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Arkansas Granny

(31,518 posts) Mon Jun 4, 2018, 06:25 AM Jun 2018

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley Was Denied Access to Detention Center for Immigrant Children

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) visited a detention center for immigrant children near the Mexico border Sunday in an attempt to draw attention to the Trump administration policy of separating children from parents.

Parents, even those credibly seeking asylum, have been separated from their children as part of the White House policy.
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Merkley, accompanied by multiple video cameras and the American Civil Liberties Union, shot a Facebook live video as he attempted to gain access to the facility. (The video had been viewed more than 353,000 times within the first several hours.)

He was initially told that a manager would come speak to him when he telephoned into the facility from the front door. The police arrived first.

http://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/06/03/u-s-sen-jeff-merkley-was-denied-access-to-detention-center-for-immigrant-children-and-somebody-called-the-police-when-he-went-to-the-door/

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U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley Was Denied Access to Detention Center for Immigrant Children (Original Post) Arkansas Granny Jun 2018 OP

Justice is supposed to be blind... ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2018 #1

It's shameful. This makes us look like shit to the rest of the world. calimary Jun 2018 #6

We have tRump in the WH. Scarsdale Jun 2018 #7

the detention center details annabanana Jun 2018 #15

Spread this everywhere! This must not continue!!! Guilded Lilly Jun 2018 #2

Where is the outrage? Soxfan58 Jun 2018 #3

People should be given location so they can protest this place everyday. blueinredohio Jun 2018 #4

SEE POST #13 annabanana Jun 2018 #14

I remember there was talk about these Walmarts closing before the election sarah FAILIN Jun 2018 #5

if you think you are safe...this is just the begining Stargazer99 Jun 2018 #8

A United States Senator denied access to a facility mountain grammy Jun 2018 #9

This is the new normal kcr Jun 2018 #10

Yeah, where is the outrage indeed? Ligyron Jun 2018 #11

We used to send men to the moon. sarge43 Jun 2018 #12

LOCATION HERE: annabanana Jun 2018 #13

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)

1. Justice is supposed to be blind...

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 06:47 AM

Jun 2018

Not cruel.

So sad for this country.

calimary

(81,322 posts)

6. It's shameful. This makes us look like shit to the rest of the world.

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:38 AM

Jun 2018

Cold-hearted, mean-spirited, uncompassionate shit.

I feared when trump got started that, by the time he was through, we wouldn’t have a friend in the world. Looks like we’re getting there alright.

Make America Grate Again.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

7. We have tRump in the WH.

Reply to calimary (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:47 AM

Jun 2018

How could the world view us as anything but "shit"??

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

15. the detention center details

Reply to calimary (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:26 AM

Jun 2018

The detention center in Brownsville, Tex. is run by the nonprofit Southwest Key Program at a location called Casa Padre, which was a former Walmart turned detention center, according to Merkley.

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)

2. Spread this everywhere! This must not continue!!!

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 06:57 AM

Jun 2018

Soxfan58

(3,479 posts)

3. Where is the outrage?

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:23 AM

Jun 2018

We need to be marching in the streets. The sight of a child being taken away crying from a parent must be heartbreaking, I want to see video in every Dem. ad. This is a defining moment in history. We as a people will be judged by how we respond. And we as progressives are on the side of human decency.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)

4. People should be given location so they can protest this place everyday.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:27 AM

Jun 2018

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

14. SEE POST #13

Reply to blueinredohio (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:26 AM

Jun 2018

sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)

5. I remember there was talk about these Walmarts closing before the election

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:31 AM

Jun 2018

I dismissed it as crazy people saying crazy things. Their theory was that FEMA was behind it all and there was some sort of government operation to round all of US up.. but what if it was ICE all along? They were obviously doing as they wanted already. Prepping for a republican admin is nothing.

Stargazer99

(2,585 posts)

8. if you think you are safe...this is just the begining

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:03 AM

Jun 2018

mountain grammy

(26,624 posts)

9. A United States Senator denied access to a facility

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:27 AM

Jun 2018

funded with taxpayer dollars, and holding children in detention. What is going on in there?

kcr

(15,317 posts)

10. This is the new normal

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:38 AM

Jun 2018

I've seen too much hand waving and outright claims that it's nothing but conspiracy theories from supposed allies lately that I fully expect that there won't be much outrage over this.

Ligyron

(7,633 posts)

11. Yeah, where is the outrage indeed?

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:57 AM

Jun 2018

Would people in the late 60's/early 70's have been all over this and in the streets? Well, back then there were but two outrages publicized for the most part: the Vietnam war and racial injustice.Got rid of one but not he other.

Now, there are some many outrages it's like a Blitzkrieg.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)

12. We used to send men to the moon.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:12 AM

Jun 2018

Now we're putting children in concentration camps.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

13. LOCATION HERE:

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:25 AM

Jun 2018

The detention center in Brownsville, Tex. is run by the nonprofit Southwest Key Program at a location called Casa Padre, which was a former Walmart turned detention center, according to Merkley.

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