Why not the Trump Hotel in DC? Kinda hard for Donnie to grift money from a military base.
“The Pentagon will make space available on military bases for as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children…”
Those kids are gonna go through a whole lot of those $20,000 rolls of bathroom tissue.
The order also directs the Justice Department to fight in court to permanently remove the threat of separation.
Uhhh, that is the kindest possible interpretation, and I don’t think it is deserved.
What he is trying to do is lock the entire family up indefinitely …
… when they could just return to supervised release which both “removes the threat of separation” and doesn’t lock these kids up for years.
Fort Bliss.
Sad irony lives.
It’s not clear which bases will be used to house the children.
I’m surprised Guantanamo isn’t on the list. As John Bohner said, “we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a facility that has more comforts than a lot of Americans get,” a claim that was backed up by Kyndra Miller Rotunda, a former Judge Advocate General officer at Guantanamo, who assured us that “the truth is it’s really more like a Boy Scout camp than it is a prison camp.”
Yeah, AP, shocking.
This is weird and all manner of fucked up, but you can’t magic the children out of existence, and probably better a military base than an abandoned Walmart or a tent/cage jail in some dustswept border town.
We can help contribute to the RAICES effort to identify the parents and the children and reunite them. Scroll down to bottom of page at the link for a button to contribute.
As reported in the Washington Post and on CNN.
Don’t give them any ideas…
El Paso sucks, but it’s the biggest American city for a couple of hundred miles. It’s not where you send somebody to disappear.
Thanks for this. I heard a Raices rep interviewed yesterday. He has worked in immigration law for most of his career and he was near tears describing a four-year old girl in pink tennis shoes being interviewed by a judge about her situation. No lawyers, no parent, no one but a small child to speak up for herself. . . . I’m sending my Starbucks money for the rest of the summer to them.
I remember driving through El Paso on my way to the Rose Bowl a few lifetimes ago. It was definitely an improvement over Odessa. 
That’s actually a great idea, but not enough room. I think a stellar idea would be for the Trump family to make available enough rooms throughout all of its real estate holdings to adequately and humanely house all of the migrants – including families – until their cases are fairly adjudicated. At NO COST to the taxpayer or the migrants themselves. Imagine what a nice bonus it would be to Spanky and his gang to be able to show the world how benevolent they are.
Or 666 Fifth Avenue. Kushner could bill the government for enough to repay its loans in less than a year.
That’s 40,000 little hands that can be sewing Ivanka’s fall line. Made in America! #MAGA
The building’s owners just got bailed out by Qataris, who, if you’ll remember correctly, can afford to forego profit, not to mention absorb losses, on White Elephants.
Fun Fact: Jared “Full Metal Jackass” Kushner is currently in Saudi Arabia brokering Middle East peace; “If anybody can do it, he can.” (MoüthHölster, 2017)