According to a new class action lawsuit, some of the children that the current administration
has been separating from their parents at the border are now being used as bait in an
attempt to attract more people to deport.
Just when you thought things from this administration could not get any more disgusting.
Joining me now to talk about this lawsuit and exactly what is happening is Scott Hardy
from topclassactions.com.
So Scott, let's dive right into this.
Explain how this, you know, this lawsuit claims this is happening, kids being used as bait.
Explain exactly what that means.
Well this lawsuit is, it's really sickening and disheartening.
You know, we, we do have a huge crackdown on illegal immigration and we want to make
sure that these kids, as you said, have been separated from their families and from their
parents and we'd like to get them out of the system right, and with loving families that
can take care of them.
So we, the taxpayers aren't paying for their welfare as well.
It seems like a win win situation.
Get the kids so the taxpayers aren't paying their food and board and their security because
of course they are at essentially kid jail and then get them with their families, but
no, what they actually did there is, at least one example we have so far, where they were
corresponding with the family saying, yes, come pick up your child.
Come pick up your child.
A teenager went there to pick up the child who's a relative, a family member, and they
said, no, no, no.
We want to have your dad come in and get fingerprinted.
Well, the dad came in and got fingerprinted, turned out he was an illegal immigrant from
Honduras and boom, he's arrested, deported and now you have more kids without family
here in the states and the trump administration kind of said, well, all right, we're sorry.
We do really want to get these kids reunited with family members, so we'll stop fingerprinting
parents or anybody, family members that come in to claim these children.
Really, we really wont deport you.
We promise.
And I'm sure their fingers aren't crossed, but there's obviously a huge fear from the
community saying, we want to get these kids out, but we don't want to get deported or
family members don't want to, don't want to get deported simply for trying to take these
kids off of the taxpayer dole.
Because at that point not only does the parent or, or Guardian or other family member who
was in the United States that the kid was traveling to see order to go live with, not
only is that person now deported, but it leaves the child with nowhere to go at that point.
So the child stays in custody.
The relative is deported.
No problems get solved and in fact we've actually now created not just another humanitarian
crisis, but another just general crisis of what do we do with these children because
we just rid of their only possible guardian.
I mean this, look, with regards to immigration and these child prisons and whatever else
is happening down here, we have seen probably the worst of the worst from this administration
on this particular issue.
But to me, trying to lure in more people to deport by dangling the child and saying, look,
we've got your kid.
Don't just want to come get your kid.
Come on, come on kids right here.
Just take them.
This is a new level of sickening that just crosses the line into just pure evil, for
me, at this point.
It, it really is, and we have to think who profits from this, right?
Because this isn't happening on accident.
This isn't just for Trump's hard line stance on immigration.
The private prison industry is profiting from it because the more kids that are released,
the less they're able to charge the federal government.
So you have to think, are the, are the leaders and the owners of the private prison industry
actually benefiting from deporting more people and keeping these kids in longer because if
all of a sudden all these kids get connected back with their parents, you know, you're
going to have millions upon millions of dollars in profit that will be lost for those folks
who own those private prisons.
And not to mention the fact that the private prison industry also profits more when they
find somebody that needs to be deported, because when they snatch that parent, they're not
just immediately put on a bus and sent back down south.
They, they languish in, in custody, you know, for days, sometimes weeks, maybe even months,
depending on how backed up the system is.
So they're not immediately deported.
They get to go fill another cell in one of these private prisons who are profiting huge
off of this, a manufactured crisis that we have in fact created on our own soil at this
point.
So yeah, I mean, the private prison industry, they're loving this.
You know, they, they love people locked up.
They love people being deported.
What they don't like, as you pointed out, is anybody leaving those prisons because as
soon as somebody walks out that door, all they see is a giant dollar sign walking away
from them.
Exactly.
And you know, with a lot of things that we're looking at in the world today, we always have
to look as you do at the basis of why these things are happening and it's not just the,
you know, the created crisis on the border, but it's who's going to make money and why,
and who can they inflame to support the president and his administration in this act so that
person can keep on making money in the background and giggling maniacally, I'm sure as they're
sitting there and profiting off the backs of these small kids.
Absolutely.
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Scott Hardy, topclassactions.com.
Thank you very much for talking with us today.
Thanks for your time Farron.