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Niagara

(7,627 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:45 PM Jun 2018

A detained child just admitted the most chilling, inhumane thing that happened to him

while caged up. This includes a video on the Washington Press page.

America woke up this weekend realizing how quickly our formerly democratic nation was transforming into a facsimile of Nazi Germany with immigrant children separated from their refugee parents and placed in internment camps.

It can’t happen here, we say to ourselves. This is America. We’re the good guys.

The transformation, however, is happening right in front of our eyes, accompanied by a president who incessantly trumpets out a message that we should believe what he tweets instead of our lying eyes.

link:https://washingtonpress.com/2018/06/19/a-detained-child-just-admitted-the-most-chilling-inhumane-thing-that-happened-to-him-while-caged-up-watch/

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A detained child just admitted the most chilling, inhumane thing that happened to him (Original Post) Niagara Jun 2018 OP

"Were you treated very well, were you afraid there?" elleng Jun 2018 #1

That's not a meal for a 15-year-old boy, you SOBs. greatauntoftriplets Jun 2018 #2

This is just unbelievably horrible. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #3

It's absolutely revolting Niagara Jun 2018 #4

Thanks Niagara! smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #5

You're very welcome Niagara Jun 2018 #6

Unrec for source. demmiblue Jun 2018 #7

That's fine Niagara Jun 2018 #8

sleep depravation mshasta Jun 2018 #9

elleng

(130,972 posts)

1. "Were you treated very well, were you afraid there?"

Reply to Niagara (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:56 PM

Jun 2018

King asked 15-year-old Renaldo.

“I was very scared,” Renaldo replied, through a translator. “At midnight they wake you up to count everyone in the cells.”

The most disturbing thing that King found was the lack of adequate nutrition being offered the imprisoned children.

“Renaldo also told us that he did not get enough to eat,” King explained. “He said he was fed apples and water — and neither did other people.”

greatauntoftriplets

(175,742 posts)

2. That's not a meal for a 15-year-old boy, you SOBs.

Reply to Niagara (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:01 PM

Jun 2018

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

3. This is just unbelievably horrible.

Reply to Niagara (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:02 PM

Jun 2018

Those poor kids. The cruelty of Trump and the republicans knows no bounds. The fact that these facilities are FOR PROFIT and are basically offering these children no basic comforts or even minimal nutrition is just sickening. I can't even adequately express my outrage!