Five preteen girls brought into a foster agency in East Harlem at one o'clock in the morning last night, brought out again an hour later and led to a car with bags over their heads.
Update: Cayuga Centers CEO confirms they've taken in "unaccompanied children," refuses to say more because terms of govt contract. gothamist.com/2018/06/20/har…
Cayuga Centers CEO also criticized @NY1 reporters for "chasing [the kids] with cameras," said his agency "is going to do right by these children."
This is a pretty chilling quote from the CEO: "I'd say that they're the kind of kids America needs right now—and I probably just got myself in trouble."
(Since folks have been asking, covering the kids' heads seems to have been a ham-handed attempt to shield them from the NY1 camera.)
On the "kind of kids America needs right now" quote, I interpreted it as support for accepting these kids and their families into our country. The chilling part is his expectation that expressing such sentiments would get him and his agency in trouble with the Trump admin.
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio just announced that he's on his way to this intake center to try to find out what the hell happened last night.
