Border Patrol officials in Texas are turning down diaper and toy donations for jailed kids

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Border Patrol agents in Clint, Texas, (the detention center where kids are reportedly sick, unclean, and caring for one another) are turning down donations of diapers and toys, as reported by Alex Samuels at the Texas Tribune. That’s right: The facility which reportedly isn’t proving enough food, water, or sanitary conditions for the children trapped there, away from their parents, also isn’t accepting donations of goods. Sick? Absolutely.

As reported by the Tribune, Austin Savage and a few of his friends went to the facility named in The New York Times article detailing these horrible conditions. They brought diapers, wipes, toys, and soap. As their story continues, however, Border Patrol agents ignored them—and their $340 worth of donations.

“A good friend of mine is an immigration attorney, and he warned us that we were going to get rejected,” Savage told the Tribune. “We were aware of that, but it’s just the idea of doing something as opposed to passively allowing this to occur.”

[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/25/1867106/-Border-Patrol-officials-in-Texas-are-turning-down-diaper-and-toy-donations-for-jailed-kids|

Of course they won't take donations. That means they would actually have to DO something, anything, to help these kids. Not gonna happen!

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1. Yes but their reason for rejecting those items

was that they already had plenty of diapers and toothbrushes, that they didn't need money, contrary to Trump's excuse. They are like the Keystone cops, like a flock of scattered turkeys. Maybe that's the way that Trump wants it, unorganized nincompoops?

Nah, rejecting help for brown kids will appeal to Trump's base.

Speaking of aid to brown kids. I wonder what happened to that 500k that the pope (Peter's pence) gave to the immigrants at the border? I ask because this Sunday my church is taking up a collection for Peter's pence and I always give to it.