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You Think Things Are Bad Now? (Original Post) ChoppinBroccoli Jun 2018 OP
Call the tent cities Trumpvilles. muntrv Jun 2018 #1
I Like That ChoppinBroccoli Jun 2018 #2
Like the Hoovervilles of the Depression. Make the name stick the same way. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2018 #3
That's what I had in mind. muntrv Jun 2018 #5
it shouldn't even get to this point. bdamomma Jun 2018 #4
They're air conditioned. Of course. The heat in Hortensis Jun 2018 #6
They will hide it and call it fake news. lark Jun 2018 #7
There isn't much accountability..... LeftInTX Jun 2018 #10
Or malaise Jun 2018 #8
The tents have A/C, but many things could go wrong. LeftInTX Jun 2018 #9
Exactly, Left, and I just dreamed of this all night and morning. If a child gets sick in an Leghorn21 Jun 2018 #16
Depressed people generally don't eat or drink as usual. Lars39 Jun 2018 #11
Would we even find out about it? smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #12
Really a sad statement but you are correct. NCTraveler Jun 2018 #13
Wait until it's time to reunite the families gratuitous Jun 2018 #14
. NCTraveler Jun 2018 #15
Or a disease. Who knows if the children under age six Ilsa Jun 2018 #17

bdamomma

(63,875 posts)
4. it shouldn't even get to this point.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:55 AM
Jun 2018

having children in tents in the scorching heat/desert???? WTF why are we in the streets over this???

Fear and hate is the motivator in all this.

get this fucking man out now, he is one among many others.


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/21-facts-explain-exactly-trump-aide-stephen-miller-horrible/

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. They're air conditioned. Of course. The heat in
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:57 AM
Jun 2018

un-cooled tents in SW summers would kill the vulnerable long before healthy adults succumbed. Children are definitely vulnerable, the younger the more so.

But something bad will happen to some, and almost certainly already has. Beyond the deliberate torment the Republican administration is causing of course. Organization seems to be terrible. That AC units could fail, requiring transferring children into other occupied tents, seems all too likely.

lark

(23,105 posts)
7. They will hide it and call it fake news.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:05 AM
Jun 2018

Just like they did in Puerto Rico. How will reporters find out this information from the inhuman trolls that are causing this? They won't tell the truth because it implicates them as child killers and they are cowards. Total racists, yes, but cowards and killers of brown poor children, who like cockroaches, will hide from the light,

LeftInTX

(25,375 posts)
10. There isn't much accountability.....
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:30 AM
Jun 2018

They aren't citizens.

If a parent complains, they can just claim that they can't find them.

LeftInTX

(25,375 posts)
9. The tents have A/C, but many things could go wrong.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:26 AM
Jun 2018

How would we know if someone dies??????

Is there any accountability???

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
16. Exactly, Left, and I just dreamed of this all night and morning. If a child gets sick in an
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:43 AM
Jun 2018

internment camp in Brownsville or Homestead, and is not properly treated, that child could easily die. EASILY.

And since MVW and Southwest Key, who are supplying workers to these shitholes, are most likely hiring people right off the street - unqualified workers, like myself - since they would be liable for any deaths or injuries, what on earth would stop them from covering up these atrocities? NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL.

I feel sick and mentally deranged contemplating the prospect of what’s REALLY GOING ON in these camps, but I know I’m not alone and we’re going to the fuckin mat on this one.

OMFG

Lars39

(26,109 posts)
11. Depressed people generally don't eat or drink as usual.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:32 AM
Jun 2018

It's very easy to get dehydrated in TX in the summer.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. Would we even find out about it?
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:33 AM
Jun 2018

There is no doubt in my mind that they would cover up anything negative.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
13. Really a sad statement but you are correct.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:37 AM
Jun 2018

While most are in AC facilities, and prison tent camps seem to be for adults, your overall thought is a sad commentary on society.

Cruel and inhumane treatment of children seems to be debatable. Few would support the death of one of the children, if it hasn't happened many times already. Lord knows not all of them make it across alive.

Neither of the two should be debatable outside of extremely strong opposition. One of them clearly is.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
14. Wait until it's time to reunite the families
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:38 AM
Jun 2018

How conscientious do you think Trump and his willing lackeys are going to be about getting the right kids back with the right parents? Before you answer, remember that when the kids were crying for their parents, one of the Kamp Kommandants mocked them by saying their orchestra needed a conductor.

Yeah, it's going to get immeasurably worse.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
15. .
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:42 AM
Jun 2018
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that Munoz crossed the Rio Grande with his wife and 3-year-old son on May 12 near the town of Granjeno, Texas. A government official confirmed he was apprehended with his family.

A Border Patrol agent told The Washington Post that Munoz "lost it" when he was told that he would be separated from his family.


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/honduran-immigrant-arrested-separated-family-died-suicide-custody/story?id=55817927

The cause of the 47-year-old's death is still unclear, with an autopsy pending, ICE said.

The agency said Tran obtained legal permanent residency in the U.S. in 1984, but was ordered for removal in 2004 due to a criminal conviction "stemming from charges related to aggravated assault."

Tran is the seventh person to die in ICE custody since October 2017.


http://www.newsweek.com/vietnamese-man-awaiting-deportation-dies-ice-custody-980373

She had been in ICE custody 16 days before she died, said attorney Joaquin Sanchez-Leal, of the Albuquerque-based Instituto Legal.


https://www.wftv.com/news/groups-to-protest-transgender-migrants-death-in-us-custody/764177435

Sad that their age weakens the argument. Some of these deaths are horrifying and disturbingly painful.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
17. Or a disease. Who knows if the children under age six
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:50 AM
Jun 2018

are immunized against whooping cough or measles? The smallest children are at the greatest risk of getting sick and then dying from illness.

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