Latest Breaking News

Judi Lynn

(160,696 posts) Fri Jun 22, 2018, 09:49 PM Jun 2018

Possible migrant site minutes from former internment camp Hannah Grabenstein, Associated Press Updat

Source: Associated Press

Hannah Grabenstein, Associated Press
Updated 7:39 pm, Friday, June 22, 2018

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Nearly 75 years after federal officials shuttered a Japanese-American internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas, the Trump administration is examining a site about 2 miles away as a potential temporary shelter for immigrant children.

The Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that the government is considering an unused Department of Agriculture property in nearby Kelso as an immigrant shelter, as well as a possible shelter at Little Rock Air Force Base.

Unlike at the base, the site in Kelso has very little infrastructure and would require tents for housing, said Democratic state Rep. Mark McElroy, who is "adamantly against" the proposal.

Among his concerns are the heat, humidity, mosquitoes and cottonmouths that he said would threaten anyone who lived in a tent.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Possible-migrant-site-minutes-from-former-13018888.php

4 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Possible migrant site minutes from former internment camp Hannah Grabenstein, Associated Press Updat (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2018 OP

Are we awake yet? Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #1

But the policy of separating children has been stopped, right? Mrs. Overall Jun 2018 #2

Not to mention thunderstorms, high winds and flooding (like tonight in Oklahoma) Simeon Salus Jun 2018 #3

Massive New Camps, Who Are They For? McKim Jun 2018 #4

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

1. Are we awake yet?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2018, 09:55 PM

Jun 2018

Interment Camps!! Ex Japanese Interment Camps now mentioned,WTF. So the GOP/Trump are now the Party of the Disappeared? The reference to Pinochet is coming into view.

Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)

2. But the policy of separating children has been stopped, right?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2018, 09:59 PM

Jun 2018

The confusing and contradictory aspects of this policy and the supposed reversal of the policy are mind-numbing.

Simeon Salus

(1,161 posts)

3. Not to mention thunderstorms, high winds and flooding (like tonight in Oklahoma)

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 23, 2018, 12:32 AM

Jun 2018

There are so many things wrong with this idea I can't begin to list them all. The area they're discussing is less than a mile away from the Mississippi River. I drove through that area last year and half the county was six inches under water.

McKim

(2,412 posts)

4. Massive New Camps, Who Are They For?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 23, 2018, 01:06 AM

Jun 2018

As a graduate of the 1960’s I remember when we had a little saying: “See y’all in the camps!”
I am getting nervous about just who will be placed there? More prisons and more prisons do not add up to a healthy society.

Reply to this discussion