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Chris Hayes is discussing the kidnapping of children by the Con's ICE (Original Post) malaise May 2018 OP
Are you as frightened as I am that this might be about child trafficking? fierywoman May 2018 #1
You know--I don't think your idea is true... First Speaker May 2018 #4
I can assure you -- from deep inside my very bones -- RandomAccess May 2018 #6
That's exactly my fear malaise May 2018 #5
I am so ashamed of my government CanonRay May 2018 #2
He was visibly shaken by the story. shraby May 2018 #3
According to the ACLU widespread abuse 2009-2014 under President Obama: mucifer May 2018 #7
The ACLU said that the scale of what's happening is MASSIVELY Bigger now lostnfound May 2018 #9
And the government supposedly "LOSES TRACK" thousands of them lostnfound May 2018 #8

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
4. You know--I don't think your idea is true...
Fri May 25, 2018, 08:51 PM
May 2018

...but it wouldn't shock me if it was, either. Given what the GOP has become, and the nature of our current "rulers"--this wouldn't shock me. And God help us all, that we've reached a point like this...

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
6. I can assure you -- from deep inside my very bones --
Fri May 25, 2018, 09:31 PM
May 2018

some of those children if not all have been trafficked. I know it.

Not sure anyone in the GOP was involved, tho one or two might have been. Mostly it's just the depraved, cruel agents.

mucifer

(23,530 posts)
7. According to the ACLU widespread abuse 2009-2014 under President Obama:
Fri May 25, 2018, 09:34 PM
May 2018
Examples of allegations of abuse include excessive physical force during apprehension, threats of sexual assault, derogatory slurs and failure to provide basic necessities such as bedding, food, medical care and clean facilities, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and University of Chicago Law School.

The report is based on more than 30,000 pages of documents obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s two oversight agencies, outlining possibly hundreds of separate allegations of abuse or mistreatment of minors under 18 who either crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally or claimed asylum from 2009 to 2014, said Mitra Ebadolahi, an attorney for the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties.

Many of the complaints were made by teenagers who crossed without their parents — known as unaccompanied minors — as well as underage mothers who allege their babies were subjected to sour milk, lack of medical care and dirty, crowded and chilly holding rooms.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-immigrant-children-20180523-story.html

Makes me sick.

lostnfound

(16,173 posts)
9. The ACLU said that the scale of what's happening is MASSIVELY Bigger now
Fri May 25, 2018, 10:26 PM
May 2018

Babies strapped in a car seat and driven off, crying five year olds begging not to be separated from their mothers.
These are not kids who came alone., which is most of what you’re describing. These are families being forced apart.

lostnfound

(16,173 posts)
8. And the government supposedly "LOSES TRACK" thousands of them
Fri May 25, 2018, 10:23 PM
May 2018

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/heres-how-the-government-managed-to-lose-track-of-1500-migrant-children/

Does anyone else feel sick about this? Do we know they aren’t being enslaved, trafficked, experimented on, or brainwashed in some basement somewhere?

The Chris Hayes report described even young babies being taken away from their parents — turned INTO “children traveling alone” — in vast numbers.
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