Zero Tolerance

Before Inauguration Day of 2017 occurred it was possible then to view this SVU episode and say this is fantasy. Sadly it is not and if it makes those who voted for the current White House occupant uncomfortable than good.

A child who was farmed out for prostitution is dropped at an emergency room and Mariska Hargitay and her squad are involved. They are led to a real bottom feeding pimp who specializes in pre-pubescent girls played by Shane Patrick Kearns.

One of the girls they found with Kearns is Scarlett Lopez from Guatemala. As per our current policy she's been separated from her mother and somehow she came to New York.

The rest of this episode is a timely indictment of our current immigration policies and the cruelty with which they are administered. One wonders what kind of people voted for this and the judgment they will face from the guy they hold as a Deity who said something about "suffer little children let them come unto Me."

Big kudos for SVU and this episode.

Thanks SVU for showing the reality of what is happening to those poor children and their families. It was a very good and very emotional episode I cried like crazy. And here is an ancient proverb for those people who are saying that this isn't happening: "There is no worse blind man than the one who doesn't want to see. There is no worse deaf man than the one who doesn't want to hear. And there is no worse madman than the one who doesn't want to understand."

Seeing all those young children locked up and incarcerated for doing nothing wrong is heartbreaking... I cried many times throughout the episode. So heartbreaking that human beings are treating other human beings this way. This topic needed to be brought to light.

During this scene, elsewhere in the world this discussion is also going on. ... and other in... and another in world.

A: I think immigrants can take care of themselves. My great grandfather came to this country at the age of 12 from XYZW.

B: And I bet he didn't have public housing, food vouchers, and Medicaid.

O: Most of these people get jobs and jobs that Americans don't want.

A: Give us your tired, poor, crowded masses, your longing to breathe freely.

B: Yes, this is a great poem, but it's all garbage. My people came here 300 years ago in chains and I still cannot breathe freely.

I'm not sure why people are complaining about the political side of this episode. SVU has always touched on current events. Immigration and separating families at the border is a huge issue right now so of course they're going to do an episode on it.