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Ben Carson: The Tent Cities Detaining Immigrants Are ‘Quite Nice’ and ‘We Need More’

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On days like today you feel like banging your head against the wall because it will feel so good when you stop. We have an entire platoon of morons, cold-hearted ones, running this country. Not a single one of them cares about you, or what your problems might be. They have a message, everything is perfect, even tent cities on the border. So shut-up and become a real American or you can join them in a tent city soon enough.

That might be overdone a bit, maybe.

But not the part about the “niceness” of the immigrant tent cities, Carson’s great with them. The Guardian has the details.

Speaking to Axios on HBO’s Jonathan Swan, Mr. Carson described the tent cities as having air conditioning and heating, saying: “A lot of the people who have been detained there have been put into sprung structures and tent cities that are actually quite nice.”

“If we can do that for, you know, people who are being detained at the border,” he said, “why can’t we do it for our own people?”

Because we don’t “detain” our own people? At least not yet. I haven’t heard yet that poor people who need housing will be rounded-up for camps in the desert, but perhaps it’s just because it hadn’t occurred to Trump. I am going to keep my mouth shut.

Whoops. Too late.
Why do they need to be built? To concentrate the down and out people into one place, out of the way, housed like animals in a zoo, until they come up with the money to buy their way out? Ironic, animal rights people are rightfully (and successfully) arguing against zoos nowadays. Yet the Trump administration wants to bring them back, only with people. Not a single one wearing a red hat, mind you, they won’t be there.
Bang your head. Harder.

Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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