Trump team reaches new 'level of inhumanity' serving jailed kids uncooked frozen food
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Trump team reaches new 'level of inhumanity' serving jailed kids uncooked frozen food
Dan Desai Martin June 20, 2019
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Lawyers say children are locked up without adequate food and water, and go weeks without bathing.
Lawyers representing children locked up by the Trump administration described "a traumatic and dangerous" situation at a detention facility near the U.S.-Mexico border, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
Lawyers said up to 250 infants, children, and teenagers are being held in unsanitary and horrific conditions and are being fed uncooked frozen food or rice. Some had gone weeks without a bath or access to clean, dry clothes.
In once case, lawyers saw a "2-year-old boy, he wasn't wearing a diaper and had wet his pants, and his shirt was smeared in mucus." The toddler was being cared for by three children, aged 10 to 15, who took turns looking after him because no one else was there to do it.
"In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity," Holly Cooper, an attorney representing detained youth, told the AP. "Seeing our country at this crucible moment where we have forsaken children and failed to see them as human is hopefully a wake up for this country to move toward change."
Lawyers encountered these conditions even though Border Patrol agents knew they would be inspecting the facility three weeks prior to their visit.
This latest report, based on lawyers' interviews with 60 of the children held at this detention center, reflects the pattern of abhorrent policies aimed at migrant children.
Border patrol agents are taking medicine away from children. Children are sleeping on dirt and rocks. The Trump administration kept a database to track the menstrual cycle of young girls. More than a dozen infants were locked up in unsanitary conditions. Half a dozen children have died in federal custody. Trump appointees contemplated housing children on top of a toxic waste dump , and Trump officials plan to stop providing education and playtime for kids they locked up.
Trump administration lawyers recently argued in federal court that jailed children don't even need soap or toothbrushes.
Trump never hid his racist feeling toward non-white immigrants during his 2016 campaign, and his policies since entering the White House are a reflection of his anti-immigrant animus .
Trump may have managed to hit a new level of inhumanity this time, but he shows no signs he will "wake up" or "move toward change."
Instead, he is ratcheting up the cruelty, announcing his plan to detain and deport millions of immigrants in the near future, ensuring that his abject cruelty toward immigrants — and especially immigrant children — will be his legacy.
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A family member is a border patrol agent.....he told me one of his friends that was transferred to the border (not sure where) all he did all day was make 250 bologna sandwiches...bread, bologna, cheese....bread, bologna, cheese........
In other words better care than they were getting at home
That man is actually kind of lucky. I have a friend who volunteered to help at the border, and he's on diaper-changing and bottle-feeding duty so border agents can do their real jobs.
This from the pro-life crowd. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much hypocrisy.
Trump can spend nearly 100 million tax payer dollars a year on fucking golf, but can't come up with enough cash to feed starving children? What a POS.