Posted on 04/14/2020 2:54:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
HOUSTON - Elsy was on the phone in an immigration detention center when guards showed up with face masks and forms to sign.
The asylum-seeker from El Salvador and others had resorted to tearing their T-shirts into face coverings after a woman in their unit tested positive for COVID-19. But the guards would not give out the masks until the detainees signed the forms, which said they could not hold the private prison company running the detention center in San Diego liable if they got the coronavirus, according to Elsy and two other detainees, including one who read the form to The Associated Press over the phone.
When they refused Friday, the guards took away the masks, said Elsy, who spoke on condition that her last name be withheld for fear of retribution.
While U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has started to lower the number of detainees to reduce the risk of people getting sick, those held in immigration jails and their advocates say there’s not enough protective gear, cleaning supplies or space to allow for social distancing. They fear the number of coronavirus cases will sharply rise in the coming weeks as it has in jails and prisons nationwide.
The Otay Mesa Detention Center, where Elsy is held, jumped from one confirmed case last week to 12. There are 72 detainees in 12 states who tested positive and hundreds of others under quarantine.
Detainees in at least four states say they have been denied masks, even as the White House has urged face coverings in public.
Private prison company CoreCivic, which operates Otay Mesa, denied that masks were withheld unless detainees signed waivers. Spokeswoman Amanda Gilchrist said Monday that detainees were given an “acknowledgment form” that a mask alone could not protect them from the virus.
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I hear they have plenty of masks back in El Salvador.
AP with another turtle-on-a-fencepost article.
Why they think anyone locked down for a month in his own home would give a stuff about these border hopping cretins and what they might or might not catch is beyond me.
What an outrage to suggest that some illegal aliens are bringing infectious diseases with them!
Back when I was trying to make a living writing articles, I read every article and book on the subject. They all say to make the subject of the article personal. Give it a name. That’s why every heart wrenching article starts with (Name, brief poignant description) followed by (horrible problem.) The idea is to bring the reader into the story quickly. The reader simply must identify with and support this poor, wretched subject. (Lest the reader clicks away and you lose ad revenue.) Therefore every such article is biased, not towards the subject of the article but to not lose ad revenue. This means that no contravening facts can be brought into the story as the writer immediately loses the reader’s sympathy and attention.
The media is not so much biased towards everything that is anti=American (though they must be to get published) as they are biased towards not losing ad revenue. Factual. balanced articles don’t have nearly the readership, thus revenue, as tabloid trash.
BTW, have you noticed that there has been no effort by the home countries (Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, etc) to help their citizens in ant way? No medical help...no offers to repatriate, etc.
ASS-ociated press, immigrants pleading for masks
Guess they chose poorly coming to the USA
We can’t find masks, but the country is supposed to give them away to illegals?
That article-writing style has the opposite effect on me.
Soon as the writer starts turning a personal anecdote into some cosmic ponderance, I think to myself “boooring” and know that what’s coming is some journalist major regurgitating his college indoctrination.
And I click “off”.
“Soon as the writer starts turning a personal anecdote into some cosmic ponderance, I think to myself “boooring” and know that what’s coming is some journalist major regurgitating his college indoctrination.”
I agree. I seldom make it past the name of the poor person whose problem I am about to witness. I have the same problem with TV and movies. They are so formulaic I can’t bear to waste my time watching them unfold to their all too predictable end. As a kid I loved all those seventies murder mysteries, until I realized that you were introduced to the murderer and the critical evidence in the beginning before it had any relevance to the story. Then, the main character would whip out those facts in the conclusion like a magician with a hat and a rabbit. I hate TV and I haven’t been to a movie in about fifteen years.
In fact, they host more than a few of them but are very selective. A friend of our who returned from a cruise there last year observed that they were not only highly productive compared to their neighbors but industrious and happy as well. Most own their own homes, mostly humble but neat cinder block construction and have a compact car or motorbike (often both) in their carport.
Believe me I have railed against the cliched J-school ‘cold open’ for years. It’s lazy, it’s repetitive. I understand the intent but there are too many hacktastic little junior Hemingways with agendas.
‘Jose Padilla didn’t know if his truck with 200,000 miles on the odometer would start that morning so he could do his landscaping work.....’
The writer’s twitter profile reveals he ‘writes on border & immigration issues’ - in other words, he’s looking for a story where there are none.
Film cliches would fill a book - and probably have.
Every family lives in a nice isolated house with 20 acres of wooded ground - often near a lake.
They make a middle-class wages but can afford a huge spread.
Here’s your Mask, sign here.
That’s a tough one...
Those Core Civic people are obviously monsters. My S-I-L works for them, I’d better watch my back.
Corrected title: Detained ILLEGAL immigrants plead for masks, protection from virus.
If they were legal immigrants they would not be detained.
This is not the asylum you are searching for.
I agree with the mysteries, even with my fave, Columbo. I found a binge-watch playlist on Amazon Prime. I just like watching Peter Falk. And the cars, outfits and technology is so retro-70’s, it’s fun from that perspective, too.
JUST SEND THEM HOME!!! Save the medical treatment, masks, and all for American citizens.
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