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The border children our government refuses to reunite with their families because they say it will be too traumatic for them. What will their status be a few years from now? Undocumented whats? This smells like indentured slavery to me.
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)bypass school and put the preschoolers in prison.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)to place kids in foster homes, or adopt them out to families. I just know that there is a dollar being made off this somewhere.
yardwork
(61,703 posts)I bet they are.
Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)Yes. money is a factor. https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/
The article also discussed that Betsy could not profit from the scheme because the organization is a nonprofit and thus has no owners.
However, the nonprofit can pay directors or pay salaries to people purportedly working there. The nonprofit can pay for profit corporations for services or goods and thus generate profits for dear Betsy and others.
I don't doubt for a second that money is at the root of this. No one in this administration takes a single step without it profiting them personally or benefiting Putin.
Bunch of grifters and traitors.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)lark
(23,155 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)Excuse my cuss words, but it is just bloody fucking criminal. With Republicans in charge, you just have to know that their cronies are making a buck off those kids. Didn't Sen Boxer say that the prisons were making $700/night for each kid? Shit! for $400/night I would want a free wet bar, meals, an in room heated jacuzzi pool. and mints on my pillow.
$700/night for 30 nights is $21,000. That's a year's college tuition, books, fees, room and board at a state college. Keep that number in time, the next time a republican asshole says that we can't afford free college or trade school for our kids. It's bullshit.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)When and if the kids ever get reunited with their parents nothing will ever be the same.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Sure, if you are in prison or an immigrant ( legal or not. ) I still ask where the fuck are the girl immigrants? I still see pictures of mostly boys and only one or two girls. I smell human sex trafficking with the girls.
titanicdave
(429 posts)......has absolutely.......NO.....CLUE.......as to what to do about these kids or .....ANYTHING.....ELSE.....FOR....THAT...MATTER !!!