Oh, I know what I wanted to tell you. This is important. So, on Wednesday, we received reports from children of a lice outbreak in one of the cells where there were about twenty-five children, and what they told us is that six of the children were found to have lice. And so they were given a lice shampoo, and the other children were given two combs and told to share those two combs, two lice combs, and brush their hair with the same combs, which is something you never do with a lice outbreak. And then what happened was one of the combs was lost, and Border Patrol agents got so mad that they took away the children’s blankets and mats. They weren’t allowed to sleep on the beds, and they had to sleep on the floor on Wednesday night as punishment for losing the comb. So you had a whole cell full of kids who had beds and mats at one point, not for everybody but for most of them, who were forced to sleep on the cement. [...]
What is the attitude of the guards to your team?
They are on our side. Multiple guards told us while we were there that they are on our side and they want us to be successful, because the children don’t belong there, and the children need to be picked up and put in appropriate places for children. They want us to be successful. — www.newyorker.com/...
Each and every senior CBP official, all the way to the top should be prosecuted, and that includes the president, on whose orders the fundamental human rights of these children have been violated.
This government’s actions in these camps are a reminder that the most shameful episodes of American history are not behind us.
With the Trump administration planning to move 1,400 migrant children to this fortified Army post later this summer, a small group of Japanese American World War II internment camp survivors came to the gates Saturday to make their opposition known.
“We are here today to protest the repetition of history,” proclaimed camp survivor Satsuki Ina, 75, of San Francisco, one of about two dozen former internees and their descendants in attendance.
Ft. Sill has become a rallying point for Japanese Americans hoping to prevent migrant detention in what they call concentration camps, some built on the sites where they and their families were interned during World War II.
Bernie’s campaign encouraged people to attend the Ft. Sill protest with this statement:
A peaceful vigil to protest the Trump Administration's plans for using Fort Sill as a mass detention center for asylum-seeking immigrant children in July. Fort Sill has a dark history. 700 people of Japanese ancestry were interned at Fort Sill during WWII. It's where Apache people were forcibly relocated and imprisoned. Indigenous children were taken from their families and brought to Fort Sill for boarding school, attempting to erase their culture, language, and identity. — act.berniesanders.com/...
Reps Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley issued a joint statement to announce their opposition to funding any of these camps:
— @subirgrewal