We started News To Make You Furious on the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster in an attempt to draw attention to an infuriating yet overlooked news story. We’ve tried to keep that focus on the under-served and under-reported, but this month we just couldn’t do it. Trumpworld reliably vomited its treasure trove of horrors for us to choose from, but even in this carnival of monstrosity one abuse is still eclipsing all the rest. Surprising absolutely no one, the ongoing, intentional, illegal, inhuman, barbaric, petty, callous, abhorrent separation of families and imprisonment of children at the border is getting worse, and got significantly 
more so this week. It can be all too easy for the news about this to become a drone of accusations, lies, and dissembling, so this month we’re bringing you the latest happenings in Trump’s most flamboyant display of psychopathy (to date). Pop those anti-nauseal pills, double up on the Valium, and then realize it won’t help at all as we take a trip to the southern border for a look inside Donald Trump’s Kiddie Prisons…
The ongoing torture of children
What Separating Migrant Families at the Border Actually Looks Like, Meredith Hoffman on Vice.com, May 2018
Doctor compares conditions for unaccompanied children at immigrant holding centers to ‘torture facilities’, Marshall, Zak, and Metz in ABCNews.com, June 2019
The horrifying conditions facing kids in border detention, explained, by Dara Lind on Vox, June 2019
“Somebody Is Going to Die”: Lawyer Describes Chaos, Illness & Danger at Migrant Child Jail in Texas, Amy Goodman interview with Prof Warren Binford, June 2019
‘Children Were Dirty, They Were Scared, and They Were Hungry’, Lizzie O’Leary in The Atlantic, June 2019
Number of Children in Immigrant Detention Facilities Explodes to Record Levels, Julia Conley on MintPressNews.com, September 2018
Inside a Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding Immigrant Children, Isaac Chotiner in The New Yorker, June 2019
Migrant children at the border – the facts, Graham Kates on CBSNews.com, June 2018
In some ways this is one of the most jaw-dropping part of the whole nightmare. Listen to a Trumpet, an actual lawyer for the US Justice Department, paid by us, try to make the case that sleep is not necessary for safety or sanitation.
A Brief History of US Concentration Camps, Brett Wilkins in Counterpunch, June 2019
Migrant children are suffering at the border. But reporters are kept away from the story. Paul Farhi in Washington Post, June 2019
Fixing it… sort of
Border officials had to be forced into hospitalizing four toddlers that were dying on their watch, Gabe Ortiz in DailyKOS, June 2019
Migrant Children Moved From Border Patrol Center After Outcry, Richard Gonzales on NPR, June 2019
..and then immediately Unfixing it
Over 100 migrant children returned to ‘horrific’ border station, BBC.com, June 2019
Border Patrol Moves 100 Children To ‘Appalling’ Texas Facility, Gabe Gutierrrez and Adiel Kaplan on NBCNews, June 2019
The ongoing torture of reality
Trump Justice Department Lawyer trying to make the case that sleep is not necessary to ‘safe and sanitary conditions’. Video, June 2019
Law Professor Describes Poor Conditions Where Migrant Children Are Held, NPR Weekend Edition Sunday interview with Prof Warren Binford, June 2019
Trump defends conditions for detained migrant kids, blames Obama for family separations; fact checkers call foul, William Cummings in USA Today, June 2019
GOP rep: Children are free to leave migrant camps at ‘any time’, Morgan Gstalter in The Hill, June 2019
F&F’s Host Defends Trump Camps For Kids: Can’t Have A Hyatt At The Border, John Amato on Crooks&Liars, June 2019
Conditions at migrant detention centers are ‘horrendous.’ Trump, Pence blame Democrats. Meagan Flynn in Washington Post, June 2019
Who gets the 30 pieces of silver?
Detaining Immigrant Kids Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry, AP on Snopes.com, July 2018
Who is Profiting from Incarcerating Immigrant Families? By Gott, Seidman, and Armstrong on LittleSis.org, June 2018
U.S. company making $750 per day, per child to keep immigrant children in ‘prison-like’ conditions, Tod Perry on Good, June 2019
No, it’s not Obama’s fault
Immigrant Detention Conditions Were Atrocious Under Obama. Here’s Why They’re So Much Worse Under Trump., Bea Bischoff on Slate.com, June 2019
Those inconvenient fact-checks
Did President Obama Oversee the Separation of 89,000 Children from Their Parents?, Dan Macguill on Snopes.com, June 2018
Was the ‘Law to Separate Families’ Passed in 1997 or ‘by Democrats’?, Kim Lacapria on Snopes.com, June 2018
Fact Check: Did Democrats Pass a Law Separating Children and Adults at the Southern Border? By Holmes Lybrand on The Weekly Standard, June 2018
Were These Children Separated From Their Parents Under Obama? Kim Lacapria on Snopes.com, June 2018
(False) Leaked Images Reveal Children Warehoused in Crowded U.S. Cells, Border Patrol Overwhelmed, Brandon Darby on Breitbart, June 2014
