It isn’t just the oil, it’s the money to be made protecting and lobbying, especially for the US operations (Citco). The company is very thick with — and has given a lot of money to — a lot of familiar Trumpites, including Trump himself. From the second article I linked to above, which is worth reading in full:

After so many decades of stonewalling over abusive priests, they really have the non-response response down.  Sincerity and a will to change, not so much.

Not really new. I recommend a Politico Magazine article from early this year:

The GOP-controlled Congress is already letting him get away with crazy, destructive fiats on tariffs. Whatever the vote on this blatant dictatorial power grab, they’ve given him the power already by passively standing by while he illegally raises tariffs.

I have no doubt that one of the reasons why no accessible records or tracking of the stolen children is being done is so that their deaths will go unnoticed. It is well known that babies who are not held and cuddled and in a strong interaction with a caregiver often die. This was discovered in orphanages and also…

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The Trump regime’s scheme involves throwing red meat to their base and enriching corporate prisons and contractors while the ”liberals” provide entertaining expressions of powerless outrage. They also believe the immigrant parents are absotutely powerless and silent victims that, as FLOTUS advertised, nobody cares…

Yes. Also, I think Trump wants to have control via blackmail potential. Being what he is, do you think he actually trusts anyone?

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And there was Trump’s plan to unleash cheering waves of gratitude and steal some reflection of greatness by “pardoning” Ali. I can’t find the words to express enough disgust.

Fortunately, you are incorrect on this point. They DO have constitutional rights despite what some right-wing media rabble-rousers claim. From Section 1 of the 14th Amendment:

I took the time not for the troll but for anyone who might have been misled by him/her. Also, the additional details clarify how criminally — murderously! — negligent and callous the guards and managers of that holding facility were and presumably still are. And if it could happen in one holding site under the Trump…

That’s horrifying — both your own near-fatal meningitis as a kid and the potential you point out that the criminally negligent way the guards ignored the meningitis of the detainee could have allowed wider contagion. I didn’t consider how easily a hellhole situation like that could have triggered a spread of disease…

I don’t know the medical situations in all the various ICE detention facilities — that’s something that needs to be investigated — but for the holding facility where this man’s obvious health crisis was untreated and needlessly progressed to death, the statement is true. From the linked report above:

Yes. In addition to their emotional trauma, children are held in awful conditions, including cages:

In fact, this policy is not only evil, as anyone should be able to see, it is also illegal according to both the US Constitution and international law. I posted on this later in this thread:

This is not only evil, it is illegal according to the US Constitution and international law and the ACLU is suing:

Good that this hero is unidentified. He would get death threats and might be in physical danger if the Trumpites knew where to find him. Besides, this way he can better represent the rest of us who could not be there.

You are probably right, but I still think it’s possible that he was angry and manic enough to sneak in and ambush her. Surely he’s not pleased with how she treats him in public; the loathing and contempt are so obvious. He tries to project himself as an attractive chick magnet, and she punctures that balloon…

I think it’s a toss up. They’re both monsters, apparently even worse in private. When I read about Nixon beating Pat, I immediately flashed to how thin and frail she was looking at what would have been the time of the severe beating that sent her to an emergency room. She must have been beaten down emotionally from…