They Won't Stop Until We Make Them

Not only does the Trump administration have no respect for the law, it has no respect for basic human decency. They're still putting children in concentration camps:

In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.

Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room. They received formal schooling and regular visits with legal representatives assigned to their immigration cases.

But in the rows of sand-colored tents in Tornillo, Tex., children in groups of 20, separated by gender, sleep lined up in bunks. There is no school: The children are given workbooks that they have no obligation to complete. Access to legal services is limited.

These midnight voyages are playing out across the country, as the federal government struggles to find room for more than 13,000 detained migrant children — the largest population ever — whose numbers have increased more than fivefold since last year.

Under American law, anyone who is on U.S. soil has the right to apply for asylum. Also under American law, anyone who needs legal counsel is entitled to have it provided.

And if we're not able to take adequate care of detained children, we really need to get our act together.

Via BarkBarkWoofWoof.