Americans Suffer So _____ Can Keep Kids In Cages

Of all the cluster-f**ks associated with _____ and his so-called presidency, the one that kind of galls me the most is Kids in Cages.

I mean, I get wanting to secure the borders, but taking children from their parents and then basically putting those kids in prison is so un-American, at least in terms of what most people think about America. And yet here we are …with Kids in Cages; and it just got worse.

The Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] has diverted millions of dollars in funding from a number of programs, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, to pay for housing cages prison for the growing population of detained immigrant children.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar has a plan to reallocate up to $266 million in funding for the current fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30, to the Unaccompanied Alien Children [UAC] program in the Office of Refugee Resettlement [ORR].

To be fair, some $80 million of that money will come from other refugee support programs within ORR, which have seen their needs diminish as the _____ administration cuts the numbers, ever so slightly, of Kids in Cages.

But the rest of that money, money used to take children away from their families and put them in internment camps will come from other programs, including $16.7 million from Head Start, a program provides  early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families; $5.7 million from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, which provides primary medical care and essential support services for people living with HIV who are uninsured or underinsured; and $13.3 million from the National Cancer Institute, which conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other activities related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Money is also being diverted from programs dedicated to mental and maternal health, women’s shelters and substance abuse. 

Let me get this queer …we’re taking money away from poor American families to pay for internment camps for children taken from their parents because those parents have sought refuge in this country; we’re screwing people with HIV/AIDS to pay for camps. Cancer? Mental health? Women’s shelters?

No money for you because we have to keep children in prison because their parents wanted a better life.

As of today, there are 13,312 immigrant children in federal custody in internment camps that are at 92% capacity. And low-income families, people with AIDS, cancer parents, pregnant women, women in general, and people in need of mental health care are paying for that.

Ain’t that America … under _____ and the GOP?

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