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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMigrant kids were stripped, drugged, locked away. So much for compassion.
By Editorial Board/WP August 5 at 6:27 PM
WHEN ACCOUNTS of abuse emerged in June from a detention center for migrant minors in Virginia children as young as 14 stripped naked, shackled, strapped to chairs, their heads encased in bags, left for days or longer in solitary confinement, and in some cases beaten and bruised it sounded like a scene from the Soviet gulag.
This institution, the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center, near Staunton, couldnt possibly be in America. And if it was, it had to be an extreme outlier a place that, while overseen by the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services, simply could not typify the federal governments handling of children, undocumented or not, who make their way into this country.
But abuses alleged at that jail in Virginia turn out to be no worse than those inflicted, on even younger children, at another facility under ORRs purview in Texas. Last Monday, a federal judge, incensed that underage migrants at the Shiloh Residential Treatment Center, south of Houston, had been routinely administered psychotropic drugs without parental consent, denied water as a means of punishment and forbidden from making private phone calls, ordered undocumented minors there transferred elsewhere.
Not the Soviet gulag. These things are taking place in America.
This institution, the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center, near Staunton, couldnt possibly be in America. And if it was, it had to be an extreme outlier a place that, while overseen by the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services, simply could not typify the federal governments handling of children, undocumented or not, who make their way into this country.
But abuses alleged at that jail in Virginia turn out to be no worse than those inflicted, on even younger children, at another facility under ORRs purview in Texas. Last Monday, a federal judge, incensed that underage migrants at the Shiloh Residential Treatment Center, south of Houston, had been routinely administered psychotropic drugs without parental consent, denied water as a means of punishment and forbidden from making private phone calls, ordered undocumented minors there transferred elsewhere.
Not the Soviet gulag. These things are taking place in America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/migrant-kids-were-stripped-drugged-locked-away-so-much-for-compassion/2018/08/05/84a779d0-95b4-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html
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Migrant kids were stripped, drugged, locked away. So much for compassion. (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Aug 2018
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tblue37
(65,457 posts)1. K&R for visibility. nt
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. We would call this kidnapping and torture in any other country
But in the United States, it barely rises to the level of "tut, tut" and nobody will be made to answer for these crimes against humanity.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)4. Why does the "pro-life" party hate actual children?
malaise
(269,103 posts)3. Truth will out
and it will be worse than this
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