Posted on 06/15/2018 4:12:20 AM PDT by gattaca
An MSNBC reporter said migrant children are effectively being "incarcerated" in a Texas facility where more than 1,400 migrant children are being held.
Jacob Soboroff was one of a number of reporters who toured the Brownsville facility on Wednesday. Soboroff said the center, which is a former Walmart, reminded him of a prison.
“This place is called a 'shelter' but effectively these kids are incarcerated,” Soboroff said.
Soboroff said on “All In With Chris Hayes” that the facility houses roughly 1,400 boys between ages 10 and 17. He compared the setup to a “dormitory structure,” noting that the building has a cafeteria area and rooms with four beds each.
The reporter posted a photo of a mural painted near an entrance that depicts President Trump in front of an American flag and the White House.
Licensed professionals with the Office of Refugee Resettlement run the facility. Soboroff explained that kids are free to move around and are allotted two hours of outdoor time each day.
“It’s organized chaos in there. It’s hectic, but it is organized,” he said.
Reporters were allowed inside the facility less than two weeks after Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) shared a video showing him being barred from entering the same building.
Democrats and immigration advocates have expressed concern about the treatment of migrant children in the wake of the Trump administration's recently implemented "zero tolerance" for those who illegally cross the border.
The policy has faced intense scrutiny from critics, who call it cruel and blame it for overwhelming courts and U.S. attorneys' offices.
“This practice is antithetical not only to American values but to basic decency and humanity,” Democratic lawmakers wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions last Friday.
Sessions announced last month that the Justice Department would aggressively prosecute adults attempting to cross the U.S.–Mexico border illegally — a process that often leads to children being separated from their parents upon being apprehended.
Authorities have separated families who cross illegally in some cases, placing children in separate holding facilities. The practice occurs before a parent is convicted and is carried out regardless of whether a migrant is seeking asylum.
Trump has blamed Democrats for enacting poor immigration laws amid outcry over the policy.
Other Trump administration officials, including Sessions and White House chief of staff John Kelly, have defended the policy as a deterrent against illegal immigration.
Just like children are detained in a day care center.
Easy: Take them and their parents (if they can be found) to Canada. Problem solved.
Yes. If they were not effectively incarcerated they would likely be out on the street where they could be injured, killed or become homeless. Or, they would become feral gangs preying on American citizens. The objective here is to keep them safe and the American citizens safe. What, exactly, is the problem?
Well, the sooner the backlog of illegal alien deportation cases is cleared, the sooner these children will be reunited with their parents back in their home country.
The holding facilities are probably way nicer than their living conditions back home. Maybe, having had a taste of such conditions, they will be inspired to try to recreate conditions as nice back home.
How many did Jacob take back to his Manhattan condo?
This problem is very easy to fix. If they don’t want the kids to be separated from mommy then STOP BREAKING THE LAW AND GO BACK HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And their point is?
Yeah…so…what’s your point? Immigration doing their job? Children receiving food and health care? What’s your point there, PMSNBC??
Unite wthem with their parents and more will come! Consequences to illegality is supposed to stop them from coming with children.. INSTEAD, they are using this ploy to gain entrance into the US...
CONSEEQUENCES is the only thing that sends a message and we are supposed to do away with that ONE item!
To parents.. to mothers:.. DON”T COME HERE ILLEGALLY WITH YOUR CHILDREN!!
What is the problem? Their parents have chosen to disobey the law rather than provide a stable home in the country of their citizenship for their own children.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS detained.
Good.
This reporter has no frickin' idea if these are legit "families" being (gag) "separated."
Another example of mush-headed liberals assuming absurdities.
REALITY CHECK: Whether these are legit families has yet to be determined.
It's a known Third World practice to bring in other people's children to increase the gravy train haul, including welfare, food stamps and EITC checks.
That's why we need to get the DNA of any "parent" who claims "separation" from their so-called children.
What are you going to do with them? The dims are trying to capitalize on bad optics, but it won’t work.
What would he suggest? Putting them up at the Ritz?
They are not immigrants. They are foreign nationals unlawfully in the US.
send illegals to Canada....
If restricting movement and activities is “incarceration”, we “incarcerate” children in homes. In child care. In schools.
Without even reading the entire article or even seeing who it originated from, I have some guesses.
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