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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSince not ONE ICE-BP-staff worker has come forward to blow the whistle on the camps, how about this:
I just dont think this is the worst of it.
Get whistleblowers from inside facilities.
Offer money and attorneys to protect them.
Get video from them.
Link to tweet
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)internment caps as a boy.
That so called Admin. lawyer is a moron.
malaise
(267,813 posts)That's a fucking monster
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)indefensible, I can't blame her much for doing a lousy job defending it.
Unless, of course, she really believes what she's saying.
atreides1
(16,046 posts)She could have taken a stand and resigned...but that would have required courage...something the current DOJ doesn't seem to hav much of!!!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)trof
(54,255 posts)MsLeopard
(1,265 posts)But what about her family situation. I dont know, but maybe shes the sole breadwinner for her family, and she needs the job. And, like someone above said, maybe she fell on the sword by lamely defending the argument. Did she know she was blowing it? 😐 IDK I just tend to hope she was trying to her job, as it is under this horrible administration.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)we can do it
(12,118 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)Leghorn21
(13,520 posts)awareness in a huge way - GOOD
but some videos from inside the shitholes would help even more...also, if someone/some people had brought out videos from throughout the last year, maybe a lot of these horrors could had been
exposed, and maybe we could have avoided some of this misery
Senator Jeff Merkley first tried to enter the Southwest Key camp in June of last year...and since then, the doors to the camps have essentially been closed up tight
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)Leghorn21
(13,520 posts)There was one child-mother who took her baby in there, because the baby got the flu. And then the mother, because she was in there caring for the child, got the flu as well. And so then she was there for a week, and they took the baby out and gave the baby to an unrelated child to try to take care of the child-mothers baby. Sorry, I was trying to remember where I was going with that.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/inside-a-texas-building-where-the-government-is-holding-immigrant-children
She said an 8-year-old taking care of a very small 4-year-old with matted hair couldnt convince the little one to take a shower.
In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention, I have never heard of this level of inhumanity, said Holly Cooper, who co-directs University of California, Davis Immigration Law Clinic and represents detained youth.
https://www.apnews.com/46da2dbe04f54adbb875cfbc06bbc615
Basically, what we saw are dirty children who are malnourished, who are being severely neglected. They are being kept in inhumane conditions. They are essentially being warehoused, as many as 300 children in a cell, with almost no adult supervision.
We have children caring for other young children. For example, we saw a little boy in diapers or he had no diapers on. He should have had a diaper on. He was 2 years old. And when I was asked why he didn't have diapers on, I was told he didn't need it.
He immediately urinated. And he was in the care of another child. Children cannot take care of children, and yet that's how they are trying to run this facility. The children are hardly being fed anything nutritious, and they are being medically neglected.
We're seeing a flu outbreak, and we're also seeing a lice infestation. It is we have children sleeping on the floor. It's the worst conditions I have ever witnessed in several years of doing these inspections.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-firsthand-report-of-inhumane-conditions-at-a-migrant-childrens-detention-facility
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)It'll take a critical mass of action. And there are plenty of things you and I can do depending on our time, resources and capacity: Donate money, call/write/email our representatives, organize a fundraiser, organizing a writing party, organize a march, etc.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)outrage. I am afraid these facilities run really tight ships full of Nazis if no photos or videos have been leaked yet.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,368 posts)Nobody gets off just because they were "following orders"
sarabelle
(453 posts)on. Many of these people are in ICE to have authority over those "others."