Poll: Is it OK to put children in cages?

It's called The Real World.

If, as a history teacher, the only thing you stick to is level 7-12 history courses, then you're not much of a history teacher.

Well that's certainly an interesting way of looking at it.

It looks like there's an open revolt going on at Fox.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-running-scared-hollywood-voices-unite-132824025.html

Not according to this poll. 9 Yes votes, all but two of which were conservatives. 23 No votes, of which maybe one or two are conservative.

Sean and TLS are the only conservatives who voted Yes and voted sincerely.

Not only are children being placed in cages, but they're being placed under the watch of guards who are neglectful and in some cases child rapists.

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING

Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations

Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion in the past four years to private companies operating immigrant youth shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and sexual and physical abuse, a Reveal investigation has found.

In nearly all cases, the federal government has continued to place migrant children with the companies even after serious allegations were raised and after state inspectors cited shelters with serious deficiencies, government and other records show.

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In Texas, where the resettlement agency awarded the majority of the grants, state inspectors have cited homes with more than 400 deficiencies, about one-third of them serious.

Allegations included staff members’ failure to seek medical attention for children. One had a burn, another a broken wrist, a third a sexually transmitted disease. In another shelter, staff gave a child medicine to which she was allergic, despite a warning on her medical bracelet. Inspectors also cited homes for “inappropriate contact” between children and staff, including a case in which a staff member gave children a pornographic magazine.

In October, an employee appeared drunk when he showed up to work at a facility operated by Southwest Key Programs in San Benito, Texas. A drug test later found he was over the legal alcohol limit to drive. That was among more 246 violations state inspectors found at Southwest Key’s facilities.

Last year, a youth care worker at a Florida shelter for migrant children was sentenced to 10 years in prison after she admitted to trading sexually explicit photos and text messages with minors at the shelter. That facility later closed but recently reopened under a more than $30 million contract to house 1,000 children.

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In those cases and dozens of others reviewed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and The Texas Tribune, federal officials continued sending children who crossed the border to the shelters after the incidents came to light.

Records reviewed indicate only two cases in which the agency terminated an agreement with one of the 13 shelter providers. One occurred after state regulators cited a Texas company, International Educational Services, with more than 100 deficiencies at its nine operations, including inappropriate sexual contact between staff and children, harsh punishment and lapses in medical care.

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Several companies that house migrant children have employed workers accused of sexual misconduct and abuse, Reveal’s investigation found.

KidsPeace National Centers for Kids in Crisis, a nonprofit headquartered in Pennsylvania, faced troubling allegations at its branches in Minnesota and Maine.

In 2016, KidsPeace employed social worker Kelly F. O’Rourke, then 51, even though state regulators in Maine received complaints accusing him of having a sexual relationship with an adult client. O’Rourke continued practicing for six months after the complaint was filed with the Maine State Board of Social Worker Licensure.

In a Portland Press Herald interview, a corporate spokesman for KidsPeace said the organization routinely performed criminal background checks on potential employees and declined additional comment.

O’Rourke pleaded guilty in January 2017 to sexual assault involving his client and of violating the conditions of his bail by contacting her.

Between 2009 and 2016, KidsPeace Mesabi Academy in Buhl, Minnesota, received 64 complaints regarding staff, care and the treatment of children housed at the center. Internal and external investigations were carried out there in 2016 following reports of three boys being sexually abused.

St. Louis County confirmed that the center had not reported several allegations of sexual abuse to the authorities over the years. Mesabi Academy closed its doors in July 2016.

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Merice Perez Colon, an employee of a temporary shelter in Homestead, Florida, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in November for engaging in sexually inappropriate behavior with minors housed at the shelter. In one case, she asked a 15-year-old boy for a pornographic video of him, which he provided.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/...shelters-with-histories-of-abuse-allegations/



But hey, at least this is all being tracked and reported. Surely that will help clamp down on these abuses.

What's that you say? It's not being tracked? Why not??

ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths in Custody




@Paladin is positively ecstatic

"I was just kidding" is not a defense for why you think it's OK to put children in cages, you monster.

Of course this presumes that everyone who has discussed this topic bothers to votw in thread polls.

I've been tracking the "Yes" votes in my opening post, for those who have participated in the thread but haven't voted. Hence 9 Yes votes, including @Lanzman, @Dayton3, and @Tuttle.

Purely for the sake of historical accuracy.

WF is not representative of the population at large.

Obviously a very scientific poll.

"...while Republicans are more divided overall, with 39 percent calling it unacceptable"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-th...ting-children-parents-at-border-unacceptable/

That is not remotely an answer to what I said . And since WF is about 20% non-American there’s probably a reason it does reflect the population.

Isn’t you comment pointing more towards an increasing number of people supporting the policy than who are against it?

1100 people surveyed? Whoa! I guess you might be right!

I don't think you know what you're saying, Chuppie.

@Soma, feel free to tell yourself whatever you need to help you sleep at night. I know it must be difficult being a children-in-cages apologist.

Maybe they take issue with the fact that thousands of families will still remain separated.

By the way, have you voted?

I'm not surprised. Congress needs to do something about the Flores agreement.

Also that Trump is now demanding the right to retain them indefinitely.

There wasn't enough public attention to what was going on, but there wasn't any great love for the policies of the Obama era.

I voted yes because I actually work with children and would love to put some of them in cages.

"In other news, Trump tweeted that while Orthodox Jews will be respected and honored, National Mandatory Pork Sausage Week will continue, and be fully enforced by law."

I told you keeping the whole family together in prison would not make the activists happy. They are already complaining and there is the matter of the 1997 court settlement. The activists will not stop until there are completely open borders and anyone and everyone can come in whenever they please. Without borders you are not a country and your laws mean nothing.

Once again we see emotions trumping facts and following the law being denigrated.

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Come on, Chad, it's like they want these animals to be treated like people! Like PEOPLE! /s