Psycho considering using military bases to house migrant children!

[MoonRiver]

Hey, why not just put the babies in prisons, along with all the other criminals?

[greymattermom]

1. At this time of year

there are probably plenty of empty college dorm rooms that could be temporary housing. Would that be better?

[blake2012]

3. How about doing what prior administrations did?

Use reasonable judgement to send vast majority on their way with instructions to appear before adjudicators of their immigration case?

[dameatball]

2. Maybe he will call them Space Force Cadets instead of baby prisoners.

[Sherman A1]

4. While this whole thing is reprehensible.

Military bases would likely have better accommodations than a shuttered Walmart.

[atreides1]

7. Not really!!!

What would probably happen is that more tent cities would be built in areas away from the main base facilities, and that it would be private prison contractors running those facilities!

Base commanders would have no rights because those "accommodations" would be under civilian control...and the military would be ordered to stay away from those facilities!!!

[lunasun]

8. ++++1 agree . Contractor tent city on bases likely . Sounds assuring but not

[Ohiogal]

5. When does the waterboarding of 2 year olds start?

[Zoonart]

6. Does the not also violate Posse Comitatus?

The purpose of the act – in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 – is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/11682287

[Ilsa]

10. I've wondered about that and use of JAG officers to prosecute immigrants. nt

[Baclava]

9. It's been done before

Lackland AFB a temporary shelter for immigrant children

Friday, April 27, 2012

In and around a beige barracks on Lackland AFB, 200 children sleep on military-style cots, eat in an atmosphere similar to a school cafeteria, watch movies and play soccer on a small patch of dirt.

All this happens under the watchful eye of BCFS Health & Human Services employees and off-duty San Antonio police officers.

A small group of reporters on Thursday got a look at the temporary shelter for immigrant children in a 60-year-old building at Lackland, only one of a handful of similar facilities across Texas that has been open to the media

The children are part of an unexplained wave of kids detained by the Border Patrol, and in the last month authorities have opened temporary shelters to house them. The Lackland shelter opened two weeks ago.

The emergency shelter is one of five housing nearly 500 children who have appeared in the last month as the Border Patrol deals with an influx of unaccompanied children, said Jesus Garcia, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Lackland-AFB-a-temporary-shelter-for-immigrant-3513770.php