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[JB1981]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014...uiet-about-illegal-immigrants-or-face-arrest/

Saw this article linked on Drudge today and just read the entire thing. The accounts from the "sources" in this article are very alarming but something also smells funny and sensationalist. The writer paints a grim picture of the situation in the migrant camps in Texas. Some choice quotes:

A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.

In spite of the threat, several former camp workers broke their confidentiality agreements and shared exclusive details with me about the dangerous conditions at the camp. They said taxpayers deserve to know about the contagious diseases and the risks the children pose to Americans. I have agreed to not to disclose their identities because they fear retaliation and prosecution.

“It was a very submissive atmosphere,” the counselor said. “Once you stepped onto the grounds, you abided by their laws – the Brown Shirt laws.”

She said the workers were stripped of their cellphones and other communication devices. Anyone caught with a phone was immediately fired.

“Everyone was paranoid,” she said. “The children had more rights than the workers.”

She said children in the camp had measles, scabies, chicken pox and strep throat as well as mental and emotional issues.

“It was not a good atmosphere in terms of health,” she said. “I would be talking to children and lice would just be climbing down their hair.”

A former nurse at the camp told me she was horrified by what she saw

This stuff sounds pretty scary and serious. How accurate do we think this article is? How much of it do we think is completely fabricated?

 

[reggieandTFE]

People talking about brown shirts are the ones who would willingly put them on if they had a chance.

 

[Oersted]

Lets pretend for a second this is true. The lack of empathy towards the kids is staggering.

 

[Arrowgigantic]

How accurate do we think this article is? How much of it do we think is completely fabricated?

I'm sure the kids are not in great shape because of what they've been through but it is not a big deal that there's chicken pox and lice.

Also that line about the children having more rights than the workers is just hilarious. Oh no, somebody cares about these sick orphans more than mememememememe.

 

[JB1981]

Here is more:

“When they found out the kids had scabies, the charge nurse was adamant – ‘Don’t mention that. Don’t say scabies,’” the nurse recounted. “But everybody knew they had scabies. Some of the workers were very concerned about touching things and picking things up. They asked if they should be concerned, but they were told don’t worry about it.”

The nurse said the lice issue was epidemic – but everything was kept “hush-hush.”

“You could see the bugs crawling through their hair,” she said. “After we would rinse out their hair, the sink would be loaded with black bugs.”

The nurse told me she became especially alarmed because their files indicated the children had been transported to Lackland on domestic charter buses and airplanes.

“That’s what alerted me,” she said. “Oh, my God. They’re flying these kids around. Nobody knows that these children have scabies and lice. To tell you the truth, there’s no way to control it.”

Ya think Obama wanted everything "hush-hush" so the immigrants could spread a new scabies epidemic?

 

[FiggyCal]

Lets pretend for a second this is true. The lack of empathy towards the kids is staggering.

I sometimes question how religious the religious right is.

Remember when Jesus said turn your backs on poor, sick children? Me neither.

 

[Arrowgigantic]

Ya think Obama wanted everything "hush-hush" so the immigrants could spread a new scabies epidemic?

It's worse! Anne Frank had scabies, conservatives real Americans to be put in FEMA camps soon, while liberals with their fancy basic hygiene and antihistamines walk free.

 

[Vyroxis]

Ya think Obama wanted everything "hush-hush" so the immigrants could spread a new scabies epidemic?

No, but transporting them on charter buses and planes may not be the best of ideas really.

 

[Lkr]

not really surprised about poor health conditions. it just makes me wish the government was spending more money to take care of these kids. what a fucking joke when we are supposed to be the "beacon of hope and opportunity" and we are housing these kids who traveled hundreds of miles for the chance at a better life in slum-like conditions.

 

[Arrowgigantic]

No, but transporting them on charter buses and planes may not be the best of ideas really.

Are you a scabies doctor or something? They're tiny bugs, so tiny that if your immune system is healthy scabies will be destroyed by it.

 

[Jhriad]

People are fear mongering over scabies now? Really? I guess they've got to make the conservative base scared of those children somehow.

 

[Lkr]

People are fear mongering over scabies now? Really? I guess they've got to make the conservative base scared of those children somehow.

There was a girl in high school that got scabies and she had the audacity to come to school after being home for one day! We could have had an epidemic!

 

[Subitai]

It is too bad the administration won't let photo journalists in. Sucks the doctors might get caught in the legal mess. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished.


Hey, why just this Fox News link? Texas Official Believes Illegals Renting Kids To Cross Border



Drudge has been linking what little has been allowed about the disaster to come out for months. The "cheat sheets", cartel manipulation, media clampdown, and unenforced deportation is just the beginning. These facilities were never made to handle the numbers that have started coming in.

Anyway, if people really saw what was really going on, immigration reform would stop being the debated issue, and things would completely shift to border security.


Since we're reading Drudge, Quinnipiac University Poll finds Obama worse president since WWII.

 

[ppor]

Oh man, check out his other opinion pieces, typical right-wing trolling about the War on Christianity, gays, minorities, etc...
http://www.foxnews.com/archive/todd-starnes/index.html

Here he is complaining about ethnic food sections in grocery stores, bet he's proud of his biting "satire".
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/03/27/funny-thing-happened-on-way-to-ham-sandwich/

 

[Lkr]

Oh man, check out his other opinion pieces, typical right-wing trolling about the War on Christianity, gays, minorities, etc...
http://www.foxnews.com/archive/todd-starnes/index.html

Here he is complaining about ethnic food sections in grocery stores, bet he's proud of his biting "satire".
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/03/27/funny-thing-happened-on-way-to-ham-sandwich/

lol the comments on the second article are even calling him out for the stupidity of the "article".

 

[JB1981]

It is too bad the administration won't let photo journalists in. Sucks the doctors might get caught in the legal mess. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished.


Hey, why just this Fox News link? Texas Official Believes Illegals Renting Kids To Cross Border



Drudge has been linking what little has been allowed about the disaster to come out for months. The "cheat sheets", cartel manipulation, media clampdown, and unenforced deportation is just the beginning. These facilities were never made to handle the numbers that have started coming in.

Anyway, if people really saw what was really going on, immigration reform would stop being the debated issue, and things would completely shift to border security.


Since we're reading Drudge, Quinnipiac University Poll finds Obama worse president since WWII.

What is really going on that the media has been barred from being able to report on.

 

[Subitai]

What is really going on that the media has been barred from being able to report on.

Ya, that is what I was trying to get at. If the media could send reporters in and get the full story, immigration reform politics would be set back years.

 

[Omegasquash]

Why are we reading Drudge, again?

 

[Zhengi]

not really surprised about poor health conditions. it just makes me wish the government was spending more money to take care of these kids. what a fucking joke when we are supposed to be the "beacon of hope and opportunity" and we are housing these kids who traveled hundreds of miles for the chance at a better life in slum-like conditions.

I thought Europe was the new beacon of hope and opportunity. Wonder if these kids can be shipped over there and welcomed with open arms?

 

[WedgeX]

Why are we reading Drudge, again?

Because the West Wing referenced him all the time.

 

[BajiBoxer]

It is too bad the administration won't let photo journalists in. Sucks the doctors might get caught in the legal mess. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished.


Hey, why just this Fox News link? Texas Official Believes Illegals Renting Kids To Cross Border



Drudge has been linking what little has been allowed about the disaster to come out for months. The "cheat sheets", cartel manipulation, media clampdown, and unenforced deportation is just the beginning. These facilities were never made to handle the numbers that have started coming in.

Anyway, if people really saw what was really going on, immigration reform would stop being the debated issue, and things would completely shift to border security.


Since we're reading Drudge, Quinnipiac University Poll finds Obama worse president since WWII.

LOL @ the Obama poll being news worthy. Republicans vote Obama worst modern president. Bush and Nixon split Democrat votes making Obama #1. Big shocker

I would like more reporting on what happens to these children and the conditions they're kept in, preferably from reliable journalists though.

 

[Goliath]

This is digusting.

Trying to scare the U.S. public with Lice, Chicken Pox and Scabies?

All of these things can and most likely are being treated while these kids are currently seperated from everyone. Heck, these things get passed along in the school system and daycare by AMERICAN CHILDREN.

 

[Siegcram]

So the network telling people vaccination causes mental retardation or Autism is now worried about migrant children spreading diseases?

 

[Green Wiggly]

Here he is complaining about ethnic food sections in grocery stores, bet he's proud of his biting "satire".
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/03/27/funny-thing-happened-on-way-to-ham-sandwich/

The horror:

Anyway, after selecting a deli ham, I dropped by condiments aisle to get a jar of spicy mustard along with some bread & butter pickles.

I was about check out when I suddenly remembered that I needed some cheese.

So I made a beeline for the dairy aisle and that’s when I made a startling discovery. I brought my three-wheeled shopping cart to a screeching halt. I came face to face with a massive sign bearing giant letters.

It read: “HISPANIC CHEESE.”

Thankfully, he made it out of there alive and can continue being the creepy old guy that ogles hipsters at the grocery store. Someone has to.