Border Patrol 'Very Uncomfortable' With Word 'Cages,' But Admits It's Accurate

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Kate Riga | June 18, 2018 9:53 am

According to a Monday “CBS This Morning” report, border patrol spokespeople told the show that they are “very uncomfortable” with their reporters’ use of the term “cages” to describe where migrant children separated from their parents are kept, though they admit that it’s not inaccurate.

They reportedly added that though there “may be” cages, the people inside them are not treated like animals.

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[sandensea]

1. They're probably uncomfortable with the word 'Fascist' too.

But it is what it is.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. No Child Left Uncaged

Hey MAGAt's - Trump is coming for your kids!

[NewJeffCT]

3. If you're uncomfortable with the term

please, quit your job in protest

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. "They may be cages but people are not being treated like animals."

Except, of course, that they're being kept in cages like animals.

But even zoo animals aren't kept in cages any more; they have nice big enclosures where they can roam around and smell the grass and bask in the sun. We reserve the cages for immigrant children.

[EarthFirst]

5. The MIC was also uncomfortable with 'civilian death' and rebranded it as "collateral damage"

Just saying.

[Solly Mack]

7. and like torture became enhanced interrogation techniques.

They're not cages, they're open air living. Like a great room - but with wire and poles separating everything into sections.

Call it something other than what it actually is because calling it what it is makes the guilty feel "uncomfortable"

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. Repugs would call it compassionate conservatism.....

because they didn't install razor wire or electric cattle fence......

[Solly Mack]

19. Exactly!

That's exactly how they think.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Not cages?

Link to tweet

[flibbitygiblets]

8. In other words, there is SOME moral line, somewhere. But that can be overcome with semantics?

At some point, some % of these monsters are capable of empathy. But if they tell themselves, these are actually walls, then they can live with themselves. Or maybe if we just deny access so we can't SEE people in cages, so we can't SEE children bring traumatized and abused for political purposes, maybe the problem will go away.

We need to keep up the pressure. We need to nail Trump's ass to this horror.

Repeat loudly and often:


"Trump's concentration camps"

[yurbud]

9. Note too that's a big space, but they have them all crammed into one tiny cage.

What the hell is up with that?

[Bengus81]

10. Then how about Steve Douche and his FOX buddies

getting into an enclosure that's only...."chain link" for a week?? By the way Steve,you can go piss in the left corner.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Notice the Monitoring Mirrors

hanging on the Cages.

BTW,The cages look like American Fence and Wire Built. Sick!!!

[forgotmylogin]

11. Good to know they're uncomfortable at least.

It probably pales in the shadow of the discomfort of those sitting in the detention centers.

[rickford66]

12. Why "not inaccurate" instead of "accurate? ?

It's just a little bit harder for the brain to decode a double negative. I call it "GOP speak".

[keithbvadu2]

14. Donald calls them animals. Why should he worry about putting them in cages?

[Roy Rolling]

15. Heard on Twitter:

"Despite all my rage
I'm still just a rat
in a chain-link fence enclosure"

[axm]

17. Perhaps the this administration

needs to spend some time in a cage?

Actually, a lot of time.

LOCK THEM UP!!

[pangaia]

18. Great attention being given to this horrible situation.

And all the other horrible events......

ALSOOOO.

Do not lose sight of the big picture.
And WHY all this is happening..

THE OVERTHROW AND DESTRUCTION OF WESTERN DEMOCRACY !!

Thank you for your attention.

[Homer Wells]

20. Like "calorically challenged"

Rather than starving?

[lark]

21. Fucking child torturing inhuman lying drumpf assholes.

Any person with even an iota of caring or humanity would not be part of this heinous torture of babies and children and their parents. The people that work there are not allowed to comfort crying babies, not allowed to change their diapers or touch them! Just think about it, their very basic human need of security has been ripped from them and the US government won't even try to make it better, just tortures them more and more. Now they don't even track them and there are numerous instances of parents gerring returned but the children are here, lost in the system. What are they doing to them, giving them away to pedophiles, selling them, or just letting them rot in jail? drumpf and sessions wants them in cages, they are animals to them because they are poor and brown so not worth being treated as humans in their racist hate. They won't even return them to their parents, because they want to inflict max torture. drumpf and the racist evil elf need to be put in tiny cages in a tent in FL where it's excruciatingly hot and it floods when it rains. Somewhere they can't sip up straight and can't lie down and where it's really nasty and dirty, and people come by and laugh at them sitting in a sea of sweat. Now that's something both of them and all the assholes that support this truly deserve.