They were fed apples and water in the 'kinderkampen'

[deminks]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/immigrant-kids-tell-cbs-go-hungry-trump-camps-fed-apples-water/

Immigrant children told CBS News that they went hungry after being detained by Customs and Border Protection agents.

CBS News host Gayle King spoke to a group of children who were held in detention centers after President Donald Trump ordered a “no tolerance” policy, forcing immigrant families to be separated.

“Were you treated very well, were you afraid there?” King asked a 15-year-old boy named Renaldo.

“I was very scared,” Renaldo replied, according to a translator. “At midnight they wake you up to count everyone in the cells.”

After the interview, King revealed that multiple children told her they went hungry while in the detention center.

“Renaldo also told us that he did not get enough to eat,” King explained. “He said he was fed apples and water — and neither did other people.”

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posted without comment. I can't think of enough cuss words.

[MontanaMama]

1. How many of these children

will be malnourished, get sick and die in the care of US officials? Will anyone know? Will their parents ever know?

[LongTomH]

2. It's worth mentioning that this is a for-profit center!!!

They have to keep costs low, to maximize profits, don'tcha know??

[uponit7771]

3. +1, yep when it comes to Benedict Donald money has the be at the center of it all

[oberliner]

4. Also worth mentioning that it opened in 2014

Border Patrol opens central processing facility for unaccompanied kids

McALLEN — Metal benches, green sleeping pads and chain-link fence enclosures awaited kids picked up by Border Patrol at the Rio Grande Valley’s first central processing center for unaccompanied immigrant children.

Border Patrol gave members of the media a tour Thursday of the South McAllen warehouse at 3700 W. Ursula Ave., where the new center is located, before they planned to begin bringing children there Friday.

The federal government was able to lease the vacant building quickly and spent just weeks retrofitting it to hold up to 1,000 children, said Kevin Oaks, the chief patrol agent for Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector.

Inside, chain-link fence provides the walls to create four pods, each including a central area, six smaller enclosures with benches and a cell of portable toilets. Brightly painted platforms in the center of each pod allow staff to watch over the kids, who will be separated by age between the smaller enclosures, said Roel Rodriguez, who will be running the center.

https://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_b22a23ae-0e2b-11e4-b9d3-0017a43b2370.html

At that point, the issue was unaccompanied minors.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. I am curious about processing and procedures.

Are there any differences? What was the expectation and the typical experience in 2014 verses now?

[oberliner]

8. Here's an interesting article on that subject from July, 2014 (Washington Post)

Obama aides were warned of brewing border crisis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-aides-were-warned-of-brewing-border-crisis/2014/07/19/8b5d2282-0d1b-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. Thank you!

[oberliner]

10. There is also a great deal of information from the Women's Refugee Commission

Here's one report from 2012:

https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/component/zdocs/document?id=856-forced-from-home-executive-summary

And here is one from 2017:

https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/rights/gbv/resources/1450-betraying-family-values

[Solly Mack]

5. Lately, all I do is sputter when reading the news.

Angry words wanting to come out too fast.

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. My brain has defaulted to a torrent of emotional response rather than processing verbally.

[Solly Mack]

11. That, too. :(