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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts) Thu Jun 14, 2018, 04:55 PM Jun 2018

Trump admin will house migrant kids in tents in Tornillo, Texas

The Trump administration has selected a border facility near El Paso to build a tent city with 450 beds for migrant children.

by Jacob Soboroff, Courtney Kube and Julia Ainsley / Jun.14.2018 / 4:17 PM ET

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/twoyearold-honduran-asylum-seeker-cries-as-her-mother-is-searched-and-picture-id973077552

A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. John Moore / Getty Images

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The Trump administration has selected Tornillo, Texas, for the construction of tents to house the overflow of immigrant children, many of whom have been separated from their parents under a new "zero tolerance" policy, according to three sources familiar with the decision.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will erect a "tent city," full of large tents whose walls touch the ground, and is estimated to hold approximately 450 beds for children, say the sources.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-will-house-migrant-kids-tents-tornillo-texas-n883281?cid=eml_nbn_20180614

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Trump admin will house migrant kids in tents in Tornillo, Texas (Original Post) SummerSnow Jun 2018 OP

Will they spring for AC's? cynatnite Jun 2018 #1

They won't care, remember the WH said this is 'biblical' so now their SummerSnow Jun 2018 #3

And Trump will put America's sheriff Joe Arpaio in charge Freethinker65 Jun 2018 #2

It's currently a pleasant 97 there today, but going up! CanonRay Jun 2018 #4

The govt is gambling with the lives of those kids, with the overcrowding of procon Jun 2018 #5

cynatnite

(31,011 posts)

1. Will they spring for AC's?

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Thu Jun 14, 2018, 04:56 PM

Jun 2018

Hotter than blazes in Texas right now.

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

3. They won't care, remember the WH said this is 'biblical' so now their

Reply to cynatnite (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 14, 2018, 05:03 PM

Jun 2018

consciences' are clear

Freethinker65

(10,024 posts)

2. And Trump will put America's sheriff Joe Arpaio in charge

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Thu Jun 14, 2018, 05:03 PM

Jun 2018

CanonRay

(14,104 posts)

4. It's currently a pleasant 97 there today, but going up!

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Thu Jun 14, 2018, 05:29 PM

Jun 2018

They will kill these kids in that heat. I wish the Mexican army would come over and spring these kids.

procon

(15,805 posts)

5. The govt is gambling with the lives of those kids, with the overcrowding of

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Thu Jun 14, 2018, 06:05 PM

Jun 2018

large groups it's only a matter of time before an outbreak of some communicable childhood disease like measles, mumps, rotavirus, chickenpox, or meningitis develops. They're just little kids, and no one is reminding them to wash their hands, don't share drinks, cover your mouth when you cough, blow your nose.

As their living condition deteriorates to outdoor tents, the likelihood of other environmental diseases including cholera, typhoid, infectious hepatitis, food poisoning, dehydration, excessive heat exposure and ultraviolet radiation in sunlight. There is also the risk of poisonous animals from snakes to insects that can easily get inside a tent.

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