Gadi Schwartz (NBC).... 20 kids to a cage...

[salin]

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Gadi Schwartz
?Verified account @GadiNBC

Gadi Schwartz Retweeted AP Politics

+20 children to a cage
+ aluminum blankets
+ bottled water/bags of chips
+teenage minors taking care of little kids locked inside
+NO CAMERAS- NO VIDEO.
Something to consider 4 those arguing over what pics are real. THESE IMAGES ARE NOT DOCUMENTED BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED

with an embedded link to this newly posted AP story: https://www.apnews.com/9794de32d39d4c6f89fbefaea3780769?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP_Politics&__twitter_impression=true

[roamer65]

1. Dump has just ensured that AMLO will win the Mexican Presidency.

President Obrador is not going be amenable to this illegal behavior by the United States.

The Mexican presidential election is July 1st.

[salin]

3. With each story reaching the press

the scope and highest level of humanitarian crisis becomes more clear.

Few countries are going to be amendable to this behavior.

Just saw this in the NYT - mother and son flee Guatemala - get to US in late May. 8 yr old son seperated and sent to a detention center. Mom already Deported - back to Guatemala with no way to contact son.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/immigration-deported-parents.html

[bronxiteforever]

2. Oh my God. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

[salin]

4. Trump does seem to have opened some sort of portal/door to hell.

The cruelty, the sadism, the hatred, the absence of a sense of humanity.

[triron]

5. He is the Anti-Christ

[salin]

6. he sure inspires a lot of false/god idolotry among his rightfringebase.

[bronxiteforever]

7. Good point. We gotta close the portal in November!

[salin]

8. YES!

Sorry for yelling. But, dang - absolutely YES. (oops - just can't help myself when thinking about the urgency of the vote in November.)

[Still In Wisconsin]

9. TRUMP is a fucking sadist.

TRUMP makes George W Bush look like a humanitarian. I’m serious. This shit of the US government abusing children en masse on American soil is a whole new level of depravity.

Well you own this Republicans. Especially you Princess Ivanka. You were supposed to be the compassionate one. The check on your father’s bullying tendencies. But you’re good with this apparently. Fuck ALL of the Trumps and all of their enablers.

[tblue37]

13. Unfortunately, such depravity is not at all new in the US, at least when it comes to

the treatment of people of color.

The U.S. has a long history of tearing apart the families of people of color--selling slave children away from their family as soon as they were able to work; taking Native American children away and imprisoning them in boarding schools that used them essentially as slave labor, starved them, and neglected their medical needs. Many of those kids who ran away from the boarding schools died before getting far.

And even though they were allowed to stay with their families, Japanese-American kids and their American citizen families were imprisoned in internment camps (i.e., concentration camps) during WWII.

I don't trust all that much in the general decency of the U.S. public, even when it comes to the well-being of infants and young children. Too many Americans care only for fetuses, not for children who have already been born.

[Still In Wisconsin]

14. Yeah. You're right. Slavery and Japanese internment being

prime examples. I guess this is really nothing new. White Americans, as a people, suck. And I am one.

[tblue37]

16. And kidnapping Native American kids from their families to force them to adopt white European

culture. Those kids were abused and many died.

[paleotn]

10. Rethuglicans being Rethuglicans....

Late at night they have dreams about such atrocities and get all frothy. Rethugs live for shit like this. Those with at least some modicum of decency left the Rethuglican party months ago. What we're left with on that side of the aisle are full on fascists. I can't put it any plainer than that. Deplorables is far too nice a word for them and their minions. I just call them trash and scum. That's exactly what they are. When all this is over, these bastards need to go to jail for the rest of their lives. This is a crime against humanity and I'm not ruling out capital punishment as a viable sentence.

[wonkwest]

11. We need pictures

Like the Vietnam War.

Americans need to see, up close, what is being done in their name.

It won't sway the Immovables, but I bet it would create a much needed storm.

[salin]

18. On the one hand, this policy has been in place for 2+ months, with some - but limited coverage.

On the other hand - suddenly there is a whole lot of coverage - in part (to my reading) from last weekend's attempt to visit by Sen. Merkley (D- Oregon). I have no doubt that others have tried to cover this - but the press coverage a week ago - started getting press coverage, which has continued and grown over the past week.

At this point pictures are hard to get - Disallowed (per inside the facilities) per Trump's policy. But suddenly - after the press is covering hard - and more members of congress are going to visit and creating press events - pictures are starting to come out.

Your analogy is spot on. The more ongoing press coverage and pictures - sustained over the time that this policy continues - the better. We (Us citizens) need to be reminded daily of what is being done in our name.

[sunonmars]

12. Photos from inside, hell......

The first photos since zero tolerance was announced inside the largest Border Patrol processing station in US — McAllen’s Ursula.

This is where we toured today.

They say it’s where more kids are separated from their parents than anywhere else in the US.

Link to tweet

[salin]

19. Damn. Dehumanizing.

Tears.

[Roland99]

30. Nobody could sneak a little pen cam or spy cam in?

How long did they work to clean things up before providing those “official” pics?

[PatrickforO]

15. So...after we take back Congress, then...

charges of crimes against humanity for the many perpetrators of this horror?

Only, not Nuremberg, but Pittsburgh?

This is fucking sick.

Sick.

Immoral.

[coeur_de_lion]

17. I want to fucking kill him.

That is all.

[Takket]

20. more...............

Link to tweet

[salin]

22. *tears*

These families are being stripped of their humanity. In.our.name.

[Judi Lynn]

21. It seems imperative that someone, somehow, gets a picture of the plight of these children.

This has gone wildly insane and evil. It must be stopped.

[salin]

23. Very evil.

Very Callous.

And another step to moving more of our fellow citizens into accepting evil, callous and horrific as normal.

I am more frequently pondering how much fox/rw talk radio/ politicized churches - esp in this era of Trump are functioning as creating the mind control routines (of shutting out divergent thought) often common in cults.

Pictures are needed - plural - no plethora of pictures like those from the torture in Iraq - too numerous for all but the most already indoctrinated to recognize as being past the bounds of humaneness.

[KelleyKramer]

24. So, how long until they use cattle cars to transport them?

That has happened before, just can't quite put my finger on when and where it was

[AwakeAtLast]

31. I've seen comments posted on Facebook

requesting them. It was chilling to read.

[DFW]

25. When this sorry episode of history is over

I hope Sessions' trip to the Hague is one way.

[struggle4progress]

26. Bella Ciao

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

27. Screw the chant of ...

“Lock them up” , it should be “ hang them high”.

[CozyMystery]

28. IMO, these children are at serious risk of having PTSD and severe psychological damage

from this. I don't see how anyone, other than a bunch of psychopaths, can do this.

This goes straight to fear of abandonment by the people who are supposed to protect a child -- the parents.

The children's needs, psychological, emotional, and physical are not being tended to properly in a facility that is friendly, warm, and welcoming. No one really knows what is happening to them, so I assume the worst. The government gives me no reason to assume anything else.

When I was a child, being in this situation would have terrified me. I just cannot wrap my mind around this. I can't believe it is happening in our country. If this were happening to me, I would go insane due to my powerlessness to help my children. If we were reunited, I too would suffer serious psychological damage from the experience.

I also wonder how many adults (not captured teens) are caring for the children who speak the children's languages and who understand and are very skilled at this process.

Those who are in this situation are merely pawns, treated like cockroaches, to the ultimate end - make people too afraid to even try to immigrate here. There! Immigration of brown people problem is solved quite tidily. Never mind that it could be handled much differently. Perhaps, dare I say it, in a friendly, warm and welcoming way.

[VOX]

29. THIS IS WHAT FASCISM DOES.

It preys on the weak and defenseless, demonizes them, blames them for everything, and physically and psychologically abuses them; then it finally eradicates them.

Congratulations, America -- you've gone full fascist. All those good people who died last century in a all-out, worldwide effort to eradicate this scourge are with us in spirit.

Destroy fascism.

[populistdriven]

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