The opposite of squalor is safe and clean conditions.
June 18, 2018
By John Haltiwanger
...As the Trump administration (click here) offers inconsistent justifications for the policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border, an interview from last year has resurfaced in which John Kelly, then the secretary of homeland security, suggested the separation of families could help deter illegal immigration....
Talking out of both sides of his mouth, Trump as late as April 2019, stated his administration is not interested in separating children from their parents, but, the policy works as a deterrent to illegal migration.
April 10, 2019
By Colleen Long and Jill Colvine
Washington (AP) — Facing bipartisan pushback (click here) to his immigration shake-up, President Donald Trump said he’s not looking to revive the much-criticized practice of separating migrant children from their families at the southern border. At the same time, he suggested the policy had worked to deter migrants from coming into the U.S., although he offered no evidence to support his position.
Last summer the administration separated more than 2,500 children from their families before international outrage forced Trump to halt the practice and a judge ordered them reunited.
“We’re not looking to do that,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday before meeting with Egypt’s president at the White House. But he also noted: “Once you don’t have it, that’s why you see many more people coming. They’re coming like it’s a picnic, because let’s go to Disneyland.”...
This policy was never invoked before the Trump administration anywhere in the USA by states or federal government. The child separation policy exists and was implemented with the full knowledge of Donald J. Trump and implemented with his knowledge as well.
An election season does not change the truth simply by stating it is fake news. THE FACTS EXIST AS EVIDENCE. Children continue to die at the southern border detainment camps because of the squalor they are forced to live in.
