GOP Rep: Cages For Migrant Kids Are Really ‘Walls … Made Of Chain Link’

MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 17: In this handout photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol agents conduct intake of illegal border crossers at the Central Processing Center on June 17, 2018 in M... MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 17: In this handout photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol agents conduct intake of illegal border crossers at the Central Processing Center on June 17, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. (Photo by U.S. Customs and Border Protection via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) really must insist: Don’t call the structures the U.S. government uses to house children after they’ve been apprehended at the border “cages.” 

On Thursday, Cramer continued to protest that, no, the United States does not hold migrant children in cages.

He prefers the phrase “buildings that have, in some cases, walls that are made of chain link, so that it’s easier to observe and to protect them.” 

Cramer is running for Senate against incumbent Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND). Perhaps this will be part of his platform: Chainlink rooms aren’t cages! 

He already made the same point twice on radio shows Wednesday. 

“You know, there’s nothing inhumane about a chain link fence,” he told KTGO. “If it is, then every ballpark in America is inhumane.”

The Customs and Border Protection cages are used to temporarily house children who are apprehended at the border.

Within days, the children are supposed to be transferred to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, a subagency of HHS, then places the children in shelters or foster homes. 

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  1. Oceania has always been at war with Chainlinksia.

  2. Hmm. Wonder where his kids sleep.

  3. Yes. Kids being in prison is much better than being in cages. Glad we cleared that up.

  4. I was thinking along the same lines. Is he volunteering to house his own kids rooms with walls of chain link, with no privacy and nothing but the clothes on their backs? No? That’s what I thought…

  5. Avatar for drtv drtv says:

    “You know, there’s nothing inhumane about a chain link fence,” he told KTGO.

    Sure thing, Congressman. And I am equally certain that were you caged inside of one of these units, you would feel exactly the same way about them.

    What a moron.

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