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Employee At ‘Prison-Like’ Youth Migrant Shelter Quits After Being Told The Children Aren’t Allowed To Hug
Recent accounts of migrant detention centers have been shocking and settling — none more so than the descriptions of the shelters specifically designed for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents at the border.
Reporter Jacob Soboroff recently toured one of these migrant youth shelters, and what he saw was deeply disturbing and highly reminiscent of an authoritarian regime.
Soboroff isn’t the only one who is alarmed by these conditions. Apparently, even shelter workers themselves are reaching a breaking point.
Antar Davidson, a former employee at a youth shelter run by nonprofit Southwest Key in Arizona, recently resigned from his position when he was told to separate three Brazilian siblings who had been transferred to the shelter. The three kids, aged 16, 10 and 6, were huddled together and crying. Davidson was given very specific instructions by his superiors: “Tell them they can’t hug.”
Davidson, who speaks Portuguese, describes to the Los Angeles Times how he tried to comfort the siblings as they were “huddled together, tears streaming down their faces.” Apparently, they had been told their parents were “lost,” which they interpreted to mean “dead.”
Davidson told them that officials weren’t sure where their parents were, but that they needed to stay strong.
“The 16-year-old, he looks at me and says, ‘How?'”
At that point, Davidson says he thought to himself, “This is not healthy.”
These centers have been under considerable pressure, thanks to Trump’s “zero-tolerance policy,” which has resulted in an influx of children. According to the LA Times:
"Under the zero-tolerance policy, cases that had been handled administratively in immigration court were now prosecuted as misdemeanors or felonies in federal court. Migrants were charged with crossing the border illegally and separated from their children, who were placed in shelters."
“What was once a transient facility with a staff that was strained and struggling is now becoming a more permanent facility,” Davidson says, describing the establishment as “prison-like.”
The shelters were evidently not prepared to deal with this many new kids, and as a result, conditions were becoming increasingly questionable.
“[Kids] had no idea where their parents were. The case managers said it’s going to be a week until we even find their parents and another week until we talk to them. I just saw how they were bungling these cases,” Davidson says. “At that point, zero tolerance was in full swing and you could see the desperation: kids running down the hall, screaming for their moms.”
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Davidson knew that, even with aggressive hiring initiatives, the shelter wouldn’t be able to obtain enough workers to offer proper assistance to the kids.
Even though he knows that the shelters are attempting to do good and that their existence is necessary, Davidson tendered his resignation from the facility as a “conscientious objector.”
“I can no longer in good conscience work with Southwest Key programs,” he wrote in his resignation. “I am feeling uneasy about the morality of some of the practices.”
H/T Los Angeles Times
You should really talk to someone about your anti-Christian bigotry. The fact that you try to blame "God fearing Christians" for these tragic and sad events (which have been going on for many years by the way) says more about you than it does about Christians.
We should ALL try to be part of the solution. It's funny though when anti-God people always expect Christians to do something. if it wasn't for Christians, there wouldn't be as many homeless shelters, orphanages, food pantries, and food banks as there is.
Maybe the athiests should step up and do something. The arrogance and hypocrisy is disgusting on your part.
There were definitely people saying the two parties were "basically the same" in the lead-up to the election. I understand that thinking to an extent. But now that we're in Trumpworld? LOL, yeah they're not the same.
That quote on the mural? It's from Art of the Deal. Because of course it is.
2) Yet.
I've seen an absurd defense to this line of thinking which amounts to, "We're not killing these children."
1) Way to set the bar high.
2) Yet.
Touche'
You coming tonight?
This guy rocket man, he can't be trustedNaw I’m day 1 on big boy work, and still here :0
People who were trying to make the point that Clinton had far too right wing policies on some economic matters and foreign policy matters for their tastes got lazy and said stupid shit like "Clinton and Trump are the same." It was an asinine thing to say, though I think few if any of the people who said it actually meant it. I think it was more of a Twitter meme that got out of control sort of thing. Doesn't excuse it, but I think it's overblown how much impact it had. It's like people blaming Jill Stein or Susan Sarandon, as if there's an imagined group of millions of voters who sat out because the lady from the movies said she didn't like Hillary.There were definitely people saying the two parties were "basically the same" in the lead-up to the election. I understand that thinking to an extent. But now that we're in Trumpworld? LOL, yeah they're not the same.
That quote on the mural? It's from Art of the Deal. Because of course it is.
maybe your former CEO?
Poll taken shows 60% of Republicans approve of the child separation
So now can we call them Deplorables ?
Poll taken shows 60% of Republicans approve of the child separation
So now can we call them Deplorables ?
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58d96a8ce4b04f2f079271d1/amp
I hope this link works.
It explains how Bill Clinton’s anti-immigration laws laid the groundwork for Trump’s EOs. The article is from last year, though.
Essentially this means, “give us the wall and we’ll release the kids”.
Just despicable.
https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1008732754882826241?s=21
Essentially this means, “give us the wall and we’ll release the kids”.
Just despicable.
https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1008732754882826241?s=21
This whole thing is the fault of two actors. First, the Mexicans who refuse to pay for the wall like Trump promised. Second, the Democrats, who in a minority position without ability to govern are refusing to pay for the wall, thus being in traitorous cahoots with the Mexicans.