Immigrant Kids Say They Were Beaten While Handcuffed at Virginia Detention Center

[bdamomma]

Daily Beast article. Crimes are being committed every day. We have committed crimes against humanity.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/migrant-kids-say-they-were-beaten-in-handcuffs-at-virginia-detention-center?ref=home

snip of article:

I[bag oni]mmigrant children as young as 14 say they were beaten while handcuffed, locked up in solitary confinement, and left naked in concrete cells at a juvenile detention center in Virginia. “Whenever they used to restrain me and put me in the chair, they would handcuff me,” said a Honduran immigrant who was sent to the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center when he was just 15. “Strapped me down all the way, from your feet all the way to your chest, you couldn’t really move... They have total control over you. They also put a bag over your head. It has little holes; you can see through it. But you feel suffocated with the .”

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Enjoy your stay.

NOT

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Making America Deplorable Again

This must end.


And you may argue about my stating that America was ever "deplorable". When we were an OPENLY segregated country, I feel it was deplorable. And while there are laws now that outlaw segregation, it is still practiced daily.

[dogman]

4. Look at the dates, sadly this began under the Obama administration.

"Since 2007, about half the 58 beds are occupied by both male and female immigrants between the ages of 12 and 17 facing deportation proceedings or awaiting rulings on asylum claims."
"The complaint filed by the nonprofit Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs recounts the story of an unnamed 17-year-old Mexican citizen apprehended at the southern border. The teen fled an abusive father and violence fueled by drug cartels to seek asylum in the United States in 2015."
"After stops at facilities in Texas and New York, he was transferred to Shenandoah in April 2016 and diagnosed during an initial screening by a psychologist with three mental disorders, including depression. Besides weekly sessions speaking with a counselor, the lawsuit alleges the teen has received no further mental health treatment, such as medications that might help regulate his moods and behavior."
https://apnews.com/afc80e51b562462c89907b49ae624e79

They call these things a "slippery slope" for a reason.