August 17, 2020

Trump is putting children in cages hotels... and it's an outrage.

"The Trump administration has been using major hotel chains to detain children and families taken into custody at the border, creating a largely unregulated shadow system of detention and swift expulsions without the safeguards that are intended to protect the most vulnerable migrants.... Children as young as a year old — often arriving at the border with no parents — are being put in hotels under the supervision of transportation workers who are not licensed to provide child care.... But because the hotels exist outside the formal detention system, they are not subject to policies designed to prevent abuse in federal custody or those requiring that detainees be provided access to phones, healthy food, and medical and mental health care...."

The NYT tells us in "A Private Security Company Is Detaining Migrant Children at Hotels/Under emergency coronavirus orders, the Trump administration is using hotels across the country to hold migrant children and families before expelling them."

47 comments:

mikee said...

Give the one year olds phone access, you monsters!

Leon said...

"Children as young as a year old — often arriving at the border with no parents"

That's just reported as if it were fine. It Trump who's the monster returning kids to their parents quickly... What an evil man!

rehajm said...

...or requiring that detainees be provided access to phones, healthy food, and medical and mental health care....

...or free tuition, electric car tax credits, and a two year subscription to Instacart. Barbarian!

Sebastian said...

Forget hotels. The bigger outrage is that illegals are coming to a systemically racist country. Progs should support their removal: what could be worse than the outrageous oppression they face here?

Darrell said...

And Cuomo put the infected in nursing homes, then send the healthy there to die.
Go figure!

rhhardin said...

Small children could be kept in confiscated street mail boxes.

John Borell said...

So back to the cages, then?

Must be the correct, leftist view; I read it in the New York Times.

Drago said...

New Democratics policy: release unaccompanied illegal alien 1 year olds at the border to facilitate child trafficking.

Thanks democratics!

Jake said...

The kids - as young as infants - arrive with no patents, but the problem is unlicensed caregivers?

Dan in Philly said...

The poor kids have no access to mental therapists who might convince them otherwise they are gender confused and pump them full of life altering hormones. The horror!!

Leland said...

The children are safer with Trump than with Bill Clinton on Epstein's island, not that the NYT would report about Bill Clinton on Epstein's island.

Perhaps the NYT's prefers Obama's policy of cages? It makes for betters photos to sell papers. Theirs nothing like exploiting children for money, especially when you can seem virtuous for doing so. Unless you can exploit children in private, eh Bill?

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Children as young as a year old — often arriving at the border with no parents...

Bullshit. One-year-olds are not showing up unaccompanied unless we are letting human trafficking thrive. In which case don’t you WANT the ICE to sort out why babies are not with their parents?

MartyH said...

We need more of those ambitious one year olds who travel without their parents. Someone that motivated at such an early age will be unstoppable y the time they hit theirs tweens.

Kevin said...

There is only one answer that satisfies everyone.

The children must be detained at Nancy Pelosi's house.

Kevin said...

My dad used to say, "You'd complain if they hung you with a new rope."

These people now write for the NYT.

Shane said...

At least someone is using these rooms. Maybe if the hotels get paid, the hotel stocks in my 401K can bounce back a little. Maybe the administration could start using jet airliners as luxury recreational vehicles next and get Delta and America back on financial footing too.

D Books said...

You’ve got to give it to those two year olds crossing the border with no parents around: those are pretty resourceful toddlers

whitney said...

Trump is _________ and it's an outrage!

Check out the videos of all the people protesting outside the postmaster General's house. That's a whitest group of people I've seen since going to the Saturday afternoon Met HD Opera.

Phil 314 said...

So we should go back to the cages?

Shane said...

Listen. Small children lying in hotels ordering room service is no basis for a system of government. One year olds without parents arriving at the border provide a mandate for the mattress!

Unknown said...

How many of them

stink of covid?

narciso said...

She has plenty of ice cream after all.

Todd said...

So it is BAD, BAD, BAD to put families and kids in cages (like Obama did). It is also BAD, BAD, BAD to put them in actual hotels.

Gee, one would get the impression that there are some folks that won't be happy until NO illegals are detained under ANY circumstances. Why would that be? Questions, questions...

henge2243 said...

Children as young as a year old — often arriving at the border with no parents — are being put in hotels under the supervision of transportation workers who are not licensed to provide child care....

And he sticks the landing!!

That was an exceptional display of mental gymnastics right there!!

Too bad the article is behind because I'd like to find out how the "children as young as a year old" are arriving at the border.

Before I write something, I like to put the crack pipe down for a day or two.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

I see exactly no one bought the NYT bs on this one. Ha!

traditionalguy said...

DJT innovations are to governance as Henry Kaiser’s were to ship building.

John henry said...

I too am curious how children as young as 1 year old are arriving unaccompanied by parents.

1 year olds have a notoriously poor sense of direction so if they did decide to crawl to the US, they would probably get lost.

So they must be accompanied by someone. Does the article say who?

John Henry

Drago said...

Mike (MJB Wolf): "I see exactly no one bought the NYT bs on this one. Ha!"

On the contrary. The dems and LLR-lefties are completely on board with the NYT article...but even they know this is so stupid they dare not comment.

Susan said...

One must surmise that the one year olds are being brought to the border by licensed care providers. Hence, the outrage over putting them into the clutches of unlicensed care providers at the hotels.

Is this an equivalent service to the Little Tots daycare vans that shuttle children from their daycares to schools? Like a Niño Pequeño van service at the border.

I had no idea.

Fernandinande said...

So we can get a free hotel room with meals by crossing the border from Mexico without any ID? K3wL!

Quayle said...

I’m not sure one-year-olds are developmentally mature enough to handle the intense emotions that can arise from checking out of the Juárez Ritz Carlton, coming across to the United States, and being put in a Motel 6. Such effrontery is more than they know how to process and verbalize.

Temujin said...

Putting homeless, drug addicts, and criminals in hotels in the Upper West Side of New York, and Seattle and Portland? Good policy!

Housing young illegal immigrants who come across the border without any parent into a hotel instead of a cage or jail? HORRIFYING!

Democrats: Don't try to understand, just submit.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Hmm. "Since October 1, 2019, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested 43 people who were either convicted or wanted for sexual offenses after they illegally entered the US."
Female Child Molester Charged with Human Smuggling During California Traffic Stop

Gahrie said...

No outrage at the fact that: Children as young as a year old — often arriving at the border with no parents . Instead there is outrage that Trump is choosing to care for these kids at hotels instead of detention centers.

I almost wish Trump was simply granting the kids citizenship and entry into the country just so I could see the Democrats try to explain how outrageous this is because the Orange Man is doing it.

Jupiter said...

The schools are empty right now ...

Michael said...

I would say that if you are a one year old who has crawled unaccompanied from Oaxaca to the U S border you deserve the Ritz Carlton and not the crappy Hampton Inn.

Big Mike said...

The Third Amendment prohibits quartering troops in people’s homes, but it doesn’t say anything about housing illegal immigrants in the homes of local Democrat politicians or wealthy Democrat donors, does it?

Big Mike said...

Of newspaper editors.

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Leave them in the desert with coyotes, two-legged and four-legged. It’s the humane way.

Joe Smith said...

My mom's side came here before there was a country. My dad's side via Ellis Island.

Simple solution. Build camps in the AZ desert. First offense for crossing illegally, catch and release back to wherever you came from (that includes Ireland, Canada, etc.).

Second offense, five years in said camp. Third offense, twenty years. No parole, no early release. We can just keep building more camps if we have to , but I'm guessing we won't.

The opt-out is for anyone of legal age to join the US military. Once they've done a five-year stint, only then will we consider any kind of legal status.

I know, I'm a jerk, but it's my goddamned country, and I'm tired of being told that, not only do I have to pay for everyone else in the world, I have to let them live here too.

Itinerant workers are great and they are needed. They should be documented and treated well. They should be paid more for incredibly hard work (I am willing to pay more for strawberries and grapes) and they should be taxed accordingly. When picking season is over they should go home. If not, see 'camps in the desert' above.

Sane people used to think this way. Caesar Chavez thought this way...he didn't want Mexicans coming in and taking jobs from his American farmworkers. Imagine that...

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Migrants should never be allowed to shower. That's the democratic way.
The collective left would prefer migrants suffer rape and killing by the gangs Of Mexico.


Greg The Class Traitor said...

-> Children as young as a year old — often arriving at the border with no parents

I'm curious, how are these one year olds "arriving at the border with no parents"?

Does the NYT just not bother to pay for editors any more? Or is it that they have a lie to sell, and they expect their moron readers to buy it, no matter how poorly it's sold?

Sam L. said...

Hotels????? The HORROR!!!!!!!!! The horror...

Ambrose said...

Forget hotels - next thing you know Trump will force migrant children to sit in comfy chairs.

Clyde said...

There's no pleasing those whiners, is there? Just turn the illegals back around at the border with a cheery "Vaya con Dios!" and send them home.

bagoh20 said...

Let's be honest here. Everybody who has had kids wants them all in cages.

So Democrats want illegal alien kids running free, but citizen adults locked in their homes indefinitely? Yep that sounds like them.

bagoh20 said...

'I'm curious, how are these one year olds "arriving at the border with no parents"?

Storks who haven't upgraded their old TomTom.