One doctor said they're comparable to "torture facilities."
It feels like there's been way more of a fixation on semantics, on AOC having called the facilities concentration camps, than on the horrifying & cruel conditions children are subjected to! The media has mostly been kept out. Firsthand accounts from the few who've been allowed in, like this doctor quoted below, have been super alarming.
The doctor went on to say that she couldn't imagine her child being there & not being "broken."
The Trump administration argued that it's acceptable for children to be sleeping on cold concrete floors, with blaring overhead lights on all night depriving them of sleep. That sanitary conditions can be maintained w/o toothbrushes, soap, blankets. In contrast > Former Taliban and Somali pirate prisoners point out that unlike migrant children, they got toothpaste and soap The administration also argued that the kids didn't need education, recreation. Basically they're just little prisoners but treated worse than real prisoners.
It's been heartbreaking reading about little traumatised kids in tear & snot stained clothes taking care of infants they don't even know.
A lot of focus has been on the Congressional funding but I can't blame the hesitancy when Trump's administration has mishandled funding so horribly already.
I know there's not a lot of ppl in this section but wanted to post anyway bc I'm wanting to know what you think of all this.
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Thx to Joseph for these links
Editorial: Don't look away from concentration camps at the border
We are "connected to each other in Christ... Their struggle is our struggle. Their joy is our joy. Their babies are our babies. Their families are our families," -- Nichole Flores, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia.
It feels like there's been way more of a fixation on semantics, on AOC having called the facilities concentration camps, than on the horrifying & cruel conditions children are subjected to! The media has mostly been kept out. Firsthand accounts from the few who've been allowed in, like this doctor quoted below, have been super alarming.
The doctor went on to say that she couldn't imagine her child being there & not being "broken."
The Trump administration argued that it's acceptable for children to be sleeping on cold concrete floors, with blaring overhead lights on all night depriving them of sleep. That sanitary conditions can be maintained w/o toothbrushes, soap, blankets. In contrast > Former Taliban and Somali pirate prisoners point out that unlike migrant children, they got toothpaste and soap The administration also argued that the kids didn't need education, recreation. Basically they're just little prisoners but treated worse than real prisoners.
It's been heartbreaking reading about little traumatised kids in tear & snot stained clothes taking care of infants they don't even know.
A lot of focus has been on the Congressional funding but I can't blame the hesitancy when Trump's administration has mishandled funding so horribly already.
I know there's not a lot of ppl in this section but wanted to post anyway bc I'm wanting to know what you think of all this.
Edit
Thx to Joseph for these links
Editorial: Don't look away from concentration camps at the border
We are "connected to each other in Christ... Their struggle is our struggle. Their joy is our joy. Their babies are our babies. Their families are our families," -- Nichole Flores, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia.
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