This Is Happening Right Now We Are Killing Children In trump's Concentration Camps (w/ Update)

Jesus.

It seems trump and his Latino-bashing lackeys have doubled down on the sadism (via Caitlin Dickerson at the New York Times):

A chaotic scene of sickness and filth is unfolding in an overcrowded border station in Clint, Tex., where hundreds of young people who have recently crossed the border are being held, according to lawyers who visited the facility this week. Some of the children have been there for nearly a month.

Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants they’ve just met, the lawyers said. Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk.

Most of the young detainees have not been able to shower or wash their clothes since they arrived at the facility, those who visited said. They have no access to toothbrushes, toothpaste or soap...

This is part and parcel of an inhumane immigration policy that's been in place since the Reagan administration and left to rot ourselves from the inside (via Ken White at The Atlantic):

The government’s “safe and sanitary” argument did not arise from a new case generated by Trump administration policies. It arose in 1985, during the Reagan administration, when a 15-year-old El Salvadoran child named Jenny Lisette Flores was detained after entering the United States illegally, hoping to escape her country’s vicious civil war. Flores spent two months at a facility in California, confined with adult strangers in poor conditions and strip-searched regularly. In July 1985, she and three other minors brought a class action against what was then called the Immigration and Naturalization Service, challenging its policies for the care and confinement of minors.

In 1997, after a dozen years of litigation, the parties settled the lawsuit in what became known as the “Flores Agreement.” The Flores Agreement requires, among other things, that the government hold minors in facilities that are “safe and sanitary” and that they be released from confinement without delay whenever possible...

...The United States’s loathsome argument—that it is “safe and sanitary” to confine children without soap, toothbrushes, dry clothes, and on concrete under bright lights—is morally indefensible. It’s also a spectacularly foolish argument to raise in the famously liberal Ninth Circuit, where the United States should have expected exactly the reception that it got. And even though the litigation began under the Obama administration, it was the Trump administration that elected to bring this appeal and ask the court to bless these inhumane conditions as “safe and sanitary.” That’s an extremely aggressive legal argument, and one that suggests that the disturbing conditions being reported at confinement centers are intentional, not a sign of mere neglect...

And trump, deal maker that he thinks he is, is trying to use all of this (again) to wrangle concessions from an increasingly angry Democratic House.

I say fuck him and his whole racist administration. What trump is doing here - violating human rights as guaranteed by treaty and the 14th Amendment - rises to impeachable offenses, just like twenty other criminal acts he keeps committing every GODDAMN DAY.

And while we're yelling and screaming about trump STILL breaking up families and detaining children in sickening conditions, we've got Republicans and conservative pundits arguing over the "misuse" of the word "concentration" when describing trump's Concentration Camps. They're trying to get us to debate semantics while PEOPLE ARE DYING IN THOSE HELLHOLES.

JESUS GODDAMN CHRIST, HOLD trump AND HIS SICK RACIST LACKEYS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS, DEMOCRATS.

Update: Doctor compares conditions at these concentration camps to "torture facilities." Goddamn you, each and every Republican signing off on this inhumane treatment OF CHILDREN.