As Border Crisis Worsens, a Detention Center Designed for Children Has None

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KARNES CITY, Texas—Outfitted with miniature furniture, toys, and rugs with roads painted on them, the government detention center here was designed with young migrants in mind. But the only people being held here right now are adults.

While reports of children being detained in crowded Border Patrol stations widely criticized as dirty and unsafe have sparked a national outcry, several facilities run by immigration authorities that are intended for children aren’t being fully used for that purpose.

“It boggles the mind that at this very moment there are no kids here, when just on the other side of the state they have kids at Border Patrol processing centers sitting there for lengthy period of times without access to any of the things we should be providing them,” said Cori Hash, an Austin immigration lawyer who was part of a delegation that visited the Karnes County Residential Center last Friday.

In a detention center in Dilley, Texas, that houses families with children, more than 1,200 of its 2,400 beds were empty as of late June, federal data shows. A family facility with about 100 beds in central Pennsylvania housed just 29 people as of June 27.

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1. There was a large detention center being set up maybe 20 miles from where I live.

For a couple thousand kinds.

They were doing the final work on it, and somebody "discovered" that the right permits hadn't been issued. Surprise, instead of the permits that had been requested, the ones typically required for such a facility, it was determined that instead of an institution it had to be a restaurant. The city had X days to decide to issue the permit or not. On day X it decided "no", based on "community needs."

Meanwhile, the public pronouncements of the politicians in charge of the administrators who made that determination had said they were against the detention of children and that they were looking into ways of making sure that this odious, hateful corporation involved in fitting out the shelter would be blocked. Many are the same (local) politicians saying that really, it was the CBP's responsibility and *something* should have been done! Think of the kids--why didn't they make sure there were sufficient facilities?


A long time ago, somebody was explaining how Marx would have been aghast at some of the things that Lenin had done. (This was an old-school Marxist, a doctrinaire of ideology, not a Marxist-Leninist.) The revolution and communism had to spring organically from an evolution of the class struggle, it couldn't be imposed top-down. Anything to ameliorate working class conditions would, therefore, delay the class struggle's evolution.

Sometimes I think that some would rather be virtuous and not enable imperfect things they disagree with, but instead sit back and say, "Yeah, I could have helped make those conditions bearable, but by making them as bad as possible I served the Greater Good of getting the system abolished. Pity, all that needless suffering, but, you know, I think it was for a good purpose. Don't judge me!"

Two houses, enough pox to go around.