In immigration detention, the dirty secret is a great unwashed as conditions are worsening for hundreds of migrant children held in detention.
How can it be that US taxpayer funded and privately run concentration camps have been established by The Republican administration? Americans must demand that it stop immediately. This is not a scarcity issue, nor a cost issue. This is a #GOP policy nightmare.
Refugees are literally dying to get to America, while some ask why don't they just go home when the #USA has been the established home for all who have been persecuted. These are the same people whose parents may have come here for a similar reason.
#USA tax dollars are paying for migrant kids who’ve been separated from their folks and are sometimes sick but always frightened to sleep on concrete floors without sanitary conditions. Why are we allowing concentration camps to exist? Demand answers from your elected representatives https://deargovernment.info/
‘There Is a Stench’: No Soap and Overcrowding in Detention Centers for Migrant Children
Inspectors and lawyers traveling to border facilities in Texas described tremendous overcrowding and filthy conditions for hundreds of children and other detainees. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/migrant-children-border-soap.html
"Cruelty is part of their policy": Congressman blasts Trump administration's treatment of migrant children as "immoral" https://www.newsweek.com/cruelty-policy-congressman-trump-migrant-child…
Border Patrol agents found four bodies, including three children, near the Rio Grande River in South Texas on Sunday, Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said. https://nbcnews.to/2ICW5qo
Three children, one woman found dead in Texas near Rio Grande border https://wapo.st/2IBZeXv
In an Opinion piece, @CharlesMBlow writes, "Why were we not in the streets every day demanding an end to this atrocity? How did we just go on with our lives, disgusted but not distracted? Thousands of migrant children have now been separated from their parents." https://nyti.ms/2Na9GtD
Vice President Mike Pence: "Congress needs to provide additional support to deal with the crisis at the southern border." http://hill.cm/fXEq4H5
Women slept in hallways among rats, roaches and pigeon droppings; mothers reused diapers. “They threw us in there like little animals,” a Honduran woman said. https://nbcnews.to/2IEAhLd
From sleeping on concrete floors with the lights on 24 hours a day to no access to soap or basic hygiene, migrant children at least two U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities face conditions one doctor describes as comparable to "torture facilities" https://abcn.ws/2N9Tl8c
VP Pence says "of course" Trump admin. believes migrant children being held at detention facilities should have access to soap and basic amenities, comments that come just days after the admin. went to court to argue against having to provide such things. https://nbcnews.to/2IEeGCv
Tribune Editorial: Yes, we do have concentration camps, via @sltrib https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2019/06/22/tribune-editorial-y…
Once again in an interview with @chucktodd Sunday, President @realDonaldTrump adamantly claimed that the separation of immigrant families at the border during his presidency happened because of an Obama policy. That’s FALSE -
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jun/21/donald-… …
