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BY MONIQUE O. MADAN
More than 300 people flooded the streets Sunday outside the Homestead detention center for migrant children.
The Homestead shelter, the only facility for migrant children operated by a for-profit [highly profitable] corporation, has been shrouded in secrecy and cloaked in controversy from the moment it was reactivated in February 2018.
Lawmakers scornful of President Donald Trumps immigration policies have been blocked from visiting. Because it sits on federal land, Floridas child welfare agency is barred from investigating allegations of abuse.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article230274999.html
Hekate
(90,793 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Americans should not be allowed to forget it either.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)CDerekGo
(507 posts)History will forever look upon Stephen Miller and DJ Drumpf as the root cause of all of this.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)A similar detention camp was opened in Texas. A Christian agency managed the child concentration camp, until they saw exactly what they would be held responsible for running...
These type camps are a paradise for child molesters. Be sure and discuss this reality with ANY Trump supporters that you know!
It's real and it's REAL sick!
ancianita
(36,133 posts)neighbor we've been toward the rest of the Americas. They've been visibly pissed about our policies and practices for over a century and don't mind showing their support for our "detainees."
I hope Gov DeSantis gets involved.
H2O Man
(73,605 posts)real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)On mainland American soil......... ..........
Billy Ray Joe Bob.
(65 posts)We need 100 thousand surrounding each concentration camp in every state. We need 2 million surrounding the Senate building and white house. Sit DOWN and shut em DOWN.
backtoblue
(11,345 posts)(I've no way to physically protest, so here's a tribute to these innocent children)
The Angel
The Angel sheds tears as she sings
A song so sad that it stings
The children were taken
Their innocence forsaken
The weight of their cries on her wings
How did the world grow so hateful and cold?
Compassion traded for bars of gold
Greed for the tallest tower
Drunk on their lust for power
For coins their souls were sold
Her wings trembled with anger and ire
She confronted the kings of the empire
The men would not yield
Every one of them she killed
Their palaces destroyed by fire
- backtoblue