Thread by @LindaKWS1

UN Human Rights commissioner regarding US immigration policies:

"The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable."

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The @UNHumanRights spoke out early last year about Session, republican GOP and Trump's inhumane policy of separating families..

The Trump administration stopped cooperating with UN investigations into human rights violations in America theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/0…

Also : This is incredibly important.

The UN Human Rights Council is discussing the United States concerning our extreme poverty and Trump's policies toward the poor.

Not some 3rd World Country.

The United States of America.

The UN HUMAN RIGHTS Council

theguardian.com/us-news/2018/j…

Missing migrant children are being funnelled to a Christian adoption agency tied to the Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

bit.ly/2UOAtdY

Sad thing is the families were fleeing from danger to seek asylum to protect their children from starvation and/or violence
How to claim asylum.

Block out all the nonsense you’ve heard

This journalist gets it.
#immigrant caravan #Immigration #migration

From June 2018
Retweeted Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog):

The Trump administration took an average of 46 migrant kids a day from their parents last month. As of this month they're up to 67 kids a day.
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From June 2018 #MaddowBlog (@MaddowBlog):

Exclusive images: Inside a facility that serves children who have been taken from their parents by the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” border policy.

#MaddowBlog (@MaddowBlog):

Exclusive: Unaccompanied children are cautioned not to speak with reporters about their situation

https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1011420579130421249/video/1?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=gordonkendall&utm_content=1011440284897460224

#maddowblog #Maddow
Avenatti: Guards told mothers they were taking the children for a bath. They never came back.

Rachel Maddow's full interview with Michael Avenatti: on.msnbc.com/2MZOYJ0

#Maddow #maddowBlog (@MaddowBlog):
#AsylumSeekers
Lifelong trauma has already been inflicted on young children removed from the arms of their parents and put in detention centers. The U.S. government is not set up to house thousands of little children.

Sept 2018 #maddowblog #Maddow
@SenJeffMerkley Senator Merkley:
Trump admin planning internment camps for detained immigrant families.

Sept 2018 #Maddow #FEMA @DHSgov transferring 10 MILLION Dollars of #HurricaneMaria recovery funds to #ChildrenInCages #ICE Detention programs - JUST as Hurricane Season is in full swing. @SenJeffMerkley exposes this!

The entire nation is crying with Rachel #Maddow. How can the United States of America have internment camps designed for babies? What ICE agent has the ability to rip a baby from a mom’s begging, outstretched arms? BABIES??? #immigrants #AsylumSeekers

On the day @nikkihaley & Trump pulled us out of the UN Human Rights Council, Cal Perry is reporting GOP have set up concentration camps for children and a "tender age" shelter for babies/toddlers taken from their parents.
Sept 2018 @Lawrence #Maddow

I should note that @fema is lying. The document @SenJeffMerkley gave to @maddow indicates that one of the areas from which the nearly $10 million was deducted for immigrant concentration camps includes “Response and Recovery.” More than $2.3 million of it.

Sept 2018
A record number of migrant children are being detained at the border now.
Federal funds will be redirected from cancer research, AIDS care and Head Start to pay for it
salon.com/2018/09/21/a-r…

@SenJeffMerkley : Child prison camps have NO PLACE in America. That’s why I introduced a bill last month to shut down Tornillo. This is HUGE news. THANK YOU to everyone who made their voices heard. But we’re not done – there are still kids in prison.
washingtonpost.com/local/immigrat…

@SenJeffMerkley: @realDonaldTrump’s racist Wall has become a symbol of child separation, child prisons, family internment camps, & a callous attitude towards those who arrive in our country fleeing persecution; a country where most all of us are immigrants

6/30/18 WATCH: Actor @GeorgeTakei compares the Trump admin.'s family separation policy to the internment camps his family was sent to when he was a child in the 1940s.

Dec 2018 @SenJeffMerkley Right now, the United States is locking up 14,000 children in child prison camps across America. We CANNOT forget these children. This is a broken system that must be fixed.

A child reunited w her mom after being separated at the border. The mother raining tears while her daughter looks dazed, emotionless. The United States is operating concentration camps for children.😭
So many children will never get to hug their moms again

Coincidently private prison companies that run @ICEgov detention centers invested heavily into the Trump presidency..

Two companies, both generous contributors to President #Trump, run the majority of the BOP's contracted prisons, as well as dozens of other facilities used to detain #immigrants who are in the country illegally.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/p…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a six-month-old Obama administration directive that sought to curtail the government's use of private prisons.
Sessions is the one that came up with separating the kids from their parents as a deterrent for migrants
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/p…

Private prison industry has managed to emerge from the near wreckage of the summer of 2016 facing a lucrative future. It's imperative we push the envelope as far as we can to ensure that these prisons & immigration detention centers are held accountable
brennancenter.org/blog/trump%E2%…

Cicilline: It was "unsurprising that the Admin would choose to leave the Council at the same time as it is perpetrating human rights abuses against immigrant children within our own borders, a policy that the UN & other countries have rightly condemned."
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

Cicilline: It was "unsurprising that the Admin would choose to leave the Council at the same time as it is perpetrating human rights abuses against immigrant children within our own borders, a policy that the UN & other countries have rightly condemned."

https://twitter.com/UNHumanRights/status/1009188496370814976?s=19

After midterms last Nove: One by one, Democratic members labeled the policy, announced last year by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions & implemented by the Department of Homeland Security, as shameful, abhorrent and a "stain on the conscience of the U.S."
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

1/17/19, Thousands more immigrant children were separated from their parents under the Trump admin than previously reported and whether they have been reunified is unknown, according to a report released. #AsylumSeekers
#ChildConcentrationCamps
#migrants

nbcnews.com/politics/immig…

“I’m at the point of desperation,” said Menendez, who has been staying at a #migrants shelter near the border since Jan. 1. “The idea was to cross the bridge and ask for #asylum. But they tell us we can’t.”
You have to cross the border to ask for asylum.

usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

Dem Judiciary Committee, Nadler, is demanding information including the existence of "any family separation pilot program," the health & safety of children in government custody & a reunification strategy for families by February 8. Extended >govt shutdown
cnn.com/2019/01/14/pol…

MERKLEY REVEALS SECRET TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLAN TO CREATE #BorderCrisis

Leaked memo shows deliberate plans to create a border crisis—including family separation and increased detention of children—as early as December 2017

merkley.senate.gov/news/press-rel…

2/2019 WASHINGTON - Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA-27) announced Thursday the introduction of bicameral legislation, the Shut Down Child Prison Camps Act, to shut down unregulated child prison camps for #migrants children.
ktvz.com/news/merkley-i…

On 2/6/2019 #Maddowblog
#ChildSeparation

https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1093350091090526208?s=19

2/6/2019 #MaddowBlog #maddow #ChildSeparation #AsylumSeekers #migrants
#Democrats

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1093575908076728325?s=19

The Democratic party Oversight committee had its 1st hearing on Feb 7th on Trump's separation policy.
#AsylumSeekers
#Migrant #FamilySeparationPolicy

https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1093340953979555840?s=19

2/9/2019 #AdamSchiff Oversight Committee on #ChildSeparation #AsylumSeekers #Migrant

https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1094290879072874497?s=19

Border official announces changes after 2 migrant children die in US custody The death of Felipe Alonzo-Gomez came 16 days after another Guatemalan child, Jakelin Caal Maquin, died in CBP custody December 8. cnn.it/2AfOUQm bitly.com/2sjBBbW