They also get “bootcamp” if they don’t complete chores, violate hygiene regimens, or are deemed to have misbehaved in some way. Bootcamp includes extra hours of cleaning and cooking and restrictions on recreation and free time (evidence from my research in ORR facilities).
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This is horrendous. And you just know not a single accommodation is offered to kids who need it. They’ll just get thrown into Boot Camp and be expected to survive.
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There have already been reports of kids with special needs, including Down syndrome and Autism Spectrum, thrown into detention, separated from their parents and not provided with necessary accommodations. Deeply traumatizing for all children, but especially these.
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My 5 yo son’s moderate-severe ASD is currently very well managed because he’s received daily therapy services since he was 16 months old. The untrained observer may not know he’s different from his typical peers. Yet I’m *positive* he’d become a vegetable in one of these camps.
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I think about this every day, multiple times. What about all of the sensory kids? Spectrum kids? The ADHD kiddos, like my older son? I feel such grief when I think about these differently-able children being injected with sedatives, in desperate need of physical touch and denied.
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It was also one of the first things I thought of when I saw the kids crowded together in cages in huge, noisy warehouses: this is awful for everyone, but it's sheer torture for the kids with sensory integration issues.
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Just that statement makes me shudder because I know. I know what my son would do and how he’d feel and that thought grips me with sorrow to my core. It’s toxic, traumatizing stress for a typical, well adjusted child. It’s deadly for a developmentally disabled child. Literally.
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Seriously though, who on the inside can initiate some underground railroad-esque shit? Trump and ilk aren't capable of complying with a reunification plan if ordered cuz they lost records necessary to do so through gross incompetence or never made/kept any, so it's up to us
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Stanford 1971 prison experiment. It took 2 wks before they shut that down. Giving unaccountable power to unknown jailers in secret locations. These stories are the tip of the iceberg . Thank you NY Times and please keep digging.
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This came up last week in conversation!! It really is comparable to this in regard to power. That video footage of the Stanford study still gives me chills.
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to all you MAGA morons screaming THEY BROKE THE LAW: border crossing is a misdemeanor and asylum-seeking is legal, and we don't put children in concentration camps because their parents committed misdemeanors. at least we didn't before the heartless white supremacists took over.
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Did you bitch about it for 8 years of Barack Hussein Obama? If not then shut up.
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Nice try. Next. https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1018168472608624641 …
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Blame the parents first ...
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Blame the parents if you wish, but here it is not the subject, and if you think behavior of the parents, justifies this, you do not understand anything about ethic, about human rights, and definitely nothing about child's rights .
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I do not feel dutybound to welcome them. I feel dutybound to help them in their country.
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Again this is not the subject, the fact is , those kids are treated like that . You can hide behind you little finger as we say in french, and argue bollocks all day, this is a fact ; And if you think anything justify to treat little kids like that, you do not understand law
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