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The U.S. Is Building Jails for Toddlers Because Trump "Doesn't Want to Look Weak"
The optics of Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy are - somehow - only getting worse.
Tracy, Abigail http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/baby-jails-donald-trump-immigration
Publisher: Vanity Fair
Date Written: 20/06/2018
Year Published: 2018
Resource Type: Article
A look at the Trump Administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy, announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April, 2018. The policy, which separated children from their mothers and detained them in caged facilities, caused outrage among both Democrat and Republican lawmakers.
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Reports of the "tender-age" facilities - a phrase that, per the A.P, typically refers to children under the age of 13 - follow the mass circulation of images of children held in chain-link cages, curled up in mylar blankets. The pictures have fueled outrage among both Democratic and Republican lawmakers, many of whom are pushing the White House to end the disastrous implementation of its "zero-tolerance" immigration policy, announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April. But as the news cycle remains fixated on the children's plight, it's increasingly clear that those images depict just a sliver of the burgeoning humanitarian crisis, the optics of which are - somehow - only getting worse.
Along with the three Texas detention centers in Combes, Raymondville, and Brownsville, there are reportedly plans to build a fourth "tender-age" facility in Houston that would hold up to 240 children, despite the objection of city officials.
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