Exclusive: Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article213026379.htmlExclusive: Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children
By Franco Ordoñez
June 12, 2018 04:08 PM
Updated 2 minutes ago
WASHINGTON
The Trump administration is looking to build tent cities at military posts around Texas to shelter the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children being held in detention.
The Department of Health and Human Services will visit Fort Bliss, a sprawling Army base near El Paso in the coming weeks to look at a parcel of land where the administration is considering building a tent city to hold between 1,000 and 5,000 children, according to U.S. officials and other sources familiar with the plans.
HHS officials confirmed that they’re looking at the Fort Bliss site along with Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene and Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo for potential use as temporary shelters.
The aggressive plan comes at the same time that child shelters are filling up with more children who have been separated from their parents. The number of migrant children held in U.S. government custody without their parents has increased more than 20 percent as Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen rolled out the administration's new policy zero tolerance policy that separates children from their parents who now face prosecution.
More than 10,000 migrant children are being held at 100 HHS shelters, which are now 95 percent full.
Because of the large fluctuations in referrals of unaccompanied minors, the administration said its appropriate to have a mix of “standard” beds that are available year-round, and “temporary” beds that can be made available to address any increases in migration flows. HHS can place unaccompanied children in an appropriate setting while a sponsor is identified who can care for the child while their immigration case proceeds. It helps protect the border but also prevents vulnerable kids to fall into the hands of traffickers, officials said.
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Oh, that’s right, Republicans are fine with concentration camps, and the children are BROWN!
if Bone Spurs puts Sheriff Joe in charge of this.... what could go wrong ....
Concentration camps for children will be a new low.
And according to Jeff Sessions, this is what migrant children deserve.
Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war, the Japanese internment camps are now considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century.
That last sentence is going to be updated soon.
edited to add:
