{"id":24046,"date":"2018-06-19T01:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24046"},"modified":"2018-06-19T01:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:23:25","slug":"cartoon-top-ten-reasons-we-take-kids-from-their-parents-at-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24046","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Top Ten Reasons We Take Kids From Their Parents At The Border"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Transcript of cartoon:<\/p>\n

This cartoon has a title panel followed by ten panels.<\/p>\n

TITLE PANEL
\nCAPTION: Top Ten Reasons We Take Kids From Their Parents At The Border<\/p>\n

Below the title, a caricature of Jeff Sessions is speaking to the viewer, smiling.
\nSESSIONS: Refugees are fleeing despots and murderers! So to deter refugees, we have to be even worse!<\/p>\n

PANEL 1<\/p>\n

A cheerful man in an ICE uniform speaks directly to the viewer. Behind him is a cage filled with wide-eyed children.
\nMAN: How else can we test our awesome child-holding cages?<\/p>\n

PANEL 2
\nA well-off (or at least, middle class) looking couple sits at a table; the man looks down, ashamed, while the woman talks with wide-eyed sincerity at the viewer.
\nMAN: Because I’m tired of caring about what happens to other people.
\nWOMAN: It’s exhausting.<\/p>\n

PANEL 3
\nA hand holds a smartphone. On the phone, a video on Youtube or some similar site is playing, showing a young man wearing a hoodie sitting in his car and talking to the camera. He’s grinning hugely.
\nMAN: Because it’s worth it to see the snowflakes cry!<\/p>\n

PANEL 4
\nA middle-aged man in an ICE uniform, with a big cop mustache, holds an adorable smiling baby towards the viewers. The baby is wearing footie pajamas with a pattern of little hearts. The man is yelling angrily.
\nMAN: Because this is the face of a TERRORIST!<\/p>\n

PANEL 5
\nA man in a hoodie is curled up in the corner of an empty room; he’s very small. He’s hugging himself with one arm while sweating with fear. His word balloon and lettering are shaky.
\nMAN: Brown illegals are coming to steal my way of life.<\/p>\n

PANEL 6
\nA woman wearing sunglasses and a MAGA hat speaks directly to the viewers, looking stern, calm, and collected. Behind her is a fence with barbed wire on top; on the other side of the fence are people in silhouette.
\nWOMAN: This is what making America great looks like.<\/p>\n

PANEL 7
\nAn ICE agent speaks cheerfully to the viewers, while he’s holding a woman in a very painful looking headlock.
\nICE AGENT: Because we can do anything we like to illegals! It’s not like they’re people.<\/p>\n

PANEL 8
\nWe are looking at a wall of an institutional looking building made of concrete blocks. A sign on the building says “Detention Facility.” A door into the building has a window embedded in it. Through the window, we can see the face of an angry looking man, talking to us.
\nMAN: Because we’re throwing the kids a big party! With clowns! And balloons! No, you CAN’T see!<\/p>\n

PANEL 9
\nA person wearing a KKK outfit, white hood and all, stands in front of a barbed wire fence. Dark stormclouds can be seen behind the KKK member.
\nKKK: Isn’t it obvious?<\/p>\n

PANEL 10
\nUncle Sam, wearing the top hat and also a Hawaiian shirt with flowers all over it, sneers at the viewer as he gives the viewer the finger.
\nUNCLE SAM: Because fuck you! THAT’S why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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