Detaining immigrant kids is now a billion-dollar industry
Source: ABC News
Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds.
Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained unaccompanied and separated children soared from $74.5 million in 2007 to $958 million in 2017. The agency is also reviewing a new round of proposals amid a growing effort by the White House to keep immigrant children in government custody.
Currently, more than 11,800 children, from a few months old to 17, are housed in nearly 90 facilities in 15 states Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
They are being held while their parents await immigration proceedings or, if the children arrived unaccompanied, are reviewed for possible asylum themselves.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)DeVos family is involved.
Voters and maybe voters need to be reminded (assume they know when talking with them, but remind them) that the Trump-Republican Party showed their true fascist face with the Trump Child Abductions.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)for years and years now we have heard about how "illegal immigrants" have been sapping the system by using food stamps and "free" health care. But they have been saying these things without any facts to support it, so I am not really sure if they will believe these when faced with them.
It is sickening and stupid...fits right in with the trump world.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)... wasted to make a sadistic fascist point: Harming the children to punish and deter the adults.
That's their true fascist face.
Who is next?
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)to your last comment.
dalton99a
(81,433 posts)gademocrat7
(10,654 posts)This administration is pure evil.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)that's the one thing they are good at.
Ohiogal
(31,965 posts)have to make a profit on everything, no matter how heinous?
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)In the private prisons and trumps pockets. He is going to break this country. Its all part of the plan.
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)disgusting detention centers.
eppur_se_muova
(36,257 posts)Whip up the rubes so they vote to turn it all over to the corporatocracy ? Mission Accomplished !!