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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 01:54 PM Jul 2018

Detention centers for migrant families are like 'summer camp,' Trump official tells senators

Source: The Washington Post



By Nick Miroff and Karoun Demirjian
July 31 at 12:17 PM

Email the authorTrump administration officials mounted a fierce defense Tuesday of the controversial family separation policy at the border, defending sites as “more like a summer camp” than holding facilities, and arguing that the detention system simply was not set up to facilitate court-ordered reunions easily.

“I’m very comfortable with the level of service and protection that is being provided,” top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Matthew Albence told the Senate Judiciary Committee about the conditions at the “family residential centers,” which he likened to summer camps.

He and other administration officials told senators that the government had mechanisms in place to return children to their parents after they were separated, but they had to improvise a new reunification system under orders from a federal judge.

“This is a novel situation,” said Cmdr. Jonathan D. White, a public health coordinating official for the reunification effort. “The systems were not set up to have referrals include parent information.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawmakers-to-question-trump-officials-on-migrant-family-separations-struggle-to-reunite-them/2018/07/31/ddb61390-9467-11e8-8ffb-5de6d5e49ada_story.html

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Detention centers for migrant families are like 'summer camp,' Trump official tells senators (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2018 OP
Ahhh, summer camp. I fondly remember the forced psychotropic drugs, Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #1
Good to know. You & your family will be spending your two week vacation there. CrispyQ Jul 2018 #2
Hmmm. I've been to summer camp. I was never held in a chain link cage and/or issued Arkansas Granny Jul 2018 #3
Welcome to Kamp Kafka C_U_L8R Jul 2018 #4
Then let the news media in to show how nice these "summer camps" are. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jul 2018 #5
Sickos Solly Mack Jul 2018 #6
These cretins are beyond the pale. gademocrat7 Jul 2018 #7
And it only costs, what, $800.00 a night? They_Live Jul 2018 #8
NO! $700... BigmanPigman Jul 2018 #10
So Donald its no worse than camp Westerbork? cstanleytech Jul 2018 #9
I'd ask that individual if would send his own kid to one of those camps kimbutgar Jul 2018 #11
 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
1. Ahhh, summer camp. I fondly remember the forced psychotropic drugs,
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 01:56 PM
Jul 2018

being locked in cages, and the loving counselors who diddled all the kids.

CrispyQ

(36,421 posts)
2. Good to know. You & your family will be spending your two week vacation there.
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 01:56 PM
Jul 2018

You fucking inhumane shit!

Arkansas Granny

(31,506 posts)
3. Hmmm. I've been to summer camp. I was never held in a chain link cage and/or issued
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 01:56 PM
Jul 2018

an aluminum foil blanket. I was also reunited with my parents without having to go to court.

C_U_L8R

(44,987 posts)
4. Welcome to Kamp Kafka
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 01:59 PM
Jul 2018

Why aren't these Trumpist assholes in chains... caging children and drugging them. It's obscene.

5. Then let the news media in to show how nice these "summer camps" are.
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 02:13 PM
Jul 2018

I especially want to see where they are keeping the babies.

gademocrat7

(10,644 posts)
7. These cretins are beyond the pale.
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 02:17 PM
Jul 2018

There is no comfort for children separated from their parents and abused.

BigmanPigman

(51,567 posts)
10. NO! $700...
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 04:45 PM
Jul 2018

What a deal! These private "camps" like Southwest Key Program (which has many facilities in several states) has been making money hand over fist this year just like all the privately contracted companies that were put into place by Miller and pals with NO INTENTION of ever reuniting families. They wanted to advertise it and make the word spread to immigrants in their home countries to "not even think of coming here or you will lose your family so stay home and get abused, threatened and killed you grown people from shithole countries".

kimbutgar

(21,055 posts)
11. I'd ask that individual if would send his own kid to one of those camps
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 08:17 PM
Jul 2018

Something tells me he wouldn’t.

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