@@ Border camps w/ children

[pixy0stix]

I'm going to work backwards, because apparently there is some doubt about what is happening there. Granted, that comment was made 10 days ago, so hopefully some of y'all have seen the error of your ways.

People want to donate diapers and toys to children at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. They’re being turned away. - www.texastribune.org/2019/06/24/texas-border-facility-donations-turned-away/


Children Cannot Parent Other Children - www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/06/immigrant-children-border-parentification/592393/?fbclid=IwAR28oRz5qsYPbZA5gVFa8_ges1CHK_YpglqoCfs41V-bubGzAW0NEEgZl60

Video - 60,000 child migrants detained by US in last 40 days - www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-48602222/60000-child-migrants-detained-by-us-in-last-40-days?fbclid=IwAR2JjVYCC3L2oQDGf0F8ghgnGe6yMYpl3czgPkS00vpQo3VniFGRYBDs6Y0


One In Six Migrant Children In The U.S. Are Staying At A Shelter Operated By A Private Equity Tycoon - www.forbes.com/sites/denizcam/2019/04/10/one-in-six-migrant-children-in-the-us-are-staying-at-a-shelter-operated-by-a-private-equity-tycoon/?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2417327111&utm_campaign=sprinklrForbesMainFB#3303efec687e


Four migrant toddlers hospitalized after time at US border facility: lawyers - thehill.com/latino/449829-four-migrant-toddlers-one-completely-unresponsive-hospitalized-after-lawyers-tour-of?fbclid=IwAR21iOhsOhnNp1COo9C1H75uZu2f4IkMJ7w8do_bV78RaqpxbqEJGprGwRA


Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids - www.apnews.com/46da2dbe04f54adbb875cfbc06bbc615

Are US child migrant detainees entitled to soap and beds?  - www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48710432?fbclid=IwAR3D_yoiRSBfmmtpHpHuLwj1fFyMfF94iDg4fIHleSbonURMMrXnvmyNNgs


DHS watchdog finds 'egregious violations' at ICE immigrant detention facilities - abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-watchdog-finds-egregious-violations-ice-immigrant-detention/story?id=63534100

Exclusive: Watchdog finds detainees 'standing on toilets' for breathing room at border facility holding 900 people in space meant for 125 - www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/politics/inspector-general-warns-overcrowded-conditions/index.html

Thread from last year when it started - pandce.proboards.com/thread/597581/focus-current-immigration-trumps-remarks

[pixy0stix]

The turning away donations makes it crystal clear that these are policy decisions, and not because they don't have the resources.

[centralsquare]

This is crushing me. I have such anxiety around my girls right now, and I know it’s because I know there are parents whose children have been torn from them. I cannot even process that horror.

I’m throwing money at organizations, but I don’t know what else to do. Do we start showing up in black on the Capitol steps? Just take over streets with signs? I feel like mass protest is the only thing that will make a dent.

[dutchgirl678]

There is a mass worldwide vigil scheduled by Lights for Liberty on July 13. I am planning to attend my local one and I hope many people do across the country and beyond.

www.lightsforliberty.org/

[Velar Fricative]

Jun 25, 2019 10:44:07 GMT -5 centralsquare said:

Just take over streets with signs? I feel like mass protest is the only thing that will make a dent.

Yes. These fuckers give no fucks about anything besides maintaining power and getting re-elected. 

[pixy0stix]

I'm just going to keep adding more to the original post because I'm fucking pissed off that even after a year of reporting people seem to think this might be in the "birther" status of news. Fuck. You.

ETA: Let us not forget that this was the moment on TV where it all started - www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/20/rachel-maddow-breaks-down-in-tears-on-air-while-reading-report-on-tender-age-shelters/?utm_term=.66a4a594e08b 

[elleblue]

It's important to remember too that these concentration camps are privately owned. People are making a lot of money off of this and it's beyond sickening.

[pixy0stix]

Jun 25, 2019 11:05:56 GMT -5 elleblue said:

It's important to remember too that these concentration camps are privately owned. People are making a lot of money off of this and it's beyond sickening.

Yes, this is in the OP.

[5thofjuly]

Jun 25, 2019 11:01:36 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I'm just going to keep adding more to the original post because I'm fucking pissed off that even after a year of reporting people seem to think this might be in the "birther" status of news. Fuck. You.

ETA: Let us not forget that this was the moment on TV where it all started - www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/20/rachel-maddow-breaks-down-in-tears-on-air-while-reading-report-on-tender-age-shelters/?utm_term=.66a4a594e08b 

I'll repeat my apology here:


My apologies. I was referring to one claim in particular listed in the tweet (i.e., the government is intentionally trying to move these children into camps run by the military so that there could then be no civilian over site,) not that horrible things were happening in general or that many of these specific awful things were, in fact, happening. I had certainly read a lot (and fully believe the information) about a lack of facilities and resources, that the facilities that do exist are horrible places, and that children have been forcibly separated from their relatives in these concentration camps. I should have been much clearer.

[mbcdefg]

U.S. government moves more than 100 children back to a remote Border Patrol station in Texas where children were caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.

apnews.com/e1d7846777504402bb1ebb788db48b94?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

[elleblue]

Jun 25, 2019 11:09:41 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Jun 25, 2019 11:05:56 GMT -5 elleblue said:

It's important to remember too that these concentration camps are privately owned. People are making a lot of money off of this and it's beyond sickening.

Yes, this is in the OP.

I didn't see the $775 per kid per day referenced in the article. That figure was new information for me today. I should have been clearer that that's specifically why I shared the above tweet.

[pixy0stix]

Jun 25, 2019 11:31:55 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

U.S. government moves more than 100 children back to a remote Border Patrol station in Texas where children were caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.

apnews.com/e1d7846777504402bb1ebb788db48b94?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

So they moved them out after the news broke, and then tried to quietly move them back. 

[heyjude]

History will damn us all.

[mbcdefg]

[downtoearth]

The fact that ICE and government workers/contractors at the border are trying to spin the look of this by moving kids around surreptitiously, shows that they know they are doing things wrong and that it is not right to treat humans as they are. I feel like we are looking at a humanitarian crisis and can't figure out why those in charge don't want a civil, humanitarian-based solution. It's so frustrating.

Interesting that the article says John Sanders stepping down could potentially be related to the current issues at the border, but that it might also be other reasons.

[downtoearth]

pixy0stix, Thanks for all those recent links - I'm only through like 3 of them, but when you see it all together like this it's powerful and horrific that we don't have the ability to stop the mistreatment of people at our own borders.

[picksthemusic]

I'm so broken over this. And all I see on FB comments (I know, I know) is that it's the Dem's fault for not passing anything to fix it. So.

[pugz]

I feel so ill. A year later and things are only worse.

[phunluvin82]

Jun 25, 2019 12:28:52 GMT -5 picksthemusic said:

I'm so broken over this. And all I see on FB comments (I know, I know) is that it's the Dem's fault for not passing anything to fix it. So.

I am seeing Trumpsters on social media screaming about 'Obama started it!!!' and it makes me want to punch everything. 

[Bernadine]

I feel so helpless. I’ve been avoiding some of the stories, because it just seems like I can’t do enough to make a difference.

[elleblue]

Jun 25, 2019 12:11:25 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

The fact that ICE and government workers/contractors at the border are trying to spin the look of this by moving kids around surreptitiously, shows that they know they are doing things wrong and that it is not right to treat humans as they are. I feel like we are looking at a humanitarian crisis and can't figure out why those in charge don't want a civil, humanitarian-based solution. It's so frustrating.

Interesting that the article says John Sanders stepping down could potentially be related to the current issues at the border, but that it might also be other reasons.

Because it would cut into the profits.

[heyjude]

Jun 25, 2019 12:55:56 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

I feel so helpless. I’ve been avoiding some of the stories, because it just seems like I can’t do enough to make a difference.

Remind yourself that you are not helpless. You are free. You have a voice. The helpless are the children in cages.

[mbcdefg]

Rep. Burgess on conditions in migrant camps: "You know what? There's not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at anytime, but they don't. You know why? Because they are well taken care of."


www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-on-conditions-in-camp-any-child-is-free-to-leave-at-anytime-62597701961?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

[picksthemusic]

Rage rage rage RAGE.

[katieinthecity]

Maybe this has been discussed before, but WHY OH WHY is there not some kind of outside humanitarian observation going on here?! Where is the UN, Amnesty Int'l, SOMEONE who can validate what's happening and hold us to account? I feel like every time there's some kind of humanitarian crisis in another country, there are tons of observers and NGOs and etc etc etc. Or am I imagining things?

[pixy0stix]

Jun 25, 2019 13:34:04 GMT -5 katieinthecity said:

Maybe this has been discussed before, but WHY OH WHY is there not some kind of outside humanitarian observation going on here?! Where is the UN, Amnesty Int'l, SOMEONE who can validate what's happening and hold us to account? I feel like every time there's some kind of humanitarian crisis in another country, there are tons of observers and NGOs and etc etc etc. Or am I imagining things?

Quick search pulled up that UN has been saying things - news.un.org/en/story/2018/11/1026831

As has Amnesty International - www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2018/10/usa-treatment-of-asylum-seekers-southern-border/

We're being monitored, for sure, but we're also ignoring everyone.

[heyjude]

Anyone have a good source or link for the argument that this started under Obama or the Dems did it too?

[pixy0stix]

Jun 25, 2019 13:46:14 GMT -5 heyjude said:

Anyone have a good source or link for the argument that this started under Obama or the Dems did it too?

www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jun/21/donald-trump/donald-trump-again-falsely-says-obama-had-family-s/

[heyjude]

Jun 25, 2019 13:48:34 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Jun 25, 2019 13:46:14 GMT -5 heyjude said:

Anyone have a good source or link for the argument that this started under Obama or the Dems did it too?

www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jun/21/donald-trump/donald-trump-again-falsely-says-obama-had-family-s/

Thank you!!

[amberlyrose]

Wayfair refuses to stop selling to concentration camps:

god.dailydot.com/wayfair-refuses-stop-supplying-concentration-camps/?utm_content=buffer9dd88&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=thegoodlordabove&utm_campaign=bloomjoy&fbclid=IwAR2neH8uN1uGSx8qYZrGZXXKkYx0rXvbNRIV97HftXvmFsx5jcw--Z1Su4k

"Wayfair employees are now planning a company-wide walkout to protest this weak response to their demands."