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‘Profiting Off Misery and Suffering of Children’: Outrage on News John Kelly Joins Board of Child Shelter Corporation

Outrage was immediate as CBS News broke its report Friday that John Kelly, the “father” of the Trump administration’s migrant child separation policy, has joined the board of directors of the company operating the largest migrant child shelter.
Kelly, once General John Kelly, was also Secretary of Homeland Security Kelly, and it was in that Trump administration role that he came up with the idea to separate migrant children from their parents. After he announced it on CNN, again, there was immediate outrage, and he claimed he would not implement the new policy.
That policy, as Kelly noted, was to serve one purpose only: to make conditions so bad that it would act as a deterrent to others thinking of traveling the more than 1000 miles to the U.S. border from Central America to escape gangs, drugs, violence, rape, and murder.
Kelly has joined Caliburn International, “the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services, which operates Homestead and three other shelters for unaccompanied migrant children in Texas,” CBS reported.
Thousands of migrant children have been separated by the Trump administration in an effort to deter others, an effort that has not worked. The Trump administration had no plan to reunite the children with their parents, and now, despite court orders, has said in leaked emails that it has no way to do so. Thousands likely will never see their parents again, adding to the already emotional damage the separation policy has wrought.
Here’s what many are saying:
The honorable John Kelly has decided to spend his post-White House career profiting off the misery and suffering of children. https://t.co/g9Km3JerIJ
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) May 3, 2019
John Kelly is now profiting off the misery of migrant children being kidnapped and disappeared into Trump’s concentration camps and yes, please lecture me one more time about how it’s impolite to call these fuckers Nazis, because my fucking head hasn’t exploded enough times today
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 3, 2019
Help cause a humanitarian crisis, then profit from it. https://t.co/bECggqaJCB
— Mindy B. Rubin (@MindyR_PhD) May 3, 2019
They aren’t just monstrous, they are liars. He claimed to be moderating Trump’s policies. Now he’s profiting off them. It’s so disappointing that people who have held positions of public trust behave in such a way. https://t.co/YvAvVKbOtX
— Dan Baer (@danbbaer) May 3, 2019
Nope no fascism here https://t.co/cSzseEt9h3
— ❤️ (@umairh) May 3, 2019
John Kelly has a long record of being a racist anti-immigrant piece of shit. This fits his resume perfectly. https://t.co/tjnppk3NUN
— Wordy Obscura (@talkwordy) May 3, 2019
This guy is going to die quietly in his sleep and be lauded as a brave public servant. The world is poorly made. https://t.co/Olsl383wFG
— Adam Kotsko (@adamkotsko) May 3, 2019
I’ve heard, from good people, that they also want to add a Catholic Bishop to the Board to round things out. https://t.co/TDEQ62SLhV
— Scott Olson 📖 (@soulson) May 3, 2019
Fox meet henhouse https://t.co/wDOJcYGvMW
— Ross Rising (@Pragmatism14) May 3, 2019
Profiting from crimes against humanity. https://t.co/NEcHLlPVg4
— Mattison (@Mattison) May 3, 2019
this so fucked https://t.co/zp9o694Tek
— Blue the bull (@bluser12) May 3, 2019
Remembet when people thought he’d be a humanizing force? This is a time of monsters https://t.co/9PMHzfJXfp
— David Hankla (@Hankla) May 3, 2019
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