so the private child prisons have been drugging kids.....to be fair, it happened under Obama too: https://gizmodo.com/lawsuit-detained-immigrant-children-in-texas-forced-to-1826997597
I've been railing on the private prison system and the substandard treatment of immigrants since before trump.
The snark in that video aside, it was a monumental blunder, and abject stupidity to wear such a jacket. Most of my friends are conservative, and all were speechless at this.
That was a mistake and considering the setting, a really dumb mistake. Now most honest people will know the target for the message was her critics, but expecting the critics to be honest about it and not use it in ways it was not intended is being naive to the point of stupidity. Ruined what was otherwise a really good day for her.
A conservative former intelligence operative grimly recounted to me on Thursday how much the handling of these displaced children reminded him of the CIA facilities where terrorists were secretly held and interrogated after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001: “This reminds me of our black sites, except we were holding 100 or so adult terrorists for the killing of American citizens. Now 2,300 kids are held in unknown locations with unknown individuals inside and absolutely no outside observation.”
Prison shares rise as U.S. eyes more migrant family detention space Sinéad Carew and April Joyner Published 12 Hours Ago Reuters June 22 (Reuters) - Shares in private prison operators CoreCivic Inc and Geo Group rose on Friday as investors bet on increasing demand for their services after U.S. authorities asked about available capacity for the detention of immigrant families. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a request for information on Friday afternoon about potential facilities from different providers to accommodate up to 15,000 beds, ideally in several locations. The move came after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday aimed at ending his controversial policy of separating immigrant children from their parents caught entering the country illegally. Under the order, which is likely to be challenged in court, families will now be detained together for the duration of their criminal and immigration proceedings. The latter can take months or even years to complete. Shares in CoreCivic closed up 3.95 percent at $23.39, a nearly five-month high, in an unusually active trading day on Friday. The stock has jumped 11.2 percent in the last four days. Rival Geo, which has gained 6.6 percent since Trump's executive order was issued, closed up 1.6 percent at $26.48, in a fifth straight day of gains. The Oklahoma Board of Corrections is due to meet on Tuesday to discuss approval of a contract with Geo for its Lawton Correctional Facility, according to a notice on its website, With ICE potentially looking for more beds, states are likely feeling pressure to accelerate such contract decisions said Jamie Cuellar, portfolio manager for Buffalo Funds in Mission, Kansas. "It's more and more demand that continues to get snapped up, so states will be forced to get off the sidelines and get capacity under contract before it goes elsewhere," he said. Immigrant families are currently housed in facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas that have a total capacity of about 3,300 beds and are now at 79 percent capacity, according to ICE. The U.S. military has been asked to prepare to house up to 20,000 immigrant children. Trading volume in CoreCivic shares was more than three times the 10-day moving average on Friday. Geo trading volume was 1.7 times the 10-day moving average. Geo and CoreCivic were not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Sinéad Carew Editing by Tom Brown)