‘Heartbreaking’ conditions in US migrant child camp

Did the BBC report on this when Trump was president?

The US govt and US taxpayers shouldn’t be responsible for the grossly irresponsible parents of other countries. They can go home. They’re not refugees.

The problem is the mixed messages it is sending about the border: thereby encouraging every opportunistic dropkick this side of the Amazon to head north. For all his wrongs, Trump had one thing right: a nation state os only as strong as its borders.

Trump didn't have one thing right, you disgusting troll.

Kamala is handling it, OP. As soon as she figures out the root cause.

The U.S. needs to fine Mexico for every single person who makes it across the border. It's their fault they let them into their country from Central America. It's their fault they ignore the human trafficking that goes on across their country.

R2, riiight, and therefore we should not worry about any human rights abuses? You’re a very sick human being.

It looks slightly more humane than the chain link fence cages with bare concrete floors and a mylar blanket, in windowless warehouses.

That's a good question, R1, so I looked into it. Went to Google and searched

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and saw almost nothing about Trump, but instead multiple negative stories about Biden and immigrant camps on the BBC in the first few pages of results, things like "neglect, filth and fear" mentioned prominently in articles about the camps under Biden's administration.

Meanwhile the Trump stories had far more banal headlines, like "Trump migrant separation policy: Children 'in cages' in Texas" and "Migrant children in the US: The bigger picture explained." You have to go to the second or third page to get anything really negative about Trump, but articles like "US migrant children cry for separated parents on audio" come with quotes from Trump excusing what's happening.

Had to get to the fourth page before the ICE whistleblower story about the Trump admin corruption in ICE even showed up on the BBC.

There's a definite difference in coverage, that's for sure.

Holy fuck, they don't deserve 4-star accomodations.

Oh. Thank you, BBC. No similar reports from the camps of unwanted Lesbos, though, in your beloved EU?

Maybe their parents shouldn't have assumed they could use their kids as battering rams?

Say it loud. Say it clear. Refugees are welcome here.

I remember being incredibly frustrated at the lack of coverage in the news media about the way Trump was treating immigrants, it was frequently relegated to the opinion panels on cable news or to social media outrage. The same doesn't seem to be happening with Biden, which I guess we all kind of expected.

Maybe the should have applied legally then?

R11 They are not refugees. They are invaders, looking for an easier way of life, and exploiting their children to achieve that goal.

It’s okay for Democrats to keep kids in cages.

LMAO...Republicans jumped through hoops insisting cages weren't actually cages. Now that kids are being kept in dormitories and open bays, Republicans insist the kids are being kept in cages...and throwing out the line, "It's okay for Democrats to keep kids in cages." Fucking losers.

The cages started with Obama. They continued with Trump. They are still here with Biden.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, R17.

There are many countries allowing these people to move across. Sanction or fine them until they stop it.

What, R18??

It is heartbreaking...

To know our tax dollars are being wasted by people flouting the law.

R14 wants to pay 150 bucks for a chicken ceasar salad rather than see any brown people at his Piggly Wiggly

R22 wants to pay 50 cents for a chicken ceasar salad and will exploit all brown people at his Piggly Wiggly to get it.

R23, capitalism doesn't work without immigrant labor.