First stop for migrant kids: For-profit detention center
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The federal government is holding nearly 1,600 migrant children here, at what it calls a “temporary influx” shelter. It has added 250 beds in the last two months and could soon house 2,350 children who crossed the nation’s southern border on their own.
It is the country’s only such temporary quarters for migrant children, after the closure last month of a similar facility in south Texas, and the only shelter for migrant youths that is run by a for-profit company.
The site is a topic of heated debate, as immigration advocates and Democratic legislators complain many traumatized children who fled violence and poverty in their home countries are held in an institutionalized setting for too long before being released to sponsoring families who can better care for them.
Government officials say they are trying to safely release children to family members as fast as they can, and that the facility provides the first experience of stability that the children have had after long and often perilous journeys northward
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As usual the trump racism and hate rears its ugly head
Oh naturally, it racist to keep kids separated from the "parents" who are put in detention when they cross the border illegally.
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What would you like to see done instead?
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Well that is a far by better place to be than being a indentured servant as they were treated under the Obama administration.
The comment is a total lie. You do know that the trump fools still have about 2k kids they don't know where they are. [Deleted]
Get a clue.
Even the left leaning snopes supports my comment.
Reared it first under the Obama administration and his supporters. From the very article you posted.
Wasn't an issue for the racist left until Trump became president. That is Trump's real problem- he has continued Obama's policies. Repel them all at the border and we won't have this problem. Mexico will, for a much needed change. Of course the left will never support that. Where is the money for Pelosi's grand ideas on border security? It definitely isn't in the budget the Dems offered up; nor is it in the one they are negotiating with the Senate.
So people would rather just letting these kids go on the south side of the border?
The right wing has shown up. Another factor of 'the Trump's' border crises is the opportunity for those in 'the fold' to make a killing on the taxpayers dime. Betsy DeVos giving pointers? Seems like another '911 Firemen Boot Money' scam in the works.
Can't stop stupidity and hate.
Pot calling the kettle black? Hmmm?
The left wouldn't have this to moan about if they just changed the amnesty laws for Central America and shut off the honey trap for smugglers and coyotes. But that would mean the left would have to care what happens BEFORE the kids get here in the first place.
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We could always put them to work building the wall. Before you say no, it'd be a huge savings and we'd be teaching them a trade.
and it would be fitting punishment
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I'm sure you would put kids to work just like the 20s. You wouldn't pay them but charge them for everything. Typical for trumpetts
Why do think people have kids? So we can put them to work!
They'd be getting a free vocational education. I thought liberals liked free education.