So who is leading this effort in AZ? Who at ORR is responsible for making sure that complaints are investigated?
Burn in hell, Trump. There will be a special place in hell for you and your minions, for your negligence, inhumanity, and brutality against the weak.
My worst fear is that the complaints fade into the fog that is tRump. This is a horror.
That is my fear with ORR moving these kids out of shelters and holding them in tent cities.
Leah Chavla, a human rights lawyer at the Women’s Refugee Commission who recently returned from touring the tent city, thinks kids will spend longer periods in this facility as the government continues to target the sponsors. “It’s a vicious cycle,” she said. “It’s something to be concerned about.”
She points out that since the tent city is considered an emergency facility, it’s not held to the same child welfare standards as the government-run shelters and groups homes for migrant children.
Chavla says kids don’t go to school at the Tornillo facility and have less access to legal and mental health services than they would have in regular shelters. “At regular facilities, there are more check-ins with personnel. At big institutions [like this], kids fall through the cracks, because there’s not enough time or capacity to see all those kids on a regular basis.”
This from a Huffington Post article. Tent cities are not held to the higher standards of state licensed facilities.
People who run child services agencies around the country know that abusers are attracted to their organizations. They work hard to keep abusers out. States regulate such organizations closely to make sure kids are safe. Parents monitor their children’s care even more closely. Despite the best efforts of all concerned, bad things can and will happen to some children. That is why they are so diligent.
Here we have the Trump program which was designed to brutally separate kids from their parents, is essentially unsupervised and is very secretive. It employees government contractors who where given emergency contracts for a brand new program instituted by a government that just doesn’t give a shit and run by people who have more background in running private prisons than child service organizations. What could possibly go wrong?
In fact from a UNICEF worker: child abusers are attracted to all world disasters and some arrive on the scene before relief workers. In the case of the vulnerable migrant children and their government hired caregivers, how strict were the background checks and references for those hired as caregivers?
We don’t know.