U.S. lawmaker describes 'horrifying' conditions at Texas migrant facility

[bristolboy]

34 minutes ago, daoyai said:

Define "them",, do you mean the "guest worker" migrant worker program?  It was and is a vital part of U.S agriculture. Not really part of this issue.

Were the employees that Trump's clubs recently fired part of that program?

[ToddinChonburi]

I do hope people understand that these migrants were all given dept cards before they left there homes .cell phones and chargers in hand.  even CNN took video of all them getting off buses at the border. Go search you tube for some of the videos. A border facility that has 100 beds and 60,000 thousand people arrive in a month is a total over kill to handle. Congress would not pass an emergency bill to add funding for the problem

 

 

[Thingamabob]

Just too many people, with unknown motives and background, to deal with. 

[Jonnapat]

9 hours ago, Tug said:

It’s unamerican and uncalled for there is no excuse none

I wonder why 3 people think that this is funny?

[Jonnapat]

9 hours ago, daoyai said:

Her "inspection" was no surprise to the facility, they would naturally want to show that it is well run, knowing how AOC operates I suspect she had her narrative planned before arrival. She wants open borders, no immigration enforcement at all. She is a proven fraud, be skeptical of anything she says.

At least she tackles difficult subjects and tries to better bad situations,  unlike many of the Representatives who are quite content to sit in Washington on their fat backsides and do nothing.

Proven fraud? Please explain. 

 

[atyclb]

2 hours ago, yogi100 said:

2 hours ago, Thainesss said:

????

The water used to flush toilets may be the same water from the same source as that used for drinking. It is in the UK.

 

actually once at a pattaya hotel the room water stopped after midnight and staff just smiled and said "mai pen rai" i had gotten back from a night on the town.  ended up buying the largest water bottles at 7 eleven and used them to drink, shower and flush toilet. i complained at booking . com but it was not until the next day that they changed my room.

Edited July 2, 2019 by atyclb

[atyclb]

here is a cnn interview with aoc regarding border funding bills .   even jake tapper is puzzled

 

 

[atyclb]

50 minutes ago, Jonnapat said:

9 hours ago, daoyai said:

Her "inspection" was no surprise to the facility, they would naturally want to show that it is well run, knowing how AOC operates I suspect she had her narrative planned before arrival. She wants open borders, no immigration enforcement at all. She is a proven fraud, be skeptical of anything she says.

At least she tackles difficult subjects and tries to better bad situations,  unlike many of the Representatives who are quite content to sit in Washington on their fat backsides and do nothing.

Proven fraud? Please explain. 

 

as a democrat i must wonder if aoc could have been planted by the republicans for the purpose of undermining the dem party?

[Thainesss]

My favorite part of threads like these and lunatic politicians like AOC is that nobody EVER has a solution or recommendations. Just grandstanding for personal gain, virtue signaling, lying, and demonizing. 

 

Republicans have been banging on about this issue forever and the leftwing radicals have been blocking any maneuver to do anything about it because they want it to get horrible so they can use it as political ammunition. 

 

They want to let them in and take care of them for votes and let our own citizens rot on sidewalks with needles sticking out of their arms. 

 

Its an absolute shame and embarrassment to the nation.

[observer90210]

Next move of the whole politically orchestrated circus...."it is a disgrace that these people were not granted US Nationality/green cards as they have no place to go"....if that is so, I'll fly over to the closest border and claim me green card or better

[JTXR]

I am liberal, believe immigrants contribute a lot to the success of the US, and sympathetic to true asylum seekers.  That said, AOC is a shameless grandstanding publicity hound and she contaminates any cause she claims to espouse.  As a freshman Congressperson, she should be either in her district learning her constituents' concerns and needs, or in Washington learning the ropes.  But she has no interest in serving, only in promoting herself. 

Whatever the true state of US/Mexican border detention facilities are, I wouldn't trust AOC to give any sort of impartial evaluation.  She went there dead set to find them "horrifying" whatever their condition.

[habanero]

12 hours ago, Tug said:

It’s unamerican and uncalled for there is no excuse none

So, what is you people expect? The Holliday Inn? The idea is to discourage them from coming to the U.S.. Not encourage it.

[Scott]

Off-topic, inflammatory, troll posts and replies removed.  

 

[johnnyonesock]

12 hours ago, Tug said:

Proof?

well here she is weeping uncontrollably at the wire fence surrounding the facility...oh hang on seen from another angle its the fence adjacent to the car park....the democrats want open borders to gerrymander a permanent left wing govt..the rest of this SJW act is just BS

 

https://youtu.be/z70MO8I9rJ4

Edited July 2, 2019 by johnnyonesock

[JDGRUEN]

Total LeftWing fabricated propaganda. AOC had rehearsed her 'horror' by screeching through a chain link fence to an empty car park. 

[Sujo]

51 minutes ago, habanero said:

So, what is you people expect? The Holliday Inn? The idea is to discourage them from coming to the U.S.. Not encourage it.

No, the law is to hold them until their claim can be sorted. But that doesnt mean having kids in those conditions.

 

Its just so ironic that Trump supporters wanted him to fix this issue and its only gotten worse. Yet they defend him.

[bristolboy]

52 minutes ago, habanero said:

So, what is you people expect? The Holliday Inn? The idea is to discourage them from coming to the U.S.. Not encourage it.

The government signed an agreement to provide basic hygienic conditions. Lawyers for the government argued that providing soap was not necessary to meet those conditions. Republicans don't believe in global warming, evolution, and, apparently, the germ theory.

[Sujo]

2 hours ago, Thainesss said:

My favorite part of threads like these and lunatic politicians like AOC is that nobody EVER has a solution or recommendations. Just grandstanding for personal gain, virtue signaling, lying, and demonizing. 

 

Republicans have been banging on about this issue forever and the leftwing radicals have been blocking any maneuver to do anything about it because they want it to get horrible so they can use it as political ammunition. 

 

They want to let them in and take care of them for votes and let our own citizens rot on sidewalks with needles sticking out of their arms. 

 

Its an absolute shame and embarrassment to the nation.

Trump promised to fix it and had 2 years controlling both houses.

 

So instead of fixing it he has made it worse. He has given himself emergency powers to fix it. What has he done?

 

He even said months in advance that thousands were coming. Absolutely no excuse for him not to be prepared.

 

Trump has made a medium issue into a catastrophic issue.

[Thainesss]

17 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Trump promised to fix it and had 2 years controlling both houses.

 

So instead of fixing it he has made it worse. He has given himself emergency powers to fix it. What has he done?

 

He even said months in advance that thousands were coming. Absolutely no excuse for him not to be prepared.

 

Trump has made a medium issue into a catastrophic issue.

 

Absolute garbage.

 

The right had a small majority but couldn’t get past leftwing filibuster. Leftwing radicals blocked billions in funding. Leftwing radicals mocked Trump calling it a “manufactured crisis”. Leftwing lunatics like AOC refused to vote TWICE - even the latest funding, where the leftwing psychos didn’t even TRY to cause a shitstorm because the optics were THAT bad for them. 

 

He got emergency funding because leftwing radicals refused to do anything. 

 

Funding for border security isn’t an aid package for ineligible refugees coming in by the hundreds. 

 

And my favorite part of your post is where you completely skirt any solution and go straight for the blame. Trump. 90% of this board probably has no idea that most of the crap they’re hyperventilating about right now was going on under Obama and before. 

 

NOW everyone fake-cares. 

 

And that’s downright laughable. The crazy left forced it to get this bad and now all of a sudden they seem to care because professional moron and endless victim AOC had a staged meltdown. 

 

No doubt Nancy Pelosi is throwing darts and pictures of AOC right this very moment. 

[stevenl]

39 minutes ago, Sujo said:

No, the law is to hold them until their claim can be sorted. But that doesnt mean having kids in those conditions.

 

Its just so ironic that Trump supporters wanted him to fix this issue and its only gotten worse. Yet they defend him.

You omitted that trump contributed in different ways to the worsening.

[bristolboy]

13 minutes ago, stevenl said:

You omitted that trump contributed in different ways to the worsening.

For one thing, the Trump administration is still trying to find children that it separated from their parents. The Trump administration is toxic.

[JHolmesJr]

It's not the Marriott...they are there illegally.

 

And none of the crap AOC said is proven.

 

 

[Scott]

Off-topic post removed.  

 

[Cryingdick]

I think AOC must have missed the translation speaking Spanish. They were using a jail sink with toilet under it. AOC is desperate to keep her concentration camp narrative alive. Hope she is called out and held accountable. This had Smollet written all over it from the start.

[Credo]

The conditions at the Detention Centers was first made public by attorneys who regularly visit the centers.   At least one of them has been doing so for the past 20 years.    Another long time visitor was a medical practitioner who also went public.   If you don't want to believe the lawmakers, then you might want to believe the people who have been visiting for a long, long time.   

If you don't want to believe them, then it might be wise to pay attention to the very official Office of the Inspector General's Office (OIG).   They found serious deficiencies at all the facilities.  There were major deficiencies in food safety, including rotted, moldy food at all facilities.      Providing for the hygiene was a pretty consistent deficiency in many areas.   Improper segregation of detainees was another and also not allowing visitors even though visitation was permitted and there is a visitors room.   These the policies and procedures that ICE has a greed to.

 

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2019-06/OIG-19-47-Jun19.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Credo]

33 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

I think AOC must have missed the translation speaking Spanish. They were using a jail sink with toilet under it. AOC is desperate to keep her concentration camp narrative alive. Hope she is called out and held accountable. This had Smollet written all over it from the start.

Oh, so you have seen actual pictures of the toilet and sink in the holding facilities?   I think not.   AOC speaks Spanish.   Bringing Smollet into the narrative is pure trolling.    

 

[Tug]

I want to know at 775$per head per day who is getting the money?there is a swill trough if I ever saw one that’s your Donald at work lol 

[Scott]

47 minutes ago, Tug said:

I want to know at 775$per head per day who is getting the money?there is a swill trough if I ever saw one that’s your Donald at work lol 

Many of these are private facilities and a Google search will show who the beneficiaries are.   I believe it is a bit off-topic here.

 

[Credo]

The DHS has put out a Management Alert, concerning overcrowding and prolonged detention of adults and minors.   

 

It's a further damning report from a government agency.   The overcrowding is so bad that in some of the facilities it is standing room only, it is not possible to sit or lie down.   It includes pictures:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-inspector-general-report-reveals-squalid-conditions-at-migrant-detention-centers/

[overherebc]

22 hours ago, Credo said:

Many of them do show up with basic supplies and with medication.   It is confiscated from them.   Did you think they were staying at the Holiday Inn?

 

They probably thought they would be staying at a Holiday Inn.