Border Patrol says they are keeping kids in cages, but that people should stop saying that

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Admiral X wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:14 am *ahem*
Oh well that makes it ok then.
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It's a goddamn gulag... makes me ashamed to be an American. Guess Trump's buddy Putin taught him a thing or two straight from Mother Russia and some of their worst crimes against humanity.
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Yukaphile wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 3:11 pm It's a goddamn gulag... makes me ashamed to be an American. Guess Trump's buddy Putin taught him a thing or two straight from Mother Russia and some of their worst crimes against humanity.
A gulag with heating and AC... ok sure
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Well, while I'm suspicious of the media, my mom did tell me, and admittedly I am hearing this all secondhand, how there was audio of screaming kids from these camps, from the cages. Sounds like the kind of thing Arpaio had done in Arizona.
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Yukaphile wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:47 pm Well, while I'm suspicious of the media, my mom did tell me, and admittedly I am hearing this all secondhand, how there was audio of screaming kids from these camps, from the cages. Sounds like the kind of thing Arpaio had done in Arizona.
IIRC, the kids are kept in cages/cells while being processed, but they aren't kept there for the duration of their detention. They're moved to a more comfortable location after processing.A lot of stories about this conflate the two locations, either deliberately or not.

In part ICE needs to verify that the kids really are the kids of those parents. That may be true in the majority of cases, but child trafficking is a thing, and child sex trafficking is a thing, too.
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Darth Wedgius wrote: Thu Jun 21, 2018 7:37 pm
Yukaphile wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:47 pm Well, while I'm suspicious of the media, my mom did tell me, and admittedly I am hearing this all secondhand, how there was audio of screaming kids from these camps, from the cages. Sounds like the kind of thing Arpaio had done in Arizona.
IIRC, the kids are kept in cages/cells while being processed, but they aren't kept there for the duration of their detention. They're moved to a more comfortable location after processing.A lot of stories about this conflate the two locations, either deliberately or not.

In part ICE needs to verify that the kids really are the kids of those parents. That may be true in the majority of cases, but child trafficking is a thing, and child sex trafficking is a thing, too.
Oh well that's ok then. There still tearing families apart.
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Darth Wedgius wrote: Thu Jun 21, 2018 7:37 pm
Yukaphile wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:47 pm Well, while I'm suspicious of the media, my mom did tell me, and admittedly I am hearing this all secondhand, how there was audio of screaming kids from these camps, from the cages. Sounds like the kind of thing Arpaio had done in Arizona.
IIRC, the kids are kept in cages/cells while being processed, but they aren't kept there for the duration of their detention. They're moved to a more comfortable location after processing.A lot of stories about this conflate the two locations, either deliberately or not.

In part ICE needs to verify that the kids really are the kids of those parents. That may be true in the majority of cases, but child trafficking is a thing, and child sex trafficking is a thing, too.
Given their record for misplacing the children in their custody and their refusal to let reporters see the girls, I rather doubt they are terribly intent on stopping sex traffickers.
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I donated to RAICES for the purposes of trying to simply bail out as many of the parents as possible so they can collect their kids.

https://www.facebook.com/donate/4905075 ... 432516849/
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