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'Help us': Hundreds deported from US held in Panama hotel (www.bbc.com)

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In a room at the luxury Decápolis Hotel in Panama City, two girls hold a piece of paper to the window with a written message. "Please help us," it reads.

The hotel offers its clients rooms with sea views, has two exclusive restaurants, a swimming pool, a spa and private transportation. But it has now become a "temporary custody" centre housing 299 undocumented migrants deported from the US, the Panamanian government said on Tuesday.

Some migrants raise their arms and cross them at the wrists to indicate that they are deprived of their freedom. Others hang small signs with other messages such as: "We are not safe in our country."

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[–] Warl0k3 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Really, because the luxury hotels are all fortresses already (for the security of the guests aginst those nasty brown people, obvs) and self contained (already have everything you need onsite) with little off-site visibility (you can't easily see the human rights abuses). Oh, and they're owned by Trump's friends, and they can charge obscene amounts of money for renting out space like this.

No saying they're not raping little girls because duh, just that they clearly don't care about having luxurious surroundings to do that. There's way more straightforward practical and corruption-centered reasons for the choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dude hung out with Epstein, was accused of raping a 13 year old and the accuser ran for her life, while he has a habit of separating children from their parents.

From the first term:

Records and interviews indicate that mothers and fathers, most from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, went to jail on charges of misdemeanor illegal entry or felony re-entry. Their children were reclassified as "unaccompanied" and sent into a network of shelters scattered across the country run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the care of unaccompanied migrant children apprehended by the government.

Even those families who crossed the border hoping for asylum were caught up in the El Paso experiment. A mother named Jocelyn, whom Rivas represents, was apprehended crossing with her son last August near El Paso. Although Jocelyn said she sought asylum, she was prosecuted for illegal entry, court documents show. Her son was taken from her and sent to a shelter in Chicago. She told NBC News that nearly two months passed before she had any news of him, and she waited nine months before they were reunited.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/trump-admin-ran-pilot-program-separating-migrant-families-2017-n887616

There are probably some boys getting raped too, but those pics in the article look like young girls.

Yes, it is a fortress to keep anyone looking for those kids and it's a luxurious hotel brothel.