Chris Hayes just now

[deminks]

Link to tweet

.@RAICESTEXAS SAYS THERE ARE PARENTS WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING ***FOUR MONTHS*** POST-DEPORTATION FOR THE US TO RETURN THEIR BABY!!!

THEY SKYPE ONCE A WEEK WITH THEIR ****EIGHT MONTH OLD**** WHO HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY KIDNAPPED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

Worth the all caps, Chris.

What do they have in mind for these infants and children?

[Solly Mack]

1. There was a couple in an article I read where

Border Patrol told him his child was "somehwere in Texas" and they didn't know where but he had to go without the child.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Immigrant-families-separated-at-border-struggle-12938759.php

They placed the toddler in a federal shelter, though where, Pastor didn’t know. Three months later, in October, the father was deported — alone. His child, he said agents told him, was “somewhere in Texas.”

“I cried. I begged,” he said. “No one could tell me anything.”

[deminks]

4. I saw a report about another group who were given slips of paper with their child's name

A woman told the reporter - 'these are not my children on this piece of paper'.

[malaise]

2. It is kidnapping

There is no other word for this criminal act.

[OhNo-Really]

22. Malaise, there is a huge unreported story

maybe you can help get it out there

Detention Center Caregivers background checks not being properly processed. Paperwork tracking kids not being properly done.

Texas has an online searchable database showing all the violations in these kiddie prisons.

There are half a dozen centers in just Cameronn County Texas, where Brownsville is located. 1000 employes of these were laid off with no notice last year.

The violations read like a page out of your worst imagination.

Details here and link to seaechable Texas database here.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210730568

[malaise]

23. Just wait for a measles outbreak, a rape and murder

or trafficking of these children.

I am heartbroken.

[OhNo-Really]

26. Did you read and rec that diary? Mainstream media might run with it if seen

[lame54]

3. The Trump Youth...

They are in indoctrination camps

[Delmette2.0]

31. Yep, that's the goal. nt.

[efhmc]

48. You are wrong here. The children will see all those "posters"

and they will associate that "person" with a very evil time in their lives. That will backfire bigly.

[shraby]

5. Can the ACLU do anything about it? The children's civil rights are being trampled!

Seems the UN would also weigh in on civil rights abuses.

[avebury]

9. I wonder if it would be possible to file some type of criminal

complaint with the International Criminal Court. Surely some of the countries that they are from could become involved to bring it up to the level of being heard in the ICC.

[tblue37]

44. The U.S. is not a signatory to that court. nt

[shraby]

47. No, but we ARE a signatory to the Geneva Conventions and torture is a no no.

This is torture of children. Keeping them inside day after day, taking them from their parents, disappearing them.

[avebury]

6. These immigrants need to find a lawyer who is willing

to file a Class Action Civil RICO case against ICE, the Trump Administration, and anybody else they can add for the wholesale kidnapping of their children.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Even American (citizens) parents who are under investigation for child abuse/neglect

and whose children are removed until their rights are terminated have more rights than refugees.

[kentuck]

8. OMG !

Do we have to replace every Congressman and Senator in Washington to find someone to protect these children??

[Cha]

46. No.

Link to tweet

[world wide wally]

10. Press charges!

[LiberalArkie]

11. As long as they are in custody, some corporation is making money feeding them

housing them, supply clothes and housing. Find the company and follow it back to someone in the RNC.

[erronis]

17. Same corps that feed the oranganus corpse - Bugger-King, McRonDon, BigCo

Not a far cry from soylent green. Profit off the offal.

[LiberalArkie]

20. They may be supplying the food, but some company is the prime contractor

for them, like Halliburton was in the Bush years. Never can tell who out might be, but they are always tied to big shots in congress and the White House.

[OhNo-Really]

24. CEO of Southwest Key earned $770,000 in 2016

See link to learn about how badly these centers are being run

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210730568

[LiberalArkie]

25. That is why they are non profit

[OhNo-Really]

28. Non-profit, a license to make money and keep it.

I think Juan had good intentions in the beginning but it went south, no pun.

[bettyellen]

42. I saw a report saying they'd let the kids call home if they had siblings there and tell them that

They too should go to the border and requestasylum
and ask to go to a camp that the Corp owned. Trying to make them think they’d be reunited, and the Corp gets more money.

[LiberalArkie]

49. Defense Contractors Cashing In On Immigrant Kids' Detention

Separating refugee and immigrant children from their parents isn’t just an emotionally wrenching policy. It’s an enterprise that is benefitting intelligence and defense contractors.

Those contractors—including one with a history of scandals—have advertised a flurry of jobs in recent weeks to support the infrastructure surrounding undocumented children whom the Trump administration has taken from their families.

One of them, from Virginia-based MVM Inc., seeks a compliance coordinator to help in San Antonio with the “rapid deployment of an Emergency Influx Shelter for unaccompanied children.” As billed, the coordinator would ensure the children’s shelter met “policies and procedures” set by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. MVM posted the job on its website this week.

MVM appears to believe its business is growing. A job posting on Indeed.com from 20 days ago advertises for youth care workers “in anticipation of a contract award.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/defense-contractors-cashing-in-on-immigrant-kids-detention?ref=home

[AC_Mem]

12. The rest of the world

needs to step in and call this a humanitarian crisis

My God, if someone took my children...... <<sob>>

If there is a hell, these horrible excuses for humans belong underneath it.

They claim abortion is a crime - but taking a child out of the arms of its mother or father and putting them in a prison is not??? I don't even know what this country has come to but DEMOCRATS IN GOVERNMENT - FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING, ****DO SOMETHING****

[True Blue American]

13. Here are

Gestapo tactics. They yanked a Nursing 4 month old
from his Mother.

Now, tents to house the children,in the summer heat.

While Trump spends millions everyday flying Lo over!

[DesertRat]

14. It's beyond cruel and heartless - it's literally damaging.

The trauma of being removed from a primary attachment figure has downstream effects on development that can be insurmountable.

[OhNo-Really]

29. I know this first hand.....long story.

4 moms, two dads by the age of 5

It robs a child of the right to say no.

You spend your life feeling like your looking at life from the outside, looking in. It interrupts love.

I would like to see huge marches of children protesting this heinous policy. these centers have been in operation for years, btw. An uncomfortable truth, fellow dems

read this for an inside look notmbeing reported

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210730568

[moondust]

15. Are Dodo and Beauregard seeking a ransom?

[byronius]

16. Sickest, most enraging behavior by any GOP administration I've endured in my lifetime.

They must know there is no Hell.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. What in mind? Punish the foreign parents by harming the infants & children. Like Saddam Hussein. .nt

[Glimmer of Hope]

19. Can the U.N. do anytning?

[greymattermom]

21. How many have died?

Will they allow conditions to get worse so more die? When do they start the gas chambers? Will Americans do anything about it?

[FakeNoose]

36. Or have the parents been deported, maybe lost contact altogether?

Most of these people don't have 2 nickels, and they certainly can't afford lawyers. What if the US is keeping the kids and deporting the parents, or worse. This is completely outrageous and it doesn't fit with an administration that claims (falsely) to have "family values."

I'm not surprised that Chris Hays has taking an emotional view of this, because he and his wife just became new parents about 4 months ago.

[riversedge]

27. Get these families back together NOW!!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

30. KR NT

[tinrobot]

32. The neglect they inflict will cause lifelong damage to these children.

Babies need to be consistently nurtured and held... I doubt they have full time staff doing this.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/06/neglect.aspx

[liberalmuse]

33. This cannot stand.

And odd that they only showed the boys detention center. How about the girls? Very disturbing. If you ever wondered what you would have done in 1930's Europe, this is the time to do start doing something.

[Chemisse]

38. And where are the babies and toddlers being held?

It breaks my heart to think of a tiny child being separated from its parents.

[zentrum]

34. Kidnap is the right word.

Monster Criminals.

ICE is the current SS.

[The Wielding Truth]

35. This is horrid and this was thought up by Trump and Sessions.The is a human rights offense!

Republicans seem to need little provocation to oppress with no forethought and after with no shame!

[democrank]

37. I can't even find the words......

[poli-junkie]

39. MSNBC reporter on the ground

said they're giving the kids "pills" to calm them from stress. Chris Hayes asked the reporter, "Don't the Feds need permission from the parents in order to give them meds?" Reporter said apparently the gov't has given themselves permission. Oh, great -- now we're sedating them! Fuckin sick.

[Moostache]

40. This is depraved

I want to celebrate the second that Trump dies...I am praying daily for karma/gaia to explode his fucking heart, but it is clear he has none, so major brain embolism will have to do...

[tblue37]

45. I would prefer to see him impoverished and imprisoned for years. nt

[rickyhall]

41. Fu**ing monsters

[SergeStorms]

43. Hey, they have hundreds of these kids.

They all look alike you know. What are the chances that even if they do decide to send the children back, that the parents will get their own child?

This is criminal.