Thursday, June 21, 2018

Can you believe this?

Decide for yourself.

When I posted "As we said: it'll get worse" about the treatment of kids at the Shiloh detention center, I almost added a final sentence: Next we'll find out they were treated like prisoners at Abu Ghraib.  I decided that might be a bridge too far.  Maybe not.

Check out Shenandoah. I'll get you started...
The lawsuit filed against Shenandoah alleges that young Latino immigrants held there “are subjected to unconstitutional conditions that shock the conscience, including violence by staff, abusive and excessive use of seclusion and restraints, and the denial of necessary mental health care.”

The complaint filed by the nonprofit Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs recounts the story of an unnamed 17-year-old Mexican citizen apprehended at the southern border. The teen fled an abusive father and violence fueled by drug cartels to seek asylum in the United States in 2015.

  AP
Interesting that the names of these torture camps are famous Southern Civil War references.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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