the concentration camps are even worse than feared

[rdking647]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

fire every agent at these places.
arrest and jail some of them
lock teh top officials up for life

[Zoonart]

1. Bulldozers and bolt cutters.

Liberate the Camps.

[FirstLight]

6. +10000!!!!!!!

I'll bring the wd-40 and a wrench...

[rdking647]

8. ill drive

i am literally shaking with rage

[Haggis for Breakfast]

66. I'll bring the camera.

[bdamomma]

74. WD40

as good as it is, is not good enough when they have guns.

[FirstLight]

78. ya, true...

molotov's anyone...?


...
You know what's even worse?
Is while that was a half-hearted joke...I'm 80-90% worried we are going to see that shit in our lifetime on our streets...

wtf...my teens (17-18) EXPECT IT!

sad state of our country and Constitution when we may have to go THERE as a People...

[quakerboy]

88. You expect to see what on our streets?

[bdamomma]

98. should be us in the streets.

did you ever wonder how this country was founded by blood, sweat and tears. Don't shoot the messenger

[quakerboy]

103. Lotta us are in the streets

But the anti war movement, and Occupy and Antifa and such are regularly panned and dismissed, even here.

[llmart]

20. I'm with you.

Members of PETA have no problem doing stuff like that to free animals, so why can't we do something to free these people?

[berni_mccoy]

21. It is necessary now.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. Each day we DONT do something we collectively are guilty

[bdamomma]

76. exactly

this is being done in our name. This has got to stop. We got to get this POS out.

[DENVERPOPS]

42. Trump/Repub Politicians

Trump and his band of merry heathens would like nothing better than the public to try and raid the camps.
They are all itching to have their wet dreams come true to have an illegal reason to call in the MAGA's in the national guard, and all the MAGA's in the military, full armed to "protect the migrants"......
Of course that would be flagrantly illegal under the Posse Comataus act, but he breaks the law each and every day he has been in office and nothing is ever done about it.

[BeckyDem]

59. +1 This must end.

[KentuckyWoman]

85. Agree

I am at a point I want to start begging our Allies to step up for us since no one in our government will stop it and our press is complicit.

[Initech]

86. I know where to rent bulldozers!

[corbettkroehler]

101. Eloquently Put!

I want every person who objected to the term "concentration camps" to defend the same position now!

[Bettie]

3. You know, Officers are under stress

they act out sometimes...and yet, they aren't able to keep it together for an hour or two while members of congress are visiting?

Sounds like they all need serious psych evaluations. Oh, and to learn how one treats other human beings.

[McKim]

24. Acting Out from War on Iraq PTSD

They are mostly War on iraq returnees with PTSD talk about “bringing the war home”!

[Kaiserguy]

92. That a BS excuse given by the CPB

hire decent people CBP and change how you do business and you won't have these problems. This is 100% on Trump and the GOP and it's base they made the problem and so far they are fine with the evil that they are doing. There is never any excuse to treat anyone the way these people are being treated. I'm was just following orders was the excuse given by the Nazi's it didn't work then and it doesn't work now!!!Time to impeach Trump and charge him the CBP and GOP with crimes against humanity

[Bettie]

95. You are absolutely right

If these guys aren't stable enough to act like human beings for a little while during a visit by congresspersons, well, it says a lot about how they behave when no one is watching and what it says is nothing good.

There is no excuse. None.

I'd love to see an impeachment investigation, but it isn't going to happen. Apparently, impeachment isn't for Republicans, no matter how lawless they are. It makes me so angry and sad, knowing that the next criminal will be even worse because there are no consequences for anything anymore.

[atreides1]

97. The CBP

Are still one of the most corrupt federal law enforcement agencies in the US...those that don't work with the cartels, are bidding their time until they find another job, get promoted, or retire!


https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/slideshow/Border-Patrol-agents-arrested-for-sex-crimes-109094.php


https://www.themonitor.com/2019/03/03/breaking-sources-border-patrol-agent-arrested-accused-attempted-murder/


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/border-patrol-agent-charged-capital-murder-texas-212243512.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-border-patrol-agent-charged-165352011.html


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/us/politics/border-agency-employees-arrested.html


https://sputniknews.com/us/201810301069335357-Border-Patrol-Smuggling-Cocaine/

[Bettie]

100. I wasn't aware that it was a long-standing

culture of corruption within the agency.

Sounds like there needs to be some serious housecleaning done.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. House GOP are going to HATE AOC even more after this......

The cartoon of Trump driving over the bodies of the drowned man and his baby will resonate even more.

Congressional Republicans are aiding and abetting a cruel, amoral man. They should be shamed and hounded abut it every single day by her, Democrats, and the
Resw.

[Bettie]

17. It is even possible for them to hate her more?

Seriously, they all seem to be really, really afraid of her.

[fescuerescue]

5. I can't believe these camps were even allowed to be built

SOmeone should pull the information on who requested them and authorized them.

Then those people should be prosecuted.

[rdking647]

7. not just prosecuted

in some cases jailed for life or even executed

[McKim]

26. The Military Has Had These Camps for Decades!

The military has had these camps for decades. In the 1960’s Anti War Movement we used to joke: “See y’all in the camps!” Referring to dissident camps that we imagined might be used for us.

[Leghorn21]

9. They aren't, really, rd - ever since Senator Jeff Merkley tried to get into the McAllen Southwest

Key shithole camp right at one year ago, we knew




Let’s end this shit

Thanks for your post

Hang tough

[Leghorn21]

10. Oh good, CBP is launching an investigation - oh noes, they're shocked I guess

An update: Customs and Border Patrol has announced it is launching an investigation.

"Any employees found to have violated our standards of conduct will be held accountable." — US Border Patrol Chief

Link to tweet

[rdking647]

11. mango mussolini will probably give them a cabinet post

[Leghorn21]

13. Yeah, 9,500 of them, give or take

[cwydro]

15. All these "investigations."

I want to cry, but it seems easier to just laugh hysterically...

I no longer recognize my country.

[Leghorn21]

16. Understood, c.

Hang tough, the lid’s coming off these camps

Mother Jones, msm, yahoo news, politico and HuffPost have picked up the story just in the last couple hours

It’s not going away any time soon

Repeat, hang tough, my friend

[Bettie]

18. So, by "held accountable"

realistically they probably mean "given an award and a promotion", right? That's how this shit works in MAGATland.

[MontanaMama]

53. CBP is going to launch an ingestigation

into itself? Huh. Sounds very tRump-like.

[C_U_L8R]

12. This election needs to be for Justice

If these trumpfucks think they can get away with crimes against humanity, they are going to be very surprised when it's their turn in the cage.

[Blue_true]

63. You are not going to convince MAGATS. They love inhumane shit like that.

We have to reach Americans that have a conscience and did not vote in the last presidential election. If there are socalled progressives who plan to stay home or vote third party or vote for Trump if their preferred candidate doesn't win the nomination, then I say to every one of them, fuck you, you monster.

[cwydro]

14. But, we can't call them concentration camps.

And we can’t criticize those in a position to do something about this.

This is how it starts.

[AlexSFCA]

22. we can only call them concentration camps if gop says so

that’s how the media works these days.

[LiberalArkie]

19. The reason

https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/how-southern-white-women-drove-the-gop-to-donald-trump/

[GeorgeGist]

23. Abu ghraib ...

brought home.

[Dorn]

25. The buck stops nowhere with DT

Buck Stops Here

[ALBliberal]

28. Still no photos or video? NT

[tblue37]

67. Someone should smuggle in a spycam. nt

[Flaleftist]

70. Security must be pretty tight.

I'd assume at this point, no cell phones or any electronic devices are permitted inside by anyone. Some wealthy person/entity needs to step up and offer a cash reward for video evidence of what is going on inside these facilities. Maybe one of the workers will find a way to get some footage.

[ALBliberal]

81. Yes that would be a good idea

Isn’t there a photo of AOC gagging? She’s wearing all white? Thought I saw that pic in one of the tweets. So then I wondered about photos taken at the concentration camp.

[murielm99]

29. I will wait for some other verification.

I believe that the conditions there are horrible, but I do not trust this source completely. Why was she let in, and not Warren?

[Turin_C3PO]

30. I think it's coming from AOC's official twitter account.

I can’t believe she’d lie and make up an entire scenario like the one she described.

[murielm99]

31. I am not accusing her of lying,

only grandstanding. I believe the conditions are unspeakable.

I would still like to know why she got in, and others, including Warren, have been denied admittance.

[EleanorR]

50. Warren was denied admittance to Homestead in Florida

Homestead is a private concentration camp in Florida. These congresspeople visited centers run by Customs and Boarder patrol in Texas.

[EleanorR]

52. I believe by law Warren should have been allowed in to Homestead

But Health and Human Services still seems to be randomly turning away members of congress who try to visit.

[Blues Heron]

55. Probably because she's more tenacious?

Grandstanding? really?

[Leghorn21]

33. I don't know why Warren or so others have been refused entry, but per WaPo today:

More than a dozen House members —
including Reps. Veronica Escobar, Joaquin
Castro, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are
visiting migrant detention centers in Texas
today amid reports of deplorable conditions
at some facilities.

Link to tweet

(I cannot access article, sorry)

[murielm99]

35. Thank you.

I would like to hear from the others as well. I don't see any posts about their comments. I believe we are keeping people there under inhumane conditions.

[Leghorn21]

38. I just checked both Rep Escobar and Castro's tweets for info...nothing at this point.

Will post when/if they tell us something, muriel

[murielm99]

40. Okay.

[Leghorn21]

43. Here we go - I just snuck in to WaPo, this article is from 5:17 ET:

...snip

Several lawmakers said after their first stop that the El Paso facility appeared to have emptied out. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Tex.), who represents the area, said about 200 asylum-seeking women whom her staff had seen detained at the station as recently as last week were now gone. She said they may have been returned to Mexico under a Trump administration program to remove asylum seekers while their claims are heard in U.S. courts.

But members of the visiting delegation said several hundred people remain detained at the El Paso station. They described a visit with a group of more than a dozen Cuban women housed in a crowded cell without running water who reported going weeks without showers.

Another member of the delegation, Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), said in an account posted to Twitter that the conditions at the facility were “appalling and disgusting.”

“If you want water, just drink from a toilet.” That’s what border patrol told one thirsty woman we met on today’s #DemsAtTheBorder trip,” Chu tweeted.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-members-visiting-migrant-detention-centers-amid-reports-of-deplorable-conditions/2019/07/01/1ac091bc-9c13-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html?utm_term=.c4eed34daa88

[Leith]

65. This thread was started about 15 minutes after you posted

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287184283

It's Warren's account posted on FB.

It's appalling.

[BigmanPigman]

75. Confirmation...

and in front of govt officials! That is unbelievable.

[orangecrush]

83. Russian trolls

are going after her on twitter.

[Duppers]

32. K & R

Get the media in there!

[marylandblue]

34. In 1971, the Stanford Prison Experiment showed that ordinary people quickly become monsters

when acting as prison guards in a dehumanizing environment. This is a tragic real life example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

[mopinko]

37. call in the unhcr. the red cross.

fire those fuckers, down to the last idiot.

[Johnny2X2X]

39. How do we know they aren't killing prisoners right now?

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Someone said to me on another site, they aren't concentration camps because they aren't killing them. After I explained they don't have to kill them for them to be concentration camps, I then asked, "How do we know they aren't killing them?"

How do we know they aren't killing them? History shows that atrocities will occur when a group of people are held in secret at the hands of hostile guards with a leader urging abuse. In every case in history the results have been horrific. Not even members of congress are being given full access to the prisoners. And what was shown to members of Congress was abuse and mistreatment, what is happening when no one is watching?

We know that thousands of prisoners are unaccounted for, many have just disappeared. Where are they, who is looking for them? I've been saying this from the start, they 100% will find graves in the desert, where murdered prisoners will be found after having endured god knows what at the hands of guards and border patrol. History proves this out every time, why do people think this is different some how?

[Leghorn21]

45. +++

we don’t know anything, J

[C_U_L8R]

57. Just because a concentration camp isn't...

... isn’t a death camp doesn’t mean it’s not immoral and illegal and inhumane. And yeah, who knows what atrocities are being committed. The world needs to intervene.

[quakerboy]

89. Who?

The Russians? The Chinese? Turkey? Israel? Maybe the UK under Boris?

The world has its own issues. This one is up to us.

[C_U_L8R]

93. Everyone.

[quakerboy]

94. Everyone means noone

Many of the major powers have their own equivalent issues. They have no interest in creating precident that cout be turned against them.

I repeat this is on us to fix. There aint a higher power to save us from what the usa is doing.

[C_U_L8R]

96. We agree.

I mean everyone as in you, I and everyone else here.

[quakerboy]

102. check.

[uponit7771]

79. +1, what ever bad we know ... its most likely 4 times worse

[Johnny2X2X]

82. We need to find the missing prisoners

There are thousands that have gone missing. We need to find them before it’s too late.

[uponit7771]

87. +1,

[melman]

41. "Tell me what about that is due to a "lack of funding?""

Exactly.

[FakeNoose]

54. Funding is $750 per person per day

These people are profit centers and we taxpayers are footing the bill. They should be treated like kings and queens, or at least fed and clothed like royalty if nothing else. It's absolutely infuriating!

[Fritz Walter]

44. Subpoena these MFs! Now! Every last one of them!

Yeah, I get it. They’re civil servants (OK, “civil” is a stretch here). But they signed on knowing this would not be a cushy desk job. Presumably, they swore an oath.

It’s time to hold them accountable.

Long past time!

Why am I reminded of the Nuremberg trials?

[rdking647]

84. dont subpeona. just arrest them

stat mass arrests of border patrol agents,starting with those in charge of the camps. If teh courts wont do it its up to teh citizens

[EleanorR]

46. From Congresswoman Dean-

Link to tweet

[patphil]

47. AOC just made this the #1 issue for the Democrats.

For all the fake Christians and Catholics who still support Trump, I would like to paraphrase the words of the one you claim to follow:

What so ever you do to the least of my children, that you do also unto me.

Patrick Phillips

[lambchopp59]

48. Sometimes I think those MAGA hats came impregnated with Mercury

I don't know how hate media is playing this Nazi shit off as a good thing to them, because if they think so, they're insane.
And have terrible lives of karmic debt to pay if they aren't completely bonkers.

[duforsure]

49. The House

Should be investigating this, and the UN. These death camps need to be fully exposed, and all those responsible need consequences for doing this against these people.

[Calculating]

51. Truly disgusting how low this county has fallen

First with our illegal overseas detention centers/torture of detained enemy combatants, and now concentration camps in our own borders? Come on America, we can do better than this.

[LuvNewcastle]

56. I'm feeling pretty ashamed right now, and this is almost

Independence Day. What kind of country treats refugees this way? These people had absolutely nowhere to go and we shit on them like this! I feel like I just ran over a homeless person.

[lapucelle]

58. A congresswoman was physically and sexually threatened by the boarder patrol during her tour?

I hope someone in the press or from her entourage posts video. It's something everyone needs to see.

[BeckyDem]

60. Do they need to be murdered before we can impeach that fucking piece of garbage?

[Niagara]

61. Kicking for visibility

These conditions are inhumane and need to be exposed.

[DesertRat]

62. OMG

[CountAllVotes]

64. SHAME GENOCIDE SHAME GENOCIDE

Impeach the MF now!!!!

[Leghorn21]

68. Rep. Joaquin Castro's report:

[UniteFightBack]

69. Is the house investigating this? Why no public hearings? Why are they not dragging people in? nt

[Leghorn21]

72. I think they're fixing to now, U - after all the recent horror stories and then today's visits by

Congress reps AND those filthy border patrol Facebook posts coming to light as well

It’s busting loose I believe, starting T O D A Y

[smirkymonkey]

71. And people thought AOC was being extreme by calling them "Concentration Camps".

And these are only the horrors we know of so far. I am sure there are things going on that are much worse that have not been exposed yet.

This is an outrage! It is inhuman to treat people this way for doing nothing other than trying to find a better life for themselves. Every person responsible for these conditions, from the lowliest guard all the way up to the president needs to be held legally accountable and punished!

[Flaleftist]

73. WTF? Are they trying to give the entire prison population dysentery?

[byronius]

77. Your commentary paragraph is spot on. These are criminal acts.

They'll have to be brought to justice just like their leaders.

[zentrum]

80. Thank you AOC.

Shame shame shame on America.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

90. All the bots on that thread are claiming "no pictures so there's no problem". Photos forbidden.

When the government is trying to hide a truth that is not a bona fide national security secret, then they know that the truth reveals an evil.

[Scarsdale]

91. Apart from John Kelly,

who else is profiting from this? I would bet that gop members are getting paybacks to keep this hidden. WHY are they not investigating? How did all those tents, sleeping bags etc. appear so fast? Wanna bet Dickless Cheney has a stake in this? He is usually the first one to profit from any atrocity. McConnell likely has a hand in the profits too. This has to be exposed, in all its horror. That vile tRump aide, Stephen Miller was one of the architects of this, with full approval from tRump. Plenty of people are making money from this - bet on that.

[Brainfodder]

99. That $700 a day figure has to be made up!?!

Human beings in 2019 still capable of this low level evil is just