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kpete

(71,995 posts) Wed Jun 12, 2019, 11:50 AM Jun 2019

Trump Administration to Hold Migrant Children at Base That Served as WWII Japanese Internment Camp

CONCENTRATION CAMPS - HOW LOW CAN WE GO?

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The Trump Administration has opted to use an Army base in Oklahoma to hold growing numbers of immigrant children in its custody after running out of room at government shelters.

Fort Sill, an 150-year-old installation once used as an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, has been selected to detain 1,400 children until they can be given to an adult relative, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The agency said Fort Sill will be used “as a temporary emergency influx shelter” to help ease the burden on the government as it prepares to house a record number of minors even though it already operates about 168 facilities and programs in 23 states.

Health and Human Services said in a statement that it has taken about 40,900 children into custody through April 30. That’s a 57% increase from last year, which is a rate on-pace to surpass the record figures in 2016, when 59,171 minors were taken into custody. The agency had assessed two other military bases before selecting Fort Sill.

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Fort Sill, located southwest of Oklahoma City, was one of several internment camps where Japanese-Americans were held during World War II. Between 1942 and 1946, the U.S. government forcibly removed an estimated 120,000 men, women and children from their homes and incarcerated them across the country. Fort Sill was later used to hold German prisoners of war.

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Trump Administration to Hold Migrant Children at Base That Served as WWII Japanese Internment Camp (Original Post) kpete Jun 2019 OP

Ugly. That's what he is and that's what he's doing to this country. Claritie Pixie Jun 2019 #1

The humanitarian crisis that Trump has created watoos Jun 2019 #2

Indeed.... Tanuki Jun 2019 #4

in related news the federal Irony Meter has short circuited Maine-i-acs Jun 2019 #3

kick blogslut Jun 2019 #5

But an Impeachment inquiry would be bad because...? NightWatcher Jun 2019 #6

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)

1. Ugly. That's what he is and that's what he's doing to this country.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2019, 11:52 AM

Jun 2019

watoos

(7,142 posts)

2. The humanitarian crisis that Trump has created

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2019, 11:56 AM

Jun 2019

is the #1 problem.

I have found that most crises can be understood by following the money. Someone is making big money running these concentration camps.

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)

4. Indeed....

Reply to watoos (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 12, 2019, 12:35 PM

Jun 2019

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/us/migrant-shelters-border-crossing.amp.html
"The business of housing, transporting and watching over migrant children detained along the southwest border is not a multimillion-dollar business.

It’s a billion-dollar one.

The nonprofit Southwest Key Programs has won at least $955 million in federal contracts since 2015 to run shelters and provide other services to immigrant children in federal custody. Its shelter for migrant boys at a former Walmart Supercenter in South Texas has been the focus of nationwide scrutiny, but Southwest Key is but one player in the lucrative, secretive world of the migrant-shelter business. About a dozen contractors operate more than 30 facilities in Texas alone, with numerous others contracted for about 100 shelters in 16 other states.
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But several large defense contractors and security firms are also building a presence in the system, including General Dynamics, the global aerospace and defense company, and MVM Inc., which until 2008 contracted with the government to supply guards in Iraq. MVM recently put up job postings seeking “bilingual travel youth care workers” in the McAllen area of South Texas. It described the jobs as providing care to immigrant children “while you are accompanying them on domestic flights and via ground transportation to shelters all over the country." (More)