Trump administration preparing to shelter migrant children on military bases

[deminks]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-preparing-to-shelter-migrant-children-on-military-bases/2018/05/15/f8103356-584e-11e8-b656-a5f8c2a9295d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5f1de00aaa23

The Trump administration is making preparations to warehouse migrant children on military bases, according to Defense Department communications, the latest sign the government is moving forward with plans to split up families who cross the border illegally.

According to an email notification sent to Pentagon staffers, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will make site visits at four military installations in Texas and Arkansas during the next two weeks to evaluate their suitability for child shelters.

The bases would be used to hold minors under age 18 who arrive at the border without an adult relative or after the government has separated them from their parents. HHS is the government agency responsible for providing minors with foster care until another adult relative can assume custody.

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An official at HHS confirmed the military site visits. Speaking on condition of anonymity because the plans are not yet public, the official said HHS currently has the bed space to hold 10,571 children in its network of 100 foster-care facilities.

Those facilities are at 91 percent capacity, the HHS official said, and the Trump administration’s crackdown plans could push thousands more children into government care. The official said DHS has not provided projections for how many additional children to expect.

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[cynatnite]

1. So, the message will be they will get their kids back if they leave the country...

Just a wild guess here. Am I wrong?

[kimbutgar]

2. You mean new 21st century twitler concentration camps.

These detention centers are becoming twitlers concentration camps. Who is overseeing these camps? How are the children being supervised, fed or educated? I fear bad stuff will happen to children at these camps.

If we don’t stop twitler in November 2018 I fear these camps might be used for other things than undocumented immigrants.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Stop twitler? Nah, it is more important to DEMAND our candidates be for

tuition free college, dont you think?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. How nice. I'm sure the children will enjoy their little adventure

and not miss their mothers in the slightest.

[bearsfootball516]

4. This reaaaaally sounds like a modern version of a concentration camp.

[angrychair]

7. No, it's not a "concentration camp"

It’s a rows of buildings to house people with a tall fence with barbwire around it that people cannot leave. Hardly the same thing as a “concentration camp”.

[atreides1]

9. Concentration camp is defined as...

A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group the government has identified as suspect.

[angrychair]

10. Sorry

I guess I should have put the thing at the bottom.

I definitely know what a concentration camp is...

[no_hypocrisy]

5. How Korematsu!

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Just like the Japanese internment camps during WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States

[malaise]

8. They are kidnapping people's children

Where are the fucking UN and the World Court?
Just wait for those kids to be sexually abused for you know that's coming next.

[procon]

11. Wait... Do the math - 10,571 children and "Those facilities are at 91 percent capacity".

That's 9,620 kids who are separated from their parents on Trump's order, and he's planning on kidnapping "thousands more children into government care".



How is this even legal?

Where are the court appointed attorneys for the kids and their parents to make sure their rights are upheld?

Was there any legislation passed that authorizes the government to be extraordinarily cruel and make these extrajudicial seizures and imprisonment of children?

Was there any legislation passed that funds a government program to kidnap children and keep them imprisoned, or pays the costs of "foster care"?

Is there any oversight to protect the children and ensure that they are not abused, and get proper food, healthcare, education, and mental health services while the government hold them hostage?