Trump Policy Causing Child Shelters to Fill Up Fast

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Shelters or prisons?

https://politicalwire.com/2018/05/30/trump-policy-causing-child-shelters-to-fill-up-fast-2/

Trump Policy Causing Child Shelters to Fill Up Fast
May 30, 2018 at 7:10 am EDT
By Taegan Goddard

“The number of migrant children held in U.S. government custody without their parents has surged 21 percent in the past month, according to the latest figures, an increase driven by the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ crackdown on families who cross the border illegally,” the Washington Post reports.

“Although the government has not disclosed how many children have been separated from their parents as a result of the new measures, the Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that it had 10,773 migrant children in its custody, up from 8,886 on April 29. … Those shelters are at 95 percent capacity, an HHS official said Tuesday, and the agency is preparing to add potentially thousands of new bed spaces in the coming weeks.”

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/25/1767106/-Trump-s-mass-deportation-agenda-means-a-huge-payday-for-private-prison-profiteers

Trump's mass deportation agenda means a huge payday for private prison profiteers
Gabe Ortiz
Daily Kos Staff
Friday May 25, 2018 · 3:46 PM EDT


Nearly 75 percent of the 300,000 immigrants who are arrested and thrown into detention by federal immigration authorities every year are held in privately run prisons. There is money for private-prison profiteers in the incarceration of black and brown bodies, and under the mass deportation policies of the Trump administration, they will make even more...

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