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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 08:45 PM Jun 2018

Journalists have gone in the Childrens Shelter.....Say its hell, Full of Trump Murals.




I’m a part of the first group of journalists to go into the shelter for detained child migrants in Brownsville Texas since the zero tolerance separation policy was announced. 1000+ boys here.

Going in right now.

Just finished tour, don’t even know where to start.

One of the first things you notice when you walk into the shelter — no joke — a mural of Trump with the quote “sometimes losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”

Presidential murals everywhere. But that one is 1st.

...............

Moments after we walked in a shelter employee asked us to smile at hundreds of detained migrant kids in line for a meal because “they feel like animals in a cage being looked at.”

.....................
This shelter, Casa Padre, is the largest licensed childcare facility of its kind in the country. Nearly 1,500 boys 10-17 in here now. They’re supposed to sleep four to room. Nearly every room has 5. They’ve received a variance from the state because of overcrowding.

/......................

Kids here get only two hours a day to be outside in fresh air.

One hour of structured time.

One hour of free time.

The rest of the day is spent inside a former Wal Mart.

..............................

Instructions to employees in the lobby of the shelter if you encounter media:

1) “Immediatelt notify PD,” or the police department.

2) Call the shelter communications director.

In that order.

For the record, nobody called cops on us. We were invited by HHS and the shelter.

......................

This mega-shelter is run by trained staff — a nonprofit.

I believe the worker looking after these kids who said she’d like to see a day when they don’t have to do this.

But things are moving in the wrong direction — capacity is 1497 and tonight 1469 boys will sleep here.

.....................

I have been inside a federal prison and county jails.

This place is called a shelter but these kids are incarcerated.

No cells and no cages, and they get to go to classes about American history and watch Moana, but they’re in custody.

Coming up on @allinwithchris next.

..................




They have Trump Murals everywhere......he does think he is Kim Jong Un......This is a concentration camp...or reeducation centre.

Read this guys whole thread if you can
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Journalists have gone in the Childrens Shelter.....Say its hell, Full of Trump Murals. (Original Post) sunonmars Jun 2018 OP
All dictators do that - post their likeness everywhere. Solly Mack Jun 2018 #1
Damn, another sign of where we are. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #11
Right-wingers see camps everywhere until there actually is one. Solly Mack Jun 2018 #13
WTF is this a dystopian novel we're living in njhoneybadger Jun 2018 #48
Does seem that way at times. Solly Mack Jun 2018 #49
Centers fail to do background checks for caregivers, too OhNo-Really Jun 2018 #51
Damn Solly Mack Jun 2018 #52
You can go to the link and read the huge violations OhNo-Really Jun 2018 #57
Did already Solly Mack Jun 2018 #58
Thank you. OhNo-Really Jun 2018 #59
I like documents I can read and search. Solly Mack Jun 2018 #60
Me, too. And use as research tools. OhNo-Really Jun 2018 #61
the kids are at risk not just from pervert or criminal guards Marthe48 Jun 2018 #94
Do the eyes seem to follow you as you walk by? DBoon Jun 2018 #89
Here is the mural Solly Mack Jun 2018 #90
Only thing missing is the sign at the entrance. johnp3907 Jun 2018 #2
Holy cats. LisaM Jun 2018 #3
this how you bdamomma Jun 2018 #44
sociopathic behaviors. lapfog_1 Jun 2018 #64
How many pedaphiles work Corgigal Jun 2018 #4
I'm going to hope like hell those kids are Phoenix61 Jun 2018 #5
Yes. And these are only the parts they allowed to be shown Wwcd Jun 2018 #10
I only wish the bdamomma Jun 2018 #24
Would be nice DetroitLegalBeagle Jun 2018 #41
"wants" might need a correction. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #16
Thanks, I'll do the same The Human Rights Institute. @CLShumanrights Wwcd Jun 2018 #50
I just realized that it HHS and the "shelter" invited press, it means they're the most humane. hedda_foil Jun 2018 #39
They sure cleaned it up nicely for the cameras! I want to see Wwcd Jun 2018 #53
Murals of Trump in detention centers for kids that might be sent back "home" Freethinker65 Jun 2018 #6
That alone is cruel and unusual punishment world wide wally Jun 2018 #40
Omg no! These poor kids & their familes. Wwcd Jun 2018 #7
I truly think we are battling pure evil, we going to have to get the pitchforks out soon or die. sunonmars Jun 2018 #8
Agree. His congress has barricaded him from removal. Wwcd Jun 2018 #12
The GOP propaganda media is what controls the Congress EndGOPPropaganda Jun 2018 #15
We need to tear it down, target Murdoch, the owners, ruin their businesses with boycotts. sunonmars Jun 2018 #17
t-shirts here EndGOPPropaganda Jun 2018 #18
+ Thanks..we must all do what we can Wwcd Jun 2018 #20
Maybe the group that made his Oscar winning film for Kim BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #9
What can you do? Go to a protest TOMORROW EndGOPPropaganda Jun 2018 #14
🙏 Petitions to add your voice Duppers Jun 2018 #26
Thank you bdamomma Jun 2018 #45
You're most welcome. Duppers Jun 2018 #63
The site has slowed significantly Duppers Jun 2018 #29
Good sign - it's busy!! EndGOPPropaganda Jun 2018 #43
No words to express my rage. nt Ferrets are Cool Jun 2018 #19
I am with you. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #37
Oh god ... Puzzler Jun 2018 #21
THE REPUBLICONS DID THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bluestarone Jun 2018 #22
F this... Need United Nations to intervene djacq Jun 2018 #23
He doesn't mention their terror zentrum Jun 2018 #25
"sometimes losing a battle you find a new way to win the war." marybourg Jun 2018 #27
The Trump pics give them the right person to hate. bitterross Jun 2018 #28
K and R BadgerMom Jun 2018 #30
MURALS??????????? Are you KIDDING ME?????????????????? Takket Jun 2018 #31
Fake news! There's only one Trump mural!!!111 kcr Jun 2018 #72
It's incredibly irresponsible to poison the legitimate story with bullshit headlines. greyl Jun 2018 #74
It's incredibly irresponsible, to put it mildly, to poison a misunderstanding as a lie kcr Jun 2018 #75
I posted about the lie before the reporter corrected it on Twitter. greyl Jun 2018 #78
Well, good for you kcr Jun 2018 #80
Oh and imagine the racist US history propaganda they are "learning" hours a day lunasun Jun 2018 #32
I have no words, only tears in my eyes beveeheart Jun 2018 #33
How horrible and frightening for these children. gademocrat7 Jun 2018 #34
um.... someone on twitter just asked a very important question.................. Takket Jun 2018 #35
I'm not sure I even want to know. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #46
Tending the littlest kids. Rocking the crying babies, Wwcd Jun 2018 #56
The girls and the babies are in other centers there are 100 centers. mucifer Jun 2018 #62
I can only imagine jb5150 Jun 2018 #36
This whole situation is Upthevibe Jun 2018 #38
The seeds of a future terrorist attack on the U.S. have been planted donkeypoofed Jun 2018 #42
I posted a similar bdamomma Jun 2018 #47
Can we send the kids black and orange markers to Ilsa Jun 2018 #54
Are the Trump murals meant to terrify the children? greatauntoftriplets Jun 2018 #55
I wonder if the DUer who was vigorously defending this place will show up kcr Jun 2018 #65
"Full of Trump Murals" is a bullshit claim. greyl Jun 2018 #66
And you know this how? kcr Jun 2018 #68
From the original reporter on the scene, Jacob Soboroff greyl Jun 2018 #69
He also didn't say "bullshit claim! Be real!" kcr Jun 2018 #70
He's asking someone to correct a lie, so am I, you see a problem with that? nt greyl Jun 2018 #71
It's not a lie. It's a misunderstanding over the number of Trump murals. kcr Jun 2018 #73
Fine, but there sure as hell isn't any need to exaggerate Trump's evil greyl Jun 2018 #76
Only if you think the number of Trump murals matters as a "debunkable claim" kcr Jun 2018 #77
Trump murals? Where did they come from? who painted them? Demovictory9 Jun 2018 #67
As a mother and grandmother lovemydogs Jun 2018 #79
Looks like we know what the closed down Walmarts will be used for. suzee981 Jun 2018 #81
People who are desperate will risk everything for a better life for their kids. DesertRat Jun 2018 #83
It looked like MFM008 Jun 2018 #82
Trump is turning this country into nazi Germany workinclasszero Jun 2018 #84
We should find out where all these shelters are and protest constantly outside and make the guards kimbutgar Jun 2018 #85
We are all nazis now. This country is pure evil. ananda Jun 2018 #86
One positive about these murals: these kids will certainly know the face of their captor. SunSeeker Jun 2018 #87
Can't stand this particular word but it fits KPN Jun 2018 #88
"no cameras allowed inside" says so much. niyad Jun 2018 #91
Just one Trump mural, many presidential murals caraher Jun 2018 #92
It's a concentration camp! red dog 1 Jun 2018 #93

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
11. Damn, another sign of where we are.
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:08 PM
Jun 2018

Also, Solly, do you remember back in Bush era, was it, or later? that Walmart closed a bunch of stores in teh border areas.

At that time, the right wing was yelling "concentration camps" in our future.

so ironic.

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
51. Centers fail to do background checks for caregivers, too
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 11:40 PM
Jun 2018

Employee Background Check Violations - Immigrant Youth Detention Centers, Texas.

Article here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210730568


Southwest Key, the non-profit, Walmart warehouser of immigrant children ripped from the arms of their parents failed to properly process background checks for caretakers....repeatedly.

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
57. You can go to the link and read the huge violations
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 11:54 PM
Jun 2018

And REC article for visibility

NO ONE is reporting the violations the state has compiled.

And few here REC a searchable database link that journalists can use in the article linked above.

So frustrating.

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
59. Thank you.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 12:14 AM
Jun 2018

The lack of engagement disparages me from researching and writing anymore.

A tweet is an instant hit, 50 instaRECS.

Investigative journalism...meh, no recs

Marthe48

(16,975 posts)
94. the kids are at risk not just from pervert or criminal guards
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 11:08 PM
Jun 2018

also kids who molest kids. Injuries from fights, bullying, food getting stolen, other kid on kid meanness. The kiddie-jails are understaffed, and not meant to hold permanent populations. A man who just left his employment at a kiddy-jail said the kids coming in thanks to zero tolerance have no clue about the process, and after they are kidnapped from their parents are really upset. So the guards are losing their tempers. (he said it another way,but that is the gist)

I imagine that some of the secret perverts involved in this will see an opportunity for human trafficking and further abuse.

This ill-begotten travesty needs to stop. Now.

DBoon

(22,369 posts)
89. Do the eyes seem to follow you as you walk by?
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:10 PM
Jun 2018

"On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran."

George Orwell, 1984

bdamomma

(63,877 posts)
44. this how you
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:48 PM
Jun 2018

breed young kids to get into deeper serious situations such as possible terrorism. Just saying.

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)
64. sociopathic behaviors.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 12:42 AM
Jun 2018

What I said about Gitmo will start to apply here if this goes on...

They may or may not have been terrorists going into Gitmo... but the ones that come out WILL BE and I don't blame them one bit.

If someone picked me off the street of my home country to make a few bucks and then some foreign people shipped me half way around the world to live in a cage (and possibly torture me)... for years... I would want to kill as many of those foreigners as possible if I ever got free.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
4. How many pedaphiles work
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 08:52 PM
Jun 2018

at that "non profit"? Media start gathering names, tell us who the brown shirts are. Who needs a job where fucking over children allows you to sleep at night?

Gather, tell us.

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)
5. I'm going to hope like hell those kids are
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 08:54 PM
Jun 2018

segregated by age. It's not safe for 10 year olds to be housed with 17 year olds. If it was a Wal-Mart "outside" is a parking lot. And the murals. He really, really wants to be a dictator doesn't he.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
10. Yes. And these are only the parts they allowed to be shown
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:03 PM
Jun 2018

Imagine what they hid from the public eye

That fker trump needs to be hauled off to the Hague

bdamomma

(63,877 posts)
24. I only wish the
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:42 PM
Jun 2018

ICC would get his ass, between all those deaths in Puerto Rico and this he needs to be incarcerated.

So who's next???? This is not America.

DetroitLegalBeagle

(1,924 posts)
41. Would be nice
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:24 PM
Jun 2018

But the ICC has no jurisdiction here. The US is not a party to the Rome statute. In fact, current Federal law bars any agency, court, or local or state governments from cooperating with the ICC. Further, the US military is required to rescue any personnel that is held by the ICC, by force of necessary. Holdover laws from Bush and the Iraq war.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
16. "wants" might need a correction.
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:14 PM
Jun 2018
IS

Everything they are doing took a lot of planning time.
Hell, it musta taken months to screen potential employees for suitable Brown Shirt mentality.


All I know to do where I am is to send a tweet daily The Human Rights Institute.
@CLShumanrights
 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
50. Thanks, I'll do the same The Human Rights Institute. @CLShumanrights
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 11:34 PM
Jun 2018

"All I know to do where I am is to send a tweet daily The Human Rights Institute.
@CLShumanrights "

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)
39. I just realized that it HHS and the "shelter" invited press, it means they're the most humane.
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:20 PM
Jun 2018

The Treblinka of prison camps for immigrant children. Maybe they'll entertain the next journos with an inmate band and provide the kids with a fake care for photo ops.

The whole thought of multiple murals of President Evil decorating the walls is insufferably revolting..

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
53. They sure cleaned it up nicely for the cameras! I want to see
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 11:43 PM
Jun 2018

where the little kids & babies are held.
Are they all crying in the same big walmart sized room?
How many kind caring attendents are there rocking or bathing or changing diapers or holding those babies & little kids.

How many little ones are just left to self-comfort for lack of trained help & an already overwhelmed staff.

Who comforts all the littlest ones now that their mothers or fathers are gone
How many young kids are there & where are they all housed. Are there 100, 300, 1000? Break that number down to age groups.

Are siblings separated also?

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
7. Omg no! These poor kids & their familes.
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 08:59 PM
Jun 2018

They did nothing to deserve this.

This horror needs to be chained to the fat necks of Trump, Sessions, Congress & Senator and every single church going fake fking 'christian', & Nazi that helped bring this on.

This is a crime against humanity.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
12. Agree. His congress has barricaded him from removal.
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:10 PM
Jun 2018

There will be other ways.
This journalist & our leaders & citizens who join in protests are doing the brave thing. Show the truth & ask, "is this the country you want?"



EndGOPPropaganda

(1,117 posts)
15. The GOP propaganda media is what controls the Congress
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:12 PM
Jun 2018

Without Fox, Limbaugh, and WSJ ed page, the GOP in Congress would turn on him.

We must stop the propaganda first - tell everyone you know that #FoxNewsLies.

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)
9. Maybe the group that made his Oscar winning film for Kim
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:00 PM
Jun 2018

will produce a propaganda film to show at all the "ALIENS" who are being detained.

EndGOPPropaganda

(1,117 posts)
14. What can you do? Go to a protest TOMORROW
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:12 PM
Jun 2018
https://familiesbelong.org/

Families Belong Together opposes the cruel, inhumane and unjustified separation of children from their parents along the U.S. border. Join us on June 14, 2018.

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
63. You're most welcome.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 12:41 AM
Jun 2018

And thank you for signing.

I've heard a few say privately that they were afraid to sign a petition!!

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
29. The site has slowed significantly
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:50 PM
Jun 2018

Was waiting for almost a minute to load links to "virtual protest" when a "Congratulations Amazon user" ad popped up. Hmmm.

But thank you so much for posting original link. I hope the site's slowdown is temporary.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
37. I am with you.
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:16 PM
Jun 2018

I am sickened and speechless. Just when I think we have hit rock bottom, it only gets worse.

djacq

(1,634 posts)
23. F this... Need United Nations to intervene
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:27 PM
Jun 2018

How about sanctions against the U.S. for human rights violations like his new BFF Kim?

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
25. He doesn't mention their terror
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:46 PM
Jun 2018

…..at being taken from their parents. Where is Mom? Dad? This is a constant question for these kids.
They are with strangers—other kids and grownups—that's really hard for children.

My understanding is that they are alone in the sense of not having friends—kids they know—with them.

We are a monstrous country.

We need to be in the street. The ghosts of the internment camps and concentration camps are looking at us and wondering when will be start genuine protests?

marybourg

(12,633 posts)
27. "sometimes losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:46 PM
Jun 2018

Reminds me of “ arbeit Mach frei”. Fascists love to gussy up their camps with uplifting homilies.

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
28. The Trump pics give them the right person to hate.
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:49 PM
Jun 2018

I hope every - single - one of them learns that face and learns to despise it.

kcr

(15,317 posts)
72. Fake news! There's only one Trump mural!!!111
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:25 AM
Jun 2018


Seriously. Already attempts at fake newsifying this because the reporter corrected one fact.

greyl

(22,990 posts)
74. It's incredibly irresponsible to poison the legitimate story with bullshit headlines.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:30 AM
Jun 2018

I can forgive an honest mistake, but not people who persist on trying to justify that behavior.

kcr

(15,317 posts)
75. It's incredibly irresponsible, to put it mildly, to poison a misunderstanding as a lie
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:32 AM
Jun 2018

and turn a story about Trump's atrocities into Fake News. Who cares if it was only one Trump mural? Does that make it any less horrifying? It doesn't matter. The reporter corrected it because reporters have to, not to give people like you an excuse to damn the whole story.

greyl

(22,990 posts)
78. I posted about the lie before the reporter corrected it on Twitter.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:35 AM
Jun 2018

Let's get back to the main issue, shall we? Peace.

kcr

(15,317 posts)
80. Well, good for you
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:44 AM
Jun 2018

Don't let me stop you from getting back out there and ferreting out all the other evildoers attacking Trump with their lies. Keep up the good work.

Takket

(21,578 posts)
35. um.... someone on twitter just asked a very important question..................
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:12 PM
Jun 2018

Where are the girls?

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
56. Tending the littlest kids. Rocking the crying babies,
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 11:50 PM
Jun 2018

They're all fking crying together in their walmart sized camp.


mucifer

(23,553 posts)
62. The girls and the babies are in other centers there are 100 centers.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 12:26 AM
Jun 2018

This is a fancy one run by a non profit. We don't know what the other ones look like or what's going on there.

jb5150

(1,178 posts)
36. I can only imagine
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:14 PM
Jun 2018

what they didn't let them see ... Under Trump, we're looking more and more like Russia or North Korea every day.

Upthevibe

(8,053 posts)
38. This whole situation is
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:19 PM
Jun 2018

reprehensible................ Last week I heard a story on NPR about a family from Mexico - A mother, father, and two children. They had lived in a village that was being controlled by a gang. The gang DEMANDED that this family give them a certain amount of money. The family simply did not have it. The gang told them they would be killed (including the kids) if they didn't come up with the money by the next day. So, the family left that night and ended up at one of our borders. The children are now in one of the shelters/detention centers. I don't know where the parents are....

donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
42. The seeds of a future terrorist attack on the U.S. have been planted
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:30 PM
Jun 2018

That's what'll happen with one of these youngsters because they've been incarcerated for no reason. The hatred towards the U.S. could be fomenting in one of these kids right.now.

bdamomma

(63,877 posts)
47. I posted a similar
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 11:06 PM
Jun 2018

answer like yours. Very possible.

We are not America with this POS/dictator. This must stop.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
54. Can we send the kids black and orange markers to
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 11:47 PM
Jun 2018

"redo" the orangutan's murals?

Why couldn't they have painted pleasant scenes instead of their torturer's picture?

greyl

(22,990 posts)
66. "Full of Trump Murals" is a bullshit claim.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 12:59 AM
Jun 2018

Be real. Your OP title should be changed.

Edit:

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff
Replying to @thedailybeast

To be clear: I never said this shelter was “full of Trump murals.”
There are murals of 20 presidents inside including Obama which we showed on air tonight.
The Trump one happens to be right next to the cafeteria where we entered.

Please correct this, @thedailybeast.
1:08 AM - Jun 14, 2018




greyl

(22,990 posts)
69. From the original reporter on the scene, Jacob Soboroff
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:18 AM
Jun 2018

Jacob Soboroff
?Verified account @jacobsoboroff
7m7 minutes ago
Replying to @thedailybeast

To be clear: I never said this shelter was “full of Trump murals.”

There are murals of 20 presidents inside including Obama which we showed on air tonight.

The Trump one happens to be right next to the cafeteria where we entered.

Please correct this, @thedailybeast.





Plus, the link you provided gives no evidence for the place being "full of Trump murals", so not sure why you describe it as legit.

kcr

(15,317 posts)
70. He also didn't say "bullshit claim! Be real!"
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:22 AM
Jun 2018

He simply asked them to correct it because he's not a Trump humper trying to make it look like the whole thing is fake news. He noted the first mural he saw was Trump.

kcr

(15,317 posts)
73. It's not a lie. It's a misunderstanding over the number of Trump murals.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:28 AM
Jun 2018

So, no. I don't have a problem with it. I'm not trying to downplay Trump's evil, see?

greyl

(22,990 posts)
76. Fine, but there sure as hell isn't any need to exaggerate Trump's evil
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:33 AM
Jun 2018

and poison Democratic discussion boards with BS, debunkable claims, now, is there? Fuck no.

kcr

(15,317 posts)
77. Only if you think the number of Trump murals matters as a "debunkable claim"
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:34 AM
Jun 2018

One has to wonder at the agenda, there.

lovemydogs

(575 posts)
79. As a mother and grandmother
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 01:42 AM
Jun 2018

I find this whole pollicy to be sickening. I want to throw up.
I think if my 6 and 8 year old granddaughters were subjected to this kind of thing and I just feel sick.
I've had rightwingers accuse me of being open border and and I say I am pro humanity. Pro child and pro compassion.
My mom was an immigrant from France.
If she was from Mexico, 2018 rather then France in the 50s, I've no doubt we kids would have had a much different upbringing and view of the world.

suzee981

(2 posts)
81. Looks like we know what the closed down Walmarts will be used for.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 02:34 AM
Jun 2018

YouTube has a million videos about how FEMA is making them into camps for American citizens. It's got the right wingers going nuts.
What's going to become of these children? What did they do with their parents? Honestly, if I was seeking asylum from my home country, I wouldn't even bother trying to come here. 😞

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
83. People who are desperate will risk everything for a better life for their kids.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 09:48 AM
Jun 2018
"if I was seeking asylum from my home country, I wouldn't even bother trying to come here."


Most of us can't even imagine what these asylum seekers have been through.

MFM008

(19,818 posts)
82. It looked like
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 07:20 AM
Jun 2018

There were many presidents , including Obama on the walls.
The problem is maggots is in the cafeteria area.
How in the name of King Tut are those kids supposed to eat looking at that flabby bastard.

kimbutgar

(21,163 posts)
85. We should find out where all these shelters are and protest constantly outside and make the guards
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 11:34 AM
Jun 2018

Lives miserable. Then have church groups go in and take the children in sanctuary. Overtake these modern day internment centers and reunite families.

I hope the Democratic Party uses this in the election reminding people how unjust we were in the Jalnese internment camps in world war 2. This is America we don’t do this anymore and Twitler is evil to do this.

SunSeeker

(51,574 posts)
87. One positive about these murals: these kids will certainly know the face of their captor.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 11:51 AM
Jun 2018

Ripping children from their parents and warehousing them in these inhumane, overcrowded prisons really is a crime against humanity. They are concentration camps.

caraher

(6,278 posts)
92. Just one Trump mural, many presidential murals
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 06:06 PM
Jun 2018

The other presidents' murals are accompanied by quotes about the value of immigrants. Trump's... not so much.

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