Myths/Concentration camp prisoners are treated very well - Revision history

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{{hdr/myth|Concentration camp prisoners are treated very well.}}
==Myth==
* "I’ve been to a facility here in San Diego. The kids have video games good food, beds, clothing. You name it." – [https://twitter.com/MikeLoftus_/status/1141192453677965314 Mike Loftus, Tweet, 2019-06-18]
==Reality==
At least one of the camps is experiencing conditions of extreme filth:<ref name=nyt-2019-06-21 />
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Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants they’ve just met, the lawyers said. Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk.

Most of the young detainees have not been able to shower or wash their clothes since they arrived at the facility, those who visited said. They have no access to toothbrushes, toothpaste or soap.
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==Footnotes==
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<ref name=nyt-2019-06-21>'''2019-06-21''' ''New York Times'': [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/migrant-children-border-soap.html 'There Is a Stench': No Soap and Overcrowding in Detention Centers for Migrant Children]</ref>
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 A Trump Administration official tried to argue that detained children don’t need soap, toothbrushes, or beds to be ‘safe and sanitary’ while in Border Patrol custody.<ref name=nowthis />
 ==Further Reading==
 * '''2019-06-21''' [https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/06/21/some-suburb-of-hell-americas-new-concentration-camp-system/ 'Some Suburb of Hell': America’s New Concentration Camp System] ([https://twitter.com/MichaelSctMoore/status/1142658194285535232 h/t])

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 * "I’ve been to a facility here in San Diego. The kids have video games good food, beds, clothing. You name it." &ndash; [https://twitter.com/MikeLoftus_/status/1141192453677965314 Mike Loftus, Tweet, 2019-06-18]
 ==Reality==
 At least one of the camps is experiencing conditions of extreme filth:<ref name=nyt-2019-06-21 />
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 "The inhumane conditions for adults are a result of an administrative use of detention as punitive, deterrent measure." &mdash; [Human Rights First report]
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 ==Footnotes==
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 <ref name=nyt-2019-06-21>'''2019-06-21''' ''New York Times'': [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/migrant-children-border-soap.html 'There Is a Stench': No Soap and Overcrowding in Detention Centers for Migrant Children]</ref>
 <ref name=vice-2019-06-21>'''2019-06-21''' Vice: [https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3k9ev/migrants-in-detention-are-suffering-widespread-abuse-and-neglect Migrants in Detention Are Suffering Widespread Abuse and Neglect]</ref>
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