One thing I’ve learned about President Donald Trump is his scandals are always much worse than meets the eye. I knew the Russians had their hooks into him back in 2016, but I didn’t know how extensive their operation was. I knew the border crisis was going to be bad, but it’s turned out to be even worse than I thought. We’ve seen children dying in custody, disease, sexual and physical abuse and other forms of human deprivation. Some people who volunteered to care for the children in detention were arrested on immigration charges when they showed up. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, much worse is coming.
So far we already know that at least two children have died attempting to cross into the United States. There have also been incidents of children kept in detention facilities who have attempted to commit suicide. A video recently leaked of staff at an Arizona detention facility kicking and dragging a child detainee. (The Southwest Key facility has been shut down.) Jose Nunez, a Bexar County Sheriff’s Office detention officer, was arrested after he was found to have molested a child and blackmailed her mother into keeping quiet. I also suspect some children may have been released to sexual offenders or sold into sex slavery. (This was the plot of a recent “Law and Order: SVU” episode.) According to a ProPublica report, more than 10,000 children are currently being held at detention centers.
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