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We've seen some photos of some of the children being held after separation from their parents. We haven't seen the girls, toddlers and infants yet, though. One thing that struck me in all the photos I've seen was the lack of identification wristbands on those children. Check into a hospital, or even visit someone in one, and one of the first thing that happens is a wristband being applied to your arm. For patients, that wristband has your first name, date of birth, and other information on it. Why? So you can be identified if you can't identify yourself.
But, after separation from their parents, these kids have been placed in internment camps, sometimes far from the point of entry into the United States. Where are their identifying wristbands? Where are their names, point of entry, and parent's name? Without that information, nobody really knows who these children actually are.
For the youngest of them, the child may not even know a parent's name. For all of them, language problems and other issues may well make it impossible to match children with their parents. Those parents may have already been deported, without their children. It may be impossible to locate them if the children are to be released back into their custody.
This failure to properly identify and track the locations of these minor detainees is going to make it impossible for some of them to be reunited with their families.
Damn you, Donald Trump!
malaise
(269,352 posts)Lock them up
MineralMan
(146,354 posts)Kidnapping. False imprisonment. Child Abduction.
bdamomma
(63,977 posts)how did they get those kids on planes to transport them around the country don't they need passports???
The other thing is that they are still doing it, and not reuniting those who have taken away from their parents.
Fuck tRump and Stephen Miller.
MineralMan
(146,354 posts)Their parents, either. These people are poor refugees. They have nothing. They come to the US in extremis. Most have no official identification. They don't have their children's birth certificates. They came to escape horrible conditions in their home countries. They are refugees.
Instead of giving them refuge, we simply imprison them. Feh!
bdamomma
(63,977 posts)I am asking those kids who they have sent to NY, Michigan how do they get them on planes to transport them from Texas to other parts of the country.
There was a thread here yesterday that Avenatti saw boys at the McAllen airport ready to board.
MineralMan
(146,354 posts)government officials don't always have to show identification. If escorted by law enforcement or similar people, the escort will have some sort of paperwork to get through security and past airline rules.
There are many holes in our system.
DeminPennswoods
(15,307 posts)at airports and other places. DHS/HHS won't be able to hide them for much longer.
bdamomma
(63,977 posts)while watching Rachel and Lawrence O Donnell. I think there will be many whistle blowers and pictures coming out on this.
They can not keep these crimes quiet.
DeminPennswoods
(15,307 posts)At least that's how it seems to me.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)No one "needs" a passport for domestic US air travel. Although for a variety of reasons, a passport can be a good idea.
bdamomma
(63,977 posts)question. So they can transport these kids/babies illegally all over the country, and no one will question them all they need is a ticket and they are on planes?
mopinko
(70,394 posts)no? maybe they are only shipping around those old enough to state their own name.
or maybe the american gestapo can do whatever they damn well please.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It's "gestapo" either way, apparently:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10670787
mopinko
(70,394 posts)i'm talking about a guy in a uniform getting on a plane w a bunch of kids w NO id.
i cant buy a plane ticket for another person w/o their info, and even then that person gets a checkmark w dhs because someone else bought the ticket.
when my kids were younger, after 9/11, they had to all go get state id's to be able to get on a plane, and they had to show it to the tsa agent.
but these guys can get a bunch of tickets for a bunch of kids w no id of their own AT ALL. perfect time to move some human "merchandise".
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)A simple policy of "minors don't fly without proof of parental/guardian consent, emancipated status, or court order" would deal with this and a host of other issues, categorically.
TSA no longer requires ID for apparent minors. Airlines will usually require it if it looks like someone is trying to evade the two year-old limit on lap passengers.
Otherwise, it is generally pretty easy for ANYONE to take a child on a flight for kidnapping, trafficking, etc..
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)uponit7771
(90,378 posts)... and her being white.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Or the 'yellow wristband' outrage (comments downthread here on that one).
Clarity2
(1,009 posts)Not at all. This is 2018. It's not rocket science. You create a database, with name, photo at time of arrival, DOB. Put a damn barcode on a wrist bracelet. When children are relocated, that number goes with them and the database is updated to their new location.
But.they.dont.give.a.shit. And probably don't want a permanent record of how long a child was (illegally) detained for. They've probably broke the law hundreds of times already going past the 20 days allowed. We know some children were kept in detention centers for months.
MineralMan
(146,354 posts)This whole thing is going to turn into a humanitarian disaster. I guarantee it.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Clarity2
(1,009 posts)They put bracelets on infants in hospitals. To put a childs chance of being reunited at risk because its not PC or reminds them of nazis or fascism? There is no other foolproof or loss proof solution.
Its a freaking bracelet.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Check it out:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210657156
"The Arizona Daily Sun reports that at a recent immigration hearing, Alma Jacinto, a 36-year-old Guatemalan migrant had her children taken from her and was given a yellow bracelet to indicate her status as a detained illegal immigrant."
Or this one:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/125613952
Clarity2
(1,009 posts)I dont know if youre being sarcastic, but I dont agree. If theres a problem with a yellow bracelet (just why...livestrong for example), then use a hospital like bracelet. Even adults get them when they are admitted. We arent talking about tattoos or cattle prodding here. Its important not to let these kids get lost in the system.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I'm not being sarcastic. I provided you with a link to the DU reaction to ID bands.
Clarity2
(1,009 posts)and from your posts, it appears you are fine with bands. They are used in many instances in different institutions for identification, and bracelets predate to 2005? So no disrespect, but Im not sure what point you were trying to make. Except sarcasm?
I think the whole thing of colored bands is ridiculous. Who is going to ostracize them? Weve got the majority of americans on immigrants side.
Ill preface this by saying they should all be set FREE except of course anyone that was crossing border for criminal reasons. Im not defending what they are doing at all. I just want those children not to be lost or have a basic record of them in the first place that is difficult to remove themselves. I dont really see a point in adults needing a bracelet.
Clarity2
(1,009 posts)this administration and the people running those detention centers are too incompetent to keep track of those kids any other way.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)MineralMan
(146,354 posts)All of this happened very quickly, and government agencies don't operate quickly. A lot of what has happened has gone virtually undocumented, I suspect. Some of the children are probably unidentifiable. Disaster is just around the corner with this, I think.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Sorry, I can't remember which reporter (information/disinformation overload).
But I saw somebody asking details of how the kids are tracked. They assign numbers. The numbers are dropped as soon as each kid is handed off to HHS or whoever. There is officially no tracking whatsoever.
DeminPennswoods
(15,307 posts)I know in assisted living facilities, there's a picture that has to be taken and regularly updated that's part of the resident's chart.
mopinko
(70,394 posts)that will be the only way they are gonna match these families back up. woe to the aunt or uncle who brought a child in, and now cant prove it is their child. they will be charged w smuggling, no doubt.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)And it will be massively more difficult because the parents have been deported to places where they are unreachable, and if they try to come back we'll arrest them and commit further atrocities against them.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)MineralMan
(146,354 posts)Was there such a thing? Were the circumstances similar?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)There was a flurry of DU outrage over ICE using ID bands, comparing them to yellow stars of David for concentration camp inmates:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210657156
"The Arizona Daily Sun reports that at a recent immigration hearing, Alma Jacinto, a 36-year-old Guatemalan migrant had her children taken from her and was given a yellow bracelet to indicate her status as a detained illegal immigrant."
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/125613952
TexasProgresive
(12,165 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Between forcing people to go about in public with badges that invite abuse, on the one hand, and being able to identify children so that they can be associated with their parents.
TexasProgresive
(12,165 posts)I wish that these incarcerated children at least had ID band along with their parents to connect them together. Somebody posted a day or so ago that maybe they are doing this on purpose, making sure there is no paper or data trail. Perhaps the girls are to be trained as house slaves. That last might sound far fetched, but it is hard to know what is improbable with this bunch of miscreants.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)We had 'wristband outrage' last month over this.
Crunchy Frog
(26,723 posts)I'm absolutely convinced of that, and the lack of identification seems to confirm it.
MineralMan
(146,354 posts)in foster care or with distant relatives, it's certainly a possibility. But, I don't believe there is intent to traffic in this. It's bad enough as it is.
Hekate
(91,055 posts)...will never be able to say who they are.
The only "plan" was chaos and cruelty, and chaos and cruelty is what they created.