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madashelltoo

(1,698 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 02:01 PM Feb 2019

BORDER CHILDREN?

The border children our government refuses to reunite with their families because they say it will be too “traumatic” for them. What will their status be a few years from now? Undocumented whats? This smells like indentured slavery to me.

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BORDER CHILDREN? (Original Post) madashelltoo Feb 2019 OP
they really shortened the school to prison pipeline lapfog_1 Feb 2019 #1
Were private agencies contracted and paid vlyons Feb 2019 #2
And are those right-wing evangelical adoption groups? yardwork Feb 2019 #3
yes nt Grasswire2 Feb 2019 #4
Betsy deVos Sanity Claws Feb 2019 #8
Sounds like illegal adoption scheme Pachamama Feb 2019 #5
Sounds like child theft to me. lark Feb 2019 #6
Well I hope all DUers beat the drum about a congressional investigation into this. vlyons Feb 2019 #7
Our government is creating dysfunctional families. lpbk2713 Feb 2019 #9
All of those jobs to be created by trump. Doreen Feb 2019 #10
This "Administration"...... titanicdave Feb 2019 #11

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
2. Were private agencies contracted and paid
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 02:14 PM
Feb 2019

to place kids in foster homes, or adopt them out to families. I just know that there is a dollar being made off this somewhere.

Sanity Claws

(21,849 posts)
8. Betsy deVos
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 03:32 PM
Feb 2019

Yes. money is a factor. https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/
The article also discussed that Betsy could not profit from the scheme because the organization is a nonprofit and thus has no owners.
However, the nonprofit can pay directors or pay salaries to people purportedly working there. The nonprofit can pay for profit corporations for services or goods and thus generate profits for dear Betsy and others.

I don't doubt for a second that money is at the root of this. No one in this administration takes a single step without it profiting them personally or benefiting Putin.
Bunch of grifters and traitors.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
7. Well I hope all DUers beat the drum about a congressional investigation into this.
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 02:48 PM
Feb 2019

Excuse my cuss words, but it is just bloody fucking criminal. With Republicans in charge, you just have to know that their cronies are making a buck off those kids. Didn't Sen Boxer say that the prisons were making $700/night for each kid? Shit! for $400/night I would want a free wet bar, meals, an in room heated jacuzzi pool. and mints on my pillow.

$700/night for 30 nights is $21,000. That's a year's college tuition, books, fees, room and board at a state college. Keep that number in time, the next time a republican asshole says that we can't afford free college or trade school for our kids. It's bullshit.

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
9. Our government is creating dysfunctional families.
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 03:58 PM
Feb 2019


When and if the kids ever get reunited with their parents nothing will ever be the same.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
10. All of those jobs to be created by trump.
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:07 PM
Feb 2019

Sure, if you are in prison or an immigrant ( legal or not. ) I still ask where the fuck are the girl immigrants? I still see pictures of mostly boys and only one or two girls. I smell human sex trafficking with the girls.

titanicdave

(429 posts)
11. This "Administration"......
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:36 PM
Feb 2019

......has absolutely.......NO.....CLUE.......as to what to do about these kids or .....ANYTHING.....ELSE.....FOR....THAT...MATTER !!!

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