The dangerous overcrowding and prolonged detention of children and adults at several government-run detention facilities at the border requires “immediate attention and action,” investigators inside the Department of Homeland Security said in a report Tuesday.
Ok, Now we’re getting a clearer picture of why Pence was recalled today… First the CBP official surveillance company gets suspended (an almost unheard-of thing for a big government contractor), now the first photos of Abu Ghraib West are coming out…
ETA: Very interesting timing in this one. They got clearance from GAO just yesterday, and released this today. Someone worried about it getting covered up if they didn’t move quick enough?
ETA2: Oh, now a certain resignation last week just got some extra perspective:
If those pictures were black&white they could almost be interchangeable with pictures from the late 30/40’s.
I want to add that this is costing us the taxpayer over $700 per person per day… what the fuck, it would be cheaper to put them up in Motel 6’s with meals catered from Denny’s.
And the Republicans and Evangelicals remain silent.
Other than to blame Obama.
DHS’ liaison Jim H. Crimpacker wrote that the “current situation on the Southern Border represents an acute and worsening crisis” given the large numbers of people crossing the border monthly.
Except the numbers are just now approaching those from years ago. It is not that DHS is overwhelmed but that they have consciously decided to make things as bad as possible. Must build wall…is the only response, a fucking wall will do nada.
As instructed by hair fuhrer:
Yes, these are concentration camps, and the entire Trump regime are cruel evil monsters.
They’re NOT concentration camps. Look how many people are in those rooms. They can’t even sit.
Ain’t nobody doing any concentrating there.
Fake News! Sad!
Everyone, please share this article and the pictures. Let’s flood the airwaves with them.
& something like 100 Democrats voted for the GOP Senate DHS Supplemental Bill last week to give them more money with absolutely no accountability attached to it. I’m still livid my Democratic congressmember voted for it. We’re all out here mobilizing and putting the work into getting Democrats elected or defending their seats and they’re blowing it. It’s not helping morale.
Here’s the Congressional Hispanic Caucus press release:
CHC Statement on the Passage of the Border Supplemental Appropriation
Jun 27, 2019
Press Release
WASHINGTON — Today, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus released the following statement on the House passage of H.R. 3401, the Emergency Humanitarian Supplemental, by a vote of 305-102:
’The passage of the Senate supplemental bill is a betrayal of our American values. This bill – opposed by the Hispanic Caucus and nearly 100 Democratic members of the House – will not stop the Trump Administration’s chaos and cruelty. It will not stop the abuse and detention of children. It will not stop the rampant human rights abuses in government custody. It will not stop the Trump Administration from tearing families apart and turning away asylum-seekers. As a result, migrants will continue to die.
“When the Congressional Hispanic Caucus members see suffering at the border, we see our children and our grandchildren. What happened today is unacceptable, and we will not forget this betrayal. Moving forward, we will continue fighting for immigrants to be treated with dignity and respect, work to end Trump’s deportation agenda, and fix our broken immigration system.”
Those don’t look like $700 rooms to me… I’ve stayed in some 5-star places, my money seems to have gotten a little more than a mylar blanket and cement brick walls… Plus had the place to myself and anyone I brought with me.
Yes. This is deliberate. That was predictable and observable from the beginning. That’s why it’s not going to stop in any meaningful way until this administration is stopped on a broader scale.
I can foresee massive protests on the Fourth or this weekend if these pictures can be quickly disseminated. Like what happened last year when we learned that infants were put in kiddie jail.
So are these the photos taken by Castro? Or did DHS put these out? If it was in the article, I missed it. According to WaPo article, their phones were taken from them, but he managed to take some photos. These are beyond horrifying.
These rooms packed with people to the point of standing room only for days on end are just too Nazi for words.
This has to stop.
There was a link in the article, it’s the OIG report.
Castro’s video (including AOC speaking Spanish… CBP really should have banned bilingual folks from visiting who might be able to talk to people):
ETA: I downloaded a copy of the IG report, just in case it has a short life on the official website… Does that make me paranoid?
ICE said the Family Case Management Program, which cost the government $36 a day, was too expensive
This Obama-era pilot program kept asylum-seeking migrant families together. Trump canceled it.
As at least one reader has posted below, the government is now giving these children to private prison camp corporations, like the privatized prisons, and paying them $775+ / day / child to torture and kill them, take them from their parents and let them die alone in filth. The best Hilton Hotel room in NYC costs ~$750/night. The motivation to incarcerate infinite children is the same to incarcerate the millions of adults: profits for the companies running these Nazi torture chambers. “Money is the root of all evil”. This is from the Bible. These are Christians who are the genocidal maniacs destroying all life on earth, right here, right now.
I was just coming to post it.
You’re not paranoid if everyone really is out to get you.