President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would like to help create a world where children are afforded equal opportunities, no matter where they happen to grow up. “Whether a child lives in Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore or anywhere in our country, he or she has the right to grow up in safety and in peace. No one in America should be punished because of the city where he or she is born,” Trump said during a speech at a law enforcement conference in Washington, D.C. “Every child in America should be able to play outside without fear, walk home without danger and attend a school without being worried about drugs or gangs or violence.”“So many lives and so many people have been cut short, their potential, their life has been cut short,” he added. “So much potential has been sidelined, and so many dreams have been shattered and broken, totally broken.”Trump, however, is undercutting that dream for children around the world with his refugee and travel ban. By blocking children from fleeing dangerous and desperate conditions ― that they had no hand in creating ― in search of a better life in America, he is helping to ensure that they are essentially “punished because of the city” where they are born.

Source: Huffington Post February 08, 2017 18:33 UTC