Trump Administration Tells Federal Judges It Shouldn't Be Required to Provide Toothbrushes or Soap

[douglas9]

The Trump administration this week told a panel of federal judges that the government need not provide soap or toothbrushes to migrant children it apprehends, despite a 1997 settlement agreement requiring it to hold detainees in “safe and sanitary” facilities.

According to reporting from Courthouse News Service, Justice Department attorney Sarah Fabian also argued in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that the government is legally allowed to make kids to sleep on concrete floors in cold and overcrowded cells.

The panel of three judges appeared unimpressed with the administration's claim, according to Courthouse News. In comments, the judges suggested the treatment violates the 1997 Flores agreement, which set up guidelines for U.S. immigration officials' humane detention of migrants.

“Are you arguing seriously that you do not read the agreement as requiring you to do anything other than what I just described: cold all night long, lights on all night long, sleeping on concrete and you’ve got an aluminum foil blanket?” U.S. Circuit Judge William asked Fabian. “I find it inconceivable that the government would say that that is safe and sanitary.”

https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2019/06/20/trump-administration-tells-federal-judges-that-it-shouldnt-be-required-to-provide-toothbrushes-or-soap-to-detained-migrant-children

[procon]

1. It's about maximizing the cruelty to children.

The inhumane treatment of defenseless, vulnerable little kids is the gleeful idea of a sick and twisted physcopath. It really doesn't matter if these acts of barbarism originated with Trump or Miller, or some Nazi idol of his. Trump owns the responsibility.

Those who do his dirty work and wreak vengeance on captured children will face the same condemnation and punishments as the Nazis at the Nuremburg trials who tried to claim innocence by crying they "we're only following orders."

[Calculating]

2. It takes a truly sadistic individual to mistreat children in captivity

Trump fits that description perfectly. He probably thinks they deserve it as punishment for trying to come here.

[struggle4progress]

3. "But. judge! We just don't think the rules apply to nazis!"

[FormerOstrich]

4. How much soap and toothbrushes can be purchased

for the total expenditure of the pathetic attempts of defending not providing them?