Exclusive: Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children

[spotthebird]

Source: McClatchy

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.

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Sheriff Arpaio is so proud today.


For children these will truly be death camps, to some extent so were Arpaio's.

Arizona's 'concentration camp': why was Tent City kept open for 24 years?

When asked about the comment by the Guardian in July, Arpaio brushed it off as a joke. “But even if it was a concentration camp, what difference does it make? I still survived. I still kept getting re-elected,” he said.

The jail survived too. For more than 20 years, Tent City stood within a larger jail compound in an industrial area 10 minutes south of downtown Phoenix. At its peak in the late 1990s, it comprised 82 Korean war-era military tents and housed 1,700 inmates. After 2009, it could hold up to 200 undocumented immigrants.

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For months at a time, inmates sentenced for minor crimes slept under the green cloth tents on bunk beds perched on large cement slabs on gravel. In the summer, temperatures inside could reach up to 54C (130F) in the dry Arizona heat. Though there was an indoor air-conditioned unit where detainees could shower and take sick relief from the heat, they weren’t allowed to sleep there.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/aug/21/arizona-phoenix-concentration-camp-tent-city-jail-joe-arpaio-immigration|

[tazkcmo]

1. Great idea!

After all, kids love camping!


Sarcasm

[lagomorph777]

2. Now we know why he pardoned Arpaio.

...so he can be eligible for Federal employment.

And because Adolf Eichmann is unavailable.

[Doreen]

3. Odd

They are working so hard at breaking up tent cities for the homeless and now they want to build some for children so they can freeze to death in the winter. Hell, why not? They are just people. Face it, if this keeps going on we are going to be living in a country that follows NK's policies.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Pink underwear and baloney sandwiches for everyone! NT

[dameatball]

5. Why can't they stay at Mar-A-Lago?

Seriously, I am ashamed of what this country is allowing to happen.

[catrose]

12. Excellent idea

Alteratively, the White House lawn would be a great place to erect tents.

[dameatball]

18. Too many sinkholes.

[murielm99]

22. That is a great idea.

Seriously, protesters should set up a tent city near Mar-A-Lago, as close as they can get to it.

[byronius]

6. I don't understand why we don't just work them to death and then eat them.

Because that's what's lurking in the subconscious of these psychopaths, who think Thomas Paine was sketching his Plan For America.

You know what else is lurking inside the hearts of these sick fucks? Murder, mayhem, chaos, blood in the streets. The seizure of women and their distribution to the Incels.

What they dream of is not how it will end -- it will end in the smoking ruin of this nation.

You know what I'm dreaming of right now? Really bad things happening to the people pushing this nazism.

[njhoneybadger]

7. Oh great! Trumpervilles

[C Moon]

9. :D

[Kittycow]

20. I think that one guy..

should cough up a Trumpy Bear for each unfortunate waif. You know, in the interest of humanitarianism.

[left-of-center2012]

24. Trumpevilles !

[C Moon]

8. I seriously think Putin and Trump want Trump to get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Anything to try to legitimize him sitting in the WH. They probably know Mueller has some killer stuff on him.

[wryter2000]

13. This ought to kill any chance of that

Unless there's a Nobel Prize for inhumanity

[catrose]

10. Hoovervilles in Texas?

With temperatures 95-105 degrees most days?

And didn't we used to think tent cities were a bad idea?

[spotthebird]

14. No, concentration camps for kids. nt

[wryter2000]

11. Put a sign over the entrance

Arbeit Macht Frei

[bronxiteforever]

15. It's Anne Frank's Birthday today.

Did the GOP do this in her “honor”. If children are concentrated and can’t leave these are fucking concentration camps.

[lunasun]

16. its 105 right now in EL Paso TX so I can see why trump wants this as it will cause deaths

102 high tomorrow................June

[flotsam]

17. Because OD tents should be just the thing

for summers in El Paso...where today at 2pm local time the temperature is a balmy 103 degrees.

[spotthebird]

19. And it's only June. nt

[keithbvadu2]

21. Now, where would Donald get such an idea?

Now, where would Donald get such an idea?

[duforsure]

23. He likes being cruel to others,

That's why he gets along so well with other ruthless brutal dictators, and may be getting tips for future use against us.

[Paladin]

25. I heard it was OBAMA who was going to put up the detention camps.

I heard it for years and years, from assorted right-wing douchebags. I bet they're all coming in their pants over trump's plans.

[Hortensis]

30. They will refuse to believe it. All Democratic lies.

They've become very, very practiced at knowing that label on their forehead means they're the good guys and knowing that any facts that conflict with that picture must be fake.

[Demsrule86]

26. It will be a death camp....well Evangelicals you sold your soul to the devil...rot in hell.

[Freethinker65]

27. Surprised he does not house them on some underperforming Trump owned real estate

And then charge the taxpayers an inflated rate plus cost for extra security and maintenance.

[SeattleVet]

28. What a waste of money...

they could just use all those FEMA camps that Obama built!

[Hortensis]

29. Tents in summer in the southwest??!!!

I don't think they'd dare copy Arpaio's intentional, vicious cruelty that pushed the endurance of much more resilient adults, but they wouldn't have to to be committing atrocities against children.

[spotthebird]

31. Apparently a substitute for cyanide

Who knew children die at extreme temperatures?

Germany was too cold 65 years ago to pull this off

[Hortensis]

32. Completely understand your feelings, but these statements

hurt the children's cause because people of course blow them off as ridiculous and in the process don't hear what's really happening. The same desert that gets killing hot during the day gets cold at night, and right now many of these children are sleeping on concrete slabs without even proper blankets. That is cruel and inhuman treatment of children.

[spotthebird]

36. Children can't survive tent city conditions, it isn't hyperbole.

Either they are human to everyone or we are not

[Hortensis]

38. Think, Spot. If children were dying, much less

by the dozens and hundreds, the Republican leadership's game would be over.

Isn't causing fear, children crying for their parents, physical discomfort (even occasionally misery), negligent and inadequate care, long hours of doing nothing, lack of toys, playgrounds and schooling evil enough?

It is. It is evil, and it's so far over the line that the line isn't even visible.

[spotthebird]

39. This is a proposal, it hasn't happened yet

but it is a proposal to kill children

[Hortensis]

40. No. We're far off from that. Not saying it

couldn't happen, but our democracy would have to first be destroyed. Right now we can vote to say no and would.

Speaking of, the midterms are only 146 days away now. Every 2 years our system gives us a chance to say a huge NO!

[Jedi Guy]

33. If this actually comes to pass...

Then what needs to happen is that the UN needs to call it what it is: a crime against humanity. Once that's done, the International Criminal Court needs to indict everyone involved in this, from Trump right on down to the guards at the camps, and then issue arrest warrants for them to Interpol. And if any of them enter the jurisdiction of another country, those warrants need to be served, and the people named need to stand trial for crimes against humanity before the world community.

This is sickening. Enforcing the law is one thing, but being needlessly cruel in doing so is quite another. That he's even considering this turns my stomach. Just when you think he can sink no lower, he finds a new and twisted way to prove you wrong. It's no wonder he's making light of Kim Jong Un's crimes against humanity. He just views it as smart governance, evidently.

I'm just stunned that this is a thing our government is considering in 2018.

[spotthebird]

37. What can anyone do?

Aside from going nuts online?

[Jedi Guy]

41. The international community can do what I outlined.

At least as a matter of principle. I don't foresee a foreign country arresting a sitting U.S. President. But they can definitely make noise in the U.N. about it. Perhaps sanctions?

As a practical matter, I think all we in the States can do is protest and do everything in our power to defeat Trump's agenda by voting against him and his cronies.

[McCamy Taylor]

34. They are trying to turn them into slaves.

Next they will have them picking cotton and okra side by side with inmates at Huntsville. And making sure they forget their native language so they can never go home again.

[McCamy Taylor]

35. How long before Trump starts auctioning off these kids?

Putting them into foster care ensures that they will be deprived education, health, love. They will be stripped of their native languages, their cultural heritage. They will have no home to which to return, no family, no skills.

Trump is breeding slaves.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

42. "We need a....*camp*....where we can.....*concentrate*....all these children!"

"Why are you looking at me like that?"