happening right now: 250 migrant children held in terrible, inhumane conditions in Texas

[Anonymous]

I don't care what your opinion is about a wall or rounding up illegal immigrants en masse and deporting them. This story from the AP is horrific and if you aren't upset by it you really have to check your pulse.

You don't treat human beings, especially vulnerable children, like this. And I don't care if they shouldn't have been presenting themselves at the border in the first place. You don't treat human beings like this. Especially not vulnerable children. I don't care if their parents are at fault for not keeping them in their home country. You con't treat anyone like this.

This situation is a stain on America. It needs to be fixed immediately.

https://apnews.com/a074f375e643408cb9b8d1a5fc5acf6a

A traumatic and dangerous situation is unfolding for some 250 infants, children and teens locked up for up to 27 days without adequate food, water and sanitation, according to a legal team that interviewed dozens of children at a Border Patrol station in Texas.

The attorneys who recently visited the facility near El Paso told The Associated Press that three girls, ages 10 to 15, said they had been taking turns watching over a sick 2-year-old boy because there was no one else to look after him.

When the lawyers saw the boy, he wasn’t wearing a diaper and had wet his pants, and his shirt was smeared in mucus. They said at least 15 children at the facility had the flu, and some were kept in medical quarantine.

The children told lawyers that they were fed uncooked frozen food or rice and had gone weeks without bathing or a clean change of clothes at the facility in Clint, in the desert scrubland some 25 miles southeast of El Paso.

“In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity,” said Holly Cooper, an attorney who represents detained youth. “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.”

[Anonymous]

I agree, OP, this must be immediately addressed. What exactly do you believe would help?

[Anonymous]

House should a pass a very simple effort to immediately address this. It sends a strong statement and could *possibly* work.

[Anonymous]

The problem is too many people on the right don't see undocumented immigrants, even children, as people. They don't think of them as people, more as animals, so they have no qualms about putting them down like they might a feral cat.

[Anonymous]

19:40 is a liar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:House should a pass a very simple effort to immediately address this. It sends a strong statement and could *possibly* work.

This would be the correct thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree, OP, this must be immediately addressed. What exactly do you believe would help?

Well obviously a quick passage of the aid package for dealing with migrants, that, as you know, was mentioned in the article.

And how about those in charge of these camps immediately put out a call for donations of adequate food and water, if they don't have enough right now? If you're dealing with children and have such a crisis on hand you need to sound the alarm, not cover it up.

It seems the administration was caught unprepared for this. Some of these children were separated from their parents at the border, and that doesn't help the crisis, especially when you are talking about 2 year olds who don't have anyone to look after them

[Anonymous]

And they took away sports and activities and are now arguing that they don’t have to provide soap, toothpaste or towels.

To CHILDREN.

Effing monsters.

I want them all tried at The Hague.

[Anonymous]

I sounded the alarm right here on this forum, to please send much needed diapers to the border.
How many interested posters? Zero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sounded the alarm right here on this forum, to please send much needed diapers to the border.
How many interested posters? Zero.

Where? I totally missed it.

I’m in. Is there a group I can contribute to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sounded the alarm right here on this forum, to please send much needed diapers to the border.
How many interested posters? Zero.

Where? I totally missed it.

I’m in. Is there a group I can contribute to?

Ditto. I will contribute.

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile, the Justice Department is arguing that children don't need soap and are fine sleeping on concrete floors:

https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-tell-9th-circuit-detained-kids-safe-and-sanitary-without-soap/

The Trump administration argued in front of a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that the government is not required to give soap or toothbrushes to children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and can have them sleep on concrete floors in frigid, overcrowded cells, despite a settlement agreement that requires detainees be kept in “safe and sanitary” facilities.

All three judges appeared incredulous during the hearing in San Francisco, in which the Trump administration challenged previous legal findings that it is violating a landmark class action settlement by mistreating undocumented immigrant children at U.S. detention facilities.

“You’re really going to stand up and tell us that being able to sleep isn’t a question of safe and sanitary conditions?'” U.S. Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon asked the Justice Department’s Sarah Fabian Tuesday.

U.S. Circuit Judge William Fletcher also questioned the government’s interpretation of the settlement agreement.

“Are you arguing seriously that you do not read the agreement as requiring you to do anything other than what I just described: cold all night long, lights on all night long, sleeping on concrete and you’ve got an aluminum foil blanket?” Fletcher asked Fabian. “I find that inconceivable that the government would say that that is safe and sanitary.”

[Anonymous]

Are you willing to DO something, 19:53?

[Anonymous]

The reported conditions are NOT humane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:19:40 is a liar.

"subhuman maggot"