Worker: If You Talk We Don’t Know ‘If You Are Going To Last Here For a Long Time’
Rachel Maddow exclusively obtained audio and video footage shot inside one of the many facilities across the country the Trump administration is sending migrant children to. Monday night she aired it.
In this audio clip a worker, speaking in Spanish, threatens the children, warning them to not talk with the press. She can be heard saying that if they do, she can no longer “protect” them and they will be deported back to their home countries – which they are escaping from, trying to gain asylum.
MSNBC says this is “the first non-government video footage from inside a facility that serves children who have been taken from their parents by the Trump Administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ border policy.”
It was shot late last week by a whistleblower.
Here’s the first part of Maddow’s story, with workers talking to a young child: