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demmiblue

(36,875 posts)
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:11 AM Jun 2018

59 female lawmakers demand answer on this immigration crisis mystery

Source: The Detroit Free Press

Debbie Dingell isn't backing down.

The Michigan congresswoman, a Dearborn Democrat, has teamed up with U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-New Hampshire, to lead a coalition of more than 50 female lawmakers in demanding an answer to the question that's been haunting many about the immigration crisis at the U.S./Mexico border: Where are the girls?

So far, only photos have been released of immigrant boys who've been separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy from the detention centers where they are being held.

When asked at a media briefing Monday where the girls and toddlers who've been separated from their parents at the border are being held, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said she didn't know, and referred questions to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/2018/06/21/girls-immigration-detention-centers-congresswomen/720145002/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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59 female lawmakers demand answer on this immigration crisis mystery (Original Post) demmiblue Jun 2018 OP
You mean the ominous photo of a row of empty high-chairs didn't reassure them? lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #1
Secy. of Homeland Security Nielsen Ohiogal Jun 2018 #2
she and that de vos bimbo are quite the pair, are they not... pangaia Jun 2018 #4
All around you relogic Jun 2018 #6
I know. I was being a bit facetious pangaia Jun 2018 #8
I thought so. relogic Jun 2018 #9
WHAT?? ME?? No way.. pangaia Jun 2018 #10
I love my Rep, Debbie Dingell! DownriverDem Jun 2018 #3
What are they hiding? Are they biding time to cover things up? bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #5
K&R ck4829 Jun 2018 #7
where are they heaven05 Jun 2018 #11
There are two near me but they do not let you see them. BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #12

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
1. You mean the ominous photo of a row of empty high-chairs didn't reassure them?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:14 AM
Jun 2018

WTF is going on? Soylent Green? Sex trafficking?

Ohiogal

(32,046 posts)
2. Secy. of Homeland Security Nielsen
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:16 AM
Jun 2018

doesn't know where they are?????

Isn't it a huge part of her job to know things like this?????

I don't believe that. I think she damn well does know, but won't say because she doesn't want reporters and lawmakers swarming around to get inside and show us the horrendous conditions inside those places.

I can't believe this is America in 2018. Just horrifying.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
4. she and that de vos bimbo are quite the pair, are they not...
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:21 AM
Jun 2018

Where in the world do they find such stupid people..?
I mean, you must have to look really hard...

Oh, I forgot my own new rule for EVERYBODY on DU..
No more asking--

why ?
how ?
can it get any worse ?
where oh where do they find such stupid people ?

relogic

(155 posts)
6. All around you
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:32 AM
Jun 2018

“Where in the world do they find such stupid people..?”
Don’t look far.

Astounding that so many unAmericans deliberately and out of spite and ignorance chose an inhuman to infest us with people around him that would carry out the destruction we see before us.

relogic

(155 posts)
9. I thought so.
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:24 AM
Jun 2018

Your intelligence and insight is equal to or exceeds mine I’m pleased to observe.

(smiley placed here)

DownriverDem

(6,231 posts)
3. I love my Rep, Debbie Dingell!
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:17 AM
Jun 2018

She is a fighter all the way for our 12th Michigan District! Thank you ladies!

bucolic_frolic

(43,258 posts)
5. What are they hiding? Are they biding time to cover things up?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:28 AM
Jun 2018

This could lead to the deepest and darkest corners of servitude

Reassure us with facts, with transparency. Americans will be fair about it.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
11. where are they
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:37 AM
Jun 2018

????????????????????????????? somthing is amiss, terribly wrong and deeply disturbing about this question by our Congresspeople and the fact of even having to ask this question.

BigmanPigman

(51,625 posts)
12. There are two near me but they do not let you see them.
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 03:21 PM
Jun 2018

The mayors that went to see them in TX today can't get in, they need two weeks notice. I think the govt wants us to see the boys since boys is equated with crime and violence. The girls are cute and would draw sympathy. It is for PR and optics.

I am worried for the girls and the danger they could be in by American officials due to physical and sexual abuse and possible trafficking.

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