Inside a Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding Immigrant Children

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  1. HumbledPi

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    Inside a Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding Immigrant Children
    https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-an...-the-government-is-holding-immigrant-children

    Hundreds of immigrant children who have been separated from their parents or family members are being held in dirty, neglectful, and dangerous conditions at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. This week, a team of lawyers interviewed more than fifty children at one of those facilities, in Clint, Texas, in order to monitor government compliance with the Flores settlement, which mandates that children must be held in safe and sanitary conditions and moved out of Border Patrol custody without unnecessary delays. The conditions the lawyers found were shocking: flu and lice outbreaks were going untreated, and children were filthy, sleeping on cold floors, and taking care of each other because of the lack of attention from guards. Some of them had been in the facility for weeks

    [snip]We had approximately ten lawyers, doctors, and interpreters in El Paso this past week. We did not plan to go to the Clint Facility, because it’s not a facility that historically receives children. It wasn’t even on our radar. It was at a facility that historically only had a maximum occupancy of a hundred and four, and it was an adult facility. So we were not expecting to go there, and then we saw the report, last week, that it appeared that children were being sent to Clint, so we decided to put four teams over there. The teams are one to two attorneys, or an attorney and an interpreter. The idea is that we would be interviewing one child at a time or one sibling group at a time.

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    So no responsibility on their parents? America is the parents of these children now? Theses kids weren't exactly ripped from their homes and put in these facilities. Plenty of poor children in america already that we should be taking care of
     
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    It's their parents fault not the US s.
    They knew that something like this can happen and did it anyway(which is a low deterrent anyway, much more is needed)
    Currently is very very attractive to be an illegal immigrant because why not? Risk staying a camp with these awful conditions that are better than the conditions where they come from.
    If you don't do something harsh about it, the US will be flooded with all of S American population, in a few decades. Can you handle that? Do you need that?

    I keep telling you:
    Load the choppers and let them rain hell. They will reconsider afterwards.

    I suggested that for the recent and ongoing invasions of Europe. I don't want to lower my standards of living for unknown distant people that don't resemble me. I just don't. It is my prosperity and I don't want it ruined. I will kill you to protect it if needs be.
    If you don't want to risk being killed, apply for a visa.
     
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    It is NOT the children's fault !!!! Using that as an excuse to treat PRECIOUS LIFE like dogs is deplorable!!!
     
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    So when TRUMP declared," ALL life is precious" he lied again...not surprising.....
     
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    Was it deplorable when Obama did it?
     
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    Call your dem reps and complain about them refusing to fund Obama's 'concentration camps'.
     
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    DON'T --- just don't begin to place blame. This is a crisis, and it's OUR crisis, not mine not yours --OUR crisis. Is it really asking too much to expect children to be treated like human beings? Where's your soul when all you can do is deflect and place blame on one or the other? This is a humanitarian crisis that can be resolved TODAY. Get workers in there to take care of these kids. Give them cots to sleep on instead of a cold concrete floor. Give them enough blankets, soap, water, health care professionals, get them food! Jesus H. Christ! These are human beings, children at that, infants and toddlers who did nothing wrong, their only fault was being born to an illegal. This should go over, above and beyond the crisis at the border. This is elementary, treat these kids like human beings and the HELL with politics!
     
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    Your deflection in the face of a human crisis of our doing is absolutely disgusting.
     
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    Hillary Clinton was absolutely right. When I see the reaction of you people, the deflection, the blame and finger-pointing, the obvious carelessness about children being treated like dogs or cattle. Even a dog gets treated better. This is a scourge on this entire country and you people are reinforcing it, enabling it by turning a blind eye and doing absolutely nothing about it. You are indeed a big basket of deplorables because your refusal to accept this egregious abuse is disgusting.

    Any normal human being with a shred of decency would be alarmed but no, you excuse, you blame the others. This country is lost if you people control it. And, we deserve all we're going to get.
     
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    https://www.gofundme.com/border-detention-ctr-child-advocacy
     
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    This is your crisis since you don't want to launch them to the other side of the border
     
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    Their agony is on your, and any deaths is your fault for being silent. goodbye forever.
     
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    Hillary who?
     
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    And goodbye to you too.
     
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    Immigrant children ?

    Is this more fake news ?

    To be an immigrant one must have asked for permission to migrate to the USA and applied for an immigration visa at an American Embassy or consulate in the home country of the wannabe immigrant.

    After the State Department has vetted the wannabe immigrant they issue an immigration visa.

    Then the wannabe immigrant packs his bags and heads for a legal port of entry into the USA and presents his immigration visa to the USBC agent who stamps his passport and informs the wannabe immigrant he has to apply for an immigration permanent residence card (green card) with in so many days.

    Once the wannabe immigrant has his valid immigration visa and green card he is an immigrant aka legal alien

    It's so freaking easy to do that 99.9% of Americans ancestors did it.
     
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    You too, done.
     
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    They could be with their parents happily enjoying Mexico.
     
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    Toodles!
     
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    Go find a nice little chat group where you can all hold hands and agree with each other.
     
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    Trump lying has nothing to do with illegals taking advantage of a broken system.
     
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    They must have a system at the DOJ to see which lawyer will be sacrificed in the courts over such issues.
    Start at 26:30.

     
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    FoxHastings said:
    It is NOT the children's fault !!!! Using that as an excuse to treat PRECIOUS LIFE like dogs is deplorable!!!


    Why wouldn't it be? But this is now and using excuses to try to hide the hypocrisy of the right isn't going to work.
     
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