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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by murph-almighty on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:48PM (#17341579)
>It's also hard to take it seriously when it actually suggests the US government is keeping children in "cages" and then links to some radical left wing blog as proof.

...You're aware this is actually happening, right? Here's BBC on the matter: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44518942

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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by malvosenior on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:51PM (#17341593)
A detention facility is not a "cage" and no self-respecting reporter would call it that.

EDIT

To those insisting on calling this a cage, I hope you realize that every jail in the world looks like this. These people (not children in the picture) are under arrest for illegal immigration. They are going to be detained somewhere.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by dlp211 on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:00PM (#17341657)
You do know that CBP themselves have said that they are cages.

The CBP is uncomfortable with reporters using the term "cages" but have stated that it is not an inaccurate description. -CBS morning news.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by pjc50 on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:54PM (#17341623)
There's literally a cage in the picture.
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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by tapoxi on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:04PM (#17341687)
This picture is of children, in a cage, isolated from their parents: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/ceci-ne...
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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by alasdair_ on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:07PM (#17341700)
>To those insisting on calling this a cage, I hope you realize that every jail in the world looks like this. These people (not children in the picture) are under arrest for illegal immigration. They are going to be detained somewhere.

I linked above to a photograph for you showing young children (not adults) kept in the same cages.

Even if you don't care about the adults, young children are blameless. In every other type of case like this, when an adult commits a crime and their child is with them, the child is placed in temporary foster care until more suitable accommodations can be found. They don't get taken from their parents and stuck in a metal cage for weeks on end.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by rando444 on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:56PM (#17341632)
They're literally keeping people locked in chain link fence boxes.

The only reason to call it something else would be to pretend it's not a cage.

I take it you haven't seen the video footage of these places yet?

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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by sigstoat on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:01PM (#17341664)
would it be more, or less of a cage if they used sheetrock for the walls?

personally i think i'd prefer the cheap fencing material, as it would allow for better ventilation.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by sp332 on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:03PM (#17341681)
But they separate the children from the adults and then put a bunch of children in a room together. It's really not the material the room is made of that's being objected to.
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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by alex_anglin on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:56PM (#17341638)
Four walls and a ceiling of chain-linked fence is to most people the definition of a cage.
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Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE by s_kilk on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:01PM (#17341671)
It's a cage. In the picture.

Use your eyes.

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