5/13/21

By Josh Rubin

Melissa and I were on our way home last night, changing planes in Dallas. My phone started vibrating. It was Amy Cohen, of Every.Last.One., an organization that has dedicated itself to bringing together families that have been torn apart by a country that has vilified the human act of migration.

She told me that just a few miles from where I was sitting and waiting for a plane, there were buses with migrant children aboard. Children who had been on the buses for days. They had been eating and sleeping on the buses. They were not allowed off, forced to use the cramped restrooms. No showers.

It seems our government has hired a defense contractor, MVM, to handle the security and logistics problem of transporting and placing children who our policies have separated from their families. The placements are all over the country. And, the contractor, as it did before in 2018 when, notoriously, it warehoused children in office buildings, is handling it like a logistical mission, as it would for any cargo. It was waiting for the buses to be full before leaving. After all, why waste gas? And why bother with beds? And decent food? And bathing? For days.

For days.

And why tell the families that wait for their children when and where to expect their children? The company specializes in “security.” It knows how to keep a secret.

One of the children that Amy was working to reunite with his family managed to get a phone and make a call. I’m on a bus. I don’t know where. But he saw enough and described it, and the bus was located somewhere inside the Dallas Convention Center. And the press was called, who came to see. And in a panic, the defense contractors moved vehicles in to block any view of the children on the buses.

Children.