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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJournalists have gone in the Childrens Shelter.....Say its hell, Full of Trump Murals.
Link to tweet
Im a part of the first group of journalists to go into the shelter for detained child migrants in Brownsville Texas since the zero tolerance separation policy was announced. 1000+ boys here.
Going in right now.
Just finished tour, dont even know where to start.
One of the first things you notice when you walk into the shelter no joke a mural of Trump with the quote sometimes losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Presidential murals everywhere. But that one is 1st.
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Moments after we walked in a shelter employee asked us to smile at hundreds of detained migrant kids in line for a meal because they feel like animals in a cage being looked at.
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This shelter, Casa Padre, is the largest licensed childcare facility of its kind in the country. Nearly 1,500 boys 10-17 in here now. Theyre supposed to sleep four to room. Nearly every room has 5. Theyve received a variance from the state because of overcrowding.
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Kids here get only two hours a day to be outside in fresh air.
One hour of structured time.
One hour of free time.
The rest of the day is spent inside a former Wal Mart.
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Instructions to employees in the lobby of the shelter if you encounter media:
1) Immediatelt notify PD, or the police department.
2) Call the shelter communications director.
In that order.
For the record, nobody called cops on us. We were invited by HHS and the shelter.
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This mega-shelter is run by trained staff a nonprofit.
I believe the worker looking after these kids who said shed like to see a day when they dont have to do this.
But things are moving in the wrong direction capacity is 1497 and tonight 1469 boys will sleep here.
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I have been inside a federal prison and county jails.
This place is called a shelter but these kids are incarcerated.
No cells and no cages, and they get to go to classes about American history and watch Moana, but theyre in custody.
Coming up on @allinwithchris next.
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They have Trump Murals everywhere......he does think he is Kim Jong Un......This is a concentration camp...or reeducation centre.
Read this guys whole thread if you can
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Fuckers.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Also, Solly, do you remember back in Bush era, was it, or later? that Walmart closed a bunch of stores in teh border areas.
At that time, the right wing was yelling "concentration camps" in our future.
so ironic.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Then it's OK.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)A really bad one.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Employee Background Check Violations - Immigrant Youth Detention Centers, Texas.
Article here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210730568
Southwest Key, the non-profit, Walmart warehouser of immigrant children ripped from the arms of their parents failed to properly process background checks for caretakers....repeatedly.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)And REC article for visibility
NO ONE is reporting the violations the state has compiled.
And few here REC a searchable database link that journalists can use in the article linked above.
So frustrating.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)The lack of engagement disparages me from researching and writing anymore.
A tweet is an instant hit, 50 instaRECS.
Investigative journalism...meh, no recs
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)I bookmarked so I can continue to look around.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)War wrote over 800 articles for dkos
Marthe48
(16,975 posts)also kids who molest kids. Injuries from fights, bullying, food getting stolen, other kid on kid meanness. The kiddie-jails are understaffed, and not meant to hold permanent populations. A man who just left his employment at a kiddy-jail said the kids coming in thanks to zero tolerance have no clue about the process, and after they are kidnapped from their parents are really upset. So the guards are losing their tempers. (he said it another way,but that is the gist)
I imagine that some of the secret perverts involved in this will see an opportunity for human trafficking and further abuse.
This ill-begotten travesty needs to stop. Now.
DBoon
(22,369 posts)"On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran."
George Orwell, 1984
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)They've captured his eminently punchable face. (Backpfeifengesicht)
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)Arbeit macht frei
LisaM
(27,813 posts)When they finally get out, they are not going to be mentally healthy people.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)breed young kids to get into deeper serious situations such as possible terrorism. Just saying.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)What I said about Gitmo will start to apply here if this goes on...
They may or may not have been terrorists going into Gitmo... but the ones that come out WILL BE and I don't blame them one bit.
If someone picked me off the street of my home country to make a few bucks and then some foreign people shipped me half way around the world to live in a cage (and possibly torture me)... for years... I would want to kill as many of those foreigners as possible if I ever got free.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)at that "non profit"? Media start gathering names, tell us who the brown shirts are. Who needs a job where fucking over children allows you to sleep at night?
Gather, tell us.
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)segregated by age. It's not safe for 10 year olds to be housed with 17 year olds. If it was a Wal-Mart "outside" is a parking lot. And the murals. He really, really wants to be a dictator doesn't he.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Imagine what they hid from the public eye
That fker trump needs to be hauled off to the Hague
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)ICC would get his ass, between all those deaths in Puerto Rico and this he needs to be incarcerated.
So who's next???? This is not America.
DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,924 posts)But the ICC has no jurisdiction here. The US is not a party to the Rome statute. In fact, current Federal law bars any agency, court, or local or state governments from cooperating with the ICC. Further, the US military is required to rescue any personnel that is held by the ICC, by force of necessary. Holdover laws from Bush and the Iraq war.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Everything they are doing took a lot of planning time.
Hell, it musta taken months to screen potential employees for suitable Brown Shirt mentality.
All I know to do where I am is to send a tweet daily The Human Rights Institute.
@CLShumanrights
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)"All I know to do where I am is to send a tweet daily The Human Rights Institute.
@CLShumanrights "
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)The Treblinka of prison camps for immigrant children. Maybe they'll entertain the next journos with an inmate band and provide the kids with a fake care for photo ops.
The whole thought of multiple murals of President Evil decorating the walls is insufferably revolting..
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)where the little kids & babies are held.
Are they all crying in the same big walmart sized room?
How many kind caring attendents are there rocking or bathing or changing diapers or holding those babies & little kids.
How many little ones are just left to self-comfort for lack of trained help & an already overwhelmed staff.
Who comforts all the littlest ones now that their mothers or fathers are gone
How many young kids are there & where are they all housed. Are there 100, 300, 1000? Break that number down to age groups.
Are siblings separated also?
Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)Trump is truly a sick man.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)They did nothing to deserve this.
This horror needs to be chained to the fat necks of Trump, Sessions, Congress & Senator and every single church going fake fking 'christian', & Nazi that helped bring this on.
This is a crime against humanity.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)There will be other ways.
This journalist & our leaders & citizens who join in protests are doing the brave thing. Show the truth & ask, "is this the country you want?"
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Without Fox, Limbaugh, and WSJ ed page, the GOP in Congress would turn on him.
We must stop the propaganda first - tell everyone you know that #FoxNewsLies.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)tshirts/posters: http://weprotectthetruth.com
Murdoch is the worst of all the GOP propagandists.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)will produce a propaganda film to show at all the "ALIENS" who are being detained.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Families Belong Together opposes the cruel, inhumane and unjustified separation of children from their parents along the U.S. border. Join us on June 14, 2018.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)bdamomma
(63,875 posts)signed all.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)And thank you for signing.
I've heard a few say privately that they were afraid to sign a petition!!
Duppers
(28,125 posts)Was waiting for almost a minute to load links to "virtual protest" when a "Congratulations Amazon user" ad popped up. Hmmm.
But thank you so much for posting original link. I hope the site's slowdown is temporary.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am sickened and speechless. Just when I think we have hit rock bottom, it only gets worse.
Puzzler
(2,505 posts)-p
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)djacq
(1,634 posts)How about sanctions against the U.S. for human rights violations like his new BFF Kim?
zentrum
(9,865 posts)
..at being taken from their parents. Where is Mom? Dad? This is a constant question for these kids.
They are with strangersother kids and grownupsthat's really hard for children.
My understanding is that they are alone in the sense of not having friendskids they knowwith them.
We are a monstrous country.
We need to be in the street. The ghosts of the internment camps and concentration camps are looking at us and wondering when will be start genuine protests?
marybourg
(12,633 posts)Reminds me of arbeit Mach frei. Fascists love to gussy up their camps with uplifting homilies.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)I hope every - single - one of them learns that face and learns to despise it.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)kcr
(15,317 posts)Seriously. Already attempts at fake newsifying this because the reporter corrected one fact.
greyl
(22,990 posts)I can forgive an honest mistake, but not people who persist on trying to justify that behavior.
kcr
(15,317 posts)and turn a story about Trump's atrocities into Fake News. Who cares if it was only one Trump mural? Does that make it any less horrifying? It doesn't matter. The reporter corrected it because reporters have to, not to give people like you an excuse to damn the whole story.
greyl
(22,990 posts)Let's get back to the main issue, shall we? Peace.
kcr
(15,317 posts)Don't let me stop you from getting back out there and ferreting out all the other evildoers attacking Trump with their lies. Keep up the good work.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)beveeheart
(1,369 posts)and sadness in my heart.
OK, 4 words - Fuck tRump AND Sessions.
gademocrat7
(10,659 posts)Chump and his cabal are evil soulless bastards.
Takket
(21,577 posts)Where are the girls?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am just horrified by all of this.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)They're all fking crying together in their walmart sized camp.
mucifer
(23,550 posts)This is a fancy one run by a non profit. We don't know what the other ones look like or what's going on there.
jb5150
(1,178 posts)what they didn't let them see ... Under Trump, we're looking more and more like Russia or North Korea every day.
Upthevibe
(8,053 posts)reprehensible................ Last week I heard a story on NPR about a family from Mexico - A mother, father, and two children. They had lived in a village that was being controlled by a gang. The gang DEMANDED that this family give them a certain amount of money. The family simply did not have it. The gang told them they would be killed (including the kids) if they didn't come up with the money by the next day. So, the family left that night and ended up at one of our borders. The children are now in one of the shelters/detention centers. I don't know where the parents are....
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)That's what'll happen with one of these youngsters because they've been incarcerated for no reason. The hatred towards the U.S. could be fomenting in one of these kids right.now.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)answer like yours. Very possible.
We are not America with this POS/dictator. This must stop.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)"redo" the orangutan's murals?
Why couldn't they have painted pleasant scenes instead of their torturer's picture?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)Such an ego.
kcr
(15,317 posts)Somehow I doubt it.
greyl
(22,990 posts)Be real. Your OP title should be changed.
Edit:
Replying to @thedailybeast
To be clear: I never said this shelter was full of Trump murals.
There are murals of 20 presidents inside including Obama which we showed on air tonight.
The Trump one happens to be right next to the cafeteria where we entered.
Please correct this, @thedailybeast.
1:08 AM - Jun 14, 2018
Link to tweet
kcr
(15,317 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)Jacob Soboroff
Verified account @jacobsoboroff
7m7 minutes ago
Replying to @thedailybeast
To be clear: I never said this shelter was full of Trump murals.
There are murals of 20 presidents inside including Obama which we showed on air tonight.
The Trump one happens to be right next to the cafeteria where we entered.
Please correct this, @thedailybeast.
Link to tweet
Plus, the link you provided gives no evidence for the place being "full of Trump murals", so not sure why you describe it as legit.
kcr
(15,317 posts)He simply asked them to correct it because he's not a Trump humper trying to make it look like the whole thing is fake news. He noted the first mural he saw was Trump.
greyl
(22,990 posts)kcr
(15,317 posts)So, no. I don't have a problem with it. I'm not trying to downplay Trump's evil, see?
greyl
(22,990 posts)and poison Democratic discussion boards with BS, debunkable claims, now, is there? Fuck no.
kcr
(15,317 posts)One has to wonder at the agenda, there.
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)lovemydogs
(575 posts)I find this whole pollicy to be sickening. I want to throw up.
I think if my 6 and 8 year old granddaughters were subjected to this kind of thing and I just feel sick.
I've had rightwingers accuse me of being open border and and I say I am pro humanity. Pro child and pro compassion.
My mom was an immigrant from France.
If she was from Mexico, 2018 rather then France in the 50s, I've no doubt we kids would have had a much different upbringing and view of the world.
suzee981
(2 posts)YouTube has a million videos about how FEMA is making them into camps for American citizens. It's got the right wingers going nuts.
What's going to become of these children? What did they do with their parents? Honestly, if I was seeking asylum from my home country, I wouldn't even bother trying to come here. 😞
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Most of us can't even imagine what these asylum seekers have been through.
MFM008
(19,816 posts)There were many presidents , including Obama on the walls.
The problem is maggots is in the cafeteria area.
How in the name of King Tut are those kids supposed to eat looking at that flabby bastard.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)kimbutgar
(21,163 posts)Lives miserable. Then have church groups go in and take the children in sanctuary. Overtake these modern day internment centers and reunite families.
I hope the Democratic Party uses this in the election reminding people how unjust we were in the Jalnese internment camps in world war 2. This is America we dont do this anymore and Twitler is evil to do this.
ananda
(28,866 posts)I hope the next elections change things around.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Ripping children from their parents and warehousing them in these inhumane, overcrowded prisons really is a crime against humanity. They are concentration camps.
KPN
(15,646 posts)perfectly in this situation: Despicable!
niyad
(113,344 posts)caraher
(6,278 posts)The other presidents' murals are accompanied by quotes about the value of immigrants. Trump's... not so much.
red dog 1
(27,820 posts)Hitler would be proud of his disciple, tRump