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Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:49 PM Jun 2018

Is there any way that Dem politicians and the media can get a court order to inspect the Trump

child torture camps? These are facilities funded by our elected government, and they should be required to grant access you would think. I know nothing about the legal aspects, but shouldn't our representatives and the press at least have SOME access to these facilities?

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Is there any way that Dem politicians and the media can get a court order to inspect the Trump (Original Post) Elwood P Dowd Jun 2018 OP

Numerous entities and individuals are working on legal approaches, elleng Jun 2018 #1

Southwest Key Enterprises runs the Brownsville Casa Padre, where Sen. Merkley was turned away Leghorn21 Jun 2018 #2

elleng

(131,450 posts)

1. Numerous entities and individuals are working on legal approaches,

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:51 PM

Jun 2018

it won't be easy to 'solve,' but I expect it will occur (somehow.)

Leghorn21

(13,527 posts)

2. Southwest Key Enterprises runs the Brownsville Casa Padre, where Sen. Merkley was turned away

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Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:04 PM

Jun 2018

Southwest Key Enterprises, http://www.swkey.org/enterprises/

Their press release says:

We regret having to turn away Senator Merkley at our Casa Padre shelter. The U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) prohibits any facility from allowing visits that have not been approved by them, even if it is a U.S. Senator. With ORR approval, Southwest Key shelters have welcomed elected and other public officials at our facilities in the past, and will continue to do so, because we are proud of the caring environment we provide these children. We have reached out to the Senator and connected with his staff because we would like to see this happen.

http://www.swkey.org/news/

See. they have regret, awww, but meanwhile, with ORR approval, Senator Merkley and other public officials are welcome to come on in!!!

The ORR link provides little info really, https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr but surely Senator Merkley or any other “public official” can contact them and gain approval...or can they???

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