Trump mulls deploying emergency disaster workers to detention centers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trump's considering deploying a 1,000-person force usually used for relief efforts after hurricanes and other natural disasters to help staff overcrowded detention centers for migrants, according to people briefed on the matter.

The highly unusual move could diffuse the cost of sending additional personnel to assist with detention centers dealing with a wave of migrants who are being held after crossing the U.S. border.

“It frees up more resources,” said a source familiar with the discussions.

But it also would put trained federal employees from other parts of the government — who signed up to help disaster victims — in a new and controversial role.


https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/435026-trump-mulls-deploying-emergency-disaster-workers-to-detention-centers

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. That's....unbelievably creepy.

I almost don't even want to know what that would imply.

It just sounds horrific.

[dewsgirl]

2. I don't imagine the outcome from this will

be good.

[DBoon]

3. Looks like the RWNJs were right about the FEMA camps

Just wrong about who would build and staff them, and who would be detained

[blaze]

4. The employees who volunteer for these emergency assignments

I imagine them to be kind, caring and compassionate people who want to go that extra mile when people are in such dire straits. I wonder how they are responding to this news.

From the article:

"The Surge Capacity Force has been activated only twice since its inception, both times for major hurricanes. The first was in 2012, for Hurricane Sandy, and the second was in 2017, after a trio of brutal hurricanes — Harvey, Irma and Maria — left FEMA stretched thin."

[MissB]

5. So he's admitting that he created a disaster.

Recognition is the first step.