Tender Age Shelters

The term tender age goes back centuries and refers to persons under a certain age. Adding the word "shelter", apart from being a misnomer, was likely done to convey that these particular facilities were set up for the youngest seekers of asylum. Using the terminology may well have been done to soften the images connected to the fact that innocent children were being torn from their parents.

Truth being what it is, calling these spaces shelters is a disgrace. Couple this with the placement of 3 and 4 year olds and other children in these places just further makes the term shelter into a very bad joke. No child without their only known family support would view this as a shelter. They need to be with their parent or parents.

These children are in a perilous state. Tonight a few of the news outlets have interviewed people who claim to have seen infants as young as 9 months in the shelters. ICE cannot say if there any concrete plans to return these children to their parents. Many of these babies can't even tell authorities who they are or the names of their parents. So what happens now, lost babies just fall out of site out of mind.

At first I was shocked, then appalled, then sad but now I'm furious.

Thank you for weighing in on the topic of the children. The entire world needs to be better, but if the rest of the world doesn't want to step up...........Sweet Jesus, this country has to step up.

You continue to weigh in on subjects in which you have no interest. It seems like a waste of time, however you show up over and over and over so you must be getting something from it. I won't pretend it makes sense to me, It's just not interesting enough to warrant further pondering. In other words, Ho Hum

You have no right or reason to say that. You just do not like the silly things you say called out. Grow up.

Sturgis is absolutely on point.

What is frightening to me is the money being made by companies contracted to provide services for these children. There is a ton of money to be made and somehow 'mirculously' certain industries were able to go into high gear and anticipate the government's need for all of the tents, vacant buildings, beds, food services, medical care (sic) and everything else needed to 'shelter' infants and children. Some facilities still have children using mylar blankets and most of the facilities are still unknown to the public.

So we rapidly prepared to house the children confiscated from asylum seekers, (businesses make a ton of money) but we have no idea what the plans are to return these children to their parents. Or even if they have any plans. This is not the action of a strong country or noble people. I shudder to think of the stories that will surface in time, you can't gather that many children and be certain that they will be well cared for....there are children with special needs, diabetics, heart ailments everything from soup to nuts and not one adult actually familiar with the individual child.

It is the height of arrogance to undertake such a brutal mission.

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Better have that looked at.

On the contrary. Many of the same people who call out the cruelty on the border have been the ones advocating for poor and low-income people - some of the advocates are from those communities themselves. Flint still has barely gotten back to safe drinking water ... it's not been Republicans agitating about that.

I'm happy you bought that up. Flint Michigan had a safe water source until corrupt officials decided they could save money by switching to a polluted river. It's still polluted, they put a used band-aid on the problem and are hoping and praying everybody forgets..........On the other hand, we have devastation in Puerto Rico, a territory populated by Americans because every person living in PR are Americans.

It's a sad state of the nation when Mr. Trump is too obsessed over late night comic's remarks to respond to the dire needs of this country. Maybe we should put fantastic golf courses in Michigan and PR to trick Trump into remembering that Tax payers live in those two places.

It is a sad state when late night hosts have nothing better to do than keep the nation divided. Do you consider the constant bitching about an election lost a year and a half ago important? Does it help this country?

Stop whining. Trump had nothing to do with Flint. And what children in Flint are in tender age shelters, the topic, in case you have forgotten.

If you look back at old Johnny Carson (The Tonight Shiw) episodes, you'll discover that late night talk show hosts/comics in their opening monologues have done this for a long while. Carson would sling barbs at Nixon or Ford, Carter or Reagan, no alliance with one party or t'other. It's part of what comedians do and many show hosts as well.

Regarding topics, as you likely know having been here a while, they often go down side roads. It doesn't make them less relevant.

That clearly is not the case anymore. You saying it is, is a lie. Next.

Suit yourself.



Sure there are those who have political leanings and agendas, there most about always have been. During the years when President Obama was at the helm, many conservative comics and hosts made it their standard to open with and occasionally intersperse their brand of humor. Just as those in the right are unhappy now, those on the left were miffed then.

Name some, Hell, just one, and not a news opinion show host.

Well, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are comedians.

I will agree that Trump didn't create the poisoned water supply situation in Flint. So far he just hasn't done anything, ANYTHING (zip, nada) to fix it. Do you have any ideas about when Herr Trump will devote some attention to Flint? OK, Not just Flint, maybe he could ship those tents in the desserts SouthWest housing asylum seeking children to the US Territory of Puerto Rico to shelter our fellow Americans. You know, the folks who pay tax and file returns, because they are American citizens.