe people willing to pick crops such as tomatoes and strawberries are in short supply.

Needless to say, Gen Kelly has been a huge disappointment to me.  I have a hard time understanding his attitude on the permanent separation of the children from their parts.  Perhaps if you had to face putting soldiers into harms way, separating children from the parents, literally kidnapping them, doesn't seem like such a moral problem.

* https://www.businessinsider.com/john-kelly-family-separation-policy-illegal-border-crossing-2018-5
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/29/615211215/fact-check-are-democrats-responsible-for-dhs-separating-children-from-their-pare