Thousands of Immigrant Children Said They Were Sexually Abused in U.S. Detention

[BuffaloHops]

Thousands of Immigrant Children Said They Were Sexually Abused in U.S. Detention Centers, Report Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/immigrant-children-sexual-abuse.html

From October 2014 to July 2018, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a part of the Health and Human Services Department that cares for so-called unaccompanied minors, received a total of 4,556 allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment, 1,303 of which were referred to the Justice Department. Of those 1,303 cases deemed the most serious, 178 were accusations that adult staff members had sexually assaulted immigrant children, while the rest were allegations of minors assaulting other minors, the report said.

[Sableye]

but think of the children!

[TurtleUnit]

Not that surprising honestly. Pedos tend to be the kind of people who would ususally want jobs like this. That or right-leaning crazies a lot of the time. But yeah hope someone finally does something about the wannabe gestapo.

[That Deer]

but the of the (white) children!

[Borealis]

Actually a lot of these detained kids are being sent to Christian schools/charities to be indoctrinated and taken for adoption by upper class whites.

[ペゴボド]

Got a source on that?

[Borealis]

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/

That latter part may be speculation

[revengeanomics]

That sounds like a videogame villain out of MGS or something, the kind of person who thinks of a scheme to make money and "do good things for the people involved" that are heinous.
I can just picturing someone going "we take the kids, repurpose them for the upper class folk that come in through the doors, they pay us for them, one less immigrant on the street, win win for everyone, god bless America!"

[Azelf89]

If that’s actually true, then the only response I have is “oh christ, this shit again (but in a different country)?”

Context: Look up Canada’s past treatment of its aboriginal population. Trust me, it ain’t pretty.

[WuzeyUzi]

These crimes are going to breed a fun terrorist group at the US-Mexico border, I'm sure.

[Wafflemonstr]

Good, another exceptional scapegoat/enemy for the Republicans to capitalise on, obviously not an intentional tool of their or anything

[myxo]

dw, the US already did the same exact thing to native americans

[revengeanomics]

I keep forgetting about the whole thing with native americans...
What a big "fuck you" to them.

[cis.joshb]

How long before immigrants begin arming themselves for self-defence against ICE? See how fast the Republicans turn on gun rights... (or at least gun rights for "extremists" or whatever category they'll shove political opponents into)

[NoPartyHats]

does anyone know of any wars or insurrections started over immigration?

[Ghost901]

They'll probably just cover up the private seller loophole since they can't legally purchase a firearm otherwise.