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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,034 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:12 AM Jun 2018

Laura Ingraham: Migrant child detention centers 'essentially summer camps'

Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday described the child detention facilities housing immigrant youth as “essentially summer camps.”

Ingraham’s comments come amid growing outcry over the Trump administration’s policy to prosecute migrants crossing the border illegally, leading to thousands of children being separated from their parents and housed in what the government is calling "tent cities."

“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.”

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

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Laura Ingraham: Migrant child detention centers 'essentially summer camps' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 OP
The San Diego Union Tribune madaboutharry Jun 2018 #1
Here's the article she is referencing oberliner Jun 2018 #35
Yeah, well there's probably a small % of 14-17 year old boys that aren't suffering THAT much mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #2
Ingraham is a Nazi. Remember the RNC Eyeball_Kid Jun 2018 #11
Eat shit and die Ingraham. Seriously. NoMoreRepugs Jun 2018 #3
And have some"pepper spray" luvallpeeps Jun 2018 #10
Don't laugh... jmowreader Jun 2018 #18
So is shit if one's a fly or a dung beetle. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 #38
Some people are just callous and unfeeling. I know a few of them myself. nt Trek4Truth Jun 2018 #4
Who didn't grow up having summer camp at a defunct Walmart, locked in a dog kennel and covered with MissB Jun 2018 #5
Some of the best summers of my life were spent in a Walmart dog kennel covered with a space LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2018 #8
Oh, had a kennel did you? We dreamed about kennels ... there was 17 of us living in a mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #15
Luxury! jmowreader Jun 2018 #19
RIGHT ... mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #21
Don't forget the arts and crafts activities like learning how to change other kids' diapers meadowlander Jun 2018 #23
Pretty sure I got that Merit Badge in Scouts ... came right between First Aid and Horsemanship ... mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #24
Kids go to summer camp because they... 3catwoman3 Jun 2018 #6
Not to mention, they are supposed to have FUN. Chemisse Jun 2018 #28
Kinda makes you wonder madamesilverspurs Jun 2018 #7
I suspect that her parents waited until the last possible minute TexasTowelie Jun 2018 #9
There's no explaining. She's simply a Nazi. Eyeball_Kid Jun 2018 #13
Shut the fuck up, Laura. LuckyCharms Jun 2018 #12
Well said ... mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #16
They are parentless refugee camps wasupaloopa Jun 2018 #14
Anyone here for sending Laura Ingraham to "summer camp?" DFW Jun 2018 #17
Don't mind the dust ... mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #25
Let then dig in uponit7771 Jun 2018 #20
And them there brown parents have no say malaise Jun 2018 #22
How do these people sleep at night. joshcryer Jun 2018 #26
I never spent my summer camp in a cage vlyons Jun 2018 #27
Yeah? Dorian Gray Jun 2018 #29
Summer camp? Maybe if you're sent to a kennel and happen to be a dog. Vinca Jun 2018 #30
Laura Ingraham is essentially an asshole mouthpiece. Guilded Lilly Jun 2018 #31
'Those are HAPPY CAMPS!' Volaris Jun 2018 #32
If it's like a summer camp she should send her children there. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2018 #33
Why, yes, we all saw the government supplied photos of kids playing in sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #34
The kind of summer camp a connecticut nazi whitey like Ingraham likes to run for minorities. Mc Mike Jun 2018 #36
David Hogg, Judd Apatow call for a boycott of Fox News after hosts defend family separation Gothmog Jun 2018 #37
 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
35. Here's the article she is referencing
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:38 AM
Jun 2018
When children are separated from their parents at the border, here is where they go next

Many elements of Casa San Diego, an El Cajon facility for unaccompanied children who arrived at the southern border, seem like what one would expect from a boarding school.

There are classrooms, a play area with soccer goals and a medical clinic with superheroes like Wonder Woman, Superman and the Hulk on the walls.

On closer inspection, details about the California-licensed child care facility run by Southwest Key Programs reflect the situation of the children it serves.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-family-separation-20180618-story.html
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. Yeah, well there's probably a small % of 14-17 year old boys that aren't suffering THAT much
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:20 AM
Jun 2018

There's probably some who aren't stressin' that hard, it's maybe their first time away from mom and dad in their life, they're hangin w/other teens all day ... Sure. Okay, I'll grant you that, you dick ... that'd probably be true in a SMALL number of cases ..

What about the 8 MONTH OLD BABY that's been seen?

What about THE 2 YEAR OLD GIRLS?

Think it's 'like SUMMER CAMP' to a friggin' 2 year old?

They don't even know what Summer Camp IS you vile, despicable, heartless, Satan-worshiping scumbag.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)
11. Ingraham is a Nazi. Remember the RNC
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:01 AM
Jun 2018

Convention? She did the Hitler salute right on stage.

Summer camp is voluntary and at the end of camp you know where your parents are. Ingraham is a pig.

jmowreader

(50,560 posts)
18. Don't laugh...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:09 AM
Jun 2018

In the early 1990s, the Cumberland County (NC) Sheriff's Department was sued by a criminal they had to take down with pepper spray. His grounds were that pepper spray was toxic to humans. To prove otherwise, the sheriff issued a can of the spray they were using to one of his deputies and asked him to season the food he ate with it one weekend. The officer prepared several dishes with it and reported that it was delicious when he was put on the stand on Monday.

MissB

(15,810 posts)
5. Who didn't grow up having summer camp at a defunct Walmart, locked in a dog kennel and covered with
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:23 AM
Jun 2018

an emergency blanket?

The food is probably the same shitty food but beyond that, absolutely no comparison. No way are these kids sitting around a camp fire roasting marshmallows for s’mores.

8. Some of the best summers of my life were spent in a Walmart dog kennel covered with a space
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:32 AM
Jun 2018

blanket, listening to the other kids cry for their mothers. Whimps!

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
15. Oh, had a kennel did you? We dreamed about kennels ... there was 17 of us living in a
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:55 AM
Jun 2018

rolled-up newspaper in the bottom of a septic tank ...

jmowreader

(50,560 posts)
19. Luxury!
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:11 AM
Jun 2018

We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
21. RIGHT ...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:39 AM
Jun 2018

(sighing heavily) ...

We used to wake up 1/2 hour BEFORE we went to bed, ate a lump of frozen cold poison for breakfast, worked 26 hours a day at mill, PAID the mill owner to LET US work there, and every night our dad would come home, murder us in cold blood, dance about on our graves, and shout 'Hallelujah!'

(raise your hand if you know that from memory)

(hey, sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying ... also ... laura ingraham, a walking joke, in the flesh).

meadowlander

(4,397 posts)
23. Don't forget the arts and crafts activities like learning how to change other kids' diapers
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:55 AM
Jun 2018

and painting murals of the glorious leader.

Nothing like an invigorating round of "hide from the human rights workers" to launch a lifetime of happy memories.

3catwoman3

(24,007 posts)
6. Kids go to summer camp because they...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:26 AM
Jun 2018

...want to (for the mostpart), and their parents know where they are and when they will see them again.

What a bullshit analogy.

TexasTowelie

(112,249 posts)
9. I suspect that her parents waited until the last possible minute
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:37 AM
Jun 2018

to pick her up from summer camp. It's incomprehensible that someone could have so little empathy.

DFW

(54,405 posts)
17. Anyone here for sending Laura Ingraham to "summer camp?"
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:01 AM
Jun 2018

Don't forget to take a shower in the morning, Laura. You can't miss it. It's right next to the crematorium.
Er, I mean, the bread oven.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
27. I never spent my summer camp in a cage
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:21 AM
Jun 2018

Isn't summer camp supposed to be about hiking, swimming, canoeing, and roasting marshmellows over a fire?

They keep insulting my intelligence with their brazenly stupid lies and bullshit. There is no way they swill ever be able to explain their way out of this one. Jeez!

Volaris

(10,272 posts)
32. 'Those are HAPPY CAMPS!'
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:28 AM
Jun 2018

Cmon, did anybody really doubt they'd get there eventually?

Somebody find the clip and post it (I can't I'm on my phone it won't let me).

sinkingfeeling

(51,459 posts)
34. Why, yes, we all saw the government supplied photos of kids playing in
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:36 AM
Jun 2018

The swimming pools, running sack races, and making crafts.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
36. The kind of summer camp a connecticut nazi whitey like Ingraham likes to run for minorities.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:09 AM
Jun 2018

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