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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2018

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      “Hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in South Texas.” https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1046416856171642880 …

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2018

      “Children in groups of 20, separated by gender, sleep lined up in bunks. There is no school: The children are given workbooks that they have no obligation to complete. Access to legal services is limited.”

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2018

      “These midnight voyages are playing out across the country, as the federal government struggles to find room for more than 13,000 detained migrant children — the largest population ever — whose numbers have increased more than fivefold since last year.”

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2018

      “Some staff members cried when they learned of the move, the shelter worker said, fearing what was in store for the children who had been in their care. Others tried to protest. But managers explained that tough choices had to be made to deal with the overflowing population.”

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2018

      Not all the children were separated from parents. Some arrived alone, victims of the humanitarian crisis in Central America—which has much to do with us, too. But all that aside, DO WE HAVE NO MEANS TO KEEP 13,000 children except 20 to a room in bunk beds in a patch desert?!?!?!

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2018

          Note that there's no new influx of children—alone or with parents—that's causing this. This five-fold increase in one year from 2,400 to 12,800 detained children is due to "a reduction in the number being released to live with families and other sponsors." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us/migrant-children-detention.html …pic.twitter.com/hA9uvBucGw

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Running out the clock

          The problem isn't lack of sufficient homes willing to step up. Open up the channels, and I and many others will take these children, or support families who have language skills or are their relatives. This country isn't lacking in compassion or resources.https://twitter.com/bettybaze/status/1046425441173671936 …

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2018

          I've worked with refugee children for years. No shortage of people who will step up for kids. *Of course* it's a thorny problem. Traumatized kids who don't yet speak English, underfunded services... But this country does not *have to* put children into camps in the desert. NOPE.

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        1. Kees van der Leun‏ @Sustainable2050 30 Sep 2018
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          I think the idea was to use it as a deterrent?

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        1. Carly Goodman, Ph.D., emerita‏ @car1ygoodman 30 Sep 2018
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          Maximum performative cruelty and dehumanization. Recognizing these children and their families as people would mean accepting that they are part of this country. They are also using them as bait for undocumented relatives, and ensuring little access to legal services.

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        1. Bedminstermike2‏ @bedminstermike2 30 Sep 2018
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          How many have you taken in?

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