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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:08 AM Jun 2018

Laura Ingraham: child detention facilities "essentially summer camps"

Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday described the child detention facilities housing immigrant youth as “essentially summer camps.”
“As more illegal immigrants are rushing the border, more kids are being separated from their parents,” Ingraham said. “And temporarily housed at what are, essentially, summer camps.”

Ingraham noted that The San Diego Union Tribune had compared the camps to “boarding schools.”
The paper wrote that “many elements” of one particular center “seem like what one would expect from a boarding school.”

An audio clip obtained by ProPublica on Monday reveals children sobbing for their parents, as one Border Patrol Agent jokes that they sound like an “orchestra.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/392922-laura-ingraham-describes-child-detention-centers-as-essentially-summer-camps

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Laura Ingraham: child detention facilities "essentially summer camps" (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jun 2018 OP
And Theresienstadt wasn't a bad place to stay dalton99a Jun 2018 #1
Up yours, Laura C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #2
As I Read Your Post And Realized That We Have Many Emotionless, Heartless, Non-Empathetic.... global1 Jun 2018 #3
Maybe she meant Camp Crystal Lake. Drunken Irishman Jun 2018 #4
Where the counsellors won't speak to you Blue Owl Jun 2018 #5
So, perhaps she should send her hellspawn to one of those "summer camps." GoCubsGo Jun 2018 #6
F you ingraham and vile fux news Thekaspervote Jun 2018 #7
Let them dig in uponit7771 Jun 2018 #8
David Hogg, Judd Apatow call for a boycott of Fox News after hosts defend family separation Gothmog Jun 2018 #9

global1

(25,253 posts)
3. As I Read Your Post And Realized That We Have Many Emotionless, Heartless, Non-Empathetic....
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:14 AM
Jun 2018

people we have in this country a old movie came to me. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It kind of takes on two meanings: 1. the emotionless, heartless, non-empathetic result in people that went to sleep alongside one of those pods; and 2. just the title of this movie 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' reminds me of the Trumpsters and the Repugs that support Trump's Zero Tolerance policy.

Blue Owl

(50,420 posts)
5. Where the counsellors won't speak to you
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:40 AM
Jun 2018

And you sit all day in your own filth.

Sure reminds me of my summer camp days...


GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
6. So, perhaps she should send her hellspawn to one of those "summer camps."
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:59 AM
Jun 2018

No way in hell she'd subject her children to those kinds of conditions.

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