children in trump’s camps: we need to talk about the girls & toddlers too

The U.S. government is bullshitting you.

It is clear to me that there is a reason they’re only releasing photos of older boys in these concentration camps. https://t.co/heYUre3vjj

— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) June 20, 2018

About basically everything, but right now, crucially what it is doing to undocumented children, girls, and babies who enter this country fleeing the violence. The last few weeks have revealed that under the Trump administrations and a policy implemented for AG Sessions, children are being separated from their parents while trying to apply for asylum or immigrant status.

And during this time the government under the auspices of the Bible, the law, and whatever Trump is feeling that day, the U.S. government has been alarming suspect and willfully opaque about the living conditions these children are being kept—specifically the girls and the babies. What DHS is willing to show, though, are young boys and teenagers being housed in cages and sleeping on cots with aluminum blankets. Horrifying images that have shaken the country, but led many to ask: Where are the girls?

ICYMI: @KatyTurNBC asks @JuliaEAinsley, “Where are the girls? Where are the toddlers? Where are the babies?” in footage from immigration detainment camps #MTPDailyhttps://t.co/3LULhb39EG pic.twitter.com/AYQpaR8mAs

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) June 19, 2018

Rachel Maddow chokes up and cries on air as she struggles to deliver news that migrant babies and toddlers have been sent to “tender age” shelters pic.twitter.com/O6crm8cvyR

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 20, 2018

Last night, we found out. The daughters and babies of migrants and immigrants coming through the U.S./Mexico border are being housed in three South Texas so-called “tender age” internment camps. Camps that countless new outlets and media platforms have been refused entry into and denied photos of the facilities and the children begin held there. So, who is taking care of the most vulnerable populations amongst the detained?

Facing the flames fueled by the outrage over the traumatizing of these already scared children and families, President Trump this afternoon signed an executive order to “keep families together”, after spending days if not weeks saying that he could do nothing about the abuse of these children. It is completely unknown what will happen to these children and families now. How they will be able to be reunited with their families in a system that is unequipped to handle this separation, let alone the reunification.

He doesn’t need an executive order to end the separation policy, which was promulgated by his subordinates. Fair bet that the executive order will contain new shenanigans, likely mandating long term family internment contrary to the Flores settlement.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 20, 2018