#unaccompanied alien children

[bighermie]

All part of Biden’s open borders policies.

[gwiazdaerydanu]

Body Language: House Judiciary Committee, Child Exploitation Hearing

[one-world-many-stories]

blog introduction + about me

In recent years, the dehumanization of refugees and immigrants has become impossible to ignore.

In the United States, families fleeing unimaginable horrors such as war or immense oppression have been met not with safety, but with completely cruelty. In a country that prides itself on being the "land of the free", nonetheless. Rather than being taken to shelter and safety, children are torn from their parents at the border, locked in cages, and referred to as “unaccompanied alien minors,” as if their humanity was secondary to their immigration status. Political leaders have continuously fed into the hatred, calling immigrants “animals” and describing them as a “national security threat.” In recent months, President elect Donald Trump described Haitian refugees as "They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs." These words, repeated again and again, have justified policies that treated these families as less than human, as though their suffering didn’t matter.

In Europe, it is no different. Refugees escaping war and persecution find themselves trapped in refugee camps like Moria, where the conditions were so poor that one humanitarian aid worker called it “a place of sheer hopelessness.” Politicians didn’t hold back their disdain. Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, called refugees “Muslim invaders,” while others described their boats as carrying “human meat.” When we hear words like that, it’s no surprise that so many people turned a blind eye to what was happening. Refugees were left to drown in the Mediterranean or sit for years in squalid camps, waiting for help that never comes.

What makes all of this even more devastating is how refugees and immigrants are so often reduced to numbers, and thus dehumanized even further. The stories of who they are—what they’ve endured, what they’ve lost—are rarely told. Instead, we hear statistics: thousands detained, hundreds drowned, millions displaced. But behind each number is a human being. A mother clutching her child as they cross a river in the dead of night. A teenager leaving behind everything they know for a chance to live without fear. A father who would do anything to provide a better life for his family. Their stories matter, but we rarely hear them. After all, it's easier to ignore suffering when it doesn’t have a face.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

It is this reason that has inspired me to create a Tumblr blog that addresses this problem. Through seeing and learning about these people that we've so often reduced into numbers, we can fully understand their troubles. And by welcoming them with empathy and kindness rather than cruelty and oppression, we can treat them as the humans that they are.

My goal for blog posts is to do a mix of informative readings, as well as present the stories of real life refugees and immigrants through interviews. As I begin to post, I encourage others to submit their own stories and photos.

For a little bit about me: my name is Dania and I am a student at the University of Indianapolis, studying International Relations. While I was blessed with being born an American citizen, I am Iraqi and my parents are refugees who fled the country following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I have seen first hand how countries and livelihoods are destroyed, so people face no choice but to flee, even if their home is beautiful and beloved to them. I hope to one day use my degree for a career in International Development and transform third-world countries into beautiful, livable places. Because, in the words of the British-Somali poet Warsan Shire, "Nobody leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

San Francisco Unified School District provides training to staff that labels “perfectionism” and “individualism” as characteristics of “white supremacy culture”; provides training that promotes illegal immigration with the idea that “no one is illegal on stolen land”

Published: Jun 14, 2024

Parents Defending Education submitted a public records request to the San Francisco Unified School District seeking any materials provided or shown to staff during training regarding students who are immigrants or in the United States illegally. The district provided PDE with hundreds of pages of documents. One document that PDE received was titled “Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture.” The document has a list of perceived characteristics of white supremacy, including “perfectionism,” “sense of urgency,” “worship of the written word,” “individualism,” and “objectivity.”

PDE also received a document titled “Newcomer RTI Support Services Planning Guide.” One point in this document is to explicitly protect illegal aliens: “Adherence to & Promotion of Sanctuary City Ordinance.” The document also states that staff should have training in “Cultural Competency & Humility” and “Immigrant Youth & Police Contact.” Another point is “Recognizing specific challenges of newcomers.” This includes “immigration status” and “court appointments.” This document also includes a list of resources for illegal students.

PDE additionally received a presentation titled “Understanding & Supporting the Newcomer Journey.” This presentation starts with a “Land Acknowledgment” and promotes “racial equity” and “anti-racism.” The presentation features videos that appear to promote illegal immigration, such as “Children on the Run in Central America” and “The Life of an Unaccompanied Minor in L.A.”

Another presentation is titled “Building Sanctuary.” This presentation starts with a “Land Acknowledgment” that states “no one is illegal on stolen land.” A focus of this presentation is “Racial Equity Framing” and states that “immigration is a black issue.” The presentation promotes that California is a “sanctuary state” and that the district is a “sanctuary school district.” This presentation tells staff how to handle U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

[ Download documents. ]

[darkeagleruins]

DHS lost 290,000 illegal alien unaccompanied minors because HHS pays these centers to release them and bring more in as quickly as possible:

Administration for Children and Families grant (2022) Amount: $28,294,560

Recipient: The Children's Home Of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Purpose: Residential shelter services for unaccompanied children-licensed and Texas-exempt and Florida-delicensed only

[darkmaga-returns]

By Olivia Murray

See also Monica Showalter’s “Crazy new innovation from DOGE’s Vivek: Making the federal workforce actually show up for work” linked here.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that a new(ish) Health and Human Services rule adopted in April of this year, which made the vetting process for potential sponsors of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) a whole lot less intrusive for the adult applicant(s), was a strategic change to promote the trafficking of children, because that’s exactly what it’s done, and Xavier Becerra is to blame.

How can he possibly rationalize a process that doesn’t implement rigorous criminal background checks for every single potential sponsor? If you read the rule, standard protocol is a quick scan of the sex offender registry and a public records check… but FBI background checks only apply to “some” potential sponsors.

Law of unintended consequences… or a natural progression of a deliberately planned scheme?

Yesterday, Becerra testified at Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, and his admissions will sicken you—when Texas’s Chip Roy quizzed Becerra on whether or not he could account for the roughly 400,000 UACs whose whereabouts are reportedly unknown, requiring he respond with either a “yes” or a “no,” Becerra sidestepped and launched into a filibustering word salad. See below, around 02:18 elapsed time:

[dearjohnnyz]

[kariachi]

Kevin got the Omnitrix au- in which Kevin in OS era was the one to find the Omnitrix

Oh gods, this one could go so wrong or so right depending... And there's so much shit you can go with with Kevin, so many doors...

It starts when an alien device crashes through two apartment buildings and a convenience store, leaving a crater where the snacks used to be. This would normally be very interesting, but it's letting off a serious weird glow and also a lot of shit is on fire so the people who aren't evacuating are mostly just ignoring the whole mess as not their business. Excepting one small child who can taste some serious energy coming from the crater and really has nothing to lose

You know I had a whole thing here about how I couldn't decide what I wanted as far as the backstory here regarding why the fuck the Omnitrix latches onto him- because yes I could have him just carrying it around but it's more fun to put it on the kid- but actually I've made my decision.

Back during the period of gathering DNA for the Omnitrix Myaxx was sent to a backwoods mudball. Knowing her appearance would be frightening to the locals, and having not been granted an ID Mask because her employer is an asshole, she decided to approach some small, seemingly unaccompanied children, working on the assumption that children of most non-prey species tend to be better at rolling with such things than the adults. Things were, she believed, going well, right up until she got essentially kneecapped (if she only had a skeleton) by a young human female wielding a shovel. The young woman got in a good number of blows, relentless comparatively-little thing, and made it clear that whatever otherworldy beastie Myaxx was if she wanted with the kids she'd have to go through her. Myaxx backed off, kind of scared in the same way a bear is left scared by a bold cat, and tried to explain herself, but found 'I just need samples of your dna in case you die out' only enraged her further. Having already gathered some samples, Myaxx decided to call it good enough and fucked off the planet, reporting the encounter back to Azmuth as well as noting that one donor has been far more similar in appearance to the woman than the others and was likely her kin.

Fastforward to the period just prior to OS, when Azmuth was deciding where to send his watch for safe keeping. He thinks to himself that Earth, a backwoods mudball nobody ever thought about, may well be a good location. He thinks about Max Tennyson, whom he met years back, who with his partner stood against Vilgax the Conqueror and won. And in the midst of this, he remembers Myaxx's report. Of another young human, smaller, weaker, with none of the training or tech that Max had laid claim to. One who had, despite this, fearlessly chased Myaxx off a planet with nothing but a shovel and an attitude. Not realizing how fast time passes for humans, that Max is an old man now, that this woman was dead of age before he met the man, he programs the Omnitrix to Donor #2's dna.

And lo but the great-great-grandchild of the first human woman to meet a Chimera Sui Generis gains the Omnitrix.

But this isn't supposed to be about her this is supposed to be about Kevin, so let's get to Kevin, who at this point has an energy addiction, is a lot more wary than Ben as a result of *gestures at his life*, and damn sure knows enough about tech to know it shouldn't be jumping up an grabbing you. He does not, as Ben does, immediately get into the sort of fiddling that turns you into an alien. He gets into the sort of fiddling that involves hiding away somewhere and trying to take this thing apart to see how it works.

He doesn't make any real progress but he does manage to work up an appetite which is mostly tied in with needing a fix due to his whole situation and the Omnitrix is right there and has so much energy coming from it and we all know what happens when Kevin pulls from the Omnitrix-

Congratulations, our boy spends the first chunk of the original series stuck as different species. Between absorbing so much energy at once, and absorbing DNA for the first time, and the Omnitrix's shapeshifting tech coming up against his natural shapeshifting abilities, shit gets kind of wild. The Omnitrix is only half registering him as him so it's not entirely functioning properly (because he transformed using another's dna without using the Omnitrix to do so so his dna doesn't match any on file anymore), he's never had cause to even try to do this before so he has no clue what he's doing, and worst of all much like with the canon time he can't use his other powers this way. It saves him when Vilgax drones find him, but beyond that, not a great ending

As you can guess he's not happy and the first several episodes of season one consist of Kevin trying to survive in these new shapes he keeps switching between with only information off the watch and his own experimentation to work with, dealing with withdrawal, and avoiding scientists who have been wandering around the city trying to figure out wtf is going on

Every honestly feels relatively chill for the first few episodes, there's a small sense of escalation, thing seem to be getting harder, more people are showing up to investigate and shit. And then Hunted hits like a brick to the face, with trained professionals who know what they're doing suddenly coming out of the woodwork.

As you can guess Kevin and Tetrax don't get on, and they don't come out of this on the same side. Kevin still has no actual control over his shapeshifting, and little clue what he's doing, though he's a better fighter than Ben. The advantage he does have is a brilliant mechanical mind and this is the episode where it first gets put to proper use and displayed in full. He's able to turn their tech against them and figure out how to shield the Omnitrix's signal, both making him harder to find and trapping Kraab and SixSix himself before vanishing off. Tetrax ends up leaving with the other two but at best only a slight bit of confidence in this tenacious little brat.

The rest of season one stays in NYC, and most of it is a slow escalation as more people and more powerful people figure out there's something Very Interesting going on there. Kevin is much more hunted than Ben at the start. The only real exception is the episode that replaced Kevin 11, which I am tentatively calling Max the Mule. I don't know if it's the only encounter with the Tennysons, but it's certainly the first, and consists of Max realizing there's a group of aliens committing crimes around NYC while there with his grandchildren and trying to, without alerting them, hunt down and stop them. Kevin runs fucking rings around him, it's entirely a comedic 'breathing room' episode, where Max is increasingly stubborn and increasingly made the fool until he finally has to head off with the kids.

'Secrets' also goes very differently. It's a two-parter that includes 1) Vilgax and Kevin finally meeting; 2) Kevin finally starting to get a firm hold on his shapeshifting; and 3) the Saturdays enter the scene

Remember how Ben and Kevin got this whole episode to make friends? Yeah similar thing with Kevin and the Saturday Boys except Kevin is like ten different species, Doc, Drew, and Beeman are trying to figure out about this sudden rash of cryptid/alien/whatever encounters, and also a good chunk of the run time is a case of calamari gone colonial.

In order- Kevin figures out utilizing multiple species traits at once and uses this to great Vilgax-biting heights, with the Saturdays' and Beeman's help Vilgax is sent very much packing, the Saturdays don't manage to adopt him but they do manage to slip a cellphone to him and also Komodo runs off with him because just because he hasn't realized it yet doesn't mean he's not their brother, and Kevin looks over the destruction Vilgax wrought and decides to leave NYC for other peoples' safety

The Saturdays get him in the end, and show up a lot more between those two points, but it takes a while. Boy is feral. Also adopts a Kwarrel and an Argit at some point after joining the Saturdays but that would be a sequel series, maybe roll it into Secret Saturdays, maybe a midquel, who knows.

The first half of season two involves him getting control of his shapeshifting, shifting back, and beginning to figure out the Omnitrix itself while he and Komodo deal with ever more bullshit on their travels.

The shit with Zs'Skayr goes... interestingly. Because the the absorbed one can't do anything while he's tied to Kevin due to how Kevin's powers work and how his powers work not really aligning well. More specifically the first few times he turns to Ghostfreak there's a lot of Zs'Skayr's dna there but he's getting his bearings, but as time goes on it becomes clear that even when Kevin isn't shifting into the relevant shape his repair function is slowly rewriting the dna there to be closer to 'Kevin but an Ectonurite' and in doing so is slowly killing that incarnation of Zs'Skayr. Zs'Skayr's shit is more desperate as a result, and therefor a lot more impactful on Kevin's mental health both as a result and because the Zs'Skayr still in the Omnitrix is doing the same thing. At least one manages to escape, but any attempts to possess Kevin like is tried with Ben in OS don't work. Due to the way his powers store dna he functionally is part Ectonurite- is part all the species he gets dna from- and they're immune to their own bullshit. However many Zs'Skayrs are running around, between the trapped, the near death, the immunity, and Kevin being both shorter tempered and more begrudging than Ben? The antagonism between them is palpable.

Due to Kevin's powers slowly altering the dna he absorbs, the species he transforms to under his own power end up looking very much visually distinct from the ones he turns into using the Omnitrix. The Omnitrix ones are created via essentially averaging all available dna samples for a given species, but Kevin's are essentially alien dna altered to match his own as closely as equivalents allow.

I haven't decided but the above may open more powers per shape? Because what a mutant can do varies from species to species and similar dna markers between a human and, say, a vulpimancer, may produce entirely different results. It would take time to happen while the whole process was ongoing, but...

There must be a Ken 10 equivalent but with Devlin. I have no idea what it would be, but there must be one. It is law.

[thestalkerbunny]

My Players say the scariest thing I've done so far in the Campaign is have an alien mimic the sound of someone calling in distress after they have been shot by a cop.

context, a large group of parasitic skin stealing aliens described as a sort of cocroach-misquito hybrid, decided to appear enmasse in disguise at a hotel one of the players work at. They obviously call the police because these creatures are HIGHLY dangers, have been flaying people alive to steal their skin and have been known to eat the homeless. Sensibly the player and npc hid in the small office belonging to said npc while the sounds of horror and gore ensues outside ((Keep in mind, player character is a single mom who isn't going to risk her life against something that big solo and her manager who is already hysterical))

And at one point, one of the aliens approaches the outside of the door where it had assumes people are in and mimicked someone going 'Help, I've been shot by an police officer. I need help. Help me.'

Before scrabbling to open the door, getting ready to fully BODY player and NPC who have fortunately sensibly cast invisibility-and having a bowie knife plunged into their black and ripped down from neck to hip by a gnomish officer.

DM context: These are highly intelligent aliens who know what they're doing and have done their homework on how society and structure works. They know a large amount of the public are distrusting of the police and are willing to believe and help someone who has been hurt by police brutality-it is using that sort of unspoken empathy to try and kill the player and npc. They also know 90% of the time, white males will get away with more things than any other type of person and have been attacking and flaying them with a 40% preference rate for white males of varying ages.

Same Aliens are planning to use the halloween events to possibly abduct drunk people and children to 'stockpile' food for winter as insects often don't do well against the cold. Given that it's halloween-most people are drunk and most minors are unaccompanied.

[beardedmrbean]

A teenager from Maryland arrested as the lead suspect in the robbery, rape, and murder of an autistic American woman last summer was an illegal immigrant and known member of MS-13 in his home country.

Police in Aberdeen, Maryland, announced late last week the arrest of a 17-year-old Hispanic boy on Jan. 15 in connection to the strangulation-induced death of 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton in July 2022, according to a statement issued late last week.

The suspect had not been identified by police other than his age and as a citizen of El Salvador. The Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, a nongovernmental organization that advocates tighter immigration laws, published a blog Sunday that stated the suspect had been allowed into the United States as an unaccompanied minor earlier in the Biden administration.

“The 17-year-old UAC allegedly strangled 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton to death in July 2022, only months after being released into the United States,” wrote Jon Deere, CIS director of investigations and the former senior adviser to the ICE director during the Trump administration. “While his illegal alien status has been reported, the fact that he entered as a UAC has not been reported until now.”

MAYORKAS SCOLDED BORDER PATROL IN 'WHIPPING' INCIDENT AFTER LEARNING AGENT DID NOT HAVE A WHIP

Local police said in a statement that the federal agency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified the suspect as a Salvadoran citizen who is known in his home country as a known member of MS-13, one of the most violent criminal gangs in the world.

DNA evidence recovered from the crime scene also matched DNA in federal databases. ICE did not respond to a request for comment about the circumstances by which it interacted with the suspect or at what point his DNA was collected by the government.

"The case raises a number of questions, and Congress must obtain a full accounting from the Biden administration officials running the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), now that is known that both departments played a role in the release of this dangerous individual," said Deere.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not respond to a request for comment about if its Border Patrol or Office of Field Operations personnel at the U.S.-Mexico border had apprehended the suspect for illegally entering the country, conducted a background check, the results of that check, and if or when he was transferred to ICE or the Department of Health and Human Services given that HHS takes custody of all unaccompanied children after they are processed by Border Patrol.

First responders initially discovered Hamilton's body on July 27, 2022. Police reported that they had responded to a cardiac arrest, though they did not disclose why or how they were notified of the incident.

When officers arrived, Hamilton was "suffering from injuries consistent with a homicide," and they stated they found her deceased.

Hamilton had recently moved in with her 22-year-old boyfriend. The motive of the attack has not been disclosed.

The suspect is being held without bail at the Harford County Detention Center in Maryland.

[veale2006-blog]

Must Listen Live Testimony happening: The United States Federal Government under Joe Biden is the largest child trafficking organization in modern history. The probability that thousands of children are being ra*ed at this very moment is 100%.

Crimes against Children should unite the world. "I served in the United States border patrol for twenty four years until I retired as a deputy patrol agent charged in San Diego sector. I worked under five presidential administrations, and only one president secured the border president Donald Trump. Border Patrol agents went from working and being supported by the greatest border president in American history…

To the worst, president Joe Biden. My last year in the board patrol was Joe Biden's first year in office On his first day in office I watched in disbelief as ninety four executive orders cascaded down from Washington DC obliterating every immigration policy that had been provided the most secure border in America's history. Border agents were forced to carry out unconstitutional orders, and that violated every law in the Immigration Nationality Act President Biden, through Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcus, created policy out of thin air, ignored federal immigration law and facilitated the largest mass invasion into America that the world has ever seen….

The United States of America will have spent hundreds of billions of dollars…in four years to fund the needs of over fifty million illegal aliens that populate our nation. Between one in six and one in seven residents in America is an illegal alien. America has suffered the greatest demographic shift in modern history.

After serving in the United States Border Patrol for twenty four years… I state with complete certainty that Biden Harris and Myorkas are intentionally strategically, and purposely weaponizing illegal immigration and using it as a tool to fundamentally transform America. Inside this invasion the unspoken evil of child trafficking and more specifically child sex trafficking has flourished.

At the end of this current administration, the number of children traffic will have grown to over five hundred and fifty thousand unaccompanied alien children known as UACs.

After several exhaustive months of filming interviewing and then editing this documentary. I state without reservation that the United States federal government is the world's largest child sex trafficking organization in modern history. The probability… that thousands of these UACs are being raped at this very moment is one hundred percent."