Exactly. Amazing isn't it how all disasters on Republican president's watch are somehow democrat disasters and when a democrat is president well there are no disasters to assign blame.
President Trump’s immigration policy has crossed the line from gratuitous cruelty to flat-out sadism. Perhaps he enjoys seeing innocent children warehoused in filth and squalor. Perhaps he thinks that’s what America is all about. Is he right, Trump supporters? Is he right, Republicans in Congress? Is this what you want?
A team of lawyers, tasked with monitoring the administration’s compliance with a consent decree on the treatment of migrant children, managed to gain access to a Customs and Border Protection detention center in Clint, Tex., last week. The lawyers were not allowed to tour the facility but were able to interview more than 50 of the estimated 350 children being held there.
“The conditions within which they are held could be compared to torture facilities,” Lucio Sevier wrote.
Trump and Vice President Pence responded with lies (blaming the Obama administration), deflection (blaming Democrats in Congress) and lots of oleaginous faux concern. But this is a humanitarian crisis of Trump’s making. A president who panders to his base by seizing billions of dollars from other programs to build a “big, beautiful wall” also panders to his base by cruelly treating brown-skinned migrant children like subhumans.
Do not look away. This is the reality of Trump’s America. Deal with it.
This is the reality of Trump’s America
Recall that this is a "For Profit" prison company that contributes heavily to the GOP and has John Kelly on the board. They charge us $750 per day to keep a kid and then don't feed them or give them blankets or sanitary supplies.
Looks like $748 of pure profit per kid per day.
For the same amount we could put each kid in a decent hotel and hire a full time babysitter.
We always wonder how the Germans could have allowed all the atrocities to happen? The systematic abuse, torture, and murder of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and Russian POWs and others -- how could the German people let this happen? Now we see how it happens close up.
Sargon.
Thank you for such relevant information. Once again, the US has shit all over its own self just like the US has done in the past. When studying US history we learn about the Trail of Tears by General turned President Jackson. His position as one of the great presidents must be based on his historic defeat of the British during the War of 1812, not on the Trail or Tears whose purpose was to have as many Native Americans die on the forced migration trail as possible. The farms that the Native Americans had developed were wanted by some with European ancestors.
We were led to believe that the US as a nation now knew better and we would never let this happen again.
We have done it again.
A tragedy that can't be undone is in the making. Sooner or later, and most likely sooner, a child from one of these concentration camps will get very sick. There will be no choice but to take the child to the emergency room or let the child die. The emergency room personnel will have to follow state and federal law. This may be the issue that sinks the Trump presidency. If it does, it will sink Pince's vice presidency as well as Pence has been foolish enough to publicly go on record as supporting this catastrophe.
In the state where I reside, Children's Services is required by law to investigate cases that are turned in to them. I didn't know until now that this facility was being run by a for profit prison company. I thought that the federal government was running it themselves and with limited funds.
The CEO and on down for the for profit prison company should be charged with child endangerment, cruelty to children and every other violation of Texas' law for agencies taking care of minors. The whole lot of them should serve several years of prison time in the very facilities they operate.
But, no, that isn't what will happen. A few hourly waged employees will be selected to be the scapegoats. These minimum wage employees will be the ones to go to prison for this. Shame. Shame. Shame.
Again. Thanks for the pertinent information. When I read how much the for profit prison company is charging, my blood boiled. For $750 a day, these children could stay somewhere in Orlando and spend all of each day at Disney World.
I can take care of two at my house. Somehow, someway, I think I could if I was very efficient with money be able to take care of them for $1500 a day and have just a small amount for profit for myself!
What is also very tragic is that if these children were fair skinned, were blue eyed with had blond hair, we would not treat them this way.
A goal of these concentration camps is to get the word back to the nations where these people came from. Perhaps, people would decide not to come to America if they find out how their children will be treated once they have come into the United States. The goal will be to discourage parents bringing children into the US as the penalty will be to serve time in one of these concentration camps, perhaps until age 18 when they will be taken back to their native nation.
As an American citizen, I am very much infuriated by these Trump children's concentration camps. That is what they are. I am not going to sugarcoat it.