Oh, man... Immigrant CHILDREN in detention camps... How has it come to this...?

i've been exposed to a lot of disturbing things in my obsessive vigil over all things bushco, but this is right up at the top of the list...

One of the more disturbing stories that surfaced after the Swift meat plant raids was how too many children were left without a parent and/or farmed out to friends and families with no immediate word on how they will be reconnected with their mami and papi.

But if news filtering out of one of the newly designated immigrant detention centers for families is any indication, no undocumented parent is going to open their mouth and claim their children if the whole family is going to be subjected to what is becoming known as the first known concentration camp on American soil in the 21st Century.

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[A]t the Taylor facility [the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, on the outskirts of Austin, Texas, is a private detention facility operated by Corrections Corporation of America], of the 400 people "held" there, 200 are children. And all are families that can be held there for whatever length of time without due process conducted in a timely manner.

To top it off, as long as the men, women and children are held there, the facility's operator draws a daily profit - per person.

The children range in age from infants on up.

According to the lawyers who have visited their clients in the facility, the children receive one hour of education, English instruction, a day and one half hour of indoor recreation.

Jeans and t-shirts have been replaced with jail uniforms; children are issued uniforms as soon as they can fit into them — and everyone must wear name tags, even the babies.

Lawyers are reporting that the families are receiving substandard medical care and becoming ill from the food being served them. Children are losing weight and people are complaining of migraine-type headaches.

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The detention for a prolonged period of any child, regardless of whether or not they are with family members, is beneath what the United States used to stand for.

so many things have been done that are so far "beneath what the united states used to stand for" that i have lost track... this is just another one, but one, nonetheless, that is extraordinarily sad...

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