Husband has a job.
Denis, who works as a captain at a port on the coast of Puerto Cortes,
3 other kids to look out for.
Yeah, the government is really persecuting her.
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Husband has a job.
Denis, who works as a captain at a port on the coast of Puerto Cortes,
3 other kids to look out for.
Yeah, the government is really persecuting her.
LILLEY: Liberal official has social media meltdown over Trump
Brian Lilley
Published:
June 21, 2018
Updated:
June 21, 2018 9:16 PM EDT
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, poses with Vancouver-East riding chair Mark Elyas in May, 2016. Facebook photo
A senior federal Liberal Party official out of Vancouver got a spanking from the party over a potty-mouthed rant Donald Trump on Thursday.
Mark Elyas, chair of the Vancouver East riding association, posted a dance remix of a congressional intern, yelling “f— you” at Donald Trump, and when questioned on social media, he lost control.
Elyas called for Trump supporters “to be rounded up and placed in camps away from public view.”
He even went on to say that Trump supporters should have their children seized.
“Their kids should be taken away from them for child abuse,” Elyas wrote. “Every Trump supporter is a racist piece of s—.”
Elyas, who has a history of referring to Trump as a pedophile, has fat shamed him in posts and used the very un-PC word “retarded” to refer to the president, went into complete meltdown mode on Thursday.
“You can f— yourself, too, you racist Trump supporter,” Elyas wrote in response to Tracey Wilson.
Wilson had seen Elyas make comments on another thread where he was slamming gun owners. After clicking through, she says she was shocked at what she saw and questioned him.
“I was shocked to see the language and dismissive type of attacks against our largest trading partner,” Wilson said in an e-mail.
“As a party official, your posts should reflect some professionalism.”
Wilson says she would not describe herself as a Trump supporter and was shocked that a Liberal Party official would speak this way in public.
“No. Just Trump supporters like you. And general bigots,” Elyas said when asked if this is how he speaks to all women.
Elyas is not only the president of the Vancouver East Liberals, he is the riding chair and in charge of election readiness, according to the party website and his own comments online.
The left coast apparatchik has been photographed often with Trudeau and other top Liberals including Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.
A review of his Twitter feed shows Elyas saying plenty of nasty things about the American president. Just over a year ago, Elyas was accusing Trump of having sex with children.
“Yah right! Russia has proof u’r a pedo, and they gonna blackmail the next POTUS. I’m #TakingaTrump as u are all over USA”
In another tweet, Elyas uses a rude Jamaican slang term as he replied to a Trump tweet about Attorney General Jeff Sessions being weak.
“You hired him. That makes you the bombaclat. You’ll no longer be President in the fall.”
Elyas, who seems obsessed with Trump and scatological references to him, even suggested Canada invade if Trump won.
“If the US elects.@realDonaldTrump or.@SenTedCruz Canada should invade to return the territories to the Crown. But seriously, don’t do it USA”
While Elyas offered Wilson an apology, via Facebook, he still sent out another anti-Trump rant on the local Liberal Facebook page.
A party spokesman in Ottawa said that Elyas was well outside party rules. Braeden Caley said party officials, even volunteers were expected to, “conduct themselves according to the highest standards.
“Furthermore, personal attacks such as these do not reflect the views of the Liberal Party in any respect, and an immediate review has been requested in accordance with party bylaws,” Caley said.
LILLEY: Liberal official has social media meltdown over Trump | Toronto Sun
Outrage over Liberal riding chair's profane Facebook rant
Bryan Passifiume
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Published:
June 21, 2018
Updated:
June 21, 2018 11:32 PM EDT
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left. poses with Vancouver-East riding chair Mark Elyas. Facebook photo
A federal Liberal riding association chair is under fire for a vitriolic Facebook rant which calls for supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump to be separated from their children and exiled to detention camps.
In the now-deleted exchange on his personal Facebook page, Mark Elyas — the Liberal Party of Canada’s riding chair for Vancouver-East — reacted angrily towards critics on social media who expressed displeasure at him posting an anti-Donald Trump YouTube video on his Facebook page, entitled “Mr. President, F— You!”
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“How very stately of you,” wrote commenter Tracey Wilson Wednesday afternoon.
“Is this the typical language we can expect out of the Liberal Party when they are supposed to be representing Canadians? Disgusting.”
In reply, Elyas unleashed a verbal assault upon Wilson — defending his anti-Trump stance.
“My personal page,” he wrote.
“Trump is a bigot, homophobe, racist, and misogynist. He can go f— himself. Why are you on (my) personal page? We aren’t even friends. In fact, you can f— yourself, too, you racist Trump supporter.”
That profane reply garnered nearly 70 responses before it was deleted about an hour later.
“I don’t support Trump,” Wilson replied, pointing out to Elyas that even though it was posted on his personal Facebook page, the privacy settings for the post were set to public.
“Is this how you always speak to women?” said Wilson.
Elyas replied that his reply is typical for all Trump supporters “like you,” and “general bigots as well.”
When another commenter accused Elyas of being a bigot, Elyas replied in the affirmative.
“I am,” he wrote, going on to describe Trump supporters “subhuman pieces of s—.”
“They need to be rounded up and placed in camps away from public view,” he wrote.
“Their kids should be taken away from them for child abuse.
“Every Trump supporter is a racist piece of s—.”
Facebook screencapture
By Thursday evening, Elyas posted a statement on the Vancouver East Liberals’ official Facebook page, defending his post and continuing his diatribe against the president and his supporters.
“I will put it out there: I hate Donald Trump and everything he and his supporters represent; mainly white supremacy; racism; misogyny; xenophobia; homophobia; and fascism,” he wrote, adding he refuses to resign from his position with the Liberal party.
A little over an hour later, the post disappeared from the page.
That was followed soon after by a post on Elyas’ personal Facebook page featuring a drawing of a completely nude Trump baring his genitals.
Elyas’ LinkedIn profile shows an association with the federal Liberals spanning 12 years, starting with a stint as communications chair with the Liberal Party of Canada in Vancouver-East in February, 2006, later serving as vice-president and a four-year term as president.
The Liberal party website lists Elyas as riding chair for Vancouver-East.
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Elyas has a history of bad behaviour on social media.
Shortly after Donald Trump’s Nov. 9, 2016 victory in the United States presidential election, Elyas commenced a campaign of profane and scatalogical insults on Twitter — calling the 45th president “retarded,” accusing him of being a pedophile, urging Trump to commit suicide, and writing he hopes the president “chokes on his food and dies.”
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Outrage over Liberal riding chair’s profane Facebook rant | Toronto Sun
Brian Lilley
Published:
June 21, 2018
Updated:
June 21, 2018 9:16 PM EDT
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, poses with Vancouver-East riding chair Mark Elyas in May, 2016. Facebook photo
A senior federal Liberal Party official out of Vancouver got a spanking from the party over a potty-mouthed rant Donald Trump on Thursday.
Mark Elyas, chair of the Vancouver East riding association, posted a dance remix of a congressional intern, yelling “f— you” at Donald Trump, and when questioned on social media, he lost control.
Elyas called for Trump supporters “to be rounded up and placed in camps away from public view.”
He even went on to say that Trump supporters should have their children seized.
“Their kids should be taken away from them for child abuse,” Elyas wrote. “Every Trump supporter is a racist piece of s—.”
Elyas, who has a history of referring to Trump as a pedophile, has fat shamed him in posts and used the very un-PC word “retarded” to refer to the president, went into complete meltdown mode on Thursday.
“You can f— yourself, too, you racist Trump supporter,” Elyas wrote in response to Tracey Wilson.
Wilson had seen Elyas make comments on another thread where he was slamming gun owners. After clicking through, she says she was shocked at what she saw and questioned him.
“I was shocked to see the language and dismissive type of attacks against our largest trading partner,” Wilson said in an e-mail.
“As a party official, your posts should reflect some professionalism.”
Wilson says she would not describe herself as a Trump supporter and was shocked that a Liberal Party official would speak this way in public.
“No. Just Trump supporters like you. And general bigots,” Elyas said when asked if this is how he speaks to all women.
Elyas is not only the president of the Vancouver East Liberals, he is the riding chair and in charge of election readiness, according to the party website and his own comments online.
The left coast apparatchik has been photographed often with Trudeau and other top Liberals including Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.
A review of his Twitter feed shows Elyas saying plenty of nasty things about the American president. Just over a year ago, Elyas was accusing Trump of having sex with children.
“Yah right! Russia has proof u’r a pedo, and they gonna blackmail the next POTUS. I’m #TakingaTrump as u are all over USA”
In another tweet, Elyas uses a rude Jamaican slang term as he replied to a Trump tweet about Attorney General Jeff Sessions being weak.
“You hired him. That makes you the bombaclat. You’ll no longer be President in the fall.”
Elyas, who seems obsessed with Trump and scatological references to him, even suggested Canada invade if Trump won.
“If the US elects.@realDonaldTrump or.@SenTedCruz Canada should invade to return the territories to the Crown. But seriously, don’t do it USA”
While Elyas offered Wilson an apology, via Facebook, he still sent out another anti-Trump rant on the local Liberal Facebook page.
A party spokesman in Ottawa said that Elyas was well outside party rules. Braeden Caley said party officials, even volunteers were expected to, “conduct themselves according to the highest standards.
“Furthermore, personal attacks such as these do not reflect the views of the Liberal Party in any respect, and an immediate review has been requested in accordance with party bylaws,” Caley said.
LILLEY: Liberal official has social media meltdown over Trump | Toronto Sun
Outrage over Liberal riding chair's profane Facebook rant
Bryan Passifiume
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Published:
June 21, 2018
Updated:
June 21, 2018 11:32 PM EDT
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left. poses with Vancouver-East riding chair Mark Elyas. Facebook photo
A federal Liberal riding association chair is under fire for a vitriolic Facebook rant which calls for supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump to be separated from their children and exiled to detention camps.
In the now-deleted exchange on his personal Facebook page, Mark Elyas — the Liberal Party of Canada’s riding chair for Vancouver-East — reacted angrily towards critics on social media who expressed displeasure at him posting an anti-Donald Trump YouTube video on his Facebook page, entitled “Mr. President, F— You!”
Facebook screencapture
“How very stately of you,” wrote commenter Tracey Wilson Wednesday afternoon.
“Is this the typical language we can expect out of the Liberal Party when they are supposed to be representing Canadians? Disgusting.”
In reply, Elyas unleashed a verbal assault upon Wilson — defending his anti-Trump stance.
“My personal page,” he wrote.
“Trump is a bigot, homophobe, racist, and misogynist. He can go f— himself. Why are you on (my) personal page? We aren’t even friends. In fact, you can f— yourself, too, you racist Trump supporter.”
That profane reply garnered nearly 70 responses before it was deleted about an hour later.
“I don’t support Trump,” Wilson replied, pointing out to Elyas that even though it was posted on his personal Facebook page, the privacy settings for the post were set to public.
“Is this how you always speak to women?” said Wilson.
Elyas replied that his reply is typical for all Trump supporters “like you,” and “general bigots as well.”
When another commenter accused Elyas of being a bigot, Elyas replied in the affirmative.
“I am,” he wrote, going on to describe Trump supporters “subhuman pieces of s—.”
“They need to be rounded up and placed in camps away from public view,” he wrote.
“Their kids should be taken away from them for child abuse.
“Every Trump supporter is a racist piece of s—.”
Facebook screencapture
By Thursday evening, Elyas posted a statement on the Vancouver East Liberals’ official Facebook page, defending his post and continuing his diatribe against the president and his supporters.
“I will put it out there: I hate Donald Trump and everything he and his supporters represent; mainly white supremacy; racism; misogyny; xenophobia; homophobia; and fascism,” he wrote, adding he refuses to resign from his position with the Liberal party.
A little over an hour later, the post disappeared from the page.
That was followed soon after by a post on Elyas’ personal Facebook page featuring a drawing of a completely nude Trump baring his genitals.
Elyas’ LinkedIn profile shows an association with the federal Liberals spanning 12 years, starting with a stint as communications chair with the Liberal Party of Canada in Vancouver-East in February, 2006, later serving as vice-president and a four-year term as president.
The Liberal party website lists Elyas as riding chair for Vancouver-East.
Twitter screen capture
Elyas has a history of bad behaviour on social media.
Shortly after Donald Trump’s Nov. 9, 2016 victory in the United States presidential election, Elyas commenced a campaign of profane and scatalogical insults on Twitter — calling the 45th president “retarded,” accusing him of being a pedophile, urging Trump to commit suicide, and writing he hopes the president “chokes on his food and dies.”
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On Twitter: @bryanpassifiume
http://facebook.com/vaneastliberals
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Thanks for that post, Spammy!
I couldn't stop laughing at this...
"A little over an hour later, the post disappeared from the page.That was followed soon after by a post on Elyas’ personal Facebook page featuring a drawing of a completely nude Trump baring his genitals."
You think after an hour he's had some time to reflect, but NO! He doubles down and posts a pic of Trump with his balls hanging out! It's too funny! lol!
I couldn't stop laughing at this...
"A little over an hour later, the post disappeared from the page.That was followed soon after by a post on Elyas’ personal Facebook page featuring a drawing of a completely nude Trump baring his genitals."
You think after an hour he's had some time to reflect, but NO! He doubles down and posts a pic of Trump with his balls hanging out! It's too funny! lol!
Pentagon agrees to make room for 20,000 migrant children
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June 21, 2018
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June 21, 2018 5:00 PM EDT
The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington. on March 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will make space available on military bases for as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children detained after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a spokesman said Thursday.
The request for temporary shelter — amid a growing political battle over detained migrants — was made by the Department of Health and Human Services and accepted by the Defence Department, said the spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis.
Davis said the space is expected to be required at least through the end of this year.
It’s not clear which bases will be used to house the children. HHS has assessed facilities on four military bases, but the Pentagon said it has not been told which, if any, of the four will be used. The Pentagon said it will have no role in operating the temporary shelters, which would be controlled by HHS.
The four bases already assessed as potential shelter locations are Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas, plus three bases in Texas: Dyess Air Force Base, Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Bliss.
Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday he is not involved in decisions about housing migrant children detained after crossing the border. But he said the Pentagon will provide whatever support is requested by either the Department of Homeland Security or HHS.
The children who would be housed on military bases are those who cross the border illegally by themselves, as opposed to those accompanied by adults. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep together children and parents apprehended for crossing the border illegally for at least 20 days. The order also directs the Justice Department to fight in court to permanently remove the threat of separation.
Pentagon agrees to make room for 20,000 migrant children | Toronto Sun
Detained young immigrants allegedly beaten, left nude and cold in cells
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June 21, 2018 10:33 AM EDT
This image provided by the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center shows part of the interior of the building in Staunton, Va. Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Cente / AP
WASHINGTON — Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention centre in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.
The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Staunton, Virginia, are detailed in federal court filings that include a half-dozen sworn statements from Latino teens jailed there for months or years. Multiple detainees say the guards stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed over their heads.
“Whenever they used to restrain me and put me in the chair, they would handcuff me,” said a Honduran immigrant who was sent to the facility when he was 15 years old. “Strapped me down all the way, from your feet all the way to your chest, you couldn’t really move. … They have total control over you. They also put a bag over your head. It has little holes; you can see through it. But you feel suffocated with the bag on.”
The Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 in Staunton, Va. Zachary Wajsgras / AP
In addition to the children’s first-hand, translated accounts in court filings, a former child-development specialist who worked inside the facility independently told The Associated Press this week that she saw kids there with bruises and broken bones they blamed on guards. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to publicly discuss the children’s cases.
In court filings, lawyers for the detention facility have denied all allegations of physical abuse.
Many of the children were sent there after U.S. immigration authorities accused them of belonging to violent gangs, including MS-13. President Donald Trump has repeatedly cited gang activity as justification for his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump said Wednesday that “our Border Patrol agents and our ICE agents have done one great job” cracking down on MS-13 gang members. “We’re throwing them out by the thousands,” he said.
But a top manager at the Shenandoah centre said during a recent congressional hearing that the children did not appear to be gang members and were suffering from mental health issues resulting from trauma that happened in their home countries — problems the detention facility is ill-equipped to treat.
“The youth were being screened as gang-involved individuals. And then when they came into our care, and they were assessed by our clinical and case management staff … they weren’t necessarily identified as gang-involved individuals,” said Kelsey Wong, a program director at the facility. She testified April 26 before a Senate subcommittee reviewing the treatment of immigrant children apprehended by the Homeland Security Department.
Most children held in the Shenandoah facility who were the focus of the abuse lawsuit were caught crossing the border illegally alone. They were not the children who have been separated from their families under the Trump administration’s recent policy and are now in the government’s care. But the facility there operates under the same program run by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. It was not immediately clear whether any separated children have been sent to Shenandoah Valley since the Trump administration in April announced its “zero tolerance” policy toward immigrant families, after the lawsuit was filed.
The Shenandoah lockup is one of only three juvenile detention facilities in the United States with federal contracts to provide “secure placement” for children who had problems at less-restrictive housing. The Yolo County Juvenile Detention Facility in California has faced litigation over immigrant children mischaracterized as gang members. In Alexandria, Virginia, a board overseeing the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center voted this week to end its contract to house federal immigration detainees, bowing to public pressure.
The Shenandoah detention centre was built by a coalition of seven nearby towns and counties to lock up local kids charged with serious crimes. Since 2007, about half the 58 beds are occupied by both male and female immigrants between the ages of 12 and 17 facing deportation proceedings or awaiting rulings on asylum claims. Though incarcerated in a facility similar to a prison, the children detained on administrative immigration charges have not yet been convicted of any crime.
A person walks into the entrance of the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 in Staunton, Va. Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at the juvenile detention center say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. The abuse claims are detailed in federal court filings that include a half-dozen sworn statements from Latino teens jailed there for months or years. Zachary Wajsgras / AP
Virginia ranks among the worst states in the nation for wait times in federal immigration courts, with an average of 806 days before a ruling. Nationally, only about half of juveniles facing deportation are represented by a lawyer, according to Justice Department data.
On average, 92 immigrant children each year cycle through Shenandoah, most of them from Mexico and Central America.
Wong said many of the 30 or so children housed there on any given day have mental health needs that would be better served in a residential treatment unit. But such facilities are often unwilling to accept children with significant behavioural issues, she said.
Wong and other managers at the Shenandoah centre, including Executive Director Timothy J. Smith, did not respond to phone and email messages seeking comment this week. A city manager on the local commission that oversees the facility referred questions to an official at the Refugee Resettlement agency, who did not respond to a phone message.
Financial statements reviewed by AP shows the local government commission that operates the centre received nearly $4.2 million in federal funds last year to house the immigrant children — enough to cover about two-thirds of the total operating expenses.
The lawsuit filed against Shenandoah alleges that young Latino immigrants held there “are subjected to unconstitutional conditions that shock the conscience, including violence by staff, abusive and excessive use of seclusion and restraints, and the denial of necessary mental health care.”
The complaint filed by the non-profit Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs recounts the story of an unnamed 17-year-old Mexican citizen apprehended at the southern border. The teen fled an abusive father and violence fueled by drug cartels to seek asylum in the United States in 2015.
After stops at facilities in Texas and New York, he was transferred to Shenandoah in April 2016 and diagnosed during an initial screening by a psychologist with three mental disorders, including depression. Besides weekly sessions speaking with a counsellor, the lawsuit alleges the teen has received no further mental health treatment, such as medications that might help regulate his moods and behaviour.
The lawsuit recounts multiple alleged violent incidents between Latino children and staff at the Shenandoah centre. It describes the guards as mostly white, non-Spanish speakers who are undertrained in dealing with individuals with mental illness. The suit alleges staff members routinely taunt the Latino youths with racially charged epithets, including “wetback,” ”onion head“ and ”pendejo,“ which roughly translates to dumbass in Spanish.
A 16-year-old who said he had lived in Texas with his mother since he was an infant ended up at Shenandoah in September after a police officer pulled over a car he was riding in and asked for ID, which he couldn’t provide. As one of the few Latino kids who is fluent in English, the teen would translate for other detainees the taunts and names the staff members were calling them. He said that angered the guards, resulting in his losing such modest privileges as attending art classes.
“If you are behaving bad, resisting the staff when they try to remove you from the program, they will take everything in your room away — your mattress, blanket, everything,” he said. “They will also take your clothes. Then they will leave you locked in there for a while. This has happened to me, and I know it has happened to other kids, too.”
The immigrant detainees said they were largely segregated from the mostly white juveniles being held on criminal charges, but they could see that the other housing units had amenities that included plush chairs and video gaming consoles not available in the Spartan pods housing the Latinos.
In their sworn statements, the teens reported spending the bulk of their days locked alone in their cells, with a few hours set aside for classroom instruction, recreation and meals. Some said they had never been allowed outdoors, while the U.S.-born children were afforded a spacious recreation yard.
The Latino children reported being fed sparse and often cold meals that left them hungry, though meals of American fast food were occasionally provided. Records show Shenandoah receives nearly $82,000 a year from the Agriculture Department to feed the immigration detainees.
The lawsuit said the poor conditions, frequent physical searches and verbal abuse by staff often escalated into confrontations, as the frustrated children acted out. The staff regularly responded “by physically assaulting the youth, applying an excessive amount of force that goes far beyond what is needed to establish or regain control.”
In the case of the Mexican 17-year-old, the lawsuit said a staff member who suspected him of possessing contraband threw him to the ground and forcibly tore off his clothes for an impromptu strip search. Though no forbidden items were found, the teenager was transferred to “Alpha Pod,” described in the lawsuit as a unit within the facility designated for children who engage in bad behaviour.
The lawsuit said Latino children were frequently punished by being restrained for hours in chairs, with handcuffs and cloth shackles on their legs. Often, the lawsuit alleged, the children were beaten by staff while bound.
As a result of such “malicious and sadistic applications of force,” the immigrant youths have “sustained significant injuries, both physical and psychological,” the lawsuit said.
After an altercation during which the lawsuit alleged the Mexican teenager bit a staff member during a beating, he was restrained in handcuffs and shackles for 10 days, resulting in bruises and cuts. Other teens interviewed as part of the court case also reported being punished for minor infractions with stints in solitary confinement, during which some of the children said they were left nude and shivering in cold concrete cells.
Academic studies of prison inmates kept in solitary confinement have found they often experience high anxiety that can cause panic attacks, paranoia and disordered thinking that may trigger angry outbursts. For those with mental health issues, the effects can be exacerbated, often worsening the very behaviours the staff is attempting to discourage.
A Guatemalan youth sent to the centre when he was 14 years old said he was often locked in his tiny cell for up to 23 hours a day. After resisting the guards, he said he was also restrained for long periods.
“When they couldn’t get one of the kids to calm down, the guards would put us in a chair — a safety chair, I don’t know what they call it — but they would just put us in there all day,” the teen said in a sworn statement. “This happened to me, and I saw it happen to others, too. It was excessive.”
A 15-year-old from Mexico held at Shenandoah for nine months also recounted being restrained with a bag over his head.
“They handcuffed me and put a white bag of some kind over my head,” he said, according to his sworn statement. “They took off all of my clothes and put me into a restraint chair, where they attached my hands and feet to the chair. They also put a strap across my chest. They left me naked and attached to that chair for two and a half days, including at night.”
After being subjected to such treatment, the 17-year-old Mexican youth said he tried to kill himself in August, only to be punished with further isolation. On other occasions, he said, he has responded to feelings of desperation and hopelessness by cutting his wrists with a piece of glass and banging his head against the wall or floor.
“One time I cut myself after I had gotten into a fight with staff,” the teen recounted. “I filled the room with blood. This happened on a Friday, but it wasn’t until Monday that they gave me a bandage or medicine for the pain.”
The lawsuit alleges other immigrant youths held at Shenandoah have also engaged in cutting and other self-harming behaviours, including ingesting shampoo and attempting to choke themselves.
A hearing in the case is set for July 3 before a federal judge in the Western District of Virginia.
Lawyers on both sides in the lawsuit either did not respond to messages or declined to comment, citing strict confidentiality requirements in the case involving children.
The child development specialist who previously worked with teens at Shenandoah told AP that many there developed severe psychological problems after experiencing abuse from guards.
“The majority of the kids we worked with when we went to visit them were emotionally and verbally abused. I had a kid whose foot was broken by a guard,” she said. “They would get put in isolation for months for things like picking up a pencil when a guard had said not to move. Some of them started hearing voices that were telling them to hurt people or hurt themselves, and I knew when they had gotten to Shenandoah they were not having any violent thoughts.”
She said she never witnessed staff abuse teens first-hand, but that teens would complain to her of injuries from being tackled by guards and reveal bruises. The specialist encouraged them to file a formal complaint.
Though lawyers for Shenandoah responded with court filings denying all wrongdoing, information contained in a separate 2016 lawsuit appears to support some of the information contained in the recent abuse complaints.
In a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against the Shenandoah centre, a former staff member said he worked in unit called “Alpha Pod” where immigrant minors were held, “including those with psychological and mental issues and those who tend to fight more frequently.”
The guard, Trenton Farris, who denied claims that he punched two children, sued the justice centre alleging he was wrongly targeted for firing because he is black. Farris said most staff members at the facility are white, and that two white staff members involved in the incident over which he was fired went unpunished.
Lawyers for the centre denied the former guard’s claims, and the case was settled in January.
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The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington. on March 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will make space available on military bases for as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children detained after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a spokesman said Thursday.
The request for temporary shelter — amid a growing political battle over detained migrants — was made by the Department of Health and Human Services and accepted by the Defence Department, said the spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis.
Davis said the space is expected to be required at least through the end of this year.
It’s not clear which bases will be used to house the children. HHS has assessed facilities on four military bases, but the Pentagon said it has not been told which, if any, of the four will be used. The Pentagon said it will have no role in operating the temporary shelters, which would be controlled by HHS.
The four bases already assessed as potential shelter locations are Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas, plus three bases in Texas: Dyess Air Force Base, Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Bliss.
Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday he is not involved in decisions about housing migrant children detained after crossing the border. But he said the Pentagon will provide whatever support is requested by either the Department of Homeland Security or HHS.
The children who would be housed on military bases are those who cross the border illegally by themselves, as opposed to those accompanied by adults. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep together children and parents apprehended for crossing the border illegally for at least 20 days. The order also directs the Justice Department to fight in court to permanently remove the threat of separation.
Pentagon agrees to make room for 20,000 migrant children | Toronto Sun
Detained young immigrants allegedly beaten, left nude and cold in cells
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June 21, 2018 10:33 AM EDT
This image provided by the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center shows part of the interior of the building in Staunton, Va. Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Cente / AP
WASHINGTON — Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention centre in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.
The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Staunton, Virginia, are detailed in federal court filings that include a half-dozen sworn statements from Latino teens jailed there for months or years. Multiple detainees say the guards stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed over their heads.
“Whenever they used to restrain me and put me in the chair, they would handcuff me,” said a Honduran immigrant who was sent to the facility when he was 15 years old. “Strapped me down all the way, from your feet all the way to your chest, you couldn’t really move. … They have total control over you. They also put a bag over your head. It has little holes; you can see through it. But you feel suffocated with the bag on.”
The Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 in Staunton, Va. Zachary Wajsgras / AP
In addition to the children’s first-hand, translated accounts in court filings, a former child-development specialist who worked inside the facility independently told The Associated Press this week that she saw kids there with bruises and broken bones they blamed on guards. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to publicly discuss the children’s cases.
In court filings, lawyers for the detention facility have denied all allegations of physical abuse.
Many of the children were sent there after U.S. immigration authorities accused them of belonging to violent gangs, including MS-13. President Donald Trump has repeatedly cited gang activity as justification for his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump said Wednesday that “our Border Patrol agents and our ICE agents have done one great job” cracking down on MS-13 gang members. “We’re throwing them out by the thousands,” he said.
But a top manager at the Shenandoah centre said during a recent congressional hearing that the children did not appear to be gang members and were suffering from mental health issues resulting from trauma that happened in their home countries — problems the detention facility is ill-equipped to treat.
“The youth were being screened as gang-involved individuals. And then when they came into our care, and they were assessed by our clinical and case management staff … they weren’t necessarily identified as gang-involved individuals,” said Kelsey Wong, a program director at the facility. She testified April 26 before a Senate subcommittee reviewing the treatment of immigrant children apprehended by the Homeland Security Department.
Most children held in the Shenandoah facility who were the focus of the abuse lawsuit were caught crossing the border illegally alone. They were not the children who have been separated from their families under the Trump administration’s recent policy and are now in the government’s care. But the facility there operates under the same program run by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. It was not immediately clear whether any separated children have been sent to Shenandoah Valley since the Trump administration in April announced its “zero tolerance” policy toward immigrant families, after the lawsuit was filed.
The Shenandoah lockup is one of only three juvenile detention facilities in the United States with federal contracts to provide “secure placement” for children who had problems at less-restrictive housing. The Yolo County Juvenile Detention Facility in California has faced litigation over immigrant children mischaracterized as gang members. In Alexandria, Virginia, a board overseeing the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center voted this week to end its contract to house federal immigration detainees, bowing to public pressure.
The Shenandoah detention centre was built by a coalition of seven nearby towns and counties to lock up local kids charged with serious crimes. Since 2007, about half the 58 beds are occupied by both male and female immigrants between the ages of 12 and 17 facing deportation proceedings or awaiting rulings on asylum claims. Though incarcerated in a facility similar to a prison, the children detained on administrative immigration charges have not yet been convicted of any crime.
A person walks into the entrance of the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 in Staunton, Va. Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at the juvenile detention center say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. The abuse claims are detailed in federal court filings that include a half-dozen sworn statements from Latino teens jailed there for months or years. Zachary Wajsgras / AP
Virginia ranks among the worst states in the nation for wait times in federal immigration courts, with an average of 806 days before a ruling. Nationally, only about half of juveniles facing deportation are represented by a lawyer, according to Justice Department data.
On average, 92 immigrant children each year cycle through Shenandoah, most of them from Mexico and Central America.
Wong said many of the 30 or so children housed there on any given day have mental health needs that would be better served in a residential treatment unit. But such facilities are often unwilling to accept children with significant behavioural issues, she said.
Wong and other managers at the Shenandoah centre, including Executive Director Timothy J. Smith, did not respond to phone and email messages seeking comment this week. A city manager on the local commission that oversees the facility referred questions to an official at the Refugee Resettlement agency, who did not respond to a phone message.
Financial statements reviewed by AP shows the local government commission that operates the centre received nearly $4.2 million in federal funds last year to house the immigrant children — enough to cover about two-thirds of the total operating expenses.
The lawsuit filed against Shenandoah alleges that young Latino immigrants held there “are subjected to unconstitutional conditions that shock the conscience, including violence by staff, abusive and excessive use of seclusion and restraints, and the denial of necessary mental health care.”
The complaint filed by the non-profit Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs recounts the story of an unnamed 17-year-old Mexican citizen apprehended at the southern border. The teen fled an abusive father and violence fueled by drug cartels to seek asylum in the United States in 2015.
After stops at facilities in Texas and New York, he was transferred to Shenandoah in April 2016 and diagnosed during an initial screening by a psychologist with three mental disorders, including depression. Besides weekly sessions speaking with a counsellor, the lawsuit alleges the teen has received no further mental health treatment, such as medications that might help regulate his moods and behaviour.
The lawsuit recounts multiple alleged violent incidents between Latino children and staff at the Shenandoah centre. It describes the guards as mostly white, non-Spanish speakers who are undertrained in dealing with individuals with mental illness. The suit alleges staff members routinely taunt the Latino youths with racially charged epithets, including “wetback,” ”onion head“ and ”pendejo,“ which roughly translates to dumbass in Spanish.
A 16-year-old who said he had lived in Texas with his mother since he was an infant ended up at Shenandoah in September after a police officer pulled over a car he was riding in and asked for ID, which he couldn’t provide. As one of the few Latino kids who is fluent in English, the teen would translate for other detainees the taunts and names the staff members were calling them. He said that angered the guards, resulting in his losing such modest privileges as attending art classes.
“If you are behaving bad, resisting the staff when they try to remove you from the program, they will take everything in your room away — your mattress, blanket, everything,” he said. “They will also take your clothes. Then they will leave you locked in there for a while. This has happened to me, and I know it has happened to other kids, too.”
The immigrant detainees said they were largely segregated from the mostly white juveniles being held on criminal charges, but they could see that the other housing units had amenities that included plush chairs and video gaming consoles not available in the Spartan pods housing the Latinos.
In their sworn statements, the teens reported spending the bulk of their days locked alone in their cells, with a few hours set aside for classroom instruction, recreation and meals. Some said they had never been allowed outdoors, while the U.S.-born children were afforded a spacious recreation yard.
The Latino children reported being fed sparse and often cold meals that left them hungry, though meals of American fast food were occasionally provided. Records show Shenandoah receives nearly $82,000 a year from the Agriculture Department to feed the immigration detainees.
The lawsuit said the poor conditions, frequent physical searches and verbal abuse by staff often escalated into confrontations, as the frustrated children acted out. The staff regularly responded “by physically assaulting the youth, applying an excessive amount of force that goes far beyond what is needed to establish or regain control.”
In the case of the Mexican 17-year-old, the lawsuit said a staff member who suspected him of possessing contraband threw him to the ground and forcibly tore off his clothes for an impromptu strip search. Though no forbidden items were found, the teenager was transferred to “Alpha Pod,” described in the lawsuit as a unit within the facility designated for children who engage in bad behaviour.
The lawsuit said Latino children were frequently punished by being restrained for hours in chairs, with handcuffs and cloth shackles on their legs. Often, the lawsuit alleged, the children were beaten by staff while bound.
As a result of such “malicious and sadistic applications of force,” the immigrant youths have “sustained significant injuries, both physical and psychological,” the lawsuit said.
After an altercation during which the lawsuit alleged the Mexican teenager bit a staff member during a beating, he was restrained in handcuffs and shackles for 10 days, resulting in bruises and cuts. Other teens interviewed as part of the court case also reported being punished for minor infractions with stints in solitary confinement, during which some of the children said they were left nude and shivering in cold concrete cells.
Academic studies of prison inmates kept in solitary confinement have found they often experience high anxiety that can cause panic attacks, paranoia and disordered thinking that may trigger angry outbursts. For those with mental health issues, the effects can be exacerbated, often worsening the very behaviours the staff is attempting to discourage.
A Guatemalan youth sent to the centre when he was 14 years old said he was often locked in his tiny cell for up to 23 hours a day. After resisting the guards, he said he was also restrained for long periods.
“When they couldn’t get one of the kids to calm down, the guards would put us in a chair — a safety chair, I don’t know what they call it — but they would just put us in there all day,” the teen said in a sworn statement. “This happened to me, and I saw it happen to others, too. It was excessive.”
A 15-year-old from Mexico held at Shenandoah for nine months also recounted being restrained with a bag over his head.
“They handcuffed me and put a white bag of some kind over my head,” he said, according to his sworn statement. “They took off all of my clothes and put me into a restraint chair, where they attached my hands and feet to the chair. They also put a strap across my chest. They left me naked and attached to that chair for two and a half days, including at night.”
After being subjected to such treatment, the 17-year-old Mexican youth said he tried to kill himself in August, only to be punished with further isolation. On other occasions, he said, he has responded to feelings of desperation and hopelessness by cutting his wrists with a piece of glass and banging his head against the wall or floor.
“One time I cut myself after I had gotten into a fight with staff,” the teen recounted. “I filled the room with blood. This happened on a Friday, but it wasn’t until Monday that they gave me a bandage or medicine for the pain.”
The lawsuit alleges other immigrant youths held at Shenandoah have also engaged in cutting and other self-harming behaviours, including ingesting shampoo and attempting to choke themselves.
A hearing in the case is set for July 3 before a federal judge in the Western District of Virginia.
Lawyers on both sides in the lawsuit either did not respond to messages or declined to comment, citing strict confidentiality requirements in the case involving children.
The child development specialist who previously worked with teens at Shenandoah told AP that many there developed severe psychological problems after experiencing abuse from guards.
“The majority of the kids we worked with when we went to visit them were emotionally and verbally abused. I had a kid whose foot was broken by a guard,” she said. “They would get put in isolation for months for things like picking up a pencil when a guard had said not to move. Some of them started hearing voices that were telling them to hurt people or hurt themselves, and I knew when they had gotten to Shenandoah they were not having any violent thoughts.”
She said she never witnessed staff abuse teens first-hand, but that teens would complain to her of injuries from being tackled by guards and reveal bruises. The specialist encouraged them to file a formal complaint.
Though lawyers for Shenandoah responded with court filings denying all wrongdoing, information contained in a separate 2016 lawsuit appears to support some of the information contained in the recent abuse complaints.
In a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against the Shenandoah centre, a former staff member said he worked in unit called “Alpha Pod” where immigrant minors were held, “including those with psychological and mental issues and those who tend to fight more frequently.”
The guard, Trenton Farris, who denied claims that he punched two children, sued the justice centre alleging he was wrongly targeted for firing because he is black. Farris said most staff members at the facility are white, and that two white staff members involved in the incident over which he was fired went unpunished.
Lawyers for the centre denied the former guard’s claims, and the case was settled in January.
Detained young immigrants allegedly beaten, left nude and cold in cells | Toronto Sun
Canada Also Detains Migrant Children And Separates Them From Their Parents.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canada-detention-children-united-states-1.4709632?cmp=rss
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canada-detention-children-united-states-1.4709632?cmp=rss
See nobody that matters gives a fly'n fukked what the leftards think about them. Too bad it was way over your head.
Doesn't fit the approved storyline.
The "Crying Immigrant Girl" TIME Photo Being Proven Fake Is a Microcosm of Propaganda
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Ever wonder if the corporate media lies to push political messages? The answer is yes:
you lyin brainded effe tards.
Oh heil her Gloeballs...
You arse SO busted dooood.
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Ever wonder if the corporate media lies to push political messages? The answer is yes:
you lyin brainded effe tards.
Oh heil her Gloeballs...
You arse SO busted dooood.
F*ck, you're stupid. But then again, FN hating morons who push advocacy science aren't really known for their intelligence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...er-mother-father-says/?utm_term=.ebb008eef41b
This is too funny!
Hoid has been calling the Trump administration 'kidnappers' for days now. But guess what? The mother of that little girl on the cover of Time Magazine actually took the girl on her journey to america without telling the father!! She kidnapped her own child away from her Dad!
From the article...
'Sanchez and her daughter left for the United States from Puerto Cortes, north of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, on June 3, Varela said. Sanchez had told her husband that she hoped to go to the United States to seek a better life for her children, away from the dangers of their home country. But she left without telling him that she was taking their youngest daughter with her. Varela, who has three other children with Sanchez, feared for the little girl’s safety, he said."
Do you have anything to say about this, Hoid?
AND/
At the end of the article...
Asked whether he would also like to come to the United States, the Father said, “Of course, someday.”
This is too funny!
Hoid has been calling the Trump administration 'kidnappers' for days now. But guess what? The mother of that little girl on the cover of Time Magazine actually took the girl on her journey to america without telling the father!! She kidnapped her own child away from her Dad!
From the article...
'Sanchez and her daughter left for the United States from Puerto Cortes, north of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, on June 3, Varela said. Sanchez had told her husband that she hoped to go to the United States to seek a better life for her children, away from the dangers of their home country. But she left without telling him that she was taking their youngest daughter with her. Varela, who has three other children with Sanchez, feared for the little girl’s safety, he said."
Do you have anything to say about this, Hoid?
AND/
At the end of the article...
Asked whether he would also like to come to the United States, the Father said, “Of course, someday.”
Why Cliffs should quit believing fake book bullshit
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-animals-hitler/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-animals-hitler/
I brought that up but I'm a White nationalist climate change denier.
Atoadaso!
'We're coming for you too Chloe': Donald Trump Jr's daughter Chloe is threatened on Twitter by Canadian TV writer after Peter Fonda faces Secret Service probe over threat to Barron
This guy of course works for the 'neutral and non political' CBC.
They should get the Secret Service to extradite him to the US for questioning, scare the living hell out of him.
At the very least, he should be fired from his cushy job at the CBC.
- A Canadian TV writer threatened Donald Trump Jr's four-year-old daughter
- His threat follows one made to Barron Trump earlier this week
- The younger Trumps have been more publicly targeted as the Trump Administration deals with the firestorm regarding immigrant children
- Pat Dussault apologized about his threat to Chloe and deleted his account
This guy of course works for the 'neutral and non political' CBC.
They should get the Secret Service to extradite him to the US for questioning, scare the living hell out of him.
At the very least, he should be fired from his cushy job at the CBC.
CE Spokesman Resigns, Saying He Could No Longer Spread Falsehoods for Trump Administration
A spokesman for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resigned, saying that he could no longer “bear the burden” of spreading falsehoods on behalf of the Trump administration.
The spokesman, James Schwab, who had worked for the agency’s San Francisco Division, told news outlets Monday that his decision was prompted by false statements made by the agency on Feb. 27 and repeated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week.
The statements criticized the mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, for her decision last month to warn city residents that a raid by federal immigration agents targeting roughly 1,000 people was imminent. The agency’s deputy director, Thomas D. Homan, said that Ms. Schaaf’s warning had helped “864 criminal aliens and public safety threats” to evade capture in the raid.
Mr. Sessions, in a visit to California last week, condemned Ms. Schaaf, a Democrat, and echoed the agency, asserting that her actions had allowed hundreds to escape.
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/us/california-ice-spokesman-resigns.html
A spokesman for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resigned, saying that he could no longer “bear the burden” of spreading falsehoods on behalf of the Trump administration.
The spokesman, James Schwab, who had worked for the agency’s San Francisco Division, told news outlets Monday that his decision was prompted by false statements made by the agency on Feb. 27 and repeated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week.
The statements criticized the mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, for her decision last month to warn city residents that a raid by federal immigration agents targeting roughly 1,000 people was imminent. The agency’s deputy director, Thomas D. Homan, said that Ms. Schaaf’s warning had helped “864 criminal aliens and public safety threats” to evade capture in the raid.
Mr. Sessions, in a visit to California last week, condemned Ms. Schaaf, a Democrat, and echoed the agency, asserting that her actions had allowed hundreds to escape.
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/us/california-ice-spokesman-resigns.html