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she-who-is-her: northstarfan: thatpettyblackgirl: “Federally-Contracted” also means: “For-Profit” Corporate Concentration Camps! (Source) A shelter employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to address the internal government directive, said the Trump administration’s cuts have alarmed workers, who fear that the quality of care for the children will suffer. The employee said educational classes and sports activities are crucial to maintaining physical and mental health while the children are in custody. “What are you going to do all day?” the shelter employee said. “If you’re not going to have any sort of organized recreation or physical activity, what are you going to do, just let them sit in their rooms?” Democratic lawmakers and advocates for immigrants blasted the Trump administration for a policy decision that will directly affect children who already are in difficult situations. Many of the unaccompanied minors who appear at the border are fleeing gang violence and extreme poverty in Central America; the services they receive at U.S. shelters are part of their recovery and provide some amount of diversion as they await placement. Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director of the National Immigrant Justice Center, said she fears that the cuts are an effort to pressure Congress to fund the Trump administration’s broader immigration agenda. She called it “another ploy to secure tax dollars to lock people up.” Amnesty International USA called the cuts “unconscionable.” Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) decried the cuts that would affect facilities like the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla., where many unaccompanied minors go after they are apprehended. She and others this week called on HHS to close Homestead, on the southern tip of Florida, urging the agency to send minors there to smaller, nonprofit facilities. HHS has said it is planning to expand Homestead from 2,350 to 3,200 beds. “These are children that are going through tremendous suffering,” Mucarsel-Powell said. “If the Trump administration does cancel these basic necessities like education, exercise and legal services, they are robbing them of their humanity.” Lawyers said denying migrants access to legal services could put them in danger, because they will lack the ability to defend themselves against possible deportation to the countries they fled. “We are deeply troubled that these services are being cut for children, who are among the most vulnerable population of immigrants in detention,” said Kica Matos, director of the Center on Immigration and Justice at the Vera Institute of Justice, which manages the legal-aid programs for the federal government. She said HHS had not notified the organization about the cuts. So guestimating from what I saw working in prisons (juvenile and adult) in the past and knowing a lot of people locked up they are being set up to fail and not just in the courts. This is also to make the kids appear dangerous and to justify locking them up and deporting them. See you can take the most passive and model inmates and deprive them of what little they have to occupy themselves and they’ll start acting out against other detainees and staff. The longer a lockdown goes where nobody is getting their commissary or going to work assignments or classes/rec the more chaotic people being held captive get. Both at the people keeping them locked up and each other. I’ve seen calm and quiet prisons turn into gladiator schools during long lockdowns where they aren’t allowed to leave their unit. You’ll have all these kids separated from their parents with nothing to do and the teenaged ones are going to cause and get into trouble. Assaulting guards, staff, and each other. No offense to any latinx readers, it would happen sure as shit with American white and black folks too. It’s just what happens when you treat people like animals and give them nothing to do to relieve the tension that creates. Forced labor in camps and prisons goes beyond just free/cheap labor. Occupied prisoners even those being forced to work are always more passive than unoccupied. You take away what they have to occupy themselves and you get chaos. Then you’re going to see stories on Brietbart and Fox about the trouble they are causing and the president and talking heads are going to be like “See they’re not angels. They’re dangerous thugs and we can’t let them into our country. Look what they are doing to each other and DHS staff.” And some people will forget or not care that they were set up to fail and they’ll believe it. And it’s going happen in an election year and law and order bootlickers will eat it up. -- source link