verslagen1 wrote on 06/19/18 at 13:55:14: Quote:Multiple stories about those family detention centers written during the Obama era–just not by the mainstream media. In particular, dozens of stories about the Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Arizona particular were written by journalists at Shadowproof, a reader-supported media outlet, alone. Journalists for Shadowproof also frequently reported on the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas. Most media declined to investigate these facilities until fairly recently.
yeah, that was during that huge influx of UNACCOMPANIED minors across our borders, they weren't separated at our borders, they came separated already.
"The Nogales Placement Center opened last month in response to the influx of unaccompanied children, mostly from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, at the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, where more than 57,000 of them have been detained since October."
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/only-children-remain-at-nogales-pla...and as for Hutto....
"On August 27, the ACLU announced a landmark settlement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that greatly improves conditions for immigrant children and their families in the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas.
The settlement was the result of lawsuits brought earlier this year on behalf of 26 immigrant children detained with their parents at Hutto."
https://www.aclu.org/aclu-challenges-prison-conditions-hutto-detention-centerthat seems to be back in 2007.... there have been lots of stories about Hutto over the years, even MSNBC covered it:
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/failed-experiment-immigrant-family-detentionand from your "Obama’s Immigration Agencies Separated Children From Their Families, Too" . ariicle
"To be clear: the Obama administration’s use of ATEP was not intended to break-up families–that was an occasionally expected side effect–while Trump’s recently-confirmed policy is expressly directed toward that end in the name of “deterrence.”"https://lawandcrime.com/immigration/obamas-immigration-agencies-separated-chi...so, yeah it wasn't perfect, lots of issues dealing with unexpected waves of immigrant children and lots of highly imperfect and vile shelters used, not excusing that. But how is what Trump is doing justified by that? do two wrongs suddenly make a right somehow?