Approximately 1,400 migrant children are headed to a site that was used during World War II to cruelly intern loyal Japanese-Americans, according to reports. The Trump regime will hold the children at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma until they can be transferred to a family member.
"[The Department of Health and Human Services] said Fort Sill will be used 'as a temporary emergency influx shelter' to help ease the burden on the government as it prepares to house a record number of minors even though it already operates about 168 facilities and programs in 23 states.The statistics demonstrate that bigot and mentally unstable Donald "Rump" Trump's immigration policy is a failure, and a cruel one at that. Rather than addressing the problem at its root -- violence and poverty in the nations of Central America -- Trump and his gang have chosen walls and punishment as the remedy, while immigration surges ever more.
Health and Human Services said in a statement that it has taken about 40,900 children into custody through April 30. That’s a 57% increase from last year, which is a rate on-pace to surpass the record figures in 2016, when 59,171 minors were taken into custody. The agency had assessed two other military bases before selecting Fort Sill."
(Full disclosure: the Obama Administration used military bases, including Ft. Sill, for detaining immigrant children there for four months in 2014 before shutting down)
