Khloé Kardashianis urging fans to do their part to aid themigrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“It has been heartbreaking to watch what has been going on at the border, and impossible to comprehend that we live in a country where children are torn from the arms of their parents, who are dealt the ultimate punishment for wanting a better life for their families,” she continued. “Whether you believe that refugees should be allowed into this country or not, this is not how human beings treat each other. This is not how we foster love and acceptance. This is not who we are.”
“There are thousands of children now separated from their parents and we must not let these children be forgotten, nor can we let this moment be forgotten. We have to do better than this. Please tweet, talk, call, post, write, donate,” she concluded, tweeting adonation link.
“I think it’s heartbreaking. I think it’s so sad,” the 37-year-old toldKTLA. “It’s heartbreaking. I don’t know what I would do if those were my children.”
Despite herrecent meeting with Trump, which led to thepardon of Alice Marie Johnson— the 63-year-old great-grandmother who spent 21 years in prison on a first-time, nonviolent drug charge — Kardashian West said she doesn’t have leverage to influence the president on every matter.
“I do see people have been tweeting me about that, like, ‘Can you help with this?’ ” she said. “I don’t work for the White House. I don’t have influence.”
“I’ve always been very open and honest with there are a lot of things and policies that I don’t agree with, and I’ve always been honest from the start with the whole White House team about that,” she continued. “I stayed really focused on the case of Alice Johnson and prison reform, and I would love to help out there. If there’s anything that I can do, I obviously would do it, but I don’t have that power.”
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After over 2,000 children were separated from their parents at the border, Trump signed the order reversing his administration’s policy on Thursday.
“At the same time, we are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be a zero-tolerance,” he continued. “We have zero tolerance for people who enter our country illegally.”
AsCNNpointed out, in signing the order, Trump “officially reversed his debunked argument that he had no authority to stop separations of undocumented immigrant families at the border.”
source: people.com
