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IF YOU CARE ABOUT WHAT TRUMP IS DOING AT THE BORDER, you need to read and share this thread.
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I have just gotten off the phone with a friend who is a legal volunteer in Border Patrol facilities.
Don't look away.
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My friend has done two tours now volunteering as a legal advocate inside CBP facilities.
She passed along information about what is happening there that indicates that the Trump Administration is violating every basic human right, and is moving toward military "solutions."
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So that folks understand the process: CBP has outposts on the border. Refugees seeking asylum travel hundreds of miles on foot, including with infants and small children, and turn themselves in at these outposts *on foot.*
Here's what happens next. Don't look away.
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CBP then transfers these human beings to a facility called "the Dog Pound." (Here, my friend started crying.)
The "Dog Pound" is comprised of cages, outside and on dirt, with no protection from the elements.
Don't look away.
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There are dozens of teen moms there.
There is no baby food.
While there, my friend saw a CBP agent take a baby from her teenage mother, strip the baby of its clothes, hand the baby back to the mother, and send them outside to the "Dog Pound" to sleep in the dirt.
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The "Dog Pound" has no running water, no covers, no tarp, no care, no safety from the elements. It is freezing at night, and deathly hot during the day.
Everyone is sick. My friend said she saw a baby on this trip that was so sick "I thought it would be dead by morning."
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Toddlers in the "Dog Pound" who had been eating solid food are given only infant formula. Moms are trying to start breast feeding again so their children don't starve.
These moms are dehydrated, sick, & have walked miles through desert with no water. CBP gives them nothing.
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It gets worse. Don't look away.
From the "Dog Pound," these human beings are moved to an area called "The Freezer."
The Freezer is kept at 55 degrees.
Some of the refugees who are moved there are still wet from their journey, and are put in The Freezer wet.
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CBP is keeping human beings in "The Freezer" for weeks at a time. WEEKS.
Including critically ill people, disabled people, sick children, teenage mothers with babies.
The floor of The Freezer is made of dirt or very rough concrete. There are no beds.
Keep reading.
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From "The Freezer," refugees are supposed to be moved to ICE facilities that are designed for residential care. They have beds, food, bathrooms.
However, (keep reading) THOSE FACILITIES ARE EMPTY.
ICE IS SHUTTING THEM DOWN.
Don't look away.
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What our government is doing instead is moving refugees to MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.
The announcement about Fort Sill, which was used as a Japanese internment camp, is only the start.
So why would our government be doing this?
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Here's why
These concentration camps (let's call them what they are) will be under the control of the Department of Homeland Security, but within the Department of Defense.
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Unlike ICE facilities, which allow site inspectors inside, there will be no inspection of military-run camps.
The military will be able to deny access to anyone it chooses. No media. No oversight.
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Lawyers will not be allowed in. Human rights monitors will not be allowed in.
The camps will also be protected airspace, meaning that no drones can fly over them to take pictures of what's going on inside.
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The Trump administration will be able to conduct itself in whatever way it wants to without anyone knowing what's going on inside.
Think about what that means. Think about why they would want that.
This is happening RIGHT NOW.
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ICE facilities with beds and food are EMPTY, because the Trump administration is moving refugees into military-run concentration camps where they can do ANYTHING THEY CHOOSE without oversight, media scrutiny or advocate access.
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This administration is already committing atrocities at CBP facilities.
Border Patrol agents at the facility where my friend was working refer to these human beings as "bodies." Not people. "Bodies."
They are denying medicine, toilets, beds, food, shelter and clothes.
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My friend said that "Flores is on very tenuous ground."
We're days away from being met with "we're not going to let you in, no matter what."
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What is coming is crimes against humanity.
America is already perpetrating mass human rights violations, and this administration is setting it up so they can do far worse, in secret, under military supervision.
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Military forces are already been shifted to CBP. My friend saw *coast guard agents* (read that again) working for CBP at this facility.
If we do nothing, there will be blood on our hands.
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If Pelosi does nothing, there will be blood on her hands and the hands of every Democrat who refuses to act to end this administration's reign.
Fascism is here.
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If this enrages you, devastates you, frightens you, share this thread.
Then call your member of Congress and read it to them.
Then call @SpeakerPelosi and ask her why she sits silently by as our government does this.
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We're on a fast train to hell.
There's only one way to stop it.
Trump must be removed from power immediately, by any legal means, using every weapon in our arsenal.
spanone
(135,795 posts)goddamn them
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2020 will be rigged.
Then what Nancy?
stillcool
(32,626 posts)Is she a one stop to shit on when you fear a future event? You could get your impeachment dreams come true tomorrow, and it won't change elections one bit.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)An extended process to bring to light his crimes.
Not that he'd be removed (Repub Senate) but that he'd be damaged badly for 2020.
Response to SHRED (Reply #10)
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MineralMan
(146,262 posts)I hope that's possible.
The Blue Flower
(5,434 posts)It makes me think of the medieval punishment of locking a person in a cage open to the elements with no food or water. It's a death sentence.
bdamomma
(63,801 posts)to come out and whistle blow on this whole inhuman situation.
They are committing atrocities (we know that) probably drugging them up too. They took a page from the Holocaust.
those who are committing these unspeakable acts should be in the "dog pound" tRump and Stephen Miller should be considered.
marybourg
(12,598 posts)Info to someone other than you.
Scoopster
(423 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,568 posts)"@NealSoftPower
stumbled across a human dog pound near an El Paso international bridge, CBP acknowledged it has been detaining migrants outdoors for extended periods as temperatures hit 100. My story for Texas Monthly."
"In El Paso, Border Patrol Is Detaining Migrants in a Human Dog Pound,
Immigration officials have resumed the much-criticized practice of keeping people outdoors for weeks to relieve dangerous overcrowding."
I got it when I checked out Jacob Soboroff's twitter. He is the MSNBC reporter mentioned in the original OP and he had this info already. I wonder why he hasn't reported on it. I have seen him go to immigrant shelter for over a year.
awesomerwb1
(4,265 posts)Crimes against humanity. When they transfer the refugees to military facilities eventually, there will be no oversight.
This made me so incredibly sad.
Mr.Bill
(24,251 posts)we will find mass graves.
We should be studying in detail what Germany did after WWII to reform their nation and hold those responsible accountable because that's the exact position we will be in if we ever rid ourselves of this disgrace.
Lonestarblue
(9,958 posts)These actions are clearly a violation of the human rights of asylum seekers. The US is a signatory to the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which of course means nothing to this administration, which thinks nothing of breaking federal law much less a mere declaration. Why does NBC/CBS/ABC cover Trumps every illiterate, inane remark but neglect to cover something as atrocious as this?
gopiscrap
(23,726 posts)and I thought the site in Tijuana was bad...Trump and everyone involved need to be tried for crimes against humanity
cp
(6,617 posts)We must face what we are doing. And your last sentence is accurate. Thank you.
alwaysinasnit
(5,060 posts)in2herbs
(2,944 posts)gtar100
(4,192 posts)as is every fucking republican who uses the word "illegals" to describe people. Fuck them all. May the wheel keep turning.
dhill926
(16,317 posts)and yes, need photos and video...this government is now full on fascist...
dchill
(38,449 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Kaiserguy
(740 posts)cruel and 100% wrong and needs to be stopped now!!
Duppers
(28,117 posts)"Trump must be removed from power immediately, by any legal means, using every weapon in our arsenal."
That's what some of us have been saying! Every Day he's damaging this country. Every day in office.
Let the impeachment proceedings begin. Now.
keithbvadu2
(36,669 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)administration must go.
Now.
Without one moment of doubt.
The worst of America is obliterating the rest of us.
Without much of a fight.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)One of the objections the right is using tactically to dismiss this issue is 'Obama did it'. While technically but superficially true, this article acknowledges that yes we did this too, but that conditions are vastly different (read: now inhumane).
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/migrant-children-internment-camp-fort-sill-847183/
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I do not think it is new. I think they pretty much started this in the beginning right after trumps inauguration. I/we damn well know they have been made into slaves. A lot of the children especially the girls are more than likely being used for sex slavery and probably adults also.
I suspect torture is happening just for the simple reason of sick people enjoying see other people in pain.
I sometimes feel ashamed to be American and yes, even white.
I know I will get yelled at for my last comment but I can't help what I sometimes feel.