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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019

Border Patrol Agent Calls Migrant Prison Camp a “Scene From a Zombie Apocalypse”

Author:     Ginger Thompson
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     July 19, 2019
 Link: Border Patrol Agent Calls Migrant Prison Camp a “Scene From a Zombie Apocalypse”
Stephan:   Do you think of America as a prison nation? If you don't you should. This story, and the one that follows are "insider" accounts of two manifestations of the American Gulag, by law enforcement officers who broke the institutional silence to tell the truth. These are nasty brutish accounts about a part of America that in my view should not exist, and existing should cover us with shame.  We need to clean house, flush out of the Congress and the presidency, the president senators, and representatives, and the people they have approved, who run the gulag.

U.S. Border Patrol

The Border Patrol agent, a veteran with 13 years on the job, had been assigned to the agency’s detention center in McAllen, Texas, for close to a month when the team of court-appointed lawyers and doctors showed up one day at the end of June.

Taking in the squalor, the stench of unwashed bodies, and the poor health and vacant eyes of the hundreds of children held there, the group members appeared stunned.

Then, their outrage rolled through the facility like a thunderstorm. One lawyer emerged from a conference room clutching her cellphone to her ear, her voice trembling with urgency and frustration. “There’s a crisis down here,” the agent recalled her shouting.

At that moment, the agent, a father of a 2-year-old, realized that something in him had shifted during his weeks in the McAllen center. “I don’t know why she’s shouting,” he remembered thinking. “No one on the other end of the line […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 9:15 am

    You are right, Stephan, this situation is a big black mark on the record of our once great society, and should be stopped and or replaced with a more humane method of taking care of these poor people who are just seeking asylum from a more violent country; only they come here and find only another violent and disgraceful situation.