Want it both ways

Melissa McEwan of Shakesville wrote about the concentration camps at the border and included a couple pictures – thankfully showing only overcrowding (though that by itself is bad). She explains the lack of logic:

The sadistic architects of the Trump Regime's immigration policy want it both ways: They claim they are harming migrants and refugees as an allegedly effective deterrent, while simultaneously asserting that they can't help but torture people in concentration camps because their numbers are overwhelming the U.S.'s resources.

So, not an effective deterrent then. But we aren't meant to scrutinize the inherent contradiction in their bullshit justifications for their institutional abuse, nor are we meant to talk about how the detentions are unnecessary, as people could (and should be) released with a notice to return for a later court date, nor are we meant to talk about anything else that exposes the Trump Regime's deadly cruelty for the rank fascism that it is.

But let's talk about it, anyway. Let's talk about it with anyone and everyone who will listen, because our silence will be deadly for increasing numbers of people detained in these hells.

NPR’s All Things Considered this evening talked about the overcrowding. Host Michel Martin talked to Randy Capps, Director of Research at the Migration Policy Institute. He completely missed the point about detentions being unnecessary. However, he did talk about some of the nasty guy policies that have made the situation worse.

As much as I distrust Capps’ viewpoint because of his omission, he did say something important. What should the border patrol do with children? Because they are children they can’t simply be released. They must be released into someone’s care. But again, the nasty guy’s policies are making the situation much worse than it needs to be – by doing such things as pulling children from parents.