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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCall immigrant detention centers what they really are: concentration camps (L.A. Times)
If you were paying close attention last week, you might have spotted a pattern in the news. Peeking out from behind the breathless coverage of the Trump familys tuxedoed trip to London was a spate of deaths of immigrants in U.S. custody: Johana Medina Léon, a 25-year-old transgender asylum seeker; an unnamed 33-year-old Salvadoran man; and a 40-year-old woman from Honduras.
Photos from a Border Patrol processing center in El Paso showed people herded so tightly into cells that they had to stand on toilets to breathe. Memos surfaced by journalist Ken Klippenstein revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcements failure to provide medical care was responsible for suicides and other deaths of detainees. These followed another report that showed that thousands of detainees are being brutally held in isolation cells just for being transgender or mentally ill.
Also last week, the Trump administration cut funding for classes, recreation and legal aid at detention centers holding minors which were likened to summer camps by a senior ICE official last year. And there was the revelation that months after being torn from their parents arms, 37 children were locked in vans for up to 39 hours in the parking lot of a detention center outside Port Isabel, Texas. In the last year, at least seven migrant children have died in federal custody.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-katz-immigrant-concentration-camps-20190609-story.html
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,534 posts)And what are we doing?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)What a way to treat refugees.
Initech
(100,043 posts)They're cheerleading this, with Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller leading the riot squad.
Hekate
(90,565 posts)Thank you so much for bringing it here, Richard D.
Suggest reading whole thing at link.
I don't know what to do any more.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)And I have family who died and one great uncle who survived Hitler's camps.
RESIST!