New Zero Tolerance Policy Needs All of our Support

Zero Tolerance policy should be used not to separate families who had crossed the borders illegally. Instead, it should be applied to glaring and galling failures of the federal government to track at least 61,000 foster children, including 53,000 "runaway". How did more than 61,000 children disappear? No howl of cry! If you want to be a truly law and order administration, put your resources to track some of these missing children.

You need to show guts and grits to show and apply the so-called "Zero Tolerance" policy to plug the agency loopholes by funding adequate resources to reverse a horrendously high turnover rates of caseworkers.

The New Zero Tolerance means disapproving the action of a government to hide behind Romans 13 for your blundering inability to articulate a defense for an unpopular policy of family separation (for the non-believers, I would say that "keep reading Bible as there is lot of good stuff in there that applies to you personally", but "please don't use just for political ammunition".

New Zero Tolerance means absolute rejection to cherry-picking Bible verses to uphold administration policies.

Your "Zero Tolerance" policy may be standing between an illegal immigrant and the border, but the "New Zero Tolerance" policy is absolutely zero tolerance for brooking the idea of a government to allow it to stand between a mother and her child.

Unintended Consequence of a Poor Messaging

Often controversy is generated not because what is said, but how it is said. With the best possible intent from the purveyor and creator of the message, it is sometimes received negatively because of, among many reasons, failure to adjust the content and context with the changing time and consumer taste.

An example of that unintended consequence is American's Greetings' "Baby Daddy" Father's Day card, which had been pulled just on the eve of 2018 Father's Day weekend because of firestorm on social media over silhouette of a Black couple kissing and a pink letters underneath that reads "Baby Daddy". Baby Daddy and Baby Mamma are generally associated with negative connotation. Baby Daddy and Baby Mamma typically personify unwed fathers and mothers. That's the wrong message here, and especially when you put the minority faces there. Although the inside of the card reads: "You're a wonderful husband and father--and I'm so grateful to have you as my partner, my friend and my baby daddy! Happy Father's Day."

The problem here is that you see the front page, taken out of context, can communicate an unintentional meaning that most of us are strongly against perpetuating and is not consistent with our own value system. This is all about putting you in the shoes of others, and see what message it sends you.