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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

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Trump team reaches new 'level of inhumanity' serving jailed kids uncooked frozen food


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  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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Tessylo
Professor Principal
1  seeder  Tessylo    5 years ago

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.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
Professor Quiet
1.1  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Tessylo @1    5 years ago

All innuendo with zero specific source for verification. You'll have to do better than that. According to Media Bisas/Fact Check Shareblue you quoted is blatantly extreme leftist biased. Hardly a fair and balanced source of info.

 

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
2  seeder  Tessylo    5 years ago

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.

 
 
 
lady in black
Professor Quiet
4  lady in black    5 years ago

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........

 
 
 
livefreeordie
Junior Silent
4.1  livefreeordie  replied to  lady in black @4    5 years ago

In other words better care than they were getting at home

 
 
 
Tessylo
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4.1.1  seeder  Tessylo  replied to  livefreeordie @4.1    5 years ago

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Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
4.2  Jasper2529  replied to  lady in black @4    5 years ago

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.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
5  seeder  Tessylo    5 years ago

Nearly 900 migrants found at Texas facility with 125-person capacity: DHS watchdog

May 31, 2019, 4:44 PM ET
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In a report out Friday, the Homeland Security inspector general has found “dangerous overcrowding” and unsanitary conditions at a Customs and Border Protection facility in El Paso, Texas, where   hundreds more migrants were being housed   than the center was designed to hold.

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“Border Patrol agents told us some of the detainees had been held in standing-room-only conditions for days or weeks,”   the office of inspector general wrote .

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A photo released by the Office of Inspector General on May 30, 2019, shows migrants waiting for immigration processing at a crowded detention center in El Paso, Texas. more   +

The El Paso Del Norte Processing center housed as many as 900 migrant detainees earlier this month and, the report also found, the facility only has the capacity for 125. CNN first broke the news.

The findings come as border patrol continues to grapple with record levels of migrant families crossing the southern border with hundreds crossing between ports of entry each day. Agents on Thursday apprehended a group of more than 1,000 migrants who crossed illegally in El Paso.

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A photo released by the Office of Inspector General on May 30, 2019, shows migrants waiting for immigration processing at a crowded detention center in El Paso, Texas. more   +

While Immigration and Customs Enforcement is responsible for handling long-term detainees, Border Patrol officials interviewed by the inspector general said their requests for detention space get denied in some cases. There are 80,000 people in   immigration   custody, according to acting Homeland Secretary Kevin McAleenan.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Democrat Bennie Thompson, responded to the report saying ICE struggles with capacity issues because they detain too many non-criminals and said authorities should have been prepared.

"U.S. Customs and Border Protection management has known for months to expect a higher-than-usual number of migrant families coming to our border to seek asylum – yet has done nothing to prioritize adequate, safe, and humane temporary holding facilities for those migrants, Thompson said in a statement.

"CBP was struggling to maintain hygienic conditions in the holding cells. With limited access to showers and clean clothing, detainees were wearing soiled clothing for days or weeks," the report said.

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A photo released by the Office of Inspector General on May 30, 2019, shows migrants waiting for immigration processing at a crowded detention center in El Paso, Texas. more   +

The inspector general recommended CBP take “immediate steps” in response to the findings.

The agency detailed actions it plans to take to mitigate overcrowding, including releasing family units with orders to appear to complete the immigration process.

CBP plans to open another temporary holding facility in the El Paso area later this summer. A higher capacity central processing center is scheduled to be open in the next 18 months, according to CBP.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
6  seeder  Tessylo    5 years ago

250 children living under inhumane conditions at Texas border facility, doctors and attorneys say

Doctors and attorneys say hundreds of young people are living under inhumane conditions at a border control station in Clint, Texas. They say they found about 250 infants, children and teens locked up for weeks without adequate food, water and sanitation.

A researcher told "CBS This Morning" that at the Clint facility, about 20 miles southeast of El Paso, more than a dozen children had the flu, and that some were in quarantine cells without adult supervision. The researcher added that young girls were taking care of a sick two-year-old boy who was in filthy clothing without a diaper, and that the children said they were fed uncooked frozen food and had gone weeks without bathing. CBS News reached out to immigration officials, and has not yet heard back.

Apprehensions in the El Paso border area have spiked more than 600% since last year. In May, the Office of the Inspector General pointed to dangerous overcrowding at the El Paso facility, showing migrants packed into holding cells. 

According to current rules, children should only be held by Border Patrol for 72 hours before they're transferred to Health and Human Services. But advocates say that children are being held for longer, and that they're just being transferred between detention facilities to comply with the guidelines. 

In an interview with the Spanish language network Telemundo, President Trump was asked about child separations and his administration's zero tolerance border policy.

"When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy. I didn't have it, he had it. I brought families together," Mr. Trump said, adding "I inherited separation. Obama built the cages. I didn't build them. Obama built the cages. That's number one. Obama separated. I'm the one that did a presidential order bringing the parents together." 

Separations did occur under the Obama administration. But in April 2018, it was the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy that led to thousands of forced separations. That policy forced immigration officials to criminally prosecute all migrants apprehended at the border, not just those with criminal backgrounds.

The president eventually passed an executive order ending family separations last June. But the government has admitted it could take years to identify the thousands of children separated from their parents.  

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Expert
7  MrFrost    5 years ago
Trump Team Reaches New 'Level Of Inhumanity' Serving Jailed Kids Uncooked Frozen Food

This from the pro-life crowd. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much hypocrisy. 

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Expert
8  MrFrost    5 years ago
Trump Team Reaches New 'Level Of Inhumanity' Serving Jailed Kids Uncooked Frozen Food

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. 

 
 

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