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Immigrant Children Sent to Chicago Shelters Are Traumatized and Sick, in Some Instances With Chicken Pox or Tuberculosis
Hundreds of children are being detained in shelters run by Heartland Human Care Services, which says it has made changes since allegations that children were neglected and mistreated.
The Trump administration is sending immigrant children who are alone, afraid and sick with fever, chicken pox and even tuberculosis to shelters in Chicago, where they are further isolated to prevent the spread of disease
In yet another byproduct of the administration’s immigration policy, many of those children also are arriving increasingly traumatized after spending a week or longer in dirty and overcrowded U.S. Border Patrol facilities.
Some of the children, who range from toddlers to teens, have been torn from their mothers and fathers at the border in spite of the government’s pledge to end separations,
Heartland officials said the children now arriving at their five shelters are exhibiting “behaviors consistent with trauma like heightened anxiety, and fearfulness” and have described to staff “horrible and inhumane conditions” at border facilities.
outbreaks of scabies, shingles, chickenpox and mumps at the facilities. Heartland officials said the e in contagious diseases they are now experiencing is unlike anything they’ve seen before.
ProPublica Illinois last year investigated Heartland’s secretive network of shelters for immigrant children in Illinois and found repeated problems of
lax supervision and troubling conditions,
including allegations of physical and sexual abuse and neglect.
State child welfare officials had cited Heartland for failures to provide appropriate supervision in cases involving
an employee having an alleged sexual relationship with a detained teen,
children having sex in a common room and
numerous runaways.
https://www.propublica.org/article/heartland-chicago-shelters-immigrant-children-sick-traumatized#164457
Trump Is Poised to Sign a Radical Agreement to Send Future Asylum Seekers to Guatemala
the Trump Administrationis expected to announce a major immigration deal, known as a safe-third-country agreement, with Guatemala.
asylum seekers from any country who either show up at U.S. ports of entry or are apprehended while crossing between ports of entry could be sent to seek asylum in Guatemala instead.
Under this new arrangement, most of these migrants will no longer have a chance to make an asylum claim in the U.S. at all.
“We’re talking about something much bigger than what the term ‘safe third country’ implies,” someone with knowledge of the deal told me.
“We’re talking about a kind of
transfer agreement where the U.S. can send any asylum seekers, not just Central Americans, to Guatemala.”
it looks like even those who have never set foot in Guatemala can potentially be sent there.”
“This reads like it was drafted by someone’s intern”aka Repug MISgovernance
A U.N.-backed anti-corruption body called the cicig ... is being dismantled by Morales, whose own family has fallen under investigation for graft and financial improprieties.
“would allow the current president of the republic to leave the future of our country mortgaged, without any responsibility.”
how Guatemala could possibly cope with such enormous demands.
More people are leaving Guatemala now than any other country in the northern triangle of Central America.
Rampant poverty,
entrenched political corruption,
urban crime, and
the effects of climate change
... have made large swaths of the country virtually uninhabitable.
“This is already a country in which the political and economic system can’t provide jobs for all its people,”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-poised-to-sign-a-radical-agreement-to-send-future-asylum-seekers-to-guatemala?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Da ily_071319&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd6795524c17c104 8022fcc&cndid=43758549&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Daily
the crimes against humanity continue, the objectivization of humans continues
The US Is Quietly Opening Shelters for Babies and Young Kids Without Mothers
The federal government is quietly expanding its use of shelters to house infants, toddlers and other young asylum-seekers.
One Phoenix facility housed 12 children ages 5 and under, Reveal has learned, some as young as 3 months old, all without their mothers.
a dozen children arrived at Child Crisis Arizona starting in mid-June, after it garnered a $2.4 million contract to house unaccompanied children through January 2022.
Crisis Care Arizona, a nonprofit, was recently cited by state officials for deficiencies before the arrival of unaccompanied infants and toddlers. Inspectors from the Arizona Department of Health Services found hazardous conditions in one location in February,
Inspections at three Child Crisis locations in Phoenix and Mesa over the past three years revealed 37 violations, including a lack of drinking water for children in classrooms, a missing lid on a vessel containing soiled diapers, an incomplete first-aid kit, and “dried yellow-orange liquid splatters on the base of one toilet.”
In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, Bethany Children’s Home is housing 11 children, including an unknown number of infants, on its campus in Womelsdorf,
Bethany Children’s Home was awarded a $3.5 million grant in late April to house unaccompanied children through early 2022.
a Bethany Children’s Home employee pleaded guilty to charges related to setting up a teen to be beaten by two others while on a school bus.
a vast array of violations of state standards at the various homes that make up the Bethany Children’s Home campus.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-is-quietly-opening-shelters-for-babies-and-young-kids-without-mothers/
Another HUGE sickening Trash WIN
How Trump’s Safe-Third-Country Agreement with Guatemala Fell Apart
the Guatemalan government issued a statement cancelling a highly anticipated meeting, scheduled for Monday, in Washington, between Jimmy Morales, the President of Guatemala, and Donald Trump.
The subject of the meeting was a deal between the two countries that would allow the U.S. government to begin sending asylum seekers to Guatemala under the terms of a so-called safe-third-country agreement.
The idea was to outsource part of the American asylum system to Guatemala,
despite the fact that many of the Central-American
asylum seekers arriving at the U.S. border are Guatemalans fleeing poverty, hunger, and violence in their home country.
“Opposition to the deal was widespread in Guatemala,”
the country’s Cons utional Court ...
Morales was forbidden from negotiating the deal on his own, without consulting the Guatemalan congress.
“The Guatemalans did not know what they were getting into,” the Trump Administration official told me.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-trumps-safe-third-country-agreement-with-guatemala-fell-apart?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Da ily_071619&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd6795524c17c104 8022fcc&cndid=43758549&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Daily
Top executives from 'nonprofit' federally contracted to jail migrant kids got $1 million paychecks
Southwest Key CEO Juan Sanchez’s $3.6 million salary from 2017-2018,
five other top executives who received salaries of more than $1 million in 2017,
far eclipsing “the maximum amount of grant money that the government allows migrant shelters to use to pay an employee,
which was $189,600 last year.”
Tax records “showed that other prominent employees—including the
group’s chief financial officer, who earned more than $2.4 million—
were earning substantial, seven-figure salaries there.”
Sanchez’s wife, Jennifer, was not among them but was surely no less pleased with her direct deposit: $500,000.
“Three of the other officials who earned at least $1 million in 2017 also have left the group”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/17/1872424/-Top-executives-from-non-profit-federally-contracted-to-jail-migrant-kids-got-1-million-paychecks?detail=emaildkre
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/six-officials-at-southwest-key-nonprofit-running-migrant-child-shelters-earned-more-than-1-million-in-2017/2019/07/16/e2e42cfe-a7d9-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?utm_term=.23ecbd66cb4f
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Hear the Words of Detained Migrant Children | NYT Opinion
I say just make prison cells and cement bunks on either side, 3-4 low hanging bunks on each, 24 to a cell, and a bowl of rice and bread a day. Show the foreign rats what the long of American anti-immigration law is all about, mother ers!
Judge blocks new Trump asylum rule
A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Wednesday stopped the Trump administration from enforcing a new rule that would bar almost all asylum applications at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Judge Jon Tigar in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction blocking the rule, enacted on July 16, that would require asylum-seekers to first pursue safe haven in a third country through which they had traveled on their way to the United States.
A different U.S. judge had allowed the new rule to go forward earlier on Wednesday in a separate lawsuit in Washington.
The ruling by Tigar, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, renders inconsequential the decision by the Washington-based judge, Timothy Kelly, appointed by President Donald Trump.
The rule will now be suspended pending further proceedings.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-injunction/judge-blocks-new-trump-asylum-rule-idUSKCN1UJ38T?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
SCOTUS s will support Trash/Miller 5-4, eventually
Top CBP Officer Testifies He’s Unsure if 3-Year-Old Is “a Criminal or a National Security Threat”
It was one of a number of disturbing revelations.
Ted Lieu: Sofi is not a criminal or a national security threat to the United States as a 3-year-old, correct?
Hastings: I don’t know the background in this case, sir.
Ted Lieu: Do you know any 3-year-olds that are criminal or national security threats to the United States?
Hastings: No, I don’t.
Ted Lieu: Sophie’s grandmother was not a national security or criminal threat to the United States, correct?
Hastings: I don’t know—again, I don’t know the background of what her grandmother or relatives were.
the family separation hearing was full of revelations and is likely to have real-world consequences.
Hastings repeatedly contradicted his boss, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, including on a key issue pending before the same court that brought family separation to an end.
Hastings’ disastrous testimony could now be used in that court to end some of the administration’s ongoing separations that might be in violation of that court’s order.
the hearing was
a dramatic demonstration of what Democrats might be able to accomplish if they actually forced Trump officials to answer for the incompetence and cruelty that have resulted from the administration’s treatment of asylum-seekers and migrants.
the CBP official confessed what many had long suspected but that the administration has repeatedly denied against all evidence:
The Trump administration intended for family separation to be permanent.
many cases of family separation conducted by Hastings and his officers had been done in as inhumane a manner as possible.
Hastings could not explain in even the simplest terms how his officers had gone about removing children from their parents;
he further admitted there was no “minimum time” for warning parents they were about to be separated from their children perhaps forever.
The denouement came when Hastings confessed what the administration had long denied:
that there was no intent ever to reunite the families when the policy was first implemented.Hastings contradicted his boss one more time on the key point of ongoing family separations.
He testified that—per the court order—separations were continuing according to internal guidance that they only occur
if a parent is a danger to a child,
has committed a violent misdemeanor or felony,
or has a communicable disease.
Raskin: If a mother or father has HIV-positive status, is that alone enough to justify separation from a child?
Hastings: It is. It’s a communicable disease under the guidance.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services removed HIV from the list of communicable diseases that bar entry in 2010.
Ultimately, with family separation—as we also saw with the Mueller hearing and report—
all of the administration’s lawbreaking and lies about its lawbreaking may seem too dense for the general public to grok.
it’s really quite simple:
The Trump administration, in the words of the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, was doing “literal kidnapping.”
Many of the people who did the “literal kidnapping” are still there and would do it all over again if so ordered.
The acting Homeland Security secretary is lying about all of this in plain sight.
Indeed,
top administration officials lyingunder oath has become so common that it’s barely even news.
And Democratic leadership is terrified of initiating the one mechanism for at least attempting to hold the president and his shock troops accountable.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/cbp-chief-brian-hastings-family-separation-judiciary-hearing-not-mueller.html
Mexican concentration camps are worse
Overflowing Toilets, Bedbugs and High Heat: Inside Mexico’s Migrant Detention Centers
Migrants have been held in a wrestling arena, at a fairground and in government offices. They’ve been forced to sleep in hallways, on an outdoor basketball court, even directly on the hard ground.
Mexico’s detention centers have at times reached triple, quadruple and even quintuple their capacity.
Detainees at some centers have endured extreme heat, bedbug infestations, overflowing toilets, days without showers, and shortages of food and decent health care.
This iron-fisted approach
has helped lower the number of migrants trying to cross the southwest border of the United States.
But it has also resulted in a crisis in Mexico’s detention centers that, critics say, is
subjecting adults and children to inhumane conditions,
exposing the Mexican government’s lack of preparedness and
serving as a glaring rebuke of Mr. López Obrador.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/world/americas/mexico-migration-conditions.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
More Than 100 Immigrants Were Pepper-Sprayed At An ICE Facility
Officials used pepper spray to quell a protest by immigrants in the Louisiana center’s yard
More than 100 immigrants were pepper-sprayed at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana this weekend
The detainees were pepper-sprayed at the ICE Processing Center in Pine Prairie on Saturday, just a day after guards pepper-sprayed more than 30 immigrant detainees at a separate facility in rural Louisiana.
The inmates at Pine Prairie — where more than 1,000 ICE detainees can be held at a time — were pepper-sprayed after they demonstrated in the center’s yard, the source said. The inmates were then taken to a separate part of the facility to be decontaminated.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/ice-immigrants-pepper-sprayed-louisiana-pine-prairie
Trash sent his goons to round up 1000s of parents and deport them, but ...
‘If you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter’: How a Trump construction crew has relied on immigrants without legal status
For nearly two decades, the Trump Organization has relied on a roving crew of Latin American employees
to build fountains and waterfalls, sidewalks and rock walls at the company’s winery and its golf courses from New York to Florida.
Other employees at Trump clubs were so impressed by the laborers — who did strenuous work with heavy stone — that they nicknamed them “Los Picapiedras,” Spanish for “the Flintstones.”
For years, their ranks have included workers who entered the United States illegally,
according to two former members of the crew. Another employee, still with the company, said that remains true today.
President Trump “doesn’t want undo ented people in the country,”
said one worker, Jorge Castro, a 55-year-old immigrant from Ecuador without legal status who left the company in April after nine years.
“But at his properties, he still has them.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/if-youre-a-good-worker-papers-dont-matter-how-a-trump-construction-crew-has-relied-on-immigrants-without-legal-status/2019/08/09/cf59014a-b3ab-11e9-8e94-71a35969e4d8_story.html?noredirect=on&wpisrc=nl_mo st&wpmm=1
And Trash was caught in FL forging SS cards and green cards for foreign workers
Tell it, King. Testify!!!
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/09/74963...ased-officials"[A]nother 270 detained aliens were released after being processed by [Homeland Security Investigations] at the National Guard base in Pearl and returned to the place where they were originally encountered."
Freudian slip?
One wonders ow many of these "detained aliens" were US citizens. If Koch was using E-verify, it shouldn't have been too hard to sort out -- did ICE just round up all the brown people?
"Don't Look Away":
Videos and Images of Weeping Children and Loved Ones Spread as ICE Arrests 680 in Mississippi
"Children finished their first day of school with no parents to go home to tonight.
Babies and toddlers remained at daycare with no guardian to pick them up.
A child vainly searched a workplace parking lot for missing parents."
"many children of those arrested across the state are now left homeless with nowhere to go."
"These children," WJTV reported, "were relying on neighbors and even strangers to pick them up outside their homes after school and drive them to a community fitness center where people tried to keep them calm. But many kids could not stop crying for mom and dad."
young children of immigrants have lived in constant fear of their parents being swept up at any moment by President Donald Trump's deportation force.
"I've spoken to school employees in cities where there were no raids," noted Lind, "saying that
sometimes kids came in midday asking to call and see if parents were still home."
the "effect of ripping children from their parents at the border or stealing parents away from their children in Mississippi is the same."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/08/dont-look-away-videos-and-images-weeping-children-and-loved-ones-spread-ice-arrests?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Newsl etter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Weekly%20Newsle tter&utm_medium=Email
As Frost King, etc would say: "Good"
dangerous, murderous children handcuffed
Can AmeriKKKa get any more Beautiful?
Cropping out ‘Immigrants Welcome,’ Ken Cuccinelli takes selfie with replica Statue of Liberty before removing it from DHS headquarters
The removal of the statue—and the top official snapped with it just before—are “a direct representation of the Trump administration’s policy towards immigrants and American values,” said critics
Despite widespread outcry after
saying the U.S. should only welcome immigrants who “can stand on their own two feet” and that
Statue of Liberty was only meant to welcome Europeans to U.S. shores,
President Donald Trump’s top immigration official Ken Cuccinelli had a replica of the famous monument removed from the Department of Homeland Security’s grounds on Thursday
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/cropping-out-immigrants-welcome-ken-cuccinelli-takes-selfie-with-replica-statue-of-liberty-before-removing-it-from-dhs-headquarters/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1150
Migrant Kids Separated at Border Faced Abuse in Foster Homes
after crossing the border into Arizona in May of last year,
Border Patrol agents tore the man’s 7-year-old son from his arms and
sent the young father nearly 2,000 miles (3,220 kilometers) away to a detention center in Georgia.
The boy, now 8, went into a U.S.-funded foster home for migrant children in New York.
the boy told a counselor he was repeatedly sexually molested by other boys in the foster home.
taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $200 million in damages from parents who said their children were harmed while in government custody.
The father and son are among dozens of families —
separated at the border as part of the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy —
who are now preparing to sue the federal government, including several who say their young children were sexually, physically or emotionally abused in federally contracted foster care.
With more than 3,000 migrant children taken from their parents at the border in recent years, many lawsuits are expected, potentially totaling in the billions.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/migrant-kids-split-border-harmed-foster-care/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign =ICYMI
And the for-profit companies pocketing $100Ms for running the foster care homes?
New rule would sidestep the Flores settlement and establish indefinite detention for immigrants in US concentration camps.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1044666
PTSD damage in these Trash/Miller victims will last for years. The kid may never recover fully.
And so-called Christian evangelicals agree with the torture, the terrorism.
Orange is one crazy er. Can't believe we have concentration camps for children and babies. WTF.
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