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Termin8tor » 25 Jun 2019 4:37 pm » wrote:

Misty » 25 Jun 2019 4:32 pm » wrote:What I am claiming is that Trump put these kids in detention without any planning for how to take care of them.
That is no ones fault but his.
He makes the policy, not ICE, Border Patrol or HUD.

Utter ****, as usual from the smear artist.

Trump warned your corrupt party that there was an emergency at the border, but Democrat Talking Point Liars like you claimed he was lying.
And your party did squat.

Termin8tor » 25 Jun 2019 4:37 pm » wrote:

Misty: Cruelty is the policy, because he and his little buddy Stephen Miller think it will be a deterrent to stop people from coming here to claim asylum.

Sure. uh huh, and not one single person involved has spoken out against that policy, right wackjob?
You're **** deranged.

Elora Mukherjee, is a professor at Columbia Law School and the director of the school’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic.
She has been working on the Flores settlement, an agreement that outlines how the U.S. government must care for unaccompanied migrant children, since 2007.

Elora Mukherjee: I have been representing and interviewing immigrant children and their families in detention.

Most recently, I was in Brownsville, Texas, interviewing children detained at Casa Padre last July. In March of this year, I was in Homestead, Florida, interviewing children detained there.

Both of those facilities were very controversial and have received a lot of coverage.

Last week I was in Clint, and the conditions we found were appalling.

In 12 years representing immigrant children in detention, I have never seen such degradation and inhumanity. Children were dirty, they were scared, and they were hungry.

An overwhelming number of children who I interviewed had not had an opportunity for a stable shower or bath since crossing the border [days or weeks earlier].

They were wearing the same clothing that they had crossed the border in.

Their clothing was covered in bodily fluids, including urine and breast milk for the teenage moms who are breastfeeding.

Nearly every child I spoke with said that they were hungry because they’re being given insufficient food.

The food at Clint is rationed on trays. Everyone gets an identical tray regardless of if you’re a 1-year-old, or you’re a 17-year-old, or a breastfeeding teenage mother who has higher caloric needs.

The same food is served every single day, and none of the children receive any fruit and vegetables or any milk.

When I interview children in detention, I try to sit near them so that we can have a better conversation about very traumatic, sensitive, difficult topics.

Usually that leaves the children crying.

At Clint, I found that hard to do because there was a stench emanating from some of the children.

It was filthy and disgusting and there was, as of last week, a flu epidemic at Clint and a lice infestation.

And children do not have the ability to wash their hands with soap at Clint.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/arch ... ew/592540/