Drawings by children who were held in border facilities show them in cages

[DesertRat]

The incoming president of the American Academy of Pediatrics toured two Customs and Border Protection facilities last week and told CBS News the detention centers are no place for children. Dr. Sara Goza received pictures from a social worker that were drawn by children recently released from CBP custody, showing them in cages.

"When they opened the door, the first thing that ... hit us was a smell. It was the smell of sweat, urine and feces," Goza said. "And I heard crinkling to my left and I looked over there and it was a sea of silver … there were young children, boys in there. Unaccompanied boys in there."

Goza described a room full of silent children "and they had no expression on their faces, there was no laughing, there was no joking, no talking." She said all she could hear was the rustle of those silver Mylar blankets.

"I describe them almost like dog cages with people in each of them," she said. "And the silence was just hard to watch, hard to see."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-children-drawings-held-in-border-patrol-facilities-show-cage-like-conditions/

[samnsara]

1. i used to do art therapy with children...these are very disturbing drawings.

[Docreed2003]

2. Just gut wrenching....

[Docreed2003]

12. That's a brilliant idea

[bdamomma]

3. Stephen Miller

should be behind bars.

[tblue37]

4. Every single person involved in bringing this horror to fruition should be behind bars. nt

[sheshe2]

5. ...

[cwydro]

6. This is beyond sad.

How is this being allowed to happen?

[bdamomma]

7. we need to stop this

a day before the 4th???? celebrating independence??? we are being lead by a sick ass wanna be dictator.

This makes me so angry.

[DesertRat]

8. We have concentration camps on the border and tanks in D.C.

The march toward dictatorship is unmistakable.

[Bayard]

13. If I wasn't so damned pissed off,

I'd be scared.

Make it stop!

[zentrum]

9. It's obscene that..

...he's having a "glorious" military parade while this is going on in America.

[world wide wally]

10. We had better wake up pronto!

[Mira]

15. LOOK--- look this up---PLEASE

... I Never Saw Another Butterfly ... : Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942 - 1944

A poem by Teddy, an inmate at Terezin Concentration camp, born 1931, died in 1944

When a new child comes
Everything seems strange to him.
What, on the ground I have to lie?
Eat black potatoes?
No! Not I!

I've got to stay? It's dirty here!
The floor - why, look, it's dirt, I fear.
And I'm supposed to sleep on it?
I'll get all dirty.

Hear the sound of shouting, cries,
And oh, so many flies.
Everyone knows flies carry disease.
Oooh, something bit me! Was that a bed bug?

Here in Terezin, life is hell,
And when I'll go home again? I can't yet tell.



I was in Prague last year, and have taken numerous photographs of children's drawings preserved from that camp, exhibited in glass shrines, in a museum.
That was before I was aware of the deteriorating conditions our own camps where we are incarcerating children. camps which by now have arrived at being comparable.

I can therefore envision the drawings of this thread in a museum of our own future, about what is being done in our name while we are only talking about opening these camps. When we need to open them as we did the camps in Europe.

The day before the self serving military parade in our name, tomorrow on July 4 2019, I am seeing the swastika instead of old glory in front of my eyes.

I cried when I saw all the drawings, then and now.
And I cried when I typed the poem. Randomly chosen from many, only the second I read, and it already applied.

[murielm99]

16. I was going to post about that book.

I remember seeing it in various library collections when I was a cataloger. Chilling.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Those drawings in the OP also reminded me

of what I read of the Holocaust, the photos, and some of the drawings you describe.

thank you for the context of what is happening, here, now.

[DesertRat]

21. Oh my god, what are we becoming?

Thank you for posting.

[mnhtnbb]

22. The horror of it all will be the stuff of nightmares for these children

for the rest of their lives.

When will it ever stop?

[Timmygoat]

18. To me

This is just heartbreaking, when I think of children's pictures normally they are of a house, a truck, or some kind of animal, these
children have been harmed for many years to come.

[lunamagica]

20. ...

[DesertRat]

23. Kicking this one back up