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Read the thread. People are trying to get supplies to children being held. 🤬 (Original Post) nolabear Jun 2019 OP
HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2019 #1
But they are being turned away. sheshe2 Jun 2019 #2
I wonder? cannabis_flower Jun 2019 #13
I think federal level supersedes state and local levels AlexSFCA Jun 2019 #19
americans need to start demonstrating where it counts - the 88 universities that certainot Jun 2019 #35
This message was self-deleted by its author sheshe2 Jun 2019 #3
So even if I can find where JustAnotherGen Jun 2019 #4
I am so angry, it is hard to breathe sometimes mcar Jun 2019 #5
if your local state uni is on this list of 88 dumbass unis that would be good place to protest certainot Jun 2019 #37
Remember the grandma getting arrested in CA last year? Leghorn21 Jun 2019 #6
These detention centers are funded. Glimmer of Hope Jun 2019 #7
Yes. Over $700 per child per day. nolabear Jun 2019 #9
yep, but money are not being spent in kids AlexSFCA Jun 2019 #20
Exactly! $700 per kid per day and what is that money paying for? smirkymonkey Jun 2019 #28
Time for another donation to the ACLU! pazzyanne Jun 2019 #8
I hear you. I have never been so disturbed by anything. nolabear Jun 2019 #12
... sheshe2 Jun 2019 #15
Wish I could convey that to a terrified child. nolabear Jun 2019 #16
I just have no words, nolabear. sheshe2 Jun 2019 #17
I also have snowybirdie Jun 2019 #30
We grandmas/abuelas need to be a force. nolabear Jun 2019 #38
Absolutely! Duppers Jun 2019 #26
The Pentagon has billions of 'spare' dollars that Trump wanted to take for his wall. Yet Trump cann keithbvadu2 Jun 2019 #10
HRC tweeted this a.m. about a way to help. Arkansas Granny Jun 2019 #11
Thank you for this information. llmart Jun 2019 #25
I still feel like I"'ve been punched in the gut when I think about waking up Arkansas Granny Jun 2019 #29
I will never forget how I couldn't even function the next day. llmart Jun 2019 #31
SAme here. A while back, someone here on DU asked which stage... 3catwoman3 Jun 2019 #33
MAGA's are haters. zentrum Jun 2019 #14
Carpenter - Bless the Beasts and the Children Xipe Totec Jun 2019 #18
I've been thinking about this song all day today. classof56 Jun 2019 #36
Yeah, that suggestion that the Dem candidates should raise money for toothbrushes/etc was dumb RockRaven Jun 2019 #21
Well, not dumb. Maybe impossible but people are desperate to help. nolabear Jun 2019 #39
Kick & recommend for visibility of this GOP horror show. bronxiteforever Jun 2019 #22
Remember, even prisons allow visitors! AlexSFCA Jun 2019 #23
In this case bdamomma Jun 2019 #24
Absolutely! llmart Jun 2019 #27
Matthew 25: 44-45 ginnyinWI Jun 2019 #32
The donations are being turned away? Dixc Jun 2019 #34
I wonder if we're not working toward that. I hope so. nolabear Jun 2019 #40

cannabis_flower

(3,765 posts)
13. I wonder?
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 09:21 PM
Jun 2019

How many guards these places have and how they are armed. If say the city of El Paso or Houston or wherever decided that the detention centers were abusing children and sent an army of police there and attempted to arrest everyone what would happen?

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
35. americans need to start demonstrating where it counts - the 88 universities that
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 11:05 PM
Jun 2019
broadcast sports on 260+ limbaugh stations

those unis support global warming denial and trump child abuse on the border.

one uni doing the right thing would shame the rest and rw radio couldn't survive losing those radio stations and the advertisers that would desert rw radio

Response to nolabear (Original post)

JustAnotherGen

(31,874 posts)
4. So even if I can find where
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 08:37 PM
Jun 2019

They were moved to, do a Costco run and ship first thing am - they won't give it to thrm.

Unfucking believe -able.

I asked if anyone could find a list of locations the other day - for a reason.

mcar

(42,372 posts)
5. I am so angry, it is hard to breathe sometimes
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 08:38 PM
Jun 2019

Where are the courts? This is being done in our name.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
37. if your local state uni is on this list of 88 dumbass unis that would be good place to protest
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 11:13 PM
Jun 2019
88 major shit fer brains unis, and not the full list, broadcasting sports on 260 RW limbaugh talk radio stations as they make excuses for trump and the motherfuckers abusing children at the border.

this is really stupid

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)
6. Remember the grandma getting arrested in CA last year?
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 08:54 PM
Jun 2019

Viral Video: Grandma arrested trying to take toys to Fairfield facility

Author: Frances Wang
Published: 11:02 PM PDT July 9, 2018
Updated: 8:18 AM PDT July 10, 2018

A group mostly made up of mothers and grandmothers was started after audio recordings were leaked by ProPublica from a U.S Customers and Border Protection facility.

Samara Hayley Steele, who is part of the group called 'Solidaridad con los Niños,' said it they decided to start 'caravaning' to different facilities they believed were housing migrant children separate at the border.

more:
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fairfield/viral-video-grandma-arrested-trying-to-take-toys-to-fairfield-facility/103-572265622

Nothing and nobody goes in
And nobody comes out

OPEN THE MOTHERFUCKING DOORS

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
28. Exactly! $700 per kid per day and what is that money paying for?
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 10:26 PM
Jun 2019

A concrete floor and an aluminum blanket - not even a REAL blanket or pillow!! No toiletries, no clothes, no laundry services, no healthcare, no amusement or entertainment - NOTHING! $700 per child per day of taxpayer money is going into republican contractor's coffers and these children are being treated worse than animals!

This is a fucking outrage! This needs to be stopped - everyone needs to know exactly what is going on here. Not only how horribly these children are being treated, but how the republicans are using this situation as just another scam to funnel money into their own pockets.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
8. Time for another donation to the ACLU!
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 09:10 PM
Jun 2019

They seem to be the most active group defending the children at the border. Those children are my new mission in life! I have spent my whole life working with children in one capacity or another. I am not giving up now!

nolabear

(41,991 posts)
12. I hear you. I have never been so disturbed by anything.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 09:21 PM
Jun 2019

Personal note. My 2 year old adorable, bright, funny, loving, sensitive grandson’s birth mother is Mexican American. He looks very much like those babies they are torturing. Imaging what it would do to him and IS doing to them is hurting me more than is good for me.

And I’m a retired therapist that knows a lot about child development and attachment. These innocents will never be the same. Some will do better than others but all are fundamentally changed.




snowybirdie

(5,233 posts)
30. I also have
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 10:30 PM
Jun 2019

three Irish/Mexican-American grandchildren. I totally understand your rage! I can hardly see straight,I am so angry. This cannot stand!

keithbvadu2

(36,890 posts)
10. The Pentagon has billions of 'spare' dollars that Trump wanted to take for his wall. Yet Trump cann
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 09:15 PM
Jun 2019

The Pentagon has billions of 'spare' dollars that Trump wanted to take for his wall.

Yet Trump cannot find money for soap and toothpaste for children in his concentration camps.

Arkansas Granny

(31,528 posts)
11. HRC tweeted this a.m. about a way to help.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 09:18 PM
Jun 2019

?s=20


Hillary Clinton

@HillaryClinton
· Jun 23, 2019
Replying to @HillaryClinton
We can help these children get the help they deserve. And we can send a message to the administration that we won't stand for this. We just won’t. #CloseTheCamps


Hillary Clinton

@HillaryClinton
Since yesterday, we've raised over $220,000 together for groups helping kids and families at the border.

Thank you so much.

Can we get to $250,000 today? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kids-and-families-border?refcode=062419tw

5,371
11:02 AM - Jun 24, 2019
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llmart

(15,552 posts)
25. Thank you for this information.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 10:12 PM
Jun 2019

I've been feeling so helpless and now at the very least I can send some money.

Hillary has always been an avid supporter of children. Great God Almighty, why oh why were we deprived of her as our President and ended up with this awful, awful family and their enablers in our Capitol?

Arkansas Granny

(31,528 posts)
29. I still feel like I"'ve been punched in the gut when I think about waking up
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 10:27 PM
Jun 2019

to realize that Trump had won. What a horrible day.

llmart

(15,552 posts)
31. I will never forget how I couldn't even function the next day.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 10:31 PM
Jun 2019

I walked around like a zombie trying to make sense of what happened. Still haven't been able to.

3catwoman3

(24,035 posts)
33. SAme here. A while back, someone here on DU asked which stage...
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 10:45 PM
Jun 2019

...of grieving we were all in after the stolen election. I replied that I was stuck in Denial and Disbelief.

I still am. Anytime I see his face or hear his voice, I say to myself, "You have got to be fucking kidding me."

classof56

(5,376 posts)
36. I've been thinking about this song all day today.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 11:12 PM
Jun 2019

I thank you for posting it, but just now I can't listen to it. I am so angry, frustrated, appalled and furious, I can hardly control myself.

Can't seem to stop the tears.

Damn dTrumph and his evil minions.

RockRaven

(14,990 posts)
21. Yeah, that suggestion that the Dem candidates should raise money for toothbrushes/etc was dumb
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 09:47 PM
Jun 2019

because Trump and these DHS ghouls would block the kids from receiving those toiletries anyway. It isn't a matter of money and never has been. It is sadism through and through.

nolabear

(41,991 posts)
39. Well, not dumb. Maybe impossible but people are desperate to help.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 11:55 PM
Jun 2019

And to tell the truth the statement itself has impact. That the gestures are being made says a lot.

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)
23. Remember, even prisons allow visitors!
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 09:50 PM
Jun 2019

this goes beyond high security prisons and truly a definition of concentration camp which may turn into death camp after starvation and spread of decease. Infants and toddlers may be the first one to go. Since there is no accountability or even precise count, we won’t even know when someone dies.

bdamomma

(63,919 posts)
24. In this case
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 09:55 PM
Jun 2019

I would bust through those doors, tRump and his regime are committing crimes against humanity. Calling African "Shitholes" can you imagine what they are calling these children and their families??? They are not animals.

We have a sick sick POS in that WH. Walking around in a suit doesn't mean shit, tRump is a vile POS.

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
32. Matthew 25: 44-45
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 10:31 PM
Jun 2019

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

Dixc

(52 posts)
34. The donations are being turned away?
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 10:47 PM
Jun 2019

and Trump runs to Camp David to be alone? Then, goes golfing? Impeach, now! We have animal cruelty laws that would put these guards in jail! I DO care. I am sick of this. Why aren't there large, loud organized protests? Or, am I missing something?

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