northerners fought segregation, southerners did not.

no, that is what happens when history is misrepresented

as has been noted many time the democratic party of segregation was largely the SOUTHERN democratic party

the larger SOUTHERN party now is the Republican base ..

Well, that racist never tried to deny his history. and I doubt the SAME democrats who 'supported' that one are the ones not supporting Trump TODAY.

My Dad served in Korea with the Merchant Marines..passed in 1996.
Nothing but naked native women in the scrapbook ;-)

the democrats don't give a damn about thier own party members being klansmen or cop killers or baby killers, they are the worst part of this great country, they are the excrement you try to scrape off your shoes before you go in the house. From the self absorbed morons in hollywierd advocating child abuse to presidential assignation . Do you really think these type of attacks will win you votes. If so then please keep up your lies and baseless attacks. In the meantime ESAD.

its been 60 years and we still have servicemen stationed there.... too long..

we should be out of there and let SK and Japan take care of their region.If that little fat man decides to escalate anything, we always have the ability to bomb his a*s back to 1950.. we don't need service men and women there to do that.

60 years is way too long.

If I own a business I get to say who I serve (do business with).
Its one of the perks of owning your own business.
If I don't want to see to you, provide my services to you, it doesn't matter why.
Go elsewhere because you can't get it from me.

Just because I sell widgets doesn't mean I have to sell widgets right now.
It doesn't mean I have to sell you widgets ever.
I'll sell my widgets to the people I want to sell my widgets to.
I don't care if you go away angry, just go away.

Granted, its not good business practices and you end up losing money (and customers) but if your beliefs are that strong, you may think the loss is acceptable.

In my small hometown I have seen signs in store windows that say
"No Hippies"
This is during the Vietnam Conflict.
The store owners chose not to serve people that did not support our police involvement.
A political stance that set their business model.

I remember hotels (we had an odd amount of hotels in town) that would only allow blacks to rent the top floor rooms. This is before central air conditioning.

Were these practices wrong? Perhaps, but it happened.

When I was in the service (stationed by Virginia Beach) there were bars that only served people in uniform and those with a uniformed escort.
There were also bars that wouldn't serve anyone in any uniform.

The private businesses do not fall under the same policies as the USPS.
The Post Office must deliver all mail no matter the individual preferences of the branch.
Private business is personal.

There are many franchises that have policies set by the franchise owner that allows them freedom of business.
Granted, you might lose your franchise license if you violate the corporation policies but you always have a choice.

Plus, it all works both ways.
If you choose not to buy widgets from a business based on that business's views or stance.
I know people right now that will not hire Mexicans for anything.
The will not use or buy any product from a Mexican owned store.
Its their choice.

What you're not getting, is that EVERYONE is "subject to the jurisdiction of".

Don't believe me? Try going to Saudi Arabia and getting drunk.

Before they chop your head off, or give 90 lashes, say "You can't do this! I'm an American, I'm "subject to the jurisdiction of" American laws. See how that works for you.

If you're in the US, you're subject to the jurisdiction of" US law. If you're in France, you're subject to the jurisdiction of" French law.

See how that works?

Well his DAD 'probably' was ... so guilt by association maybe?

Sir, that's not the point. The point is, people, want to point out how sorry Democrat side is. It doesn't matter who it is. When you get right down to the nuts and bolts of it, the conservative side likes to point fingers and talk about how sorry and low down the Democrat side it.

When in fact, the right, is just as bad. George HW Bush, Mr. Crocadial tears himself, John Boehner Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump himself. All these guys like to hide behind the Bible. They say they are doing what they do because of Christian values. While they are out screwing around with someone besides there wives.

Which suckers in a lot of people. It has nothing to do with Christian values. And all to do with MONEY. The only point I'm making if you want to call certain Democrats trash or whatever, You should also look in the trash can on the right. It needs emptying too.


It's not just the president. But also the trash under him.

Love both.
Waiting on the next season of Better call Saul.
Criminal Minds I cannot get enough of.

don't fall for the false rhetoric that most these illegals are
only coming here to engage in some sort of criminal enterprise,
yes there may be a small percent who do, but the vast majority
of the 11 million illegals are just hard working honest people
who are trying to better their lot in life...most all of them represent an
oppressed labor work-force who willingly work for
sub-standard wages...

so when all is said and done, and these people are all deported
from our country be prepared for 6 to 7 dollar a head lettuce
and 5 or 6 dollar a pound for tomatoes etc etc...because the
big agri-conglomerates that feed you are not going to sacrifice
their profit one iota, the higher cost of labor will only
be passed on to YOU the consumer...

tell me, who among you legal citizens are willing to work
stoop labor in the hot sun 12 hours a day for 6 dollars or
less per hour with no benefits ??? any takers for this work ???

be careful what you ask for, you just might get it...

That will teach them not to bring their kids into another country illegally. Kids are probably better off without them.

Funny you should say that..

It's only a matter of time, before one of the females ends up being sold on the sex market.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/us/undocumented-migrant-children-detention-facilities-abuse-invs/index.html

Handcuffs, assaults, and drugs called 'vitamins': Children allege grave abuse at migrant detention facilities

A year before the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy resulted in more than 2,300 children being separated from their families at the border in a mere five-week period, a ninth-grader in McAllen, Texas, was taken from his mother.

He was riding in a car with friends last spring when the car was pulled over. The teenager, brought illegally to the country by his mother as a baby, was unable to show identification. Police called immigration officials, who arrested the boy and sent him to a shelter for unaccompanied migrant children.

John Doe 2, as he is referred to in current legal filings challenging his detainment, became one of thousands caught in a network of shelters and higher-security facilities that house undocumented minors, now gaining attention as newly separated children have been streaming in.

Immigration attorneys working directly with migrant children say some of these facilities provide the best care they can, given the circumstances. And a huge shelter in Brownsville, Texas, which opened its doors for a media tour last week, appeared to be clean and well-staffed at the time.

But John Doe 2 landed in a far more troubled corner of the system, according to a first-person sworn declaration in a current legal motion against the federal government for unlawful and inappropriate detainment of children. His account is one of dozens describing overloaded and secretive shelters, treatment centers and secure detention facilities for undocumented minors, which at their worst have allegedly been home to neglect, assault and other horrific abuse.

The allegations in these documents, as well as recent facility inspection reports and other lawsuits, range from unsanitary conditions and invasive monitoring of mail and phone calls to unair-conditioned rooms in hot Texas summers and dosing children with cocktails of psychotropic drugs disguised as vitamins. At one facility, children recounted being held down for forcible injections, which medical records show are powerful antipsychotics and sedatives.
This is the system the children who have been separated from their parents are entering. And, even after the executive order Donald Trump signed on Wednesday, presented as a way to end the separation of migrant families, it is the system in which the children already separated and thousands of other undocumented children currently remain.

"There seems to be a level of cruel intent I've never seen before and a real indifference to the well-being of a child," said Holly Cooper, one of the many attorneys challenging the government's detainment of minors. Cooper regularly visits facilities and represents a number of migrant children as co-director of the Immigration Law Clinic at University of California, Davis.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement did not respond to repeated requests for information, and a spokesperson said the agency can't comment on ongoing litigation. But in a press call, officials said that shelters are run by organizations that meet state licensing standards and are staffed by people who are well-equipped to meet the needs of children in their care. The agency also said it is ready to expand capacity as needed to meet the growing demand.

John Doe 2 tells another side of the story. When he tried to run away from the first shelter he was placed in after two months and began acting out, including harming himself and getting into fights, he said he was moved twice -- ending up at a public regional detention center in Virginia, Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center, intended for some of the most dangerous young migrant detainees.

He claims his case manager told him he was transferred there because of "behavioral issues." That assertion is backed up by legal filings from the facility, which say he had been diagnosed with conditions including ADHD, anxiety and intermittent explosive disorder.

His arrival there marked the last time he would breathe fresh air for months, the teenager said in a sworn legal statement in January. He was so upset about being there that he talked back and lashed out at staff, who he said he heard degrading him and other Hispanic children in English, not realizing that he could understand. His defiance led them to hurt and restrain him, he said.

"They will grab my hands and put them behind my back so I can't move. Sometimes they will use pens to poke me in the ribs, sometimes they grab my jaw with their hands," he said in his declaration. "They are bigger than me. Sometimes there will be three or four of them using force against me at the same time. The force used by staff has left bruises on my wrists, on my ribs, and on my shoulder. The doctor here gave me ibuprofen for the pain."

At this same facility, he said, he was sometimes kept in handcuffs and then tied to a chair with a restraint placed over his face with holes so he could breathe. This punishment was described in at least five other declarations from children, including one who said he was left naked, strapped to the chair for more than two days.

In court documents, Shenandoah denied any assault of residents, but it acknowledged that staffers use confinement and restraints when residents fight one another or staff, and it said it uses an "emergency restraint chair" as a last resort for aggressive behavior. "When the emergency chair is utilized, residents are restrained by their arms, legs, and torso, and a spit mask is placed on the resident to prevent staff from being spit upon or bitten," the facility stated. In a statement to CNN, the organization said, "Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center believes the allegations of the complaint to be without merit and looks forward to the opportunity to present evidence that will allow a jury to reach the same conclusion."

John Doe 2 was still in Shenandoah as recently as January, when he gave his declaration. "I'm frustrated about being locked up and I miss my family," he said.

On Thursday, in response to the allegations, Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia announced an investigation of the Shenandoah facility.
The US government doles out around $1 billion to nonprofits and local government agencies each year to house and provide services for detained migrant children, in facilities that range from the repurposed Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that CNN visited last week to juvenile detention centers. The facilities where they are held are often opaque, not publicizing their locations and blocking journalists or lawmakers from viewing the conditions.

Some children in the system crossed the border alone, often fleeing violence in their home countries. Others arrived with their families and were separated, even before the new policy. Still others, like John Doe 2, have lived in the United States for years but lack citizenship. Regardless of their origins, they all enter the same system.

Immigration attorneys are battling the federal government over the conditions in these facilities, arguing that a high-profile settlement reached in 1997 that dictates how children are treated within the system, known as the Flores agreement, has not been upheld. Some of the allegations precede the Trump administration. Recent filings contain hundreds of pages of firsthand statements detailing abuses from children, medical records, intake paperwork, as well as internal correspondence and debate between attorneys and the federal government. Another, separate class action lawsuit filed in federal court last fall accuses Shenandoah of "unconstitutional conditions that shock the conscience," a claim Shenandoah denies.
Currently, nearly 11,800 children are housed in more than 100 facilities across 17 different states, according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is required to take custody of the children within 72 hours of their initial detainment by immigration authorities. With many of these already operating at capacity, the government has been scrambling to find additional beds for children.
It is unclear how many children are currently housed in facilities more restrictive than shelters, but ORR data cited in court filings shows that such facilities received more than 800 admissions in fiscal year 2017.

Experts opposing the child-separation policy, including the American Medical Association and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, say that even briefly separating and detaining children has been shown to cause long-lasting harm to them.
But at some of these shelters and other facilities, the harm to these children goes far beyond the mere fact of being detained in the first place. Some of the least restrictive facilities have been cited by regulators for problems -- including those run by Southwest Key Programs and BCFS Health and Human Services, two of the largest government grant recipients. And when trauma may cause kids to act out, children can promptly be moved or "stepped up" to more restrictive facilities, where children and their attorneys say they are treated like prisoners. Ultimately, their fate may depend on the facility where the US government decides to place them.

In shelter system, hundreds of 'deficiencies'

Though the worst abuses in the immigrant child detention system have been alleged in higher-security facilities, even the shelters where children begin their stays have seen allegations of neglect, assault, verbal abuse and missing background checks for staff, in a system that is increasingly straining at its seams.

Take, for example, the 26 shelters and higher-security facilities run in Arizona, California and Texas by Austin-based Southwest Key Programs, the largest ORR shelter contractor. This nonprofit has received more than $955 million in federal funding over the past three fiscal years, according to online government spending data. Company CEO and President Juan Sanchez made at least $1.5 million in 2016, according to government filings. That would put him among the five highest-paid nonprofit CEOs in the country that year, according to Charity Watch.

As recently as early 2017, Southwest Key shelters were mostly under capacity -- enough so that the company laid off workers and closed some shelters in mid-2017. But most of Southwest Key's 16 Texas shelters now operate under month-to-month variances granted by the state to let them hold up to 150% of their original licensed capacity, including the Casa Padre shelter in Brownsville that CNN visited last week.

Those variances have come even as state inspectors have found more than 246 "deficiencies" at Southwest Key's facilities over the past three years. State reports cite at least three cases of under-supervised children harming themselves, including one with plastic cutlery and one by drinking rubbing alcohol. They have cited staff for drunkenness; shoving, using other physical force and belittling children; for keeping kids in unair-conditioned rooms in mid-July at a shelter in El Paso; and in one case for having an "inappropriate relationship" with a child. In one case in a San Benito shelter, "Staff did not take child to the bathroom when he requested and consequently child urinated on himself during class time."

Twenty-three citations involved improper medical treatment.

Inspectors cited Southwest Key for giving kids the wrong medications; for failing to give them prescribed medications; for withholding medical care -- for example, making a child with a fractured wrist at the El Presidente shelter in Brownsville wait three days before seeing a doctor -- or inappropriate care, such as vaccinating a pregnant teen at the same shelter. In all three years, Texas cited Southwest Key for failing to get timely background checks on staffers.
In California and Arizona, shelters are inspected much less frequently. Arizona, which has eight open Southwest Key facilities and three that have been closed, generally only inspects accredited Southwest Key or other ORR-contracted shelters in that state when it receives a complaint, said Arizona Department of Health Services spokeswoman Nicole Capone. One citation of four recorded in that state since 2015 was for improperly restraining children.
One former Southwest Key employee in that state called the lack of supervision problematic.

"The whole time I worked at Estrella del Norte, I saw maybe one person from ORR," and no one from Arizona's oversight agencies, said Antar Davidson, who spent four months as a youth care worker at Southwest Key's shelter in Tucson. He quit on June 12, because, he said, he thought the way Southwest Key operated "was very damaging to the children." He has been outspoken about his experience in the last week since going public in the Los Angeles Times about his concerns, including that low-paid, high-turnover staff was not well equipped to handle the recent surge in distressed children newly separated from their parents.

Read even more at the link.

Perhaps, if you close one eye, and twist your neck at just the right angle, you can see a difference...

But I'm just not feeling it.

PS Just a little icing on the cake: Michael Cohen, the former presidents "fixer" has flipped, and is ready to spill his guts.

I thought that he stated his reasons most eloquently. "As the son of a Polish Holocaust survivor, I have direct knowledge of the "selections". I can no longer support Donald Trump in his endeavors".

Talk about shooting yourself in the d@ck. Donny suck his own boat.

Very doubtful.

All Democrats have to do, is use this.



He's Donald J Trump, and he approved this ad.

Vote Democrat

Some ads write themselves.

Don't you have an underage kid?

What will your reaction be when it happens to him?

You would do well to remember, that what you advocate for one citizen, you advocate for ALL citizens.



Not talking about mom, the child is an American citizen. The child is "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof".