Yes, I saw that this morning. Plus this company, The Jungalow, gave 100 percent of their sales today to RAICES. IDK the company, but love the helping hand.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzL_CZsnF0j/

I haven't heard of the jungalow before. thanks for sharing.

I've been thinking about CSR (corporate social responsibility) lately as it seems to keep coming up. I'm interested how it works and it's effects on economy as well as social and environmental issues.

I follow jungalo on Insta (fun home eye candy) so it's nice to read this. I have mixed feelings about the Wayfair walkout but TBH I don't know all the details. Part of me says whatever gets beds to those kids instead of a concrete floor is ok by me but I may be missing part of the picture. I was in tears getting into bed last night thinking of them and knowing how arbitrary and random good fortune is in this life. I get the bed, they get the floor - why?

I agree with you, DLM. Part of me applauds the Wayfair workers, but part of me wants those children to have anything -- ANYTHING -- that will make their lives even a little bit more tolerable right now, at this moment.

So what could Wayfair do in this situation to demonstrate CSR (and actually help the situation)?

I was having a FB discussion with 2 young woman that are friends with my son, and one of them responded to me with this:

The workers asked that Wayfair donate the profits from those specific sales to organizations like RAICES that are working very hard to support migrant children and families at the border, and the company refused -- part of the reason for the walkout.

I have no idea if that's accurate.

My understanding was that Wayfair gave the profits of the sale to the Red Cross.But then some people complained as apparently the Red Cross has nothing to do with helping migrant children (I don;t know if that's true or not)

My understanding of the walkout was that the workers objected to the sale because the children were still being held in cages. So yes their comfort conditions would improve but they were still being held in unsafe and unhealthy cages. It sounds like the workers felt that Wayfair was condoning and supporting the conditions. The sale was made to a non-profit government contractor although Wayfair made a profit and hence the donation of such.

Feel free to correct how I have interpreted the situation.

The border centers need beds, but I have a hard time with contractors making a profit off of this travesty. $700/day for each person, and they don't get washed or fed well? Who is overseeing this? ICE also contracts out its inspections of migrant detention centers and The Nakamoto Group approved substandard (read inhumane) facilities.

This article names most of the companies involved, and wattya know, some of them are lobbyists and Trump donors. It's sickening.

https://wearyourvoicemag.com/news-politics/companies-profit-migrants-detention

The Wayfair employees' walkout at the very least has called more attention to what's going on and for that I applaud them.

The picture of Óscar Martinez Ramírez and his 23-month old daughter, Valeria, is the image the world has of the United States now. Whether we agree with government policies or not, is that the what we want to be as Americans?

Yes. This. This is EVERYTHNG. This says it all.

I am just curious where you all think these kids can go? Between 30 and 40% of kids brought across the border are not with their own parents. They are being used to gain quick access to our country because people who are accompanied by a child are released with a court date (90% do not show up).

They are checking DNA of parents and kids to make sure the kids are not being trafficked. If the child is not related to the border crosser, they are removed for their own safety to prevent trafficking.

The children are then placed in detention centers while their parents are either located and they are returned or they are placed with relatives in the US. This process takes 2-3 weeks to verify identities, approve homes etc. .

Seriously, what is the alternative here? There are thousands crossing per day. The facilities are overwhelmed.

No one seems to have an answer but I do know that these kids cannot be released with random people Into our country. The United States is the NUMBER ONE child trafficking country in the world right now.

Any thoughts?

Editing to add that the people making millions off this disgust me. The most important thing to me is child safety and being in these places is safer that the alternative of children being forced into lives of exploitation.

Cleo, I think your first sentence is propaganda from the Trump administration. Most parents and children came here together, but then Trump had them separated and the border's haphazard record keeping caused the parent child separation. Many parents were made to go home leaving their child only God knows where in the USA. The parents have no clue where their children are. Neither do the border workers.

Had they not separated the families, there's be no cages.

Back to the topic. Kids are sleeping on pavement so I don't care where the bed is from as long as they get one.

If Wayfair makes money from the beds, I don't care either. It doesn't mean they condone what's happening, they're a business and it helps pay their employees a decent salary and IMO those employees should be fired if they don't get their butts back to work. Unless they're Union.

Since when did employees start telling their employers what they can and cannot do? Big pet peeve of mine.

As Kamala said tonight, there are people working 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet. Give them one of the protester's jobs instead.

Sorry for my mini-rant, what T did at the border just fires me up!

Yes completely true. The original separations happened because parents had criminal record but they were using illegal status as a basis for the crime. That ended last June thank god. That was my first ever letter written to a congressperson. But they created the loophole that if you have child with you that you will be released. That’s not propaganda.. people are borrowing/renting children to cross the border now because of the loophole. Plus there are loads of children trying to cross alone who are taken into custody (I am assuming teens). The sheer numbers have overwhelmed the system.

My point was that now that the kids are there, there isn’t much that can be done as far as releasing them. So yes, get them beds! And school and everything else they need. They are at least safe from predators in there.

I can’t even believe our government is so inept that the took kids from parents and didn’t keep track of them.

Thanks Cleo, I'm going to read more about it. Everything I see on the news is the enormous amount of children who are alone while their parents were sent back from where they came. Some kids are living somewhere in the middle of the country!

Yes it is horrific all around. I wish the kids were in more of a group home situation, going to school etc while waiting.

It it is so hard to find accurate information about it. I also am reading about the numbers...how many are new, how many are still there from last year. It’s amazing in this day and age that it is hard to find unbiased information. I typically skip to google page 10 before beginning research.

I can’t even believe our government is so inept that the took kids from parents and didn’t keep track of them.

cleo maybe I'm misunderstanding - are you saying you don't think it's possible our gov't is inept and did this? They are and they did. That information came out during testimony at one of the hearings when this whole travesty went public. Forgive me I don't remember at the moment which hearing but there was a panel of people being questioned representing various departments.

The Trump administration is worse than inept, their disgraceful, immoral, unconstitutional treatment of these families and children is purposeful.

Our gov't is detaining these children, no matter the reason they are here, and is therefore responsible for their well-being. How anyone could argue otherwise is beyond me. These are children and babies and there is no reason on this earth that they should be made to suffer as they are right now. Many will be forever scarred by such trauma. Some may never see their families again.

I think many people of good conscience in the country - and around the world too - are heavy-hearted over this ongoing abomination.

And we are also violating the law in keeping so many of these children in detention as long as we have.

P.S. Did anyone else see the statement put out by the folks @ Highlights magazine? It was spot on & made me love them even more.

Here it is - from their Twitter page:

At Highlights, our core belief is that children are the world's most important people. In light of the reports of the living conditions of detained children & threats of further deportation & family separation, here is a statement from our CEO Kent Johnson. #KeepFamiliesTogether

Love that. Spot on.

The only way to get a handle on this is to come up with a comprehensive strategy that will give us the most positive results for the least cost. DT brags about how rich he was and was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Maybe HE can afford the "throw a lot of spaghetti against the wall and see if any of it sticks" way of doing business and he can afford to make huge costly misfires, but I don't think we should as taxpayers. We get to a comprehensive solution by cooperating with countries in Central America, not dissing them on Twitter, which is the equivalent of some teenager sitting in their parents basement and trying to come up with solutions to a refugee crisis. As a citizen of one of the greatest countries on earth with a HUGE brain trust, I want better!!