VP Harris "do not come to the border, if you do you will be turned back"!And this entire post is nothing more than you pointing fingers at someone else for Trump's mess. Kids getting put in cages, living in inhumane conditions is a direct result of Trump's "zero tolerance" policy, that is a fact that you are going to have to deal and one that Trump is going to own.
See anybody being turned back?
Yes, there was quite a mess at the border at one point in the Trump administration and then came agreements with Mexico. It was called the remain in Mexico policy and it worked quite well.
As for separating families at the border, WTF do you think is happening now? They have chosen to be separated from their children by sending them unaccompanied and the conditions for children RIGHT NOW are worse than they have ever been.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57561760
'Heartbreaking' conditions in US migrant child camp
By Hilary Andersson
BBC News, El Paso, Texas
Published2 days ago
At a US border detention centre in the Texan desert, migrant children have been living in alarming conditions - where disease is rampant, food can be dangerous and there are reports of sexual abuse, an investigation by the BBC has found through interviews with staff and children.
Findings from the BBC's investigation include allegations of sexual abuse, Covid and lice outbreaks, a child waiting hours for medical attention, a lack of clean clothes and hungry children being served undercooked meat.
The BBC has spoken to camp employees about these conditions and seen photos and video smuggled out by staff.
Staff told the BBC the food was mostly edible, but a 15-year-old who has now been released said he was fed uncooked meat. "Sometimes the chicken had blood, the meat very red. We couldn't stand our hunger and we ate it, but we got sick from it."
A number of tents have also been set up just to accommodate the large numbers of sick children - the children have nicknamed it 'Covid city'.
"Hundreds of children have tested positive for Covid," said one employee who asked to remain anonymous because staff are banned from speaking about the camp.
In addition to Covid, outbreaks of the flu and strep throat have also been reported since the camp opened in late March.
And some children in need of urgent medical attention have been neglected.
In a secret recording of a staff meeting in May given to the BBC, an employee told of a child who was coughing up blood and needed urgent medical care.
"They said 'we are going to send him to lunch'," the employee reported another staff member as saying. "It was a three and a half hour wait to see anybody."
The 15-year-old who spoke to the BBC was released last month after 38 days in detention. He said he caught Covid-19 soon after arriving in the camp, and became severely ill. After he recovered, he was sent back to live in a crowded tent and became ill again.
"When we went to ask for medicine they gave us dirty looks, and they always laughed among themselves," said the boy, who preferred to remain anonymous, of some camp workers.
"Lice has been rampant," an employee told the BBC. "And one of the major shortages has been lice kits." Staff said a tent of around 800 girls was locked down last month because of lice.
Photos and video smuggled out of the facility by staff and given to the BBC, show rows of flimsy bunks, set inches from each other, extending in long lines through the vast tents.
"I think the crowding is the number one reason that illnesses have spread," said an employee.
Wild sandstorms sweep through the Chihuahuan desert where the camp is set.
"The whole tent starts shaking, some of the tents open up and sand rushes in. You literally have to shield your whole body from sand," said a female employee who also spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"By the end of the day, we are all just covered in dust from head to toe," she added. Staff told the BBC that showers are on offer, but many children don't want to take them because they have no clean clothes to change into.
There is a shortage of underwear, other clothing items and shoes in the camp, according to employees.
"It is heartbreaking to hear their stories and to see them very plainly suffering and to hear the same kinds of complaints over and over again about things that could be corrected so easily," said a staff member.
"After a child has been here for a few days, they say, 'you've got to get me out of here as soon as possible, I just can't stand it anymore,'" he added. "They feel like they are in a prison."
What do the authorities say?
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which employs private contractors to help run the camp, says it is committed to transparency, but the BBC was denied access to the camp.
HHS did not respond to the specific allegations of neglect in Fort Bliss uncovered by the BBC, but says in a public statement that it is "providing required standards of care for children such as clean and comfortable sleeping quarters, meals, toiletries, laundry, educational and recreational activities, and access to medical services".
What are the reports of sexual abuse?
There are reports of staff sexually abusing children at the Fort Bliss camp. At a camp training session, secretly recorded by a staff member and shared with the BBC, an employee voiced concern.
"We have already caught staff with minors inappropriately," she said.
Another employee told the BBC that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had spoken to staff about a rape.
"DHS mentioned there was a rape - they are giving the girls pregnancy tests," she said. "And I heard the other night that another contractor was caught in a boys' tent, you know, doing things with him."
What state are the children in?
Many of the children in Fort Bliss become severely depressed, according to staff, who say there are multiple cases of children self-harming.
"I thought that I was not going to get out of there, that I was not going to see my family again," the 15-year-old who spoke to the BBC said, welling up with emotion.
"Sometimes, and at night, we would cry. During the worst time I was nearly at the point of committing suicide," he said.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7969703/m...-testimonials/
Migrant children testify to ‘horrible’ conditions inside U.S. shelters in court case
By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke Reuters
What we see happening now is as bad if not worse that what we saw in 2019 proving that our government, no matter who is running it, is not equipped to handle migrations like this. This has to stop. Close the border, period. Problem is, our media will not honestly report what is happening now like it did in 2019. Why is that? Why haven't we seen AOC and Rashida Tlaib at the border demanding better living conditions like they did when Trump was President?
Originally Posted by HedonistForever