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Awesome! Thanks...
Equally awesome, thanks!
If anyone else is interested, post or PM me, and if we get several people we can try to organize a date and do it.
If not, and it's just a few people, I'll be passing through the southwest in late July/early August, and could be down to protest at one of these sites and/or volunteer for a related cause in any of the border states, even if it's just a couple of us. It could just be that instead of a protest that gets coverage, we're taking a video like that and sharing it to try to fan the flames of outrage a little bit via social media.
But if we get a big enough group, I'll try to use my past broadcasting/PR experience to do some media outreach in advance and attempt to get the issue some coverage.
does anyone have a good article or two about the situation in el paso? Everything I'm reading says they've set up a "temporary processing shelter" because they're "overwhelmed" by the # of refugees, but that doesn't make any sense. Arrests at the border peaked in 2000, although they have been rising under the Trump administration. Is it because we are now processing far fewer refugees than in the past? The US has a limit of 30,000 refugees for 2019, compared to 45,000 in 2018 and the 75,000/year average over the last couple decades.
Can't find an article that explains why the system is overwhelmed, what the facilities are designed to hold/what they're actually holding now, and what the timeline is for ending this "temporary crisis".
reading about the child separation policy is actually making me sick. I knew about it, but I never really read up on it. our government is full of the most vile and disgusting human beings, if they even deserve to be called that:
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Following a court order by District Judge Dana Sabraw to reunite all parents with their children by July 26, it was revealed that about 500 children's parents had already been deported. Judge Sabraw commented, "What was lost in the process was the family. The parents didn’t know where the children were, and the children didn’t know where the parents were. And the government didn’t know either.”[173] On August 2, the Justice Department filed in court that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) should take responsibility for reuniting families, rather than the federal government.[174] The ACLU responded by stating that while they are ready to help, the burden of responsibility for finding parents of minors separated at the border was the government's responsibility.[175]
On July 26, 2018, the Trump administration said that 1,442 children had been reunited with their parents while 711 remained in government shelters.[20] However, in January 2019 the administration acknowledged that thousands of children affected by the policy remained separated from their families, with officials uncertain of the exact number.[21][22]
In February 2019, Trump officials said that they would not focus any efforts on reuniting parents with children who had already been sent to foster homes.
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A followup government report released in January 2019, revealed that while HHS had previously said that the total number of children separated from their parents was 2,737, a new investigation suggested the true number of children to be thousands more, with the exact number unknown.[307][21] In February, the Trump administration responded to requests made by the ACLU that the thousands of children that were revealed in the January report be reunited with their parents as well. HHS responded to the requests saying it would be extremely difficult to locate the children and even if it were possible they planned to continue to focus only the children currently in custody, claiming that removing children from "sponsor" homes “would present grave child welfare concerns.” The leading ACLU attorney responded saying “The Trump administration’s response is a shocking concession that it can’t easily find thousands of children it ripped from parents, and doesn’t even think it’s worth the time to locate each of them."[308]
the facilities the kids were held in:
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Three facilities in Combes, Raymondville and Brownsville (Casa El President, operated by Southwest Key), in southern Texas, have been set up to hold children under five and have been referred to as "tender age shelters". Medical professionals and lawyers who visited the facilities described "play rooms" filled with preschool children crying and in crisis.[155] Colleen Kraft, the president of American Academy of Pediatrics, visited the Coombs facility and said she was "shaken" by what she saw, calling it "a heartbreaking scene" and unlike anything she'd seen in her decades as a pediatrician. She termed the practice of removing the children from their parents "government-sanctioned child abuse".[13]
Upbring New Hope Children’s Shelter in McAllen, Texas. As of June 21, about 60 children were housed in this facility, including six who had been separated from their parents while the remaining children had arrived alone. According to American Academy of Pediatrics President Colleen Draft, this center, like other centers, confiscates any possessions the child may arrive with and care givers are not allowed to comfort or touch the children. Following President Trump's June 20 executive order to stop separating undocumented immigrant parents and their children, on June 21 First Lady Melania Trump visited this facility saying, "I'm here to learn about your facility, in which I know you house children on a long-term basis and I'd also like to ask you how I can help these children to reunite with their families as quickly as possible." Critics have argued that this visit did not give the First Lady an accurate look at what many have called an unfolding crisis. She was also widely criticized for wearing a jacket that on the back stated "I Really Don't Care, Do U" when she boarded the plane for her trip to the facility.[156][157]
the medical treatment inflicted on children:
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There are concerns that the facilities that children were held in may have in the past been associated with the forcible drugging of children. The Texas Tribune reported that detained children who had previously been held at the Shiloh Treatment Center said they had been forcibly treated with antipsychotic drugs by the facility personnel, based on legal filings from a class action lawsuit. According to the filings, the drugs made the children listless, dizzy and incapacitated, and in some cases unable to walk. According to a mother, after receiving the drug, her child repeatedly fell, hitting her head and eventually ending up in a wheel chair. Another child stated that she tried to open a window, at which point one of the supervisors hurled her against a door, choked her until she fainted and had a doctor forcibly administer an injection while she was being held down by two guards. A forensic psychiatrist consulted by the Tribune compared the practice to what "the old Soviet Union used to do".[115][116][117][118][119]
The treatment center is one of the companies that have been investigated on charges of mistreating children, although the federal government continues to employ the private agency which runs it as a federal contractor.[115][116][117][118][119]
officially, the policy ended. now thousands of kids will never see their parents again. and no one really gives a ****. life moves on in the "land of the free"
