Almost 300 migrant children have been removed from a border patrol facility in Texas after
media reports of lawyers describing “appalling” and potentially dangerous conditions, Department of Homeland Security officials told NBC News.
Lawyers who recently visited two Texas facilities holding migrant children described seeing young children and teenagers not being able to shower for days or even weeks, inadequate food, flu outbreaks and prolonged periods of detention.
Yeah, Trump and his swamp creatures are deplorable, in fact they are evil and criminal.
Funny how this ha s only bothered you since Trump took office.
Not so much. but the difference was when Obama couldn't get congress to act in a bipartisan manner to overhaul immigration, and "deterrence" didn't work, the admin shifted to building facilities for temporary housing and moving the children to foster care.
The republicans appear to prefer locking them up indefinitely.
Neither approach is the best we should be able to do, but
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Trumpists: a group that supports abusing children for political purposes.
There is no other explanation for not treating children well. These people care more for unborn zygotes then they do for children already born and suffering.
I would not go so far.
But I will not be drawn into defending the actions of the parents or the lefties that encourage them to come.
What the right fails to recognize is that this current immigration issue isnt a "pull" problem, it is a "push" problem. They arent being drawn to the US, like the Mexican migrants coming for work, they are being pushed out of Honduras, Guatamala, El Salvador by drought, extreme poverty and violence. So a parent faced with with terrible choices chooses what they think will save their children and you all label them bad parents because they dont want their kids to starve ti death or swallowed by the endemic violence.
Then you have horrible filthy conditions the kids are being kept in under American detention.. Andwhat is the response?
Blame throwing. Not this is unacceptable, lets at keadt fix it for the moment...no. Not taking responsibility but blaming.
Trump administration owns all tbe policies at play. They can choose to improve conditions and have the direct power to do so but they would rathet use the suffering of children for political purposes. Again. And Again.
1. If it was a push problem as you claim, they would stop in Southern Mexico.
2. If we don't find the right people or causes to blame, then we can't actually address the cause of the problem.
3. It is your side that is using the suffering of children for political purposes.
1. The fact thst they dont stop in Mexico, a coybtry also beset by poverty and violence, doesnt make itany less ofa push factor. Many have rekatives in the US.
2. Blame lies with the policies put in place by this administration that turned a border crisis into a humanitarian one. This isnt even close to the high numbers we have had before yet some how huge numbers of kids weren't held in such conditions for such lengths of time before now.
You're right. When Obama faced a similar issue, we opted for basically assimilating the kids. For the Gop, placing them in jails is preferable.
President Obama Also Faced A 'Crisis' At The Southern Border
Trump would also prefer simply having refugee camps on the southern side of Mexico's border with Guatemala.
But as we've discussed the only solution is a combination of revamping our immigration and assisting central American countries in having functioning societies.
As we've discussed, the only real solution would be