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Kids fight adults for clean water at detention centers (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Jun 2025 OP
Stephen Miller is loving this dalton99a Jun 2025 #1
Well he is a sadistic sick fuck newdeal2 Jun 2025 #3
Trump ramps up rhetoric on undocumented immigrants: 'These aren't people. These are animals.' Norrrm Jun 2025 #8
Stephen Miller needs a one way ticket to Mars on a Space X rocket. Initech Jun 2025 #10
Hmmm lonely bird Jun 2025 #11
Yes at some point we are going to have to fight and fight hard. Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #2
you're right, protest sign won't fix it... FirstLight Jun 2025 #4
In total agreement lindalou65 Jun 2025 #12
What are we doing? What have we become? We should have thousands of class action lawsuits Deuxcents Jun 2025 #5
Yeah, I know canetoad Jun 2025 #7
We are probably paying a fortune for these dismal detention centers. Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #6
A concentration camp by any other name... Magoo48 Jun 2025 #9

dalton99a

(92,146 posts)
1. Stephen Miller is loving this
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 04:29 PM
Jun 2025
One mother was told she would have to use tap water for formula for her 9-month-old, who had diarrhea for three days after, and a 16-year-old girl described people scrambling over each other for water.

“We don’t get enough water. They put out a little case of water, and everyone has to run for it,” said the declaration from the girl held with her mother and two younger siblings at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center. “An adult here even pushed my little sister out of the way to get to the water first.”

One family with a young boy with cancer said he missed his doctor’s appointment after the family was arrested following their attendance to an immigration court hearing. He is now experiencing relapse symptoms, according to the motion. Another family said their 9-month old lost over 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) while in detention for a month.

Children spoke openly about their trauma during visits with legal monitors, including a 12-year-old boy with a blood condition. He reported his feet became too inflamed to walk, and even though he saw a doctor, he was denied further testing. Now, he stays mostly off his feet. “It hurts when I walk,” he said in a court declaration.

Arrests have left psychological trauma. A mother of a 3-year-old boy who saw agents go inside his babysitter’s home with guns started acting differently after detention. She said he now throws himself on the ground, bruises himself and refuses to eat most days.

newdeal2

(4,793 posts)
3. Well he is a sadistic sick fuck
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 04:32 PM
Jun 2025

He thinks this shows them as animals probably.

But how about the rest of the so called sane Republicans? The ones who voted for cheaper eggs. Does this move them at all?

Norrrm

(4,016 posts)
8. Trump ramps up rhetoric on undocumented immigrants: 'These aren't people. These are animals.'
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 04:59 PM
Jun 2025

Trump ramps up rhetoric on undocumented immigrants: 'These aren't people. These are animals.'

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/16/trump-immigrants-animals-mexico-democrats-sanctuary-cities/617252002/
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Remember:::: whatever bad that Donald says about "illegals"/undoc immigrants, he would rather hire them than pay Americans.
The very same "illegals"/undoc immigrants that he blames for so much crime.

He only quit hiring them when it became politically inconvenient.

FirstLight

(15,771 posts)
4. you're right, protest sign won't fix it...
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 04:35 PM
Jun 2025

we need to start storming the detention centers... If only we could "organize" a real rebel alliance like in star wars.. .

I don't know how we fix this, it's scary and feels like we can't stop it but we have to!

lindalou65

(378 posts)
12. In total agreement
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 06:56 PM
Jun 2025

Can a State’s senator go to investigate the conditions? They are totally inhumane. I think protesting at these facilities would help in getting something done.

Deuxcents

(25,529 posts)
5. What are we doing? What have we become? We should have thousands of class action lawsuits
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 04:37 PM
Jun 2025

Saying we resent our tax dollars supporting this inhumane treatment and we want it stopped. I wish I knew who to call to help..some kind of lawyer or something. Doing nothing and knowing what’s going on is painful enough and we don’t even know the half of it. 🤬 I’m literally sick of this

canetoad

(20,233 posts)
7. Yeah, I know
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 04:56 PM
Jun 2025

No King's day was excellent, but the lack of effective pushback against this administration is puzzling and frightening. Is everyone just sitting on their hands, assuming it will be over in four years or less then life can carry on? Or are people genuinely frightened for their lives and futures?

Irish_Dem

(79,856 posts)
6. We are probably paying a fortune for these dismal detention centers.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 04:43 PM
Jun 2025

Grifting opportunities for Trump crime syndicate.

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