Note smuggled out by a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy being held in the Casa Padre child concentration camp in Texas
Children are sleeping on floors and being cussed out by guards, subsisting on meager rations of beans, crackers, and tortillas that leave them feeling ill, and passing the nights sleeping on floors under bright lights in a converted Walmart in south Texas.
The new reports of harsh physical conditions, humiliating psychological abuse, and basic deprivation come from children held at the so-called “Casa Padre” facility in Brownsville, Texas, almost a month after President Donald Trump took symbolic steps to quash public outcry over his family separation policy aimed at punishing and deterring migrants.
The children and parents who swore out hundreds of affidavits to attorneys appealing the United States government’s treatment of migrants have mostly fled violence in Central America. The conditions in which they find themselves today in the world’s richest and most powerful country shock the conscience — and almost certainly violate the conditions of the legal settlement that’s bound American officials in treatment of minors in immigration detention […]
Horrifying. What kind of consciousness,here in the US, are we all a part of? How can we change a consciousness that is allowing this kind of terrorism? There is so much to be worried about right now, and we are all overloaded, but this really hits home for me.
I’ve read that these prisons charge $700 per day per person for these folks. Where is that money going? One prisoner said that the guard told them “This isn’t a four-star hotel!” For $700 a day, it should be a five-star!
$779 a day, is the exact amount. You and I and everyone else are paying for it, and you ask a good question. It’s a racket like everything else in the private prison industry.