Tents are going up near El Paso for children being separated from immigrant parents
Source: Dallas News
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Tents are going up near El Paso for children being separated from immigrant parents
Written by Alfredo Corchado, Border-Mexico correspondent
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TORNILLO With the number of immigrant children separated from their parents reaching nearly 2,000, this small town in far west Texas is preparing for young Central Americans who will be housed in a temporary shelter on the border with Mexico.
At least one white tent is already visible at the Tornillo-Marcelino Serna Port of Entry, about a 30-minute drive southeast from El Paso. The shelter was last used in 2016 when a surge of Central Americans migrant children and families were housed here.
The drama being played out here is a result of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy first announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April that requires that all immigrants who cross the border be charged with a crime for illegal entry.
In the past, relatively few immigrants faced criminal charges and most ended up in the civil immigration courts.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2018/06/15/tents-going-near-el-paso-children-separated-immigrant-parents
TDale313
(7,820 posts)How the hell did we get here?
sandensea
(21,738 posts)Rethugs were very successful at radicalizing at least half the white voters in this country, such that by now almost any atrocity is acceptable - as long as it does (or appears to do) something about the browning of America.
jayschool2013
(2,321 posts)or something like that. Sarah Succubus Sanders and Joseph Goebbels (Stephen Miller) said so.
C_U_L8R
(45,047 posts)This is against everything we stand for. This is evil.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)It's not just Texas.
Xipe Totec
(43,893 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)instead of finding the haven they prayed would be there, away from the horrors they left.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)LeftInTX
(25,832 posts)It is still awful.......but at least they have A/C.
They really can't move around in the tents and they have been stingy with any outside activities.
marlakay
(11,545 posts)My daughter lives in San Antonio and I dont visit this time of year until at least October too hot for me. I was worried kids would die.
Demsrule86
(68,869 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,396 posts)And judging.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
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milestogo
(16,829 posts)Are there portable outdoor toilets with no flush and no sink to wash your hands?
LeftInTX
(25,832 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)With temperatures in the triple digits. Inhumane and extreme cruelty from this president will come back to haunt him forever, and lying about who started this with their policy will be remembered, and because he's too much of a coward to admit he and Sessions cooked this up to intentionally hurt the children , and their families of immigrants trying to have a better life. If he went to prison would that be acceptable to him and his family?
keithbvadu2
(37,066 posts)"The shelter was last used in 2016 when a surge of Central Americans migrant children and families were housed here. "
"and families"
Precedent that children do not have to be taken from their families.
Tent cities have been used as incarceration facilities so there is no legitimate reason to take the children except for Donald's cruelty.