Report: 1,000 new migrant adults detained at U.S. border weekly, "serious risk of exceeding safety standards on a regular basis'

[xeni]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/06/14/report-1000-new-migrant-adul.html

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[LDoBe]

People die of exposure in captivity. Clearly there’s no consideration at all for migrants’ saftey at all. These are concentration camps. They’re meant not to be safe.

[lasermike026]

Trump and the people that are doing this are monsters. I hope they are convicted for crimes against humanity.

[lumbercartel]

How many of those 8000 are here seeking asylum?

Bear in mind that previously asylum seekers were not detained prior to their hearings.

[bb4me]

with all the laws this administration breaks in plain sight, imagine what they do when they are so sure no-one is watching…

(then imagine what he’s going to do with a 2nd term as a confirmation that there is never going to be a penalty)

[Shuck]

@bb4me

with all the laws this administration breaks in plain sight, imagine what they do when they are so sure no-one is watching…

This is part of what’s so disturbing about moving migrant camps into military bases - no one, including lawyers, are allowed in. There’s literally zero oversight. And given that right now, with oversight, we’ve got people being held in dangerous, abusive conditions (e.g. children kept in vans for days on end), people are dying and things like this are happening…

Teen Mom And Prematurely Born Baby Neglected At Border Patrol Facility For 7...

[Wanderfound]

No One is Illegal

Reminder that deaths by malicious neglect were killing concentration camp prisoners long before the gas chambers were operational. Anne Frank wasn’t gassed; she died of typhus.

[gracchus]

With this regime, never forget that the cruelty is the point. The Know-Nothing 27% base loves this kind of thing.

[Wanderfound]

Reminder that the deaths within the camps are just the tip of the iceberg. And that this has been going on much longer than just the Trump Presidency.

Kate Linthicum

Death as ‘Deterrence’: the Desert as a Weapon - Alliance for Global Justice

A March 2010 Congressional Research Service report entitled “Border Security: the Role of the Border Patrol” candidly details government policy goals and strategies in recent history. In 1994, the report explains, the U.S. adopted a “new policy” of militarizing urban border areas in order to reroute and steer anticipated human migration into “geographically harsher,” “more remote and hazardous border regions” (mostly through the Arizona desert), as a way of “deterring” migrants from crossing.

The new “vision” of the deterrence strategy to bring the border “under control” is outlined in a July 1994 Border Patrol planning document entitled “Border Patrol Strategic Plan: 1994 and Beyond”. The perception of the border environment is explicitly used to demonstrate that migrants “crossing through remote, uninhabited expanses of land and sea along the border can find themselves in mortal danger.” The document bases the strategy on the “prediction” that migrant “traffic will be deterred, or forced over more hostile terrain, less suited for crossing and more suited for enforcement.”

Forgoing any subtlety, “enforcement,” in this instance, is a euphemism for “mortal danger” as a premeditated method of death by example to deter human beings from crossing unauthorized into the US.

The strategic use of the “hazardous” border environment is not obscured by government officials. Six years after the strategic plan appeared, former Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Doris Meissner, admitted that “we did believe that geography would be an ally to us. It was our sense that the number of people crossing the border through Arizona would go down to a trickle once people realized what it’s like.”

On the policy’s fifteenth anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote in its landmark Oct. 2009 report, “Humanitarian Crisis: Migrant Deaths at the U.S.-Mexico Desert,” that at least 6000 people have died in the desert as a “predictable and inhumane” consequence of these so-called “deterrence” strategies, eliciting a continental humanitarian crisis. The month following the release of the ACLU report, the American Public Health Association (APHA) released its own report, “Border Crossing Deaths: A Public Health Crisis Along the U.S.-Mexico Border.” The APHA likewise concluded that the Border Patrol’s policy of “prevention through deterrence” has “resulted in the purposeful displacement and diversion of migrants into more treacherous and dangerous zones to cross…” The APHA echoed the total number of desert deaths cited by the ACLU in its report the previous month, but added that “[t]hese statistics are merely the number of known deaths, and do not include those border crossers who have never been found or were reported missing, thereby underestimating the actual number of migrants who have died attempting to cross the border.”

The darkly euphemistic language of “controlling” (in contrast to stopping) unauthorized immigration is crucial in understanding the enforcement management system of death as a measure of deterrence capacity. A “key assumption” of the 1994 Strategic Plan was that migrant apprehensions “will decrease as Border Patrol increases control of the border.” Having observed the actual consequences of anticipated effects of blunt “control” efforts, the APHA report cited above notes that “despite a nearly 50 percent drop in Border Patrol apprehensions”—as coolly predicted by Border Patrol in 1994—and despite “the recent economic downturn, and a decrease in border crossings, migrant deaths along the border continue to increase ” (my emphasis).

This morbid trend over the past two decades is acutely evident. According to state medical examiners and human rights groups 14 deaths in the year of the strategy’s fateful onset, 1994, jumped to 90 deaths in 2000, to 145 deaths in 2001, to 163 deaths in 2002. The next year, in one of those rare moments of candor that occasionally crop up from retired government officials, former Tucson Border Patrol sector chief, Ron Sanders, was quoted an article in The Nation magazine on U.S. border militarization policy: “By every measure, the strategy is a failure. All it’s accomplished is killing people….If you had airplanes crashing in this country with the same numbers [of deaths], you’d have everybody after the FAA. But since these people [dying] are Mexicans, no one seems to care.”

[Wanderfound]

Thread.

Tim Dickinson (7im)

[stinkinbadgers]

OMG he fell! And gashed his arm! Guess we better launch the ICBMs…

[marcus_mcmullan]

Those who cause this humanitarian horror show (Drumph) and anyone complicit within it are traitors to our species… And yet I’m sure they all delusionally think they are the best of our species… Just as it was with the Nazi’s, they all think their cause is righteous and history is doomed to repeat itself again and again.

[bb4me]

think of the trillions upon trillions of dollars we’ve spent going to war and then trying to nation-build in the middle-east, when instead we should have been investing and building up Mexico and central american economy to stabilize a region right on our border

now it’s all coming to haunt us, there could be a 50/50 chance of death by crossing the border and yet people will still attempt it because things are that bad

just imagine if he gets another four years, there’s still a 40% chance, the tragedy could become larger than many atrocities across history

[snigs]

The majority of these children will live to grow up, and many will have been taught to hate the United States. Trump will be long dead, but there will be a generation of kids, in this country and Latin America, who will make it there life’s mission to treat the US as badly as the US treated them.

[abutilon]

I hope they are convicted for crimes against humanity.

They will be convicted, & we will be condemned by history for standing by. Just as when you visit Germany & see a German of a certain age, & wonder what they were doing during the Holocaust.

[Wanderfound]

Historic.ly (historic_ly)

[Wanderfound]

@Wanderfound

Reminder that the deaths within the camps are just the tip of the iceberg.

[RiChard]

It’s past time this country settled what to do with refugees that meets basic standards of decency. Climate-wise, we ain’t seen NUTHIN’ yet.

[anon27554371]

Mike Godwin (sfmnemonic)

[LDoBe]

Please don’t look away https://imgur.com/gallery/kbgt41K