Homestead High - A typical teen in a typical American for-profit "concentration camp"

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@smulder

@Wanderfound I’m sure you’re on top of this stuff

Yup.

For starters, see:

Undocumented Americans

BTW, there are three main stories in the recent “lost/abused children” scandals. Children and adults being raped/abused while in detention. This has been going on since at least Obama, is still continuing, and is likely to get worse. This is covered in the ACLU report and VICE article. Children being separated from their parents at the border: this is a new Trump policy, but is only just starting to take effect. It is also an area where the Obama administration did some comparable things, …

Undocumented Americans

Remember the outrage over the use of tear gas at the border back in November? Trump is the symptom, not the disease. This has been building for a long time. “Let’s just go back to how it was before Trump” is not an adequate response.

Undocumented Americans

Some history: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RL33659.pdf As always: this didn’t begin with Trump, and it wasn’t just the Republicans.

Undocumented Americans

Greg Grandin interview begins at 33:30.

Pretty much everything that the Trump administration is doing is just Clinton/Obama policy with the volume cranked up and the mask ripped off.

Yes, Trump is making it worse. But it was already completely indefensible.