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PSPS

(13,601 posts) Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:01 PM Jun 2018

Audio captures border agent joking as migrant children separated from their parents cry

Source: NYP via MW

Heartbreaking audio from inside a Border Patrol facility captures kids crying for their moms and dads after they were separated from their parents — while an agent callously makes jokes.

“Well, we have an orchestra here,” the Border Patrol agent says in Spanish in the recording posted by Pro Publica on Monday.

“What’s missing is a conductor.”

Pro Publica did not disclose exactly what facility the audio comes from, but says it is of 10 Central American kids aged between 4 and 10 years old and was recorded last week, about a day after the separation.

The kids wail “Mami” and “Papa,” while one 6-year-old Salvadoran girl named Alison Madrid begs for someone to call her aunt and recites the phone number, according to Pro Publica.

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/audio-captures-border-agent-joking-as-migrant-children-separated-from-their-parents-cry-2018-06-18

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Audio captures border agent joking as migrant children separated from their parents cry (Original Post) PSPS Jun 2018 OP

just following orders KT2000 Jun 2018 #1

Just foolloink Othahs nt Xipe Totec Jun 2018 #2

I'd put those fuckers before a firing squad SHRED Jun 2018 #3

That's too good for them ArizonaLib Jun 2018 #4

Yes it does SHRED Jun 2018 #5

It certainly does. Dave Starsky Jun 2018 #9

Good point ArizonaLib Jun 2018 #12

Those poor little children. Chemisse Jun 2018 #6

Ask the GOP as Cruel is #1 requirement to be a member. cstanleytech Jun 2018 #8

Cruel, evil, sadistic motherfuckers dalton99a Jun 2018 #7

those disgusting pig talking like that about those sad little kids SHOULD BE FIRED !!!! trueblue2007 Jun 2018 #10

That part of the tape needs to be played on a loop until every kid is reunited BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #11

The push should not be to stop this - it should be to model it after Ellis Island (except the white ArizonaLib Jun 2018 #13

He was mocking the crying kids. Yes. he was!! Cruel. riversedge Jun 2018 #14

KT2000

(20,583 posts)

1. just following orders

Reply to PSPS (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:10 PM

Jun 2018

and they are enjoying it.

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

2. Just foolloink Othahs nt

Reply to KT2000 (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:12 PM

Jun 2018

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

3. I'd put those fuckers before a firing squad

Reply to PSPS (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:12 PM

Jun 2018

But that's just me.

ArizonaLib

(1,242 posts)

4. That's too good for them

Reply to SHRED (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:23 PM

Jun 2018

Doesn't the Bible say something about a mill stone tied to one's neck and thrown into the ocean rather than hurt a child?

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

5. Yes it does

Reply to ArizonaLib (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:26 PM

Jun 2018

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)

9. It certainly does.

Reply to ArizonaLib (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 10:04 PM

Jun 2018

It's in the Book of Matthew. One of the four books of the Bible that the Evangelicals absolutely refuse to read. One of those four books dealing with the life and philosophy of Jesus.

ArizonaLib

(1,242 posts)

12. Good point

Reply to Dave Starsky (Reply #9)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:15 AM

Jun 2018

As of now Matthew is my new favorite book of the Bible along with Ecclesiastes (not so much to everything there is a season, but the rest of the book that 'everything is meaningless...except HOW you live your life).

Funny how they cling to everything except what he taught. They are legalists - like the Pharisees.

Chemisse

(30,813 posts)

6. Those poor little children.

Reply to PSPS (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:38 PM

Jun 2018

How can anyone be this cruel?

cstanleytech

(26,293 posts)

8. Ask the GOP as Cruel is #1 requirement to be a member.

Reply to Chemisse (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:49 PM

Jun 2018

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

7. Cruel, evil, sadistic motherfuckers

Reply to PSPS (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 09:43 PM

Jun 2018

the whole lot of them

trueblue2007

(17,228 posts)

10. those disgusting pig talking like that about those sad little kids SHOULD BE FIRED !!!!

Reply to PSPS (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 10:48 PM

Jun 2018

BigmanPigman

(51,609 posts)

11. That part of the tape needs to be played on a loop until every kid is reunited

Reply to PSPS (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 11:17 PM

Jun 2018

and every tent is torn down.

ArizonaLib

(1,242 posts)

13. The push should not be to stop this - it should be to model it after Ellis Island (except the white

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #11)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:19 AM

Jun 2018

preferential treatment).

We should open the borders to anyone. We should push to convert the border infrastructure to an 'Ellis Island' where people are only processed to come in. They want border services? We should give it to them!!! This should be our fight!!!

riversedge

(70,242 posts)

14. He was mocking the crying kids. Yes. he was!! Cruel.

Reply to PSPS (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:28 AM

Jun 2018

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