Detaining immigrant kids is now a billion-dollar industry

[demmiblue]

Source: ABC News

Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds.

Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained unaccompanied and separated children soared from $74.5 million in 2007 to $958 million in 2017. The agency is also reviewing a new round of proposals amid a growing effort by the White House to keep immigrant children in government custody.

Currently, more than 11,800 children, from a few months old to 17, are housed in nearly 90 facilities in 15 states — Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

They are being held while their parents await immigration proceedings or, if the children arrived unaccompanied, are reviewed for possible asylum themselves.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detaining-immigrant-kids-now-billion-dollar-industry-56546291?cid=social_twitter_abcn

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Make sure every potential voter in 2018 knows of the money in the Trump Child Abductions

DeVos family is involved.

Voters and maybe voters need to be reminded (assume they know when talking with them, but remind them) that the Trump-Republican Party showed their true fascist face with the Trump Child Abductions.

[logosoco]

2. This news and these facts do need to be spread and talked about endlessly.

for years and years now we have heard about how "illegal immigrants" have been sapping the system by using food stamps and "free" health care. But they have been saying these things without any facts to support it, so I am not really sure if they will believe these when faced with them.

It is sickening and stupid...fits right in with the trump world.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Trump fascists chose $770/day over $5/day anklet 99.6% effective. Taxpayer money wasted

... wasted to make a sadistic fascist point: Harming the children to punish and deter the adults.

That's their true fascist face.

Who is next?

[bdamomma]

11. exactly

to your last comment.

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[gademocrat7]

4. Profiting from child abuse and bigotry.

This administration is pure evil.

[Achilleaze]

5. republicans sure know how to screw people over

that's the one thing they are good at.

[Ohiogal]

6. Why does someone

have to make a profit on everything, no matter how heinous?

[notdarkyet]

7. This money is coming straight out of taxpayers money. It was all a scheme to put money

In the private prisons and trumps pockets. He is going to break this country. It’s all part of the plan.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Of course it is. But only for the corrupt wealthy owners of these

disgusting detention centers.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Wasn't that the point all along ?

Whip up the rubes so they vote to turn it all over to the corporatocracy ? Mission Accomplished !!