Documents Reveal Horrendous Abuse Of Immigrant Children Over Past Decade

You may think that the mistreatment of immigrant children is new, but newly released documents show that the government has been allowing the worst abuse imaginable to happen to migrant children since AT LEAST 2009. Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this.

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You know, you might think that the mistreatment of immigrant children is a new thing, but newly released documents, Farron, show that the government is really dropping the ball, where it comes to protecting these children. They're trying to cross the border, truthfully they're being caught, but once they're caught illegally crossing the border, that doesn't mean we have the right to mistreat them.

And this report is very, very sobering. Take it.

Well, what's interesting about this report is, not just the abuses that it details, and we get to that in a second, but the fact that this information was obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, American Civil, the ACLU, International Human Rights Clinic, couple other groups, finally got their hands on this information. And going back to at least 2009, rape, physical assault, mental abuse, all kinds of atrocities perpetrated against immigrant children, coming in to the United States.

And what's interesting about it, again, is the fact that right now, we've got every liberal, and even some conservatives, up in arms about the fact that the Trump administration's policy is to strip immigrant children, from immigrant families.

Take them away from their parents.

Which is horrible, don't get me wrong. It's atrocious. But, do not think for a second that this government was not committing these horrible acts against children, during the Obama years, because that's what this report shows.

Well, that's the problem here, okay? The problem is we're trying to contrast the golden Obama years, I suppose, I mean, it's just, they've taken it to such a crazy level-

They have.

... of adoration, when we're not being honest about it. This report clearly comes from the Obama administration, that by the way, there were complaints during the Obama administration, that the Border Patrol have turned into a bunch of monsters. I mean, the best way, the term that they used was, "The monstrous kind of activity, coming from the Border Patrol," all during his administration.

So now, Donald Trump's people are out there, and they say, "Okay, we got away with it, this last administration. We'll sure be able to get away with it this administration." But what we're missing about is, who are these people? Okay, who are these folks, that they give Border Patrol jobs to? Most of the time, they don't come from typical kind of law enforcement training.

The recruitment of it is, usually it's bottom of the barrel kind of characters, that we're gonna put out there on the border, because you know, it's kind of private. Nobody really knows what they're doing. Nobody sees what they're doing. It's kind of done in a, it's done in a shroud. We don't understand what's going on out here.

But what you have is, you know, you've got specific, it's report after report, 16 year olds, basically being raped, 14 years olds that are being manhandled, in a way that's nothing less than sexual abuse. You have a report, I saw this 16 year old boy recounted that a patrol agent threw him to the ground, used his boot to literally smash the boy's face, to where he needed medical care after that.

So I mean, I look at this, and I just wonder, how did that happen, for those years? And here's what bothers me: it happened during the Obama years, because we were asleep at the wheel, because we were charmed by the fact that this man was a wonderful speaker. I mean, he was a charming character. He could've been an actor, really, probably would've been a wonderful actor.

And we were charmed by that. And this report ... And I think the ACLU is reacting the same way. This report shows what happens, when we try to put too much of our faith in a character hero. This happens. All this happened during the Obama administration.