June 19, 2018: This isn't the day they were opened, but it is the day that it was revealed to the public that Donald Trump had put children in concentration camps.
It was the day that the proper response to people who said, "Stop comparing Trump to Hitler!" became, "No, because the comparison fits a bit more than it did before."
Thousands of children were caught in a network of shelters and higher-security facilities that housed undocumented minors, gaining attention as newly separated children began streaming in. There were dozens of accounts of overloaded and secretive shelters, treatment centers and secure detention facilities for undocumented minors, which, at their worst, had allegedly been home to neglect, assault and other horrific abuse.
The allegations in these documents, as well as facility inspection reports and other lawsuits, ranged from unsanitary conditions and invasive monitoring of mail and phone calls to un-air-conditioned rooms in hot Texas Summers, and dosing children with cocktails of psychotropic drugs disguised as vitamins. At one facility, children recounted being held down for forcible injections, which medical records showed were powerful antipsychotics and sedatives.
"There seems to be a level of cruel intent I've never seen before, and a real indifference to the well-being of a child," said Holly Cooper, one of the many attorneys challenging the government's detainment of minors. At the time, she was co-director of the Immigration Law Clinic at University of California, Davis, outside Sacramento.
At the time, I wrote this on Facebook:
Jeff Sessions, Trump's white supremacist Attorney General, says that the deportations and the putting of kids in what absolutely are concentration -- if not (yet) slave labor or death -- camps is not like Nazi Germany "because in Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country!"
Auschwitz was in Poland. So were Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. Janowska and Syrets were in Ukraine. Maly Trostenets was in Belarus. Mauthausen was in Austria. Thereisenstadt was in what's now the Czech Republic. Sajmiste was in Serbia.
The three-quarters of me that is Christian wants to believe that Sessions will come to Jesus and put a stop to this. The one-quarter of me that is Jewish wants him to go to Hell, and for everyone else who supports this disgusting policy to go there with him.
The next day, June 20, I wrote this:
Remember the good old days, when we decided that Mitt Romney putting his dog in a carrier tied to the roof of his car was a disqualification from the Presidency?
Trump has put children in cages, and 27 percent of the country supports this.
But, hey, Hillary Clinton was "emotional," and "crooked," and had a problem with her emails.
Everybody who thought that bears a small piece of the responsibility for Donald Trump's crimes against humanity.
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June 19, 2018 was a Tuesday. Football was out of season. The basketball season ended 11 days earlier, when the Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the NBA Championship. The hockey season ended 12 days earlier, when the Washington Capitals beat the Vegas Golden Knights to win the Stanley Cup.
And these Major League Baseball games were played:
* The New York Yankees beat the Seattle Mariners, 7-2 at the new Yankee Stadium. Domingo Germán was the winning pitcher. Home runs were hit by Giancarlo Stanton, Miguel Andújar, Aaron Hicks and Gleyber Torres. Aaron Judge went 1-for-4 with an RBI.
* The New York Mets lost to the Colorado Rockies, 10-8 at Coors Field in Denver.
* The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-6 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
* The Washington Senators beat their nearby Interleague rivals, the Baltimore Orioles, 9-7 at Nationals Park in Washington.
* The Atlanta Braves beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 11-4 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.
* The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-2 at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.
* The Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox, 6-3 at Progressive Field in Cleveland.
* The Cincinnati Reds beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-5 at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.
* A doubleheader was split at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Los Angeles Dodgers won the opener, 4-3. The Chicago Cubs won the nightcap, 2-1 in 10 innings. Albert Almora singled Kris Bryant home with the winning run.
* The Minnesota Twins beat the Boston Red Sox, 6-2 at Target Field in Minneapolis.
* The Texas Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals, 4-1 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.
* The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Houston Astros, 2-1 at Minute Maid Park in Houston.
* The Oakland Athletics beat the San Diego Padres, 4-2 at Petco Park in San Diego. Jed Lowrie hit a home run in the top of the 10th inning to win it.
* The Los Angeles Angels beat the Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-4 at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
* The San Francisco Giants beat the Miami Marlins, 6-3 at AT&T Park (now Oracle Park) in San Francisco.
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