https://truthout.org/articles/house-democrats-demand-access-to-migrant-jails/
https://twitter.com/oversightdems
AND then there is the money aspect.
Did you know there is a profit motive behind those detention centers? A 2 billion dollar a year industry.
https://theglobepost.com/2019/08/19/profit-migrant-detention/
[Edited on 9/1/2019 by gina]
Extensively covered in previous threads, Denied or ignored by the usual apologists.
Congressional members and reporters reportedly being denied access.
[Edited on 9/1/2019 by gina]
Extensively covered in previous threads, Denied or ignored by the usual apologists.
From what I understand they want to refuse access to the facilities by reporters so that no one can see the conditions that STILL exist there. That is not something that should occur in a democracy.
Concentration camps. Not a democracy. End of story.
End of story? Once the government is allowed to operate concentration camps, and no one is allowed to know what is going on there, the country is on the fast track to totalitarianism; and worse than that is that the are for profit centers. It is not okay or acceptable.
America chose fascism . Done deal.
What were our choices and what will they be for 2020?
If you still have to ask it is too late. People decided America was a toilet. Trump was the flush handle. You can't stop a flush in mid-swirl.
Maybe they found a use for all those Obama FEMA camps......
Maybe they found a use for all those Obama FEMA camps......
I laughed.
There are two separate issues, one is immigration reform, keeping out those tho do not contribute to the culture of the people of the United States like these: [from Brooklyn, NY]
https://nypost.com/2019/09/02/west-indian-day-parade-marchers-wine-up-on-new-yorks-finest/
This is what they bring to this country, eroding American values, corrupting even cops.
The second issue is allowing oversight of the detention centers, and providing basic, humane settings for people to sleep, eat, and live while they are awaiting deportation or given political asylum. The process itself takes to long, we have too many people we are warehousing in privatized jail like facilities.
How disgusting is this? They cannot even provide sanitary products for the girls, they are just left there to bleed in their clothes?
"The goal of concentration camps has always been to be ignored. The German-Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt, who was imprisoned by the Gestapo and interned in a French camp, wrote a few years afterward about the different levels of concentration camps. Extermination camps were the most extreme; others were just about getting “undesirable elements … out of the way.” All had one thing in common: “The human masses sealed off in them are treated as if they no longer existed, as if what happened to them were no longer of interest to anybody, as if they were already dead.”
"When a leader puts people in camps to stay in power, history shows that he doesn’t usually stop with the first group he detains."
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-katz-immigrant-concentration-camps-20190609-story.html
Remarks: What is worse is something else under consideration in DC, dealing with the mass shooter scenarios, Trump wants more mental hospitals to house the people, just get them out of the way. Nobody else agrees with this, so he's come up with an idea to use $35 billion in block grants given to states to let them come up with ways to make their communities safe by doing something about these people.
https://apnews.com/b0b1034de6d24fd4b0dd2f9367442449
The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors has a different suggestion. After the El Paso and Dayton shootings, it recommended that Congress add $35 million for a block grant program to help states provide more community-based care to people in a mental health crisis.
“We need to expand treatment programs, because most people with mental health problems aren’t violent, they just need help,” the paper said. “But for those who are violent, a danger to themselves or others, we need to get them off the street before they can terrorize our communities.”
For someone who loves Trump so much you sure do bellyache about his policies a lot.
You should be happy there wll be concentration camps where sanctimonious prudes like you can round up all those dirty West Indians who "wine up" on cops and corrupt your vision of American culture.
[Edited on 9/4/2019 by BrerRabbit]
You should be happy there wll be concentration camps where sanctimonious prudes like you can round up all those dirty West Indians who "wine up" on cops and corrupt your vision of American culture.
Who was President when the Japanese were "rounded up" and placed in "Internment" camps during WWII?
Or by definition can they be referred to as "Concentration camps"?
Who was President when the Japanese were "rounded up" and placed in "Internment" camps during WWII?
Or by definition can they be referred to as "Concentration camps"?
The Japanese internment camps most certainly fit the definition of concentration camps, and referring to them by that term is accepted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Roosevelt was the president who signed the Executive Order to incarcerate all US citizens of Japanese descent.
Who was President when the Japanese were "rounded up" and placed in "Internment" camps during WWII?
Or by definition can they be referred to as "Concentration camps"?
The Japanese internment camps most certainly fit the definition of concentration camps, and referring to them by that term is accepted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Roosevelt was the president who signed the Executive Order to incarcerate all US citizens of Japanese descent.
Hey BIGV, what is the implication? Is it because a Democrat president had a racist policy in the 1940s, people who vote for Democrats shouldn't complain about a Republican president being a racist in the 21st century?
Who was President when the Japanese were "rounded up" and placed in "Internment" camps during WWII?
Or by definition can they be referred to as "Concentration camps"?
The Japanese internment camps most certainly fit the definition of concentration camps, and referring to them by that term is accepted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Roosevelt was the president who signed the Executive Order to incarcerate all US citizens of Japanese descent.
Hey BIGV, what is the implication? Is it because a Democrat president had a racist policy in the 1940s, people who vote for Democrats shouldn't complain about a Republican president being a racist in the 21st century?
I would ask "What crimes" U.S. Citizens of Japanese descent committed?
Who was President when the Japanese were "rounded up" and placed in "Internment" camps during WWII?
Or by definition can they be referred to as "Concentration camps"?
The Japanese internment camps most certainly fit the definition of concentration camps, and referring to them by that term is accepted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Roosevelt was the president who signed the Executive Order to incarcerate all US citizens of Japanese descent.
Hey BIGV, what is the implication? Is it because a Democrat president had a racist policy in the 1940s, people who vote for Democrats shouldn't complain about a Republican president being a racist in the 21st century?
I would ask "What crimes" U.S. Citizens of Japanese descent committed?
The internment of Japanese Americans was a racist policy that the people of this country should have condemned. That was a different time and different circumstances. We were at war with Japan. Are we at war with Mexico?
Who was President when the Japanese were "rounded up" and placed in "Internment" camps during WWII?
Or by definition can they be referred to as "Concentration camps"?
The Japanese internment camps most certainly fit the definition of concentration camps, and referring to them by that term is accepted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Roosevelt was the president who signed the Executive Order to incarcerate all US citizens of Japanese descent.
Hey BIGV, what is the implication? Is it because a Democrat president had a racist policy in the 1940s, people who vote for Democrats shouldn't complain about a Republican president being a racist in the 21st century?
I would ask "What crimes" U.S. Citizens of Japanese descent committed?
The internment of Japanese Americans was a racist policy that the people of this country should have condemned. That was a different time and different circumstances. We were at war with Japan. Are we at war with Mexico?
Thanks for the History lesson.
There is a legal port of entry, is the Law being broken when that Port of entry is evaded?
Break the Law and pay the price.
Trump supporters use policy as a cowardly disguise because they are too ashamed to speak freely. Imagine having to constantly speak in code because you know you will be hated if you are honest - sounds like hell.
Policy?.. Is that a Law?
There is a legal port of entry, is the Law being broken when that Port of entry is evaded?
Break the Law and pay the price.
Illegal border crossing is a misdemeanor. Detention for an indefinite length of time is unconstitutional, cruel and unusual punishment. Would you consider it fair to be carted off to a concentration camp for the misdemeanors you have committed?
There is a legal port of entry, is the Law being broken when that Port of entry is evaded?
Break the Law and pay the price.
Illegal border crossing is a misdemeanor. Detention for an indefinite length of time is unconstitutional, cruel and unusual punishment. Would you consider it fair to be carted off to a concentration camp for the misdemeanors you have committed?
The Border Guards, Facilities and officials are being overwhelmed. Misdemeanor or Felony it is taxing the resources of this Country... Here is the LAW the President Trump is enforcing. It has ZERO to do with "Policy"
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§1325. Improper entry by alien
(a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts
Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
Don't like U.S. Laws or how they are enforced?..... Do not break them
]Don't like U.S. Laws or how they are enforced?..... Do not break them
Unless you are the government, then break all the laws you want. Detainees are being held
for years. The law states no longer than six months.
Who was President when the Japanese were "rounded up" and placed in "Internment" camps during WWII?
Or by definition can they be referred to as "Concentration camps"?
The Japanese internment camps most certainly fit the definition of concentration camps, and referring to them by that term is accepted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Roosevelt was the president who signed the Executive Order to incarcerate all US citizens of Japanese descent.
Hey BIGV, what is the implication? Is it because a Democrat president had a racist policy in the 1940s, people who vote for Democrats shouldn't complain about a Republican president being a racist in the 21st century?
I would ask "What crimes" U.S. Citizens of Japanese descent committed?
The internment of Japanese Americans was a racist policy that the people of this country should have condemned. That was a different time and different circumstances. We were at war with Japan. Are we at war with Mexico?
Thanks for the History lesson.
There is a legal port of entry, is the Law being broken when that Port of entry is evaded?
Break the Law and pay the price.
Are you saying that the Japanese entered the country illegally or are moving the goal posts again?
Most of the people being held came through legal ports of entry seeking asylum. But you know and ignore that.
Are you saying that the Japanese entered the country illegally or are moving the goal posts again?
" I would ask "What crimes" U.S. Citizens of Japanese descent committed?
Goes to reading comprehension..
Most of the people being held came through legal ports of entry seeking asylum. But you know and ignore that.
"Most"..... I Disagree
Policy?.. Is that a Law?
Trump supporters point to policy AND laws as a cover, because they know they’ll be hated if they speak freely. Sounds like hell.
Your quote: "I’ve been saying all along that it’s wrong to criticize an entire group that makes up half the country, simply for their beliefs"
One thing is for sure, rough and chaotic as the current situation may be, the detainees can thank their lucky stars that the impulses of certain factions in the US are kept in check.
One thing is for sure, rough and chaotic as the current situation may be, the detainees can thank their lucky stars that the impulses of certain factions in the US are kept in check.
I would agree with that, there are rouges, outlaws and scoundrels on both sides of the fence.
That being said Brer, I would ask this... "Do you think the Chinese protesters wish they had a 2nd Amendment"?
I will answer that with an ancient Chinese folk tale:
Aeons ago, before the time of creation, all was the void. The positive and negative yin and yang forces of the unrealized universe were coiled as potential in two dragons. The Chinese word for dragon is "Long". As in Oolong tea, oo means black, long means dragon = Black Dragon Tea, also known as Gunpowder Tea, great stuff, try it sometime . . . so, where were we, ah so, our two dragons of darkness in the primordial void were named Long One and Long Two.
After no small passing of time things were getting pretty monotonous out there in the endless nothing, so the dragons got bored, and then irritated, then outright belligerent, and during one of their arguments Long One said, "I can't see your point," so Long Two replied, "Of course, in fact we can't see anything at all, we need some light in here, I am damn sick of asteroids hitting me in the dark, and every time I move seems I am cracking my skull on some damn planet." So Long One said, "Yeah yeah, always with the light the light this the light that if only the light, wah wah wah, I suppose you are blaming me for that same as everything else," to which Long Two answered, "You are the one always blaming and starting up conflict and never doing anything about anything, just whining and griping and arguing sitting in the dark like a damn fool." Whereupon they commenced to thrashing one another with their iron tails, and sparks flew, which they noticed, and kept battling in the hope of creating light.
So on it went for a thousand eternities. Never ending war, endless night,friction, sparks, brief flashes but no light. Finally they left off, exhausted.
Long One and Long Two were some tired and sad dragons by this time. Too weak and forlorn to fight, they tried to come up with another plan to bring light into the void. They fell to arguing and blaming again, same as before, and eventually started thrashing and battling, exactly the same as before. Sparks flying but no fire catching, yet another failure to create light. Two times in a row, same pointless quarrel, same mistakes, same futile conflict, same failures.
Moral of story, Grasshopper?
Two Longs don't make a light
[Edited on 9/4/2019 by BrerRabbit]
What is wrong with criticizing beliefs and values? Some help me out here.
