Hey E'rybody. I'm sure many of you are already aware of the atrocities being committed lately in the name of "border security", but you may not have a handle on some of the details. This episode is intended to inform you about exactly what is going on and why it is not only inhumane, but also ILLEGAL. It took some time to get all the moving parts together for this one and in the intervening days more news has surfaced on this issue. We're including a few links to those stories here at the top of the show notes, with links to the info I used for recording listed below. Click on the text to open. Links will open in a new browser window. News since recording: Staffers aren't allowed to pick up nor comfort infants at detention centers Former First Lady Laura Bush wrote an opinion piece.among other things, she called the images she's seen "eerily reminiscent" of WWII Japanese Internment Camps 4 month old infant taken from mother WHILE breastfeeding What you can do Resources used for this episode: They're keeping children in cages The UN says this treatment is illegal What separating migrant families at the border actually looks like Detention of migrant children is surging under Trump The legal process for children separated from their parents Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon recounts his experiences visiting detention centers - or trying to US-Funded police in El Salvador murder citizens with impunity Bianca Jagger on the situation in Nicaragua Video of Bianca Jagger interview on Amanpour Video of Chris Hayes' interview with Laura St. John and Lee Gelernt Adam Ruins Everything Episode 30: Jackie Stevens Exposes the Bizarre World of Immigration Courts and Detention Centers   I think that's all of them. Thanks as always for listening. Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast on whatever platform you listen on! And send us your feedback. Whether it be here, via our Facebook Page or on Twitter - we love to hear from listeners!    Love ya!   - Kev  

Hey E'rybody. I'm sure many of you are already aware of the atrocities being committed lately in the name of "border security", but you may not have a handle on some of the details. This episode is intended to inform you about exactly what is going on and why it is not only inhumane, but also ILLEGAL. It took some time to get all the moving parts together for this one and in the intervening days more news has surfaced on this issue. We're including a few links to those stories here at the top of the show notes, with links to the info I used for recording listed below. Click on the text to open. Links will open in a new browser window.

News since recording:

texas-shelter-immigrant-children-20180616-story.html">Staffers aren't allowed to pick up nor comfort infants at detention centers

Former First Lady Laura Bush wrote an opinion piece.among other things, she called the images she's seen "eerily reminiscent" of WWII Japanese Internment Camps

4 month old infant taken from mother WHILE breastfeeding

parents-asylum-immigration.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer">What you can do

Resources used for this episode:

They're keeping children in cages

un-migrant-children-families.html?rref=collection/issuecollection/todays-new-york-times&action=click&contentCollection=todayspaper®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection">The UN says this treatment is illegal

What separating migrant families at the border actually looks like

Detention of migrant children is surging under Trump

The legal process for children separated from their parents

Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon recounts his experiences visiting detention centers - or trying to

US-Funded police in El Salvador murder citizens with impunity

jagger-says-ortega-waging-dirty-war-nicaragua-212803365.html">Bianca Jagger on the situation in Nicaragua

nicaragua-bianca-jagger-amanpour.cnn">Video of Bianca Jagger interview on Amanpour

Video of Chris Hayes' interview with Laura St. John and Lee Gelernt

Adam Ruins Everything Episode 30: Jackie Stevens Exposes the Bizarre World of Immigration Courts and Detention Centers

 

I think that's all of them. Thanks as always for listening. Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast on whatever platform you listen on! And send us your feedback. Whether it be here, via our Facebook Page or on Twitter - we love to hear from listeners! 

 

Love ya!

 

- Kev