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CountAllVotes

(20,868 posts)
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 12:46 PM Jun 2019

Warren visits migrant care shelter, says children being marched 'like little prisoners'

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Source: The Hill

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) says she saw children being marched around "like little prisoners" during a visit to a migrant shelter Wednesday.

Warren told reporters in Florida that she looked at some of the children in the Homestead emergency care facility from a ladder, but she said she was not allowed into shelter itself, HuffPost's Maxwell Strachan reported.

“I saw a harsh, flat, packed down field with a couple of soccer goals in each one, baking in the sun and temporary shelters that were all covered up, and children being marched from one to another in single file with guards. I waved, some of the children looked over, some kept their heads down. Finally, a group of children waved and quickly pulled their hands down,” she said.

“There weren’t children playing. There weren’t children laughing the way children usually do when they’re moving from one place to another. These were children who were being marched like little soldiers, like little prisoners, from one place to another,” she added.


Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/450436-warren-visits-migrant-care-shelter-children-being-marched-like#bottom-story-socials



I have no words for any of this other than plain SICK!


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Warren visits migrant care shelter, says children being marched 'like little prisoners' (Original Post) CountAllVotes Jun 2019 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2019 #1
EW fail. Zoonart Jun 2019 #2
No, Warren did not fail obamanut2012 Jun 2019 #5
Storm the camps! rkleinberger Jun 2019 #8
All the candidates should have gone there together, along with every news camera they could find. Meadowoak Jun 2019 #3
A US Senator is denied access to a federally funded govt. facility jpak Jun 2019 #4
+1,000 !! CountAllVotes Jun 2019 #6
Not this time rkleinberger Jun 2019 #7
Trump considers them 'animals' anyway - being herded in order. keithbvadu2 Jun 2019 #9
The Inhumanity Of All This Is Stunning colsohlibgal Jun 2019 #10
I'm glad she did this. I wish all the candidates had banded together and gone with her lunamagica Jun 2019 #11
Coming up: The Del Rio Kiddie Death March Dave Starsky Jun 2019 #12
Liz is a force. Liz is a leader. ancianita Jun 2019 #13
They are prisoners! Squaredeal Jun 2019 #14
POWs get treated better. SunSeeker Jun 2019 #15
After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING Omaha Steve Jun 2019 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author Omaha Steve Jun 2019 #17

Response to CountAllVotes (Original post)

Zoonart

(11,860 posts)
2. EW fail.
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 12:57 PM
Jun 2019

Why so defferential ? She should have made the arrest her as she demanded entry to this camp.

All of the candidates should go together and demsnd entry and make the goons arrest them.

Absolutely unacceptable that a US Senatir is barted entry to these camps.

LIBERATE THE CAMPS.

obamanut2012

(26,068 posts)
5. No, Warren did not fail
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:24 PM
Jun 2019

Good grief.

rkleinberger

(155 posts)
8. Storm the camps!
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:02 PM
Jun 2019

Meadowoak

(5,545 posts)
3. All the candidates should have gone there together, along with every news camera they could find.
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:06 PM
Jun 2019

jpak

(41,757 posts)
4. A US Senator is denied access to a federally funded govt. facility
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:13 PM
Jun 2019

What are they hiding?

Can t be worse than we already know?

CountAllVotes

(20,868 posts)
6. +1,000 !!
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:30 PM
Jun 2019

Wouldn't we all like to known is going on behind those bars and in those cages!



rkleinberger

(155 posts)
7. Not this time
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:01 PM
Jun 2019

Anyone associated with these camps should be held responsible. I do not want to hear, "I was just doing my job," bullshit! If you are part of this, your are morally corrupt and a disgusting human being who is no better than the guards at concentration camps during the Nazi era. All must be held responsible. Where is the outrage by American citizens? NO protests, no demands for justice! Dems are too weak to mount any kind of response it seems to anything Trump and the Republicans are doing these days. I fear there will never be any kind of justice in the future. The next President, if a Democrat, will be too timid to bring these criminals to justice.

keithbvadu2

(36,788 posts)
9. Trump considers them 'animals' anyway - being herded in order.
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:03 PM
Jun 2019

Trump considers them 'animals' anyway - being herded in order.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
10. The Inhumanity Of All This Is Stunning
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:06 PM
Jun 2019

When Somali Pirates treat their captives better something is horribly wrong.

Where is the UN? This is sadistic torture, just appalling.

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
11. I'm glad she did this. I wish all the candidates had banded together and gone with her
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:17 PM
Jun 2019

They are all if FL, and could have done it.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
12. Coming up: The Del Rio Kiddie Death March
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:25 PM
Jun 2019

Four-year-olds struggling to keep the others on their feet as they trudge seventy miles in the blistering Texas heat.

ancianita

(36,053 posts)
13. Liz is a force. Liz is a leader.
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:35 PM
Jun 2019

The optics of it all are nothing compared to what she'll do about this once president.

Squaredeal

(397 posts)
14. They are prisoners!
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:50 PM
Jun 2019

Locked up under inhumane conditions, contrary to US law and humanity. People have gone to prison for these things in the past. Even the prison guards.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)
15. POWs get treated better.
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 02:54 PM
Jun 2019

Omaha Steve

(99,618 posts)
16. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 03:00 PM
Jun 2019

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