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Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait away from their parents in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.

One teenager told an advocate who visited that she was helping care for a young child she didn’t know because the child’s aunt was somewhere else in the facility. She said she had to show others in her cell how to change the girl’s diaper.

The U.S. Border Patrol on Sunday allowed reporters to briefly visit the facility where it holds families arrested at the southern U.S. border, responding to new criticism and protests over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy and resulting separation of families.

More than 1,100 people were inside the large, dark facility that’s divided into separate wings for unaccompanied children, adults on their own, and mothers and fathers with children. The cages in each wing open out into common areas to use portable restrooms. The overhead lighting in the warehouse stay on around the clock.

Reporters were not allowed by agents to interview any of the detainees or take photos.

Agents running the holding facility — generally known as “Ursula” for the name of the street it’s on — said everyone detained is given adequate food, access to showers and laundered clothes, and medical care. People are supposed to move through the facility quickly. Under U.S. law, children are required to be turned over within three days to shelters funded by the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Grumpy David wrote:Have I understood it right; the kids are born in the USA so therefore are American citizens.

But their parents are illegal immigrants.

And they are separating parent from child to essentially punish the law breaking parents but this naturally means that the kids are hugely affected by it.

Errkal wrote:

Grumpy David wrote:Have I understood it right; the kids are born in the USA so therefore are American citizens.

But their parents are illegal immigrants.

And they are separating parent from child to essentially punish the law breaking parents but this naturally means that the kids are hugely affected by it.

Day ain't murican! Day onlee had da kids coz day wunt to make amereeka gooseberry fool! They r trying take r kuntry! Dem kids wud take amereeker from us wot are true amereekins!

Grumpy David wrote:Have I understood it right; the kids are born in the USA so therefore are American citizens.

But their parents are illegal immigrants.

And they are separating parent from child to essentially punish the law breaking parents but this naturally means that the kids are hugely affected by it.

Preezy wrote:If we all prayed hard enough do you think we could get God to strike Trump down?

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders justified the policy on Thursday by describing it as biblical: “It is very biblical to enforce the [particular immigration] law, that is actually repeated a number of times throughout the Bible.”

Mr Sessions last week used a passage from the bible to defend his department’s policy.

“I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes,” he said, during a speech to police officers in Indiana.

“Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves. Consistent and fair application of the law is in itself a good and moral thing, and that protects the weak and protects the lawful.”

10 Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
Where will you leave your riches?
4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives
or fall among the slain.
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.

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Grumpy David wrote:Have I understood it right; the kids are born in the USA so therefore are American citizens.

But their parents are illegal immigrants.

And they are separating parent from child to essentially punish the law breaking parents but this naturally means that the kids are hugely affected by it.

Nope.

Trump has changed the law on the border so that all illegal immigrants are sent to prison to await trial and because of that the children are taken away from them.

The former US First Lady Laura Bush has condemned a controversial policy that splits up families who illegally enter the country at the Mexican border.

Writing in the Washington Post newspaper, she describes the separation of children from their parents as cruel, immoral and heart-breaking.

Her comments follow growing controversy over President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy.

Earlier Melania Trump made a rare statement expressing concern.

Mrs Trump "hates to see children separated from their families", her spokeswoman said.

She repeated her husband's call for "both sides" to work on immigration reform as a solution. However, fact-checkers point out that the policy was introduced by Mr Trump's attorney general and does not require congressional action to be stopped.

However, critics have pointed out that detaining children separately from their parents is the consequence of a policy announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month to deter new arrivals.

The significant change, analysts say, is the justice department's decision to prosecute parents if they illegally cross the border, even if it is their first offence. The children are not charged with a crime, which means they cannot be jailed together.

Until this policy was announced, such families were usually subject to civil deportation proceedings, which did not require separation.

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Preezy wrote:Great separation of church and state there, America. Well done, very constitutional.