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TheRealNorth

(9,471 posts)
1. Murder charges at the State level
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 12:16 PM
Jul 2019

That still might not work in Texas, but if there are any of these camps in California, the people running those facilities would definitely face state charges.


dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
11. No way California will stand for this. You don't hear much about the Homestead camp here
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 03:40 PM
Jul 2019

In Florida, I wonder what is happening there.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
2. Rapes too-- that will be inevitable
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 12:18 PM
Jul 2019

So many of these CPB staffers evince hatred and contempt for the refugees.

anarch

(6,535 posts)
4. more of the same?
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 12:36 PM
Jul 2019

I'm not exaggerating when I say that a fair number of the MAGAts are 100% in favor of genocide and extermination of brown people. And they are for some ungodly reason allowed to remain in positions of power within our various levels of government.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
13. My question was obviously hypothetical, but it's been on my mind a lot lately.
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 03:46 PM
Jul 2019

No one can stop them it seems and it's terrifying. Someone in this thread said, What are you going to do? Other than protesting, donating, volunteering, I don't know what else to do.
I really was just curious if the situation arises, then what? I know what you are saying most of the deplorables would love it, many don't even consider migrants to be human. Where have we heard that before?

maxsolomon

(33,252 posts)
6. Is that going to happen?
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 01:28 PM
Jul 2019

What do you base this slippery slope scenario on?

Its more likely there will be an outbreak of Cholera or something.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
8. I base it on the downward slope of the treatment of those migrants conditions a year ago,
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 03:34 PM
Jul 2019

To how things are today, no soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes. Sleeping on concrete, being told to drink from toilets. Not to mention almost half of all CBP agents in a FB group, calling them bodies and making fun of the pic of the dead father and daughter.
My question was hypothetical. I was just curious what other people thought.

maxsolomon

(33,252 posts)
12. you're supposing the migrants will kill each other?
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 03:45 PM
Jul 2019

or that CPB agents will?

I don't think either will happen. people will die; they're already dying.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
14. The CPB agents, it was a hypothetical question. Just something I have been thinking
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 03:49 PM
Jul 2019

about. I wanted others opinions on the subject.

Johnny2X2X

(18,973 posts)
7. I've been saying this from the start
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 01:33 PM
Jul 2019

History is a guide, whenever a group of people is held in secret with a hostile guard force whose leader is demonizing them, atrocities will happen. There is little doubt that murders have already happened. And we know that thousands of prisoners are unaccounted for. We need to demand the missing prisoners be found. I assume a lot of them were released back across the border, but that cannot be taken as fact in this situation.

Mark my words, they will find mass graves in the desert. Trump's rhetoric has guaranteed it.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
9. I agree 100%, I think there are more than a few deaths we haven't heard about yet.
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 03:37 PM
Jul 2019

What an appaling situation. Im terrified of what is coming.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
16. We are talking about ICE and CBP agents raping prisoners. What he'll say is they
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 04:32 PM
Jul 2019

said they didn't do it. That's good enough for me.

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