Trump is Making Money Through His Prisons for Children

[bdamomma]

https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/heres-the-shocking-amount-of-money-private-companies-are-making-from-detaining-immigrants/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=392&recip_id=21760&list_id=2


Article Here’s the shocking amount of money private companies are making from detaining immigrants

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A new report from NBC News has detailed the enormous cost of housing the children and families being detained at the border. Are you sitting down? Because a for-profit, private company is billing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services a whopping $775 per child, per day to hold them in one of the “tent cities” on the Trump administration’s orders.

Professor W. Warren Binford, a law professor who is an “internationally recognized children’s rights scholar and advocate” and founder of the Willamette’s Child and Family Advocacy Clinic, visited a Border Patrol detention facility in Clint, Texas, and she told PBS and several other media outlets about the squalid conditions these children are living in—sleeping on concrete floors, children taking care of toddlers, flu outbreak, diapers being reused or no diapers at all. Separated from their loved ones at the border as they turned themselves in to seek asylum and legal entry into the United States. This is a crisis entirely manufactured by the Trump administration as Professor Binford notes that nearly every child she interviewed had a family member in the United States willing to take them in and care for them.



This must stop. The more we complain about this more people will be aware of how this regime is committing crimes against humanity.

[Bayard]

1. tRump is a sadistic monster

A large group of pro bono lawyers should jump into the fray. I would think they could legally bring a lot of evidence to light in the courts. And spend a bunch of time being interviewed on TV.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Two thirds of America doesn't care that much

And the other third loves it.

If there were a god, there would not be living Americans.

From sea to shining sea, you would just hear bird calls.