We Are Having A National Emergency!

We are at war.

We are at war with Socialists and Communists who have long fought for the destruction of Democratic society.

This war is being fought in the media. This war is being fought in the political arena. This war is being fought in the courts. Only after the public realize that the media is under the control of the Social Progressive leadership will they begin to understand that freedom and liberty is at risk.

If this war is lost on the other fronts and freedoms are lost, this war will be fought in the streets of America just as the population are fighting a Socialist Dictator in Venezuela.

Read your history, Democrats were the party that voted almost unanimously to keep slavery by voting AGAINST the 13th Amendment. Democrats fought against the integration of blacks in to the school systems. The KKK was the military arm of the Democrat party in the South.

"At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, [Democrat] white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South. In outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats formed organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power. The most prominent of these, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-kkk/

I AM John Gult.

bodysong said:

In one picture, we see women, babies, and children sleeping on rocks
and sand, sleeping under cheap mylar "blankets." They are not going
anyhere. They are surrounded by chain link fence. Border Patrol has
no humane place to put them. No overpass for a roof this time, just
the sky.

In this picture, we see a five star hotel.

Westminster, London, UK

"Donald Trump, known for his love of extravagant decor, has booked
an entire floor of the Corinthia Hotel for his family and extended
entourage for this week’s state visit to Britain."

"The US President will be accompanied by wife Melania and four
of his five children for the visit, which begins tomorrow."

The luxurious hotel, which has its own branch of Harrods and
a huge spa spread over four floors, featured last year in the
two-part BBC1 documentary -

A Hotel For The Super-Rich And Famous.

https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news

They quoted from the Sunday Mail/ Daily Mail

If this news item is true, the American taxpayers will be
footing the bill for a Trump family vacation in London.

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Consider that many of these images are from cities that are run by Democrats, Cities with Democrats who have great wealth. Cities that are being destroyed by the Democrat leaders who only quest for power and greater wealth. Where is the 'great compassion' that these Democrats speak of. Why are these wealth laden Democrats living in homes that are no less than fortresses with high walls, armed security and seclusion from the poverty just outside the doors. Why do these same Democrat Leaders act with all the power they have to prevent common men and women from having the same protections? Why does a Powerful Democrat with an armed bodyguard or license to carry a gun say that these things are not to be available to the commoner? This is not freedom, this is a cast system, it is not what America was founded on, it is not equality. But then powerful democrats do not want equality. They want power. They want control, they want a servitude class that can not fight back. If this is want you want, go someplace else because the common American seeking freedom does not want you.

And former President's Obama, Bush, Clinton and others spent how much for travel and lodging while on travel and vacations during the term? How many times did Obama stay in this or similar places? Don't bother responding, we all see your TDS and really don't care about it. Go find your safe space, get your crayons and scream at the sky like the petulant 3-year old you are acting like. Once you are capable of acting and discussing adult topics reasonably and rationally, we welcome your debate.

If you don't like it, move. I recall many democrats saying publicly they they will move to Canada, or some other liberal place, if Trump became President. As far as I can tell, unfortunately few, if any, actually acted out on the threats.

Sorry, children in prison camps.

The grifters in charge of your concentration camps
have spent all of the money on a luxury vacation.

No school classes, no exercise, no lawyers to explain
that children have legal rights in America.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/immi...ory.html?utm_term=.b06ef724ac23&noredirect=on

The Trump administration is canceling English classes,
recreational programs and legal aid for unaccompanied
minors staying in federal migrant shelters nationwide.

Federal court settlement and state licensing requirements
that mandate education and recreation for minors in federal
custody.

mistake made while feeling too much anger

Among this week's horrors committed by the Trump administration,
was the insidious intention, to force people to declare if they have
born in America, or not, as a condition of applying for employment
and a paycheck.

Shades of guards shouting the words,"identify yourself"! Where are your papers!

The people that are victims of harrassment, because of their national
heritage, may be one of the few groups that should not be harrassed.
They carry indigenous genetic markers. It is a sacrilege that energy
companies are destroying the sacred graves of the ancient dead.
They fear that Native Americans remains will provide proof of
their migrations.

Bowing to U.S. Pressure, Mexico to Deploy 6,000 Troops to Guatemala Border

June 07, 2019

Mexico’s government says it will send 6,000 troops to its southern
border with Guatemala in a crackdown on Central American migrants
hoping to seek asylum in the U.S. Thursday’s announcement came
as heavily armed Mexican soldiers and police blocked a caravan of
about a thousand migrants as they walked a highway in the southern
state of Chiapas. The crackdown came ahead of a threat by
(The Horrible Feckless Cunt #1 Goon) to impose 5% tariffs on
all Mexican imports next Monday unless Mexico further tightens
controls on immigration. Mexican officials are reportedly nearing
a deal with the White House that would require asylum seekers
to seek refuge in the countries they first cross into.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6...co_to_deploy_6_000_troops_to_guatemala_border

Thousands of undocumented children could be housed at Fort Benning. What’s next?

By Tara Copp

June 05, 2019

Defense and Health and Human Services officials are visiting
Fort Benning near Columbus, Ga., Wednesday to assess what
buildings or land on base could be used to potentially house
thousands of undocumented immigrant children.

Fort Benning is one of three bases, including Fort Sill in
Oklahoma and Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana,
currently under consideration to house up to 5,000
unaccompanied migrant children.

This is not the first time military bases have been used to house unaccompanied migrant children who crossed into the U.S. illegally.

Between 2012 and 2017, almost 16,000 unaccompanied children
were similarly held at Texas’ Fort Bliss and Lackland Air Force
Base; Fort Sill; Naval Base Ventura County in California and
Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article231201518.html

Trump declares victory over Trump:
Mock threat to impose tariffs on Mexico gets mock solution

Daily Kos/ Mark Sumner

June 8, 2019 9:16 AM

Donald Trump has agreed to not do that thing he was going
to do so … victory! On Friday evening, Trump declared that
he had “signed an agreement with Mexico” under which
Mexico will “take strong measures” to reduce immigrants
crossing the border into the United States. And because of
this agreement, Trump will “indefinitely suspend” the tariffs
that were set to take effect on Monday.

Trumpypants, sole judge of whether Mexico was doing enough to evade his wrath

Just as with his earlier threat to “close the southern border,”
Trump simply manufactured a crisis using a statement
absolutely swimming in the kind of racist, xenophobic language
that appeals to his base. He then issued a threat to show his skills
as a hard-driving deal maker, while leaving what constitutes
success completely undefined. And, on the brink of a disaster
of his own making, he declared victory. So everything goes back
to where it was while Trump declares a “huge success.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...o-impose-tariffs-on-Mexico-gets-mock-solution

When President Obama was chosen, the backlash was from
future Trumpypants supporters. Despite troubles from the
shitstorm left over from G.. Bush, and the constant shitstorm
raining down on him, everyday, Obama managed to keep
everything on track. He provided for America's future.

But, now, Trumpypants has provided a shitstorm that rains down
on Americans, constantly. It did not take many people to enable
the worst that the Republicans had to offer.

Welcome to the Civil Cold War, sponsored by the country
that gave the world a Cold War.

I am certain, that after all of this time, that there are Republicans
that woke up. The Trumpypants Shitstorm is raining down on them,
too.

After a thrilling European vacation, the Trump Alliance
is back on the "campaign trail"-See Moneybags

Private Iowa GOP fundraising dinner in Des Moines
Have a spare $5,000.00 ?

Special delivery on Air Force 1

Jennifer Jacobs Verified Account
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It’s the very first flight on AF1 for GOP US Sens. @SenatorFischer
and @SenJoniErnst, who are traveling with Trump from DC to
his event at an ethanol facility in Council Bluffs

9:34 AM - 11 Jun 2019

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds grovel
Offutt Air Force Base

rally on private property- Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy

Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC produces and
sells ethanol, distillers grain, corn syrup, corn oil, and
carbon dioxide products in the United States, Mexico,
and the Pacific Rim.​ The company was founded in 2005
and is based in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Susan Payne
@spayne_DNP Replying to @spayne_DNP

The tent is filling up — check out the American Flag backdrop

(pic)

10:53 AM - 11 Jun 2019

Susan Payne
@spayne_DNP Replying to @spayne_DNP

Crowd exits

2:41 PM - 11 Jun 2019 from Iowa, USA

U.S. Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne will join Trump in Iowa for tour of renewable energy facility

Des Moines Register Published 4:38 p.m. CT June 10, 2019

Ah, that is a nope.

U.S. Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne will not be touring Southwest
Iowa Renewable Energy facility with Trumpypants
She will not be thanking him in person, or asking
him any questions

June 11, 2019

Cindy Axne said the White House rescinded an invitation
for the Iowa congresswoman to join President Donald Trump
on a tour

Barbara Rodriguez Verified Account
@bcrodriguez

NEW: @RepCindyAxne says the White House has rescinded
an invitation for her to join @realDonaldTrump for an ethanol
plant tour in Iowa. White House official says that's not true,
arguing Axne wasn't invited on the tour in the first place.

12:01 PM - 11 Jun 2019

Cindy Axne: White House rescinded invitation for her to
join Trump on ethanol tour

Democratic U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, who said Monday
she accepted an invitation to join President Trump in
Iowa, now says Tuesday that the White House rescinded
the invitation.

Des Moines Register Des Moines Register @DMRegister

Barbara Rodriguez Verified Account
@bcrodriguez Replying to @RepCindyAxne @realDonaldTrump

UPDATE: @RepCindyAxne has sent a letter to @realDonaldTrump
after she says the White House rescinded her invitation to tour an
ethanol facility with him. She writes in part:
"Officials in your administration prevented my attendance."

12:52 PM - 11 Jun 2019

President Trump to tout new ethanol rule in Council Bluffs today .

nonpareilonline.com


Ethanol leaders will thank President Donald Trump for EPA finishing the rule allowing summer driving with E15 when the president comes to Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Tuesday.

Some of the continuing difficulties facing the ethanol industry will likely come up as well.

Trump first promised to approve E15 year-round at a rally last October in Council Bluffs. "My administration is protecting ethanol. Today we are unleashing the power of E15 to fuel our country all year long," Trump said at the October rally.

EPA cleared the E15 rule on May 31, allowing retailers to continue selling 15% blends throughout the summer months. The E15 waiver had been a major industry goal during the past decade to boost ethanol demand.

Mike Jerke, CEO, president and general manager of Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, said the event at his 130-million-gallon ethanol plant south of Council Bluffs will provide the president some interaction with farmers and plant employees.

https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/w...19/06/10/president-visit-iowa-ethanol-plant-2

Trump Administration Plans to Detain Migrant Children
at Former Japanese Internment Camp


Fort Sill, located southwest of Oklahoma City, was one of
several internment camps where Japanese-Americans were
held during World War II," Time reported. "Between 1942
and 1946, the U.S. government forcibly removed an estimated
120,000 men, women and children from their homes and
incarcerated them across the country. Fort Sill was later
used to hold German prisoners of war.

Detained would be held inside facilities that are separate
from the general on-base population. HHS personnel,
not American troops, will oversee them.

Using military bases in this way is not new. In 2014, the
Obama Administration placed around 7,700 migrant
children on bases in Texas, California and Oklahoma,
including Fort Sill. The temporary shelters were shuttered
after four months. Last year, the government evaluated
several military bases to shelter migrants, but ultimately
decided not to use the facilities.

https://time.com/5605120/trump-migrant-children-fort-sill/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...plans-detain-migrant-children-former-japanese

The Trump internal polling tale.
As is usual, the story is more convoluted
than Team Trump's simple statement.

New York Times broke the story, and other major media outlets
picked up the story, but someone gave ABC the proof.

ABC News Verified Account
@ABC

Data from Pres. Trump's first internal reelection campaign poll,
conducted in March and obtained exclusively by @ABC News,
showed him losing a matchup by wide margins to Joe Biden in
key battleground states.

7:00 PM - 14 Jun 2019

Trump’s early internal polling data showed him behind Biden
in key states. Data from President Donald Trump's early
internal reelection campaign poll obtained exclusively
by ABC News, show him losing a Joe Biden matchup
by wide margins.

ABC News ABC News @ABC

If there is anything that Trumpypants hates, it is stuff that "looks" bad.


As a matter of course, Team Trump turned to the poll taker with the worst
reputation, to get the right "look."

Tonight, there was a Hate Festival in Orlando, Florida

This week has provided us with two images-

A male Border Patrol agent pulling a four month old baby
from the arms of a migrant woman seeking asylum.

An Arizona policeman attempts to pull a 1 year old baby
out of the arms of a woman that is 5 months pregnant.

In what world does a grown man pull on the neck of a
1 year old American baby, the arm of a 1 year old baby ?

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/17/headlines/youngest_separated_migrant_was_4_month_old_baby

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/phoenix-police-threatening-family-was-terrorism.html


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...wants-police-officers-fired-not-half-apology/


https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-police-family-shoplifting-new-report-omissions-11313458

Before Trump’s purge at DHS, top officials challenged plan for mass family arrests

May 13, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immi...cb91ce-75af-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html

Half-assed plan, poor logistics, and lack of resources, doomed it,
Not squeamishness toward doing harm to children.
Trumpypants had his Ice Blooded Gulag Queen,
but she wanted resources, efficient operations,
and funding.

Trump’s threat of mass arrests stinks of weakness and failure

June 18, 2019

Perhaps it’s entirely a coincidence that President Trump announced
that he’s unleashing his deportation force only hours before he’s
scheduled to kick off his reelection campaign with a rally in Florida.

Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti of The Post report facts and context that
raise serious doubts about the motives and timing of this “announcement.”
ICE officials were caught off guard by Trump’s declaration. What’s more,
the mass arrests don’t appear immediately imminent, though they could
come soon.

It’s also not clear whether ICE has the manpower to fully unleash such
a strike force. And the very act of announcing the action itself raises
questions, because, as Miroff and Sacchetti note, “publicizing a future
law enforcement operation is unheard of at ICE.”

And so, Trump’s threat of mass arrests is probably intended to no small
degree as spectacle and gesture.

This may be the case in a “cruelty is the point” kind of way —
in Trump’s mind, the imagery of mass arrests of families is a
feature of this plan, one that will appeal to at least some core
supporters.

Is that far-fetched? Trump reportedly remarked of his family separations:

“My people love it.” (6/ 22/ 2018) New York Times

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...inks-weakness-failure/?utm_term=.b29c10e0c176

June 13, 2019

DEMING, NM —

The number of asylees (migrant asylum seekers) sheltered in Luna
and Dona Ana counties has dropped, and no migrants to date
have stayed at the New Mexico State Fair dormitories in
Albuquerque.

The dorms were offered six weeks ago as a possible temporary
shelter for asylum-seeking families.

Expo New Mexico spokeswoman Oona Gonzales said that the
state remains on standby if the fairground dormitories are needed
by migrants as they seek out their final destinations elsewhere in the U.S.

This week, the number of migrants in the Deming shelters dropped
below 100, and the number in Las Cruces was approximately 150.

New Mexico and Albuquerque last week filed suit against the
Trump administration to stem the quick release of migrants
that has strained public and charitable resources in Deming
and Las Cruces.

Meanwhile, plans continue for officials to erect a tent-type
facility south of the Deming fairgrounds to house the asylees,
instead of at the fairgrounds and the airport hangar.

http://www.demingradio.com/local


TAOS, N.M.

Reuters

May 15, 2019


Declaraction of a State of Emergency

State Funds used, Federal Funds not made available.

Deming, a city of about 15,000 residents about 35 miles (56 km) north of the border, made the move on Monday after U.S. Border Patrol agents dropped off about 170 migrants, the Deming Headlight newspaper reported, citing City Administrator Aaron Sera.

The city declared an emergency “in hopes it will trigger assistance from both the federal government and state officials,” Sera said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.

Democratic-controlled cities such as Las Cruces, New Mexico are using tax dollars to shelter migrants while Republican-controlled Otero County, New Mexico passed a resolution against housing migrants and the use of taxpayer funds to do so.

President Donald Trump, who made the issue of illegal immigration a centerpiece of his 2016 campaign, has called the rise in asylum-seekers an “invasion” that vindicates his call for the construction of a border wall and a get-tough policy.

U.S. Border Patrol began releasing migrants directly into border communities in April after its holding facilities became overwhelmed. The agency is turning to smaller towns as shelters reach capacity in El Paso, Texas and other cities.

A spokeswoman for New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham criticized the releases in small towns like Deming.

“Communities like Las Cruces and Deming are being dealt a bad hand by the federal government, they didn’t ask for these releases to happen,” said Claudia Tristán.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...emergency-over-migrant-releases-idUSKCN1SL2WZ

Are we still having a National Emergency ?

June 19, 2019

Trumpypants is attempting to kill off another government agency


The Office of Personnel Management is preparing to send the career
employees home without pay starting on Oct. 1, according to an
internal briefing document obtained by The Washington Post.
The employees could formally be laid off after 30 days,
administration officials confirmed.

The agency manages a civilian federal workforce of 2.1 million.

Even as House Democrats and some Republicans signal that
Congress is not going to break up the 5,565-employee department,
the administration is moving forward in defiance. Trump appointees
paint a dire picture of a corner of the government in financial free fall
and failing to carry out its mission. They want a commitment from
Congress by June 30 to agree to disband the agency —
or they say they will be forced to trim the staff.

(more money to siphon off into the slush fund)

The plan to dismantle the agency was the brainchild of a senior career
official at the budget office. Weichert, (Margaret Weichert, deputy director
for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director)
a private-sector executive focused on improving business operations before she
joined the Trump administration, has committed to it with a vengeance.

She has told her staff that she is “planning to play chicken with Congress,”
according to three officials familiar with the comments.

Critics say she is deliberately starving the agency in an effort to kill it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...200fda-9135-11e9-b58a-a6a9afaa0e3e_story.html

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Horrifying: 4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized
After Lawyers Visit Border Patrol Facility

(link to Huffingtonpost

4:07 PM - 21 Jun 2019

4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized After Lawyers
Visit Border Patrol Facility

The kids were unresponsive, feverish and vomiting,
yet receiving no medical care, according to lawyers.

HuffPost Politics HuffPost Politics @HuffPostPol

Four children, all under age 3 with teenage mothers or guardians,
were feverish, coughing, vomiting and had diarrhea, immigration
attorneys told HuffPost on Friday. Some of the toddlers and infants
were refusing to eat or drink. One 2-year-old’s eyes were rolled back
in her head, and she was “completely unresponsive” and limp,
according to Toby Gialluca, a Florida-based attorney.



“Under the age of 3.” Do you realize what that is?

Two years old or younger. Babies.

(It is a federal facility, and few are authorized to intervene.
Same facility that the teen mom and premature baby were neglected
to the point that the baby's life was in danger.)

McAllen, Texas!

The same place, where they put the women and children outside
to sleep on rocks and sand.

(Trump) abruptly suspended his wide ranging threat-

(Who, or what is the Orange Blimp threatening, today ?)

...to deport “millions” of undocumented immigrants starting Sunday, demanding
that Democrats and Republicans forge a plan to stanch the record flows of
asylum-seeking families across the southern border into the United States

2019/06/22

Had the raids gone ahead, they would have jeopardized the future of the
emergency money that the Trump administration had requested from
Congress weeks ago, Democratic officials said.

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), the chairman of the Congressional
Hispanic Caucus, told The Washington Post on Saturday that the
group was continuing to evaluate the House Democrats’ border
spending package through the weekend, but that Trump’s
“mass deportation threats complicated the process tremendously.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immi...-resist/?utm_term=.9ad68c41a1f2&noredirect=on

Faceless Liars of the White House

Jun 22, 2019

Three administration officials told The Associated Press the
operation had been canceled because details had leaked in
the media and officer safety could be jeopardized.

The officials were not authorized to speak publicly on
the operation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-p...nix/activists-speak-out-ahead-of-deportations

The Democrats gave Trump Republicans a loophole-
protect children, if the parents are a danger to them.
Suddenly, most of the migrant parents are accused
of crime. Suddenly, after the parents have been
deported, the parents are no longer guilty of the
crimes that caused them to be separated from
their children. Oopsie! A few thousand "mistakes."

What Trump has done, is overwhelm what was once,
an orderly, lawful system. The judges of good character
and conscience fled the system because Trump trashed
it. In what world, is a child that is not old enough to speak,
or stand, or walk, required to represent themselves in a court
of law ? Yet, an adult delivered babies in diapers, to do just
that. The remaining judges, the lawyers, the clerks, all went
along with the farce. The law was not followed. Requirements
went un-fulfilled. The courts of law went along with the lies.
The result was separation of child from family.

Trump corrupted our system of law, from the lowest court to
the Supreme Court, and Mitch McConnell nurtured it.

Where are those cozy, loving, attractive, safe nurseries that
the Far Right Christian Extremists advertised on television,
when this shitstorm started ?

Save The Children took time out from tending to bombing victims
in the Middle East, and international crisis locations, to provide
for children in America. Yes, America failed in its responsibility,
and an international charity meant for Trump's "shithole countries"
stepped in. People in Deming, New Mexico were faced with the
migrants dumped on their doorstep by Trump. A tiny border town,
they stepped up to the plate. The Feds are not going to help.
The babies under their watch are not going to die on cold concrete,
in filth, and fear.


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With all the immigration news of the past few days,
here’s a must-read thread from @lomikriel, one of
the very best immigration reporters in the biz:

(link)

5:59 PM - 22 Jun 2019

lomikriel
@lomikriel

This is Briana. @CBP took her from her dad at the border in March.
US attorneys accused him, w/o presenting evidence, of being MS-13.
He had been deported from the US at 18. A year after Trump 'ended'
his separation policy, +700 kids have been separated.

(pic of child)

2:50 PM - 22 Jun 2019

Let us call it what it is-

Trump took children hostage.
He proved that he is willing to let them die.
He has broken every law surrounding this matter.

Mustafa Tameez
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@MustafaTameez

This is a Tear in the American Fabric "... government often uses
claims that would not be permitted to remove American children
from their parents ..."
Important story by @lomikriel & @DugBegley
#CloseTheCamps

(link)

#HouNews

7:31 AM - 23 Jun 2019

Trump administration still separating hundreds of migrant children
at the border through often...

A year since Trump signed an executive order curtailing his policy
of separating immigrant families and a federal judge ordered the
government to reunify more than 2,800 children it removed from...

Houston Chronicle Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron

Nancy Pelosi Reportedly Called Trump to Ask Him to Call Off Planned ICE Raids

Jun 22nd, 2019

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Mr. President, delay is welcome. Time is needed for
comprehensive immigration reform.
Families belong together.

(link)

12:52 PM - 22 Jun 2019


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WATCH: Mike Pence Snickers As Jake Tapper Repeatedly Asks
Why They Won't Give Kids Soap and Toothpaste

(link)

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-m...-why-they-wont-give-kids-soap-and-toothpaste/
2:03 PM - 23 Jun 2019

Will not get a straight answer from Mike Pence.

For more, we go to Los Angeles, where we’re joined
by Warren Binford, a lawyer who interviewed children
detained at the Clint, Texas, facility.

She is a law professor at Willamette University,
director of its Clinical Law Program.

June 24, 2019

Yes. Yes, yes. So, let me tell you about this incident, because
this was especially concerning. This visit was really originally
scheduled for just three days. And what ended up happening
was, when I was there on Wednesday, we started to hear from
several children that there was an incident that had happened
in one of the cells. And what the story was, was that there was
a lice outbreak in one of the cells. Six of the children were
found to have lice. Those six children were given lice shampoo,
and then the other children were given two lice combs and told
to pass those around and brush their hair with the lice combs
in order to make sure that they, too, didn’t have lice or, if they
did, that the lice were being pulled out by the lice combs.
Now, sharing lice combs, we all know, is something you
never do with a lice infestation. But this is, in fact, what
happened.

But then the story gets worse, because one of the little kids
lost the comb, and the guards hit the roof. They yelled at
the children and berated the children. They scared the children.
They made the children cry. And then they took out all of the
children’s bedding. They took out the mats. They took out the
blankets and told them that as punishment for losing that comb,
that they were going to have to sleep on the concrete that night.
We could not believe that the guards really were going to do
what they had threatened to the children that they would do.
And so, we arranged to come back the next day, specifically
to interview those children and find out if they had been made
to sleep on the floor last night or if it was just an empty threat
meant to scare the children. And, in fact, we heard from
multiple children that they in fact were forced to sleep
on the floor that night in this cold cell, you know, on the
cold concrete.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/24/somebody_is_going_to_die_lawyer

AMY GOODMAN: Is the Trump administration—
we just have 30 seconds—breaking the law?
For example, the Flores agreement?

WARREN BINFORD:

Yes. Yes, absolutely. This is why we went to the media, is that
they are absolutely breaking the law. They’re breaking law as
to the conditions of detention. They’re breaking the law as to
the number of hours that they can keep the children in
Border Patrol facilities. They’re breaking the law as far
as how long these children are being kept in ORR facilities.
They’re breaking the law by taking the children away from
their families. And they’re also breaking the law by transporting
them on Texas state highways without the appropriate child seats
and infant carriers and, you know, these booster seats that are
required by law. Everywhere I look, this administration is
breaking the law. And the Border Patrol employees that we
talked to said they don’t understand why the American people
aren’t outraged by the mismanagement that they’re experiencing.

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@NewYorker

A lawyer sent to interview children held in detention centers
describes what she witnessed at a facility in Texas: children
were filthy, sleeping on concrete floors, and taking care of
each other because of the lack of attention from guards.

(link)

3:22 PM - 23 Jun 2019

Inside a Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding
Immigrant Children Warren Binford, a lawyer who has been
interviewing children held in the detention facilities, was so
disturbed by what she saw that she decided to talk to the media.

The New Yorker The New Yorker @NewYorker

Inside a Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding Immigrant Children

Hundreds of immigrant children who have been separated from their parents...
and children were filthy, sleeping on cold floors, and taking care of one another....
forced to sleep on the floor on Wednesday night as punishment for losing the comb.


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@NewYorker

The Flores settlement mandates that immigrant children
must be held in safe and sanitary conditions and moved
out of Border Patrol custody without unnecessary delays.
These conditions are not being met, a lawyer recently sent
to a facility in Texas says.

(link)

4:03 AM - 23 Jun 2019


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@ IChotiner

New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan; formerly
a staff writer at Slate and senior editor at The New Republic.

This week, Orange Horror in the Oval Office Chair was
busy with interviews. Why did he skip town without his
wife and youngest child, and his Cabinet staff, and hide out
at Camp David with his young social media bros ? Of, course
golf on his private property was part of the picture.
Did the young social media bros record the chapel footage ?
Another rape accusation crops up, and the Orange Horror
is tweeting about church service.

No diapers for the babies in Trump's concentration camps for children

Last week began with a broad political discussion on whether
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s designation of migrant detention
centers as “concentration camps” was the correct nomenclature
for holding rooms in which 41 detainees live in a cell built for eight.
The week ended with heinous reports of the conditions at said camps,
where undocumented migrant children are being held away from
their families in conditions “worse than jail,” according to physician
Dolly Lucio Sevier, who wrote up a medical declaration obtained by
ABC News after visiting Border Patrol holding facilities along the
border in Texas. Here’s everything we know about conditions in
the detention camps.

Conditions in a McAllen, Texas Facility “Could Be Compared to Torture Facilities”

Sevier, a private-practice physician in the Rio Grande Valley,
was granted access to a facility in McAllen, Texas, after attorneys
discovered a flu outbreak that sent five infants to a neonatal
intensive-care unit. At the detention center — the largest such
Border Patrol facility in the country — Sevier examined 39 children
under the age of 18 facing conditions including “extreme cold
temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to
medical care, basic sanitation, water, or adequate food.”
All 39 exhibited signs of trauma.

Sevier told ABC News that the teenagers she observed were not
able to wash their hands while in custody, which she called
“tantamount to intentionally causing the spread of disease.”
Teen mothers in custody described to her not being able to clean
their children’s bottles: “To deny parents the ability to wash their
infant’s bottles is unconscionable and could be considered intentional
mental and emotional abuse,” Sevier wrote. In summary, she determined
that “the conditions within which they are held could be compared to
torture facilities.”

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/the-inhumane-conditions-at-migrant-detention-camps.html

U.S. returns 100 migrant children to overcrowded border facility
as HHS says it is out of space

June 25, 2019

The official told reporters that after moving children out of
the Clint facility over the weekend and into Monday, the
agency had to return 100 children to the station Tuesday
because of a lack of bed space in U.S. shelters and insufficient
funding to expand facilities for children.

A spokeswoman for the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement
(ORR) said that by Tuesday the agency will have taken custody
of nearly 250 unaccompanied children who had been held at the
Clint facility,

(Is this legal ? The courts said to stop separating children from parents.)

ORR is theoretically set up to release the children safely into the
United States. That’s what they’re staffed to do. CBP doesn’t have
that capacity. They’re all guards,” said Hing, who described being
moved to tears by the visible trauma of some of the children he
interviewed. “They actually don’t have the infrastructure to be
calling the aunt or the uncle, or even the parent who is in the
United States, and actually check out whether it’s a safe place
to place the child. . . . They don’t have a staff of social workers,
whereas ORR does.”

ORR has declined to quantify its available bed space.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immi...e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html?noredirect=on

Un-spoken policy of Trump administration

Unite the Trump alliance by any means

The national emergency at the border is not real.

(Oh, does that WALL (modified Fence at the Border) look good ?
The military forces were pulled away from duty,
so that they could be put to work painting Trump's fence.
He lied and said they would be helping at the border stations,
to ease the pressure on intake office personel, during times
when legal migrants arrived in clumps.)

(not as if the truth matters, at all)

Employment of men that support the Trump alliance
(employed men vote!)
-Border Patrol
-I.C.E officers

Money making opportunities at the border
(tax-payer money is pouring into the private
corporations that give campaign money to Trump)


Prison camps for migrants

Purposes served by family separation of migrants ?

Stress, misery, suffering
(Racists love this abombination, and racists vote!)

Evangelist Christian organizations reap cash
(recycled religious cash finds its way to G.O.P. coffers)

Trump- "Look! I am doing something!

Propaganda source for the Republican Upside Down Side in America

Rally around the WALL

(Did you notice that the propaganda about Islamic Radical
Extremists hiding among the groups of migrants, has not
been heard, in months ?)



May 22, 2019

Rep. Underwood Calls (Trump) Policy 'Intentional'
Leading to Migrant Deaths

(During Congressional Hearing)

REP. LAUREN UNDERWOOD (D-IL):

"With five kids that have died, 5,000 separated from
their families, I feel like -- and the evidence is really
clear that this is intentional. It's intentional.
It's a policy choice being made on purpose by
this administration and it is cruel and inhumane."

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I move back."

GOP strikes Democrat's comments after she confronts acting DHS
Secretary Kevin McAleenan

May 23, 2019

The point is that Trump did not put his border policy decisions
through the bipartisan proccess. It was not funded.
Provisions were not made. Everyone that did not make a killing
of tax-payer funded windfall, is regretting that they ever agreed
to take part in an operation that uses the deaths of babies and children.

The people at the bottom of the hierarchy are pleading
for something to be done. It has gone too far, even for
Trump's supporters.)

20 Jun 2018

Trump ends his policy of family separations with executive order

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...s-updates-live

June 22, 2019

Trump administration still separating hundreds of migrant children

houstonchronicle.com

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@RAICESTEXAS

Valeria, almost 2, and her father Óscar, were found dead
on Monday after trying to cross a river because of your
'metering' policy. [Metering: when border patrol rejects asylum
seekers who come to the ports of entry asking for protection,
leaving them with few options.]

9:31 PM - 25 Jun 2019

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick

With the tragic death of a dad and his daughter yesterday,
"metering" is back in the news. So, what's metering?
Metering is when CBP sets a cap on asylum seekers
coming to ports of entry. Since May 2018,

<4,500 families and kids per month have been able
to access asylum at POEs. (ports of entry)

3:20 PM - 25 Jun 2019

RAICES Verified Account
@RAICESTEXAS

"We are being presented with a false choice.
It is either you withhold funds from children
who desperately need them, or you provide
funds that will be used to create more cages,
more concentration camps..."

@jonathandryan in convo w/@IChotiner: newyorker magazine

3:40 PM - 25 Jun 2019

Children Remain in Dangerous Conditions on the Texas Border

Jonathan Ryan, the C.E.O. and president of RAICES,
a Texas-based nonprofit that provides legal counsel to
immigrants, discusses the most important problems
facing children detained at the border.

The New Yorker The New Yorker @NewYorker

Senate Republicans and the White House accused Democrats of playing politics with people’s lives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html?noredirect=on

There will be no discussion on why the Republicans are responsible for dead babies and dead children.

Every branch of the Trumpypants #1 Goon alliance, coming out of the woodwork
to explain that migrant babies and migrant children deserve nothing.

Jessica Valenti Verified Account
@JessicaValenti

“Rules prohibit them from listening to music or writing in a journal.”
Anyone who thinks this isn’t a prison is fucking delusional

(link to NY Times)

11:31 AM - 27 Jun 2019

Migrant Children Are Spending Months ‘Crammed’ in a
Temporary Florida Shelter

Democratic presidential candidates raised concerns this week
about a government-run shelter for migrant children, where
children face lengthy stays.

The New York Times The New York Times @nytimes


June 26, 2019

"Keep America Great" was the tagline for the 2016 horror movie
The Purge: Election Year. In the irony-free zone we live in now,
it's just another twig on the fire.

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlan...-happiest-place-on-earth/Content?oid=25544783

Are we still having a National Emergency ?

The UN and the Red Cross are not allowed to see the children.
Ever wonder why the prisons for children are built on former
military bases ?

How a stepladder in Homestead became South Florida’s most important political prop

June 27, 2019

On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, activist-actress
Alyssa Milano and Jane O’Meara Sanders, the senator’s wife, paid visits.
All were denied entry into the shelter itself, as was California Congressman
Eric Swalwell when he visited Monday. Expected to make the same stepladder
climb Friday: U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, South Bend, Indiana,
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former HUD secretary Julián Castro, Sen. Kamala Harris,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper and
author Marianne Williamson.

On Thursday, when it was his turn, former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke
went slightly off script, addressing the children directly in their native tongue.
“Saludos! Los vemos y los queremos!” he yelled in Spanish, which translates
to “Greetings. We see you and we love you.”

Less than an hour before O’Rourke’s visit, Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York
City Mayor Bill de Blasio also made appearances.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article232001067.html#storylink=mainstage

How much money is Caliburn International making, for feeding children a starvation diet, and neglecting them at the Homestead Florida prison for kids ?

McAllen, Texas prison for children

Jun 27, 2019

Border Patrol allows glimpse of embattled Texas facility after reports
of dismal conditions

- Molly Hennessy-Fiske,
Los Angeles Times

Border Patrol allowed reporters into its largest holding area Thursday
following reports of squalid conditions.

When Brandon Judd, president of the union that represents Border
Patrol agents, visited the McAllen facility last month, he was troubled
to see agents assigned to medically screen and babysit migrant infants.

Reporters who visited Thursday were not allowed to interview, photograph
or record migrants at the facility.

Carmen Qualia acting executive officer responsible for the prison
for children. (and acting liar, to protect the organization that hired her ?-
"According to Carmen Qualia, an Assistant Chief Patrol Agent
some individuals would be separated from their children at this site"-
June 17, 2018 MCALLEN, Tex. "Carmen Qualia a U.S. Border Patrol official"

June 28, 2019 The McAllen facility - known as Ursula for the street it is on

Qualia blamed overcrowding at the center for funding problems at other
government agencies that it transfers migrants to.

(Qualia lied about how long the children are held.)

Border Patrol Agent Carmen Qualia, Acting Executive Officer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f68b2c-7248-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html

As news breaks that migrant children have been returned to the calamitous
facility in Clint, Texas, the acting Border Patrol chief resigns.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency's acting commissioner,
John Sanders, stepped down.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politi...t-texas-facility-border-patrol-chief-resigns/


Esquire Verified Account
@esquire

Our nation is making desperate kids into living warnings to
other children, showing them they are not welcome in the
United States of America.

5:31 PM - 26 Jun 2019

At the Homestead Facility for Migrant Children, There's a Crawling Feeling
of Ancient Shame

Our nation is making desperate kids into living warnings to other children,
showing them they are not welcome in the United States of America.

Esquire Esquire @esquire

Carla Provost acting chief.

Ronald Vitiello
Thomas Homan
Matthew Albence
Daniel H. Ragsdale (got job with private prison)
Sarah Saldaña

Where is the original real chief ?