Detention centers for migrant families are like 'summer camp,' Trump official tells senators
Source: The Washington Post
By Nick Miroff and Karoun Demirjian
July 31 at 12:17 PM
Email the authorTrump administration officials mounted a fierce defense Tuesday of the controversial family separation policy at the border, defending sites as more like a summer camp than holding facilities, and arguing that the detention system simply was not set up to facilitate court-ordered reunions easily.
Im very comfortable with the level of service and protection that is being provided, top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Matthew Albence told the Senate Judiciary Committee about the conditions at the family residential centers, which he likened to summer camps.
He and other administration officials told senators that the government had mechanisms in place to return children to their parents after they were separated, but they had to improvise a new reunification system under orders from a federal judge.
This is a novel situation, said Cmdr. Jonathan D. White, a public health coordinating official for the reunification effort. The systems were not set up to have referrals include parent information.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawmakers-to-question-trump-officials-on-migrant-family-separations-struggle-to-reunite-them/2018/07/31/ddb61390-9467-11e8-8ffb-5de6d5e49ada_story.html
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)being locked in cages, and the loving counselors who diddled all the kids.
CrispyQ
(36,454 posts)You fucking inhumane shit!
Arkansas Granny
(31,514 posts)an aluminum foil blanket. I was also reunited with my parents without having to go to court.
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)Why aren't these Trumpist assholes in chains... caging children and drugging them. It's obscene.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,581 posts)I especially want to see where they are keeping the babies.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)gademocrat7
(10,654 posts)There is no comfort for children separated from their parents and abused.
They_Live
(3,231 posts)A bargain, too.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)What a deal! These private "camps" like Southwest Key Program (which has many facilities in several states) has been making money hand over fist this year just like all the privately contracted companies that were put into place by Miller and pals with NO INTENTION of ever reuniting families. They wanted to advertise it and make the word spread to immigrants in their home countries to "not even think of coming here or you will lose your family so stay home and get abused, threatened and killed you grown people from shithole countries".
cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)kimbutgar
(21,126 posts)Something tells me he wouldnt.