US border camps (fl. 2018- ), also known as Trump camps, are the concentration camps or “detention centres” near the US border with Mexico. It is where President Trump is putting asylum seekers fleeing Central America, separating parent from child.
Note: Seeking asylum is not a crime!!!
Refugee crisis: There is a refugee crisis coming from Central America, from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in particular, countries the US has helped to screw up. Trump’s answer is to demonize the refugees, criminalize them with his zero-tolerance policy, and put them into what most experts agree are concentration camps.
A concentration camp by any other name would smell as …
On July 1st 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and others from Congress visited three “detention centres” at the border.
Some of what AOC tweeted from her visit:
“Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets.”
“After I forced myself into a cell w/ women&began speaking to them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as ‘psychological warfare’ – waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc.”
“Now I’m on my way to Clint, where the Trump admin was denying children toothpaste and soap.”
“This has been horrifying so far. It is hard to understate the enormity of the problem. We’re talking systemic cruelty w/ a dehumanizing culture that treats them like animals.”
“What’s haunting is that the women I met with today told me in no uncertain terms that they would experience retribution for telling us what they shared.”
“They all began sobbing – out of fear of being punished, out of sickness, out of desperation, lack of sleep, trauma, despair.”
“Some women’s hair was falling out. Others had gone 15 days without taking a shower.”
“Even if they let you in, these women told us CBP [Customs & Border Protection] did a lot of ‘cleaning up’ before we arrived.”
“They were moved into that room from outside tents before our arrival. They said they’d gone 15 days w/o a shower, & were allowed to start bathing 4 days ago (when visit was announced).”
“CBP’s ‘good’ behavior was toxic. Imagine how they treat the women trapped inside.”
Her account confirms the terrible news that has been coming out of the camps.
When they came outside the camps:
“Pro-concentration camp & Pro-Trump protestors tried to drown out our accounts. … They called Joaquin Castro ‘traitor’ for denouncing family separation.
“@AyannaPressley was heroic, speaking truth to vitriol.”
The next day another person died at the camps.
Rush Limbaugh, a right-wing blowhard on the radio, on that next day:
“Now she [AOC] runs down there and starts trashing and lying about conditions at the border … But my friends, based on what we’re told about the circumstances where these people are fleeing, maybe toilet water is a step up …”
“It was the times!” –
CNN on July 2nd 2019:
“About 6 in 10 Americans (62%) say they disapprove of the treatment migrants are receiving at the border … but most Republicans (62%) say they approve …”
– Abagond, 2019.
See also:
- Recommended reading:
- I’m 10-15 – a CBP Facebook group
- concentration camp
- Donald Trump
- Is the Republican Party a hate group?
- The Southern strategy
- The Republican bubble
- Rush Limbaugh
- AOC
- CNN
- “It was the times!”
- “Never again!”
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Something is horribly wrong in this country when this violation of human rights is allowed to go on. This current administration has no moral compass. This is just pure evil.
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I have such admiration for Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez she is a brave truth teller.
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Never trust WHITES or LATINOS!
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These are really concentration camps. They don’t want to call them as such because “concentration camp “ sounds too horrible. But we are living in a time where this administration doesn’t want to call a thing what it is.
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@Mary Burrell, very true, but not surprising. Since its inception, this country’s moral compass has been enormously out of whack and it has operated from a place of pure evil at many points throughout history. A recalibration is definitely needed.
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@LaLa Lives Online: If Trump wins another term we will be sitting in restaurants or whatever and we are going to see ICE dragging people out and off the streets and putting folks in the camps. Today it’s the migrants who knows when it will be us.
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@BigBoy:
Even the Black Latinos?
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Modern day slavery
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