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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Jul 13, 2019, 08:27 AM Jul 2019

Report Details Alarming Conditions at Border Station Visited by Pence: Crowded Cages, No Cots

By Josh Feldman Jul 12th, 2019, 8:13 pm

Reporters traveled with Vice President Mike Pence to a Border Patrol station in Texas, and the pool report from the Washington Post‘s Josh Dawsey details the conditions they saw firsthand.

Pence was at the McAllen facility today with several Republican lawmakers. Earlier tonight the vice president tweeted, “We have a CRISIS at our border. This year, we are on track to apprehend more than one million migrants on our southern border. The time to address this humanitarian crisis and secure our border is NOW.”

Per the pool report, there were roughly 384 people men there “in caged fences with no cots,” and “the cages were so crowded that it would have been impossible for all of the men to lie on the concrete.” Some of the men in there apparently said they’d been there “40 days or longer.”

Dawsey writes that it was not only “sweltering hot” but that “the stench was horrendous.”

Dawsey also posted photos to Twitter from the border station:

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Report Details Alarming Conditions at Border Station Visited by Pence: Crowded Cages, No Cots (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2019 OP

K and R..Horrible, a direct reflection of Trump and the Republicans. Stuart G Jul 2019 #1

It has been Trump's plan all along RVN VET71 Jul 2019 #3

This is Trump and his rotten party's solution to the immigration problem. olegramps Jul 2019 #5

This is being done in all of our names. CrispyQ Jul 2019 #2

Pence is OK with this. patphil Jul 2019 #4

#1 lay this at the feet of every fucking republican running cor congress pangaia Jul 2019 #6

Stuart G

(38,439 posts)

1. K and R..Horrible, a direct reflection of Trump and the Republicans.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 09:47 AM

Jul 2019

No prison in this country has conditions as bad as this. This is Trump's fault, completely and totally No one treats people like this, but Trump does. And Trump doesn't give a shit.

RVN VET71

(2,697 posts)

3. It has been Trump's plan all along

Reply to Stuart G (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 10:16 AM

Jul 2019

He rejoices at causing these people horrendous suffering. He is man with neither heart nor soul, a man who takes great pleasure in hurting people, in humiliating people, and depriving them of every ounce of human dignity.

He does this to weaken them. He does this also because it gives him pleasure.

Pence enables him and supports him. If you believe in a god of judgment, what might that god do when Pence's blackened soul appears before him?

But it's not just Pence. Every craven member of the GOP, every politician who stands up for the sadism and cruelty at the border, would be due a harsh eternal punishment, perhaps in a cage, stripped of all dignity, crowded together and tortured just as they willingly permit the torture of the poor souls at the border.

Would that there were a god and a hell.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)

5. This is Trump and his rotten party's solution to the immigration problem.

Reply to Stuart G (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 10:23 AM

Jul 2019

CrispyQ

(36,502 posts)

2. This is being done in all of our names.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 10:09 AM

Jul 2019

And I'm about to take off for a birthday lunch up north. I have no words for the helplessness & outrage I feel.

patphil

(6,204 posts)

4. Pence is OK with this.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 10:19 AM

Jul 2019

He wants to blame the Democrats, but the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the White House for 2 years and did nothing but make things worse in these internment camps (AKA concentration camps).
Trump worked diligently to destroy everything Obama did, but, although they blame Obama for this, they haven't done anything about the horrid conditions in these camps.

Evidently, its OK by them.
I wonder how these fake Christians can still pretend to follow the words of Jesus.
It's plain to see they follow Satanic leaders, Trump and Pence.

Patrick Phillips

pangaia

(24,324 posts)

6. #1 lay this at the feet of every fucking republican running cor congress

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 11:11 AM

Jul 2019

#2 problem is NOT that secure out borders bull shit.

#3 lay this at the feet of every fucking republican running cor congress
#4 lay this at the feet of every fucking republican running cor congress
#5 lay this at the feet of every fucking republican running cor congress
#6 lay this at the feet of every fucking republican running cor congress

there is no better campaign tactic than to somehow bring to the blind eye of the public EVERYTHING repubs are doing to destroy everything

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