We Are Not Like That?

On the separation of children from their parents, we hear again and again from politicians, we are not like that.  I say hypocrites they are!  A defense contractor, MVM, has been hired by our Government in 2014 (prior to the Trump era) to transport immigrant children since 2014, according to the investigative reporters working for "Reveal".  https://www.revealnews.org/,  By Aura Bogado, Ziva Branstetter and Vanessa Swales / July 6, 201, and I quote,

"A major U.S. defense contractor quietly detained dozens of immigrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows, no kitchen and only a few toilets during three weeks of the Trump administration’s family separation effort, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has learned."

"The building is not licensed by Arizona to hold children, and the contractor, MVM Inc., has claimed publicly that it does not operate “shelters or any other type of housing” for children."

""... White House chief of staff John Kelly promised: “The children will be taken care of – put into foster care or whatever.”"
 
"Whether or not these children were taken from their parents, that “whatever” for them was the vacant building tucked away in a midtown Phoenix neighborhood. It is not listed among shelters operating through the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement or on the state child care licensing website."

It is now clear what the 'whatever' stood for, an empty office building with inadequate facilities to house children for weeks, apparently.

"The building was leased in March by MVM, a Virginia-based defense contractor that has received contracts worth up to $248 million to transport immigrant children since 2014, records show. The company, which once provided guards for CIA facilities in Iraq, was founded by three former Secret Service agents. One of its vice presidents is a former CIA special agent and former acting director of the U.S. Marshals Service."

"There are new cameras on the building, extra locks on the doors and a paper shredder bin directly outside the building’s side door. Neighbor Lianna Dunlap’s videos show workers pulling up in white vans and leading dazed children into the building. When she asked questions, she said the workers responded with silence or terse answers."

 Ref. Video  at  https://youtu.be/tBNdH8SNmS0

We the citizens of this great country of ours are certainly not like that, with few exceptions, but the people we elect to govern us are certainly like that.  Politicians cannot hide behind, "we did not know", even in a court of law the adage is "you knew or should have known".  Ignorance is no defense!

When we see politicians pointing fingers at each other, we now know that both the Democrats and the Republicans are made of the same cloth.  Yes, the most certainly are like that.