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WTF!!! WTF was a defense company doing with immigrant kids at an unlicensed center in Phoenix, AZ???
Last edited Sun Jul 8, 2018, 10:10 PM - Edit history (1)
The Center for Investigative Reporting has learned that a Defense contractor detained migrant kids in vacant Phoenix office building:
A major U.S. defense contractor quietly detained dozens of immigrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows, no kitchen and only a few toilets during three weeks of the Trump administration’s family separation effort, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has learned.
Videos shot by an alarmed neighbor show children dressed in sweatsuits being led – one so young she was carried – into the 3,200-square-foot building in early June. The building is not licensed by Arizona to hold children, and the contractor, MVM Inc., has claimed publicly that it does not operate “shelters or any other type of housing” for children.
This was all being done very secretively and might not have been reported, except that a neighbor noticed:
There are new cameras on the building, extra locks on the doors and a paper shredder bin directly outside the building’s side door. Neighbor Lianna Dunlap’s videos show workers pulling up in white vans and leading dazed children into the building. When she asked questions, she said the workers responded with silence or terse answers.
“There’s been times where I drive by and I just start crying because, you know, it’s right behind my house,” said Dunlap, her voice wavering. “I don’t know and I think that’s the worst part – not knowing what’s actually going on in there and just hoping that they’re OK.”
The kids were eventually moved, as secretively as they were brought in:
Dunlap said she never saw any children leave the building until nearly three weeks after they arrived. When Dunlap tried to take video of that departure, she said workers spotted her watching from her kitchen window and blocked her view with vehicles. She said she watched children’s feet as they filed out of the building.
The Center for Investigative Reporting is doing a series on treatment of migrant children for their Reveal program on NPR radio. Check your local NPR station's listing for times.
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MVM appears to be a massive operation:
https://www.mvminc.com/about-us/who-we-are/
When I checked their jobs page 2-3 weeks ago, there were tons of jobs available in Homestead (FL) - I didn’t know there was a detention facility there until later...did not take a screenshot, unfortunately...at any rate, here are 154 current jobs available, all over the country:
https://mvminc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/mvmcareers
Here you will see a job listing for Homestead site, and one for McAllen (this is where the cops were called on Sen. Jeff Merkley in early June):
————————————————————————————————————————————
From last Friday (Homestead):
Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo was denied entry into a
government facility housing child migrants.
"We fund all of their operations and all of their salaries,
so they should make the time and effort to allow us to
see the work they're doing." https://thebea.st/2uamKmc
https://amp.thedailybeast.com/florida-republican-rep-carlos-curbelo-blasts-hhs-for-barring-him-from-visiting-detained-kids?__twitter_impression=true
...as of Thursday, he was CONFIRMED to visit the facility
When he arrived there Friday, as scheduled: OOPS: UNCONFIRMED
NO ENTRY
https://www.mvminc.com/about-us/who-we-are/
When I checked their jobs page 2-3 weeks ago, there were tons of jobs available in Homestead (FL) - I didn’t know there was a detention facility there until later...did not take a screenshot, unfortunately...at any rate, here are 154 current jobs available, all over the country:
https://mvminc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/mvmcareers
Here you will see a job listing for Homestead site, and one for McAllen (this is where the cops were called on Sen. Jeff Merkley in early June):
————————————————————————————————————————————
From last Friday (Homestead):
Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo was denied entry into a
government facility housing child migrants.
"We fund all of their operations and all of their salaries,
so they should make the time and effort to allow us to
see the work they're doing." https://thebea.st/2uamKmc
Link to tweet
https://amp.thedailybeast.com/florida-republican-rep-carlos-curbelo-blasts-hhs-for-barring-him-from-visiting-detained-kids?__twitter_impression=true
...as of Thursday, he was CONFIRMED to visit the facility
When he arrived there Friday, as scheduled: OOPS: UNCONFIRMED
NO ENTRY
