The Homestead Detention Center – believed to be the only for-profit child detention center for migrants – is a 2,700-bed facility in Homestead, Florida. It became vacant on August 3, 2019. Jonathan Hayes, the acting director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, testified at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday where he clarified that taxpayers are paying $600 per bed each day for the facility. At a charge for 1,200 beds that comes to $720,000 a day or $33 million in 46 days to keep the Homestead detention center up and running without any children present.
Seriously?
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Whistleblower. It’s right there in the name – somebody sees something that looks not quite right, they can’t go to their boss, so they tell a third party. There are protections in place for this. Laws and such. There’s even a law that states some whistleblower complaints must get passed up the chain.
Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson received one of those complaints on August 9, 2019, a complaint he deemed “urgent and credible”. That’s the legal threshold requiring its transmission to Congress, except it seems the acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire consulted with the Justice Department and countered the complaint did not meet that threshold. So one agency received a whistleblower complaint about alleged multiple acts by the president involving Ukraine, and another blocked the lawful transmission of that complaint to a body for investigation.
What the hell?!
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Granted, pork slaughterhouses aren’t a sexy cause. Thinking too long and hard about what goes on there is a bit stomach churning, but at least there’ve been safety precautions in place that make enjoying bacon or a pork chop less freakout worthy. But now the Trump administration is looking to roll back several of those precautions that will allow slaughterhouses to drastically increase their line speeds. A new rule reduces the number of government food safety inspectors by 40 percent and would remove most of the remaining inspectors from production lines. They’ll replace those inspectors with – wait for it – their own company employees. Oh, and they’re not required to receive any training.
What could possibly go wrong.
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Y’all, I couldn’t even finish watching this. What in the actual f*ck.
This is what we’re raising. This is the toxic masculinity and entitlement we’ve reaped from generations of – I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT. The only thing that rivals the horror of this beating is that a bunch of adults tried to sweep it under the rug.
it is totally out of control; hopefully, things will return to normal after next November
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I’ve never wanted anything more in my life.
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you are not alone!
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Thank you for bringing these things to our attention. Thank God for whistle blowers. Focusing on things I can do or not do, I will continue to refrain from eating pigs. I don’t care how good bacon tastes, I don’t want to be part of that horror. People who eat pork, beef, and chicken can seek out those farms where animals are raised and perhaps killed more humanely. It might cost more, but it’s an option. There is always some form of action we can take, even if it’s writing a letter.
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I absolutely agree, JoAnna. If everyone would just do their own small part we could effect real change in our world.
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Yes!
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This was a definite day for staying in bed. I got up and I’m regretting it. Yours is the third ugly bit of ‘news’ I’ve heard or seen today. Our world IS fucked. Thanks for providing more evidence that America is screwed by the very folks who are supposed to be taking care of it! F*ck. 😡
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People who say we shouldn’t cuss really don’t know what they’re saying. I find it a very effective stress reliever. Well, not really a “reliever” but more like a steam vent so there aren’t any actual explosions.
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I read the post, but I couldn’t click Like because. You know? Because. Been outraged so long, outrage is starting to feel like average. Bad, when you wake up and go to sleep with WTAF as your first and last thought.
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This makes perfect sense to me. Sometimes I “like” things on twitter & think man, that’s really screwed up, there needs to be a “thanks for sharing and WTF” option.
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What a sad world we live in. It’s like being in the middle of a black comedy because, c’mon, this can’t be real. Can it?
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I think I say that almost every day now.
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This sucks. All of it. What the heck is wrong with Florida? I know injustices occur elsewhere, but it *seems* like they do more often, in a wider variety, in FL than anywhere else.
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There does seem to be something hinky with that state. There’s been more than a few times I’ve thought it should just split off into its own special island.
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😂
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I don’t know what is stranger. And stranger is too mild a word for this situation. First that we can have a privately run detention center for unaccompanied migrant children. Or that we can pay millions for it to sit empty. I still can’t believe that WP retired the You Will Never Believe This In A Million Years button. Time to switch from coffee to something considerably stronger.
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That is a button that would crash the system these days. They interviewed the “employees” who said they’re just hanging out, playing cards, sometimes playing sports until some kids show up. No words.
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horrible. how do people live with themselves?
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I have absolutely no idea.
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In reference to the last video. You should look into what happened in Oceanside, NY a few days ago. It truly breaks my heart and angers me to no end, the evilness in people. And the lack of empathy of those that stand by and watch evil unfold.
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I found the story on CNN and it floors me how there can be that many witnesses & no helpers. I get that there are times when someone has to document the violence & call for help after, or times when maybe being scared took over, but to 50-70 teens and NOBODY stepped in?? It’s crushing.
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Too many people in positions of authority have no moral compass. They are just in it for self gain or self interest. But this gets worse when the person in the top sets such a bad example.
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Agreed that it compounds from the top down. I don’t think of myself as naive but must be since I just can’t grasp people who get into politics then don’t do something.
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