Trump Says He'll Arrange Press Tours of Detention Centers Amid Reports of Terrible Conditions

[CatWoman]

President Donald Trump said his administration will arrange press tours of migrant detention centers following damaging reports of overcrowding and children living in squalid conditions.

“We’re going to have some of the press go in because they are crowded, and we’re the ones complaining about they’re crowded,” Trump told press members as he was leaving his New Jersey golf course Sunday. “They’re crowding because people come up–but now thanks to Mexico, it’s slowing down greatly, and I think you’ll start seeing some very good numbers.”

The New York Times and the El Paso Times reported that agents at a migrant detention center told reporters that children did not have enough food and outbreaks of scabies and chickenpox were reported.

Trump has repeatedly tried to denounce reports of squalid conditions at migrant detention centers, including during the impromptu question session Sunday.

“But we want to have the press go in and see because The New York Times, it really is fake news,” Trump told reporters before departing for the White House. Trump’s acting DHS chief Kevin McAleenan has also attempted to shoot down damaging reports as “unsubstantiated.”
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-says-hell-arrange-press-tours-of-migrant-detention-centers-amid-reports-of-terrible-conditions/

[dewsgirl]

1. To all of them? Or like Hitler did with his model camps?

[LisaL]

2. That's exactly what i thought of when I read the headline.

[Tanuki]

15. Yep, my first thought was Theresienstadt. Eom

[hatrack]

17. In this case, "Ciudad de Teresa"

[dewsgirl]

18. That was the name of it. I watched the mini series Holocaust

last year and learned about Theresienstadt from it. At the time I thought, I can't believe all the books I have read, movies I've seen about the Holocaust, I had never heard about the camp.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

20. Fat Donnie will "arrange tours" to "some of the camps"

Wow! Does that scream cover-up?

Only opening the camps to unannounced visitation by reporters, congresspeople, doctors, lawyers, photographers and relief services will begin to convince the American people that nothing untoward is going on in these kid koncentration kamps.

[onecaliberal]

3. Like a good hitler want to be.

[gratuitous]

4. And when will that be?

How much advance notice will the concentration camps have? Who decides who reporters talk to, for how long, and on what subjects? Who will supply any interpreters that may be needed?

[0rganism]

5. so i guess we get to see if Trump's bunch can pull off a successful Theresienstadt operation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_Ghetto

[dewsgirl]

19. Im going with no way, and the press/public will catch on

before the first tour.

[struggle4progress]

6. "And don't miss the free dinner of buzzards and flies!"

[spanone]

7. sure, let's trust the guy who lies everytime he opens his mouth.

'Arrange Press Tours of Migrant Detention Centers'...Bwahahahahaaa sure don

[Beringia]

8. Liar

[Blue Owl]

9. Go fuck yourself Donny

n/t

[madaboutharry]

10. Oh, that will happen right after Melania

gives her “little press conference” showing us her immigration papers.

[AJT]

11. Kinda like the red cross inspections of prisoners of war camps?

Clean them up, hide the sick and let them only in specific places.

[Thomas Hurt]

12. sure as long as they are unannounced and no one in the Trump admin knows where.

[Claritie Pixie]

13. No. No arranged tours. Press must be able to go wherever and whenever they want.

Otherwise the abusers are able to control what gets seen. No way!

[area51]

16. +1 n/t

[Midnight Writer]

14. He'll announce plans in a couple of weeks, same as his healthcare, his middle class tax cut, his...