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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So at remote border outposts overwhelmed by large volume drop offs we want the same standard of care as at long term facilities? Meanwhile rural Americans dont see a doctor, at all, for four years. Meanwhile our current deficit (that American children will pay) is 207 billion dollars. This years government budget gap rose to 42 percent (what comes in with taxes/goes out in expenditures). We are hosting our visitors on borrowed money - is it like monopoly money? Just trying to connect all the dots in this crisis.[/quote]

Blaming our country’s failings of poor people on other poor people.  
If only we could get rid of these illegal poor people then all the good things will shower down upon you legal poor people.  
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Resources are finite. If we are providing for illegal poor people, legal poor people are getting shafted.[/quote]

You're evading the point.  When the government takes custody of a person, then the government assumes the responsibility to treat them humanely.  This isn't about some kind of government benefit being provided to "illegal poor persons," but rather deplorable detention conditions.  [/quote]

For one night? In a facility that's overwhelmed? That IS humane. Sorry.[/quote]

Stop lying. They’ve been there for weeks - as noted in this breaking Times story. Now many of them have finally been moved.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/us/border-migrant-children-detention-soap.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share[/quote]

+1  For those who are literacy challenged.
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Following a public outcry, hundreds of migrant children have been transferred out of a filthy Border Patrol station in Texas where they were detained for weeks without access to soap, clean clothes or adequate food, the authorities confirmed on Monday.

Some of the children were transferred into a shelter system maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services, while others were sent to a temporary tent facility in El Paso, according to Elizabeth Lopez-Sandoval, a spokeswoman for Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, who began looking into the overcrowded facility in Clint, Tex., last week after reports about the conditions there.

The move came days after a group of lawyers was given access to the station in Clint and said they saw children as young as 8 years old caring for infants, toddlers with no diapers, and children who said they were waking up at night because they were hungry. After they arrived on June 17 and observed the conditions, the lawyers immediately began lobbying for the children to be released.

The Border Patrol had been routing children to Clint because the agency was facing an unusually large influx of border crossers and had insufficient space to house them during the normal 72-hour processing period at the border. The infants there had either been separated from adult family members with whom they had crossed the border or were the children of teenage mothers who were also detained there. Some of the minors had been detained there for nearly a month.[/quote][/quote]

They've had these some of these kids in these DEPLORABLE conditions for more than a month. These Government workers should be ashamed.[/quote]

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