Youngest migrants held in 'tender age' shelters
Source: Associated Press
Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three tender age shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.
Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis. The government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where city leaders denounced the move Tuesday.
Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, resulting in a new influx of young children requiring government care. The government has faced withering critiques over images of some of the children in cages inside U.S. Border Patrol processing stations.
Decades after the nations child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents.
Read more: https://apnews.com/dc0c9a5134d14862ba7c7ad9a811160e
i don't have any words for this.
fountainofyouth
(409 posts)It's a power play. "We can do this and call it something insane and you can't stop us."
But they're wrong.
csziggy
(34,141 posts)So much that she could not read the report.
JohnQFunk
(411 posts)
because the Trump Regime is using a preferred tactic of ISIS, Ansaru, and Boko Haram: kidnapping babies.
It is beyond a political or moral abomination - it is TERRORISM.
Trump, Miller, Nielsen, Sessions, and a number of others need to be removed from power and thrown into Gitmo for at least a decade.
The Blue Flower
(5,451 posts)"Evil" is not strong enough a word. This is demonic.
Gothmog
(145,977 posts)I have never seen her this upset
watoos
(7,142 posts)but someone is making money off of these internment camps/prisons. Someone should follow the money and I bet money that Trump is getting a piece of the action.
People need to stop saying, "this isn't who we are." For 35% of the country it is exactly who they are, and those 35% are calling the shots.
I will never use the term "tender age" shelter. The shelter is reserved for the arms of the babies' parents.
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)We.Are.Monsters!