Collected links on the current US border crisis

[conuly]

Some links have been posted in other entries, but I'm reposting them here.

On Child Concentration Camps, What’s Needed Is Not an Argument, but Action and Resistance (some links at end)

I've seen a lot of people wondering lately what in hell to do about the U.S. concentration camps.

More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps

There Are People in Concentration Camps. Why Aren’t We in the Streets?

I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights and Privacy

Migrant children, many of whom are unaccompanied minors, are traveling to the U.S. border to escape violence and seek asylum. Is anyone listening to their stories?

The Treatment of Migrants Likely ‘Meets the Definition of a Mass Atrocity’

History Has Taught Us That Concentration Camps Should Be Liberated. We Can’t Wait Until 2020.

Years Ago, the Border Patrol’s Discipline System Was Denounced as “Broken.” It’s Still Not Fixed.

A shocking image of a drowned man and his daughter underscores the crisis at the US-Mexico border (Disturbing image not under any sort of cut)

Seven migrant deaths reported in 'extreme heat' at U.S. border

Straw Man Argument

The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps

Yes, Trump's Detention Centers Are Concentration Camps

An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border

If Conditions for Detained Migrant Children Got Worse, How Would We Know?

Things are so bad that fucking Highlights is speaking out against family separation at the border

Doctor compares conditions for unaccompanied children at immigrant holding centers to 'torture facilities'

‘The Taliban gave me toothpaste’: Former captives contrast U.S. treatment of child migrants

Why a Government Lawyer Argued Against Giving Immigrant Kids Toothbrushes

Lack of data on missing migrant children leads to gaps in protection

“We Are Kept in a Cage”

At detention facilities, migrant children plead for basics: food, medicine, soap and a bit of solace

Inside a Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding Immigrant Children

Reports of babies and toddlers being left in the care of slightly older children in detention facilities at the U.S.-Mexico border reveal an ongoing atrocity.

The Definition of 'Refugee' Is Out of Date. And It's Leaving People Behind.

Judge bars Trump from using $2.5B to build border wall

As migrants languish in border facilities, U.S. Congress struggles to finalize emergency aid

Migrants face violence as US makes them wait in Mexico

Immigrant Domestic Violence Survivors Are Afraid to Go to Law Enforcement Under Trump

Even more links here in the comments at MetaFilter

Comments

[sabotabby]

I just don't understand why people aren't busting down the gates with crowbars. There are fucking babies in there.

[conuly]

Well, practically speaking, what do we need to do a prison break?

We need to overpower the guards AND keep them from calling for reinforcements - and we want to do this with a minimum of casualties, especially among the children.

We need to have a fast getaway with all those kids, and we need to quickly place them in temporary Spanish-speaking* foster homes until relatives can be found to take them. I strongly imagine that one the kids are out, nobody would dare put them back in.

That's... a shitton of manpower on both ends, and supplies. And these places are out in the middle of stinking nowhere, aren't they? How're we gonna get there and they don't see us coming?

* Not all the kids will speak Spanish. Despite the hype, even now many people in Latin America don't and never did.

[sabotabby]

School bus rentals are relatively cheap. Overpowering the guards is much more of an issue. You'd need lawyers and media, although those are there a plenty. The narrative should be that ordinary Americans, en masse, shouldn't stand for this.

It's a pity that the anti-abortion people who are so concerned about babies, enough to harass women and shoot doctors, are silent on this.

[conuly]

Maybe the left needs to be more gun culture? More survivalist? IDK.

Okay, we get some lawyers and friendly news agencies to tag along, tear down those walls, and skeddaddle. The lawyers can sort it out while all the dust settles.

This is a doable plan, we just need more people and we need to not get caught in the planning stages.

It's a pity that the anti-abortion people who are so concerned about babies, enough to harass women and shoot doctors, are silent on this.

Those aren't babies, they're foreign kids.

[rhoda_rants]

Maybe the left needs to be more gun culture? More survivalist? IDK.
Yeah, this is the weird disconnect I keep arriving at. I'm both, "Do we need more citizens with guns to overpower the guards at these places?" and "Guns are bad, don't arm citizens, that just creates more problems!" at the same time.

[adrian_turtle]

Going up against the police is SCARY. I'm afraid to do it myself, honestly. I think I would be even if the seizure disorder didn't make strobe lights such a problem. Even without particular police brutality, the long-term consequences of arrest are really daunting.

Fortunately, a lot of people are braver than me, and yesterday a group of Jewish protestors got arrested while trying to shut down the ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. Here's how to contribute to their bail fund. They're part of a larger organization with similar actions scheduled Tuesday in Boston and Friday in SF.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-jews-saying-never-again

[conuly]

Link stolen.

[imhilien]

I do hope those kids are able to be freed... >_

[conuly]

And fast, without too much more trauma.

[smokingboot]

Thanks very much for these links. My birthday fundraiser last year was for RAICES, but it was a difficult decision to make because I hadn't the faintest idea about what constitutes a legit US charity. Info like this really helps.