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Witness: Tornillo. Target: Homestead
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WITNESS JOSHUA RUBIN reports-We have learned that some kids inside Homestead gulag are in quarantine with chicken pox in a child’s prison described as overcrowded when there were fewer than half the number that are inside now. 1/5
New tents are going up, new employees are being hired, and a huge new building has been consumed by the expansion. A huge parking lot added. Traffic jams at shift change. Backups nearly to the turnpike. How would ambulances get in when it gets tied up like that, we wonder.2/5
And always on the mind of witnesses as we watch the children from our stepladders, what would happen in a hurricane?
3/5
Meantime we watch. Children came to deliver letters of love & support to the children inside. They were turned away. Guards stood with arms folded, not even answering the children who pleaded to be able to deliver letters written by schoolkids offering their love.4/5
Director of prison stood at a distance & scooted away in a golf cart the moment he was spotted by witnesses who recognized him. Their strategy 2 outwait us. Ours 2 continue watching, reporting & waving 2 kids inside. #WitnessTornillo #TargetHomestead 5/5

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WITNESS JOSHIA RUBIN reports-We are on the outside. Whether you stand with us along the roads that surround the prison camp, or you are following the mission we have given ourselves, you, we, are outside looking in. We glimpse the life of children prisoners.
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We build a picture in our minds of what it may seem like for kids confined within fences, tents & buildings. They arrive, often at night flown from borderlands of TX & Southwest, discharged from charter flights into buses.2/11
The buses have made their way from Miami airport; gates are swung open & processing continues. They may spend their first night in a tent. They get physical exams. X-rays are involved. For the girls, perhaps ultrasound. The possibility of pregnancy looms.
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Witness: Tornillo. Target: Homestead
@TornilloWitness
WITNESS JAN SHELLY reports- ALLESANDRA’S ARREST

Allesandra was painting hearts on a poster board as we sat in our camp. She is one of the fabulous people you bond with very quickly when you witness child imprisonment in Homestead. 1/11
As we held signs and stared at guards “just doing their job,” Allesandra recounted her experience living in a country that deteriorated and slipped slowly, at first, and then with the headwind of people’s silence, at breakneck ferocity into a ruthless dictatorship. 2/11
We noticed more people—those you will never see in uniforms by virtue of their race and position in the taxpayer -sponsored privately owned and extremely profitable corporate entities needed to “handle” 3000 imprisoned children—being driven around staring and pointing at us. 3/11
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@TornilloWitness
WITNESS JOSHUA RUBIN reports-Despite the consensus that detention in a place like Homestead prison for refugee children does lasting damage, & the longer the stay, the worse the damage is, there are those who advocate for extending those stays, and making it worse.1/9
We can, & will someday, discuss the psychology that leads people down such a path, repeating abominable behavior perhaps in an effort to make it more normal, unconsciously hoping for another outcome.
But our task is more urgent, and our concern must focus on the victims...2/9
...who R now arriving in full buses from airport, kids who join ranks of other refugees in Homestead. But among victims we must remember, R people employed here. In my months at gates of prison camp at Tornillo, Texas, I had a chance 2 speak with people who had worked there.3/9
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