Children are being tortured by the Trump administration, per a physician who was able to access one of these Trump’s torture camps and treat these children.
Read the excerpt below, courtesy of ABC News, and weep for the innocent.
After assessing 39 children under the age of 18, she described conditions for unaccompanied minors at the McAllen facility as including "extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care, basic sanitation, water, or adequate food."
All the children who were seen showed evidence of trauma, Lucio Sevier reported, and the teens spoke of having no access to hand washing during their entire time in custody. She compared it to being "tantamount to intentionally causing the spread of disease."
In an interview with ABC News, Lucio Sevier said the facility "felt worse than jail."
"It just felt, you know, lawless," she said. "I mean, imagine your own children there. I can't imagine my child being there and not being broken."
Conditions for infants were even more appalling, according to the medical declaration. Many teen mothers in custody described not having the ability to wash their children’s bottle.
This should be a national outrage and yet the Republican party has been quiet. It dutifully genuflects to Trump, which means it endorses all these atrocities against humanity.
We can debate the use of the term ‘concentration camps’ in describing the torture that these children are experiencing at these facilities jails, but as this perceptive excerpt from a Salt Lake Tribune editorial warns—atrocities against humanity begin In stages and this process is playing out right now in the United States or America.
But the Holocaust didn’t begin with gas chambers, and it’s not business as usual in America right now. We already know that the path to atrocity can be a process, and that the Holocaust began with dehumanizing propaganda, with discriminatory laws, with roundups and deportations, and with internment. Those things are happening in our country today, and they’re known as some of the stages of genocide first articulated by Genocide Watch in 1996.
I would rather see politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being bold in their assessment of these vile acts against humanity and we shouldn’t treat this as a political strategy about whether the use of this term is absolutely correct in this situation and how it will be perceived by Americans.
We need to touch the conscience and soul of as many Americans as possible right now in this moment in history. If calling these Trump jails ‘concentration camps’ to get Americans to wake up, think and re-evaluate what’s going on in these torture camps—maybe we can avoid repeating history again and that’s a good thing.