Wall poster in child-gulag
Credit: MSNBC
For the first time, journalists have been allowed to visit one of the camps where children—most of them the children of applicants seeking to legally enter the United States on sanctuary applications—have been taken away from parents and warehoused. And it’s not as bad as you think it is. It’s worse.
MSNBC reporter Jason Soboroff was one of those who visited a facility in Brownsville, Texas, that is known as Casa Padre. In this location, 1,469 boys were housed inside the concrete blocks of a former Walmart. What Soboroff found wasn’t just an overcrowded warren of cells, and boys lined up to receive rations. He found a facility where children are given treatment usually reserved for the most dangerous inmates at a federal prison. They’re kept locked in for 22 hours each day, and given one hour of “structured time” and only a single hour of “free time” outdoors. Each boy gets 40 square feet of living space, which is the same
For many Americans children are for sentimentality, advertising and political motivation. We have decided childhood poverty, poor education, lack of quality food, and stable families are not the responsibility of society at large. It is beyond sad that this is so which to me explains the new concentration camps being filled with “illegal children” an extension of the legal child concentration camp system.
We as a nation are becoming more cruel and tribal, this will not end well. Too many have been too prosperous for too long and have forgotten our humanity–the entrancement of materialism.