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KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
9/30/18
To fill the newly expanded migrant camp in Texas, the Department of Health and Human Services has reportedly rounded up about 1,600 children in the middle of the night and sent them west.
The children, separated from their families either before or after the U.S.-Mexico border, have been moved from shelters across the country to a camp at the Tornillo-Guadalupe Land Port of Entry, according to the New York Times, where they have no formal schooling and limited access to legal services for their immigration cases.
Some of the kids are given just a few hours to pack up their belongings before being put on a bus for transport ...
The Department of Health and Human Services also recently added 2,600 more beds at the camp, increasing its capacity from 1,200 to 3,800 ...
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ny-news-migrant-children-tornillo-texas-20180930-story.html
gademocrat7
(10,657 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Bettie
(16,109 posts)And on and on it goes...the assholes are running the world.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)niyad
(113,306 posts)Melania Trump is off to teach Africa how to look after children hopefully better than the US
The first lady is jetting off to promote her Be Best child welfare initiative, but there is no word on whether it promotes locking them in cages or allowing them to get shot
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Melania Trump ... spreading a grammatically incorrect gospel. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Melania Trump has packed her bags and is heading far, far away from her husband. On Monday, the first lady is jetting off on a solo tour of parts of Africa; her first major international trip without the president. She is planning to visit Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt in order to promote her Be Best child welfare initiative. Months after it was first announced, it is still not entirely clear what the objectives of Be Best are, but Melania isnt letting that stop her from spreading the grammatically incorrect gospel.At this point, the cynical reader may be grumbling: I really dont care about Melanias travel plans, do you? Well, I do. It is truly laudable that the first lady is taking time out from ignoring all the chaos in the White House to get on a private jet and pose for photos with smiling African children. We should all be so selfless.
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Of course, Melania is going to do a lot more than just posing. The US has much to teach the rest of the world about child welfare, you see, and Im sure shell be passing on valuable advice. Such as: dont try and seek asylum in the US unless you want to be separated from your parents, drugged and locked in a cage.The US also has important lessons to pass on about the value of education. This year, for example, a federal district court judge in Michigan ruled that access to literacy or a minimally adequate education was not a fundamental right. The judge used this decision to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed by students at underperforming schools in Detroit, who argued that they had been denied access to literacy because of underfunding and mismanagement. According to the complaint, the schools lacked textbooks but were filled with vermin; the first thing teachers did each morning was clean up rodent faeces. Who says the American dream is dead, eh?
Another thing the US excels at, of course, is school shootings. There have been 36 shootings in schools or college campuses this year alone. But rather than implementing common-sense gun control, the US has simply shrugged and decided that active shooter drills are just going to be the new normal in American schools. Which is good news for bulletproof-backpack manufacturers; sales have soared since Februarys Parkland school shooting, in which 17 people were killed. Its not such good news for the kids. According to a report by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, an activist group, nearly 60% of American high school students say they are afraid of gun violence occurring at their school or community. Im not sure how many kids in Ghana, Malawi, Kenya or Egypt live in fear of getting shot in their maths class. Perhaps Melania can find out.
It looks like Melania will be doing a lot of flying, so I hope she has packed enough reading material. She might want to start with the UN convention on the rights of the child, the landmark agreement that established global standards to protect children. The US is currently the only country in the world that hasnt ratified the treaty. It used to share this dubious distinction with South Sudan and Somalia, but they both ratified it in 2015. You would think that the USs failure to commit to a global convention protecting kids might preclude it from telling other countries how they can Be Best and champion children. But if theres one thing the US has always been best at, its thinking it knows better than anywhere else.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/30/melania-trump-off-to-teach-africa-how-to-look-after-children-be-best
KT2000
(20,577 posts)What can be done - are hearings the only way to stop this? They will of course lie. These children need to be rescued.
Deb
(3,742 posts)I've been asking local trumpers what they feel about that use of THEIR tax dollars. Its the only way I can get through to them.
moondust
(19,981 posts)at a later date when there are other distractions consuming everyone's attention.