HUD is trying to change the employment contract it has with federal employees, including threats to evict the employees' union from space guaranteed by the contract, space which HUD itself negotiated. Joe Davidson, "Social Security, HUD Act on Trump's Orders in Move to Emasculate Unions" (Washington Post Online, Friday, June 15, 2018).
The American Federation of Government Employees is the federal employees' union. They are protesting conditions at one prison where we have a publicly available story. There are many prisons, but this is a story of one of them. The prison is receiving 1,000+ immigrant detainees but that is not the reason that the prison workers are protesting. Rather, the prison workers are protesting because the prisons were subjected to budget cuts in the first place and now the prisons are receiving many immigrant detainees but the workers are not receiving any additional funding, no instructions, and not one additional medical staff to treat any of the additional inmates. Paloma Esquivel, "Federal Prison Workers Protest in Victorville, Saying the Transfer of Detainees Creates a Dangerous Situation" (Los Angeles Times Online, posted Friday, June 15, 2018).
It is a good bet that federal workers are also protesting the detention of children in prisons and in tents for that matter. We do not need a published report to tell us that, in my judgment, nor do we need a published report to draw us a picture of how the current regime is reacting.
It is my understanding that HUD has custody of the immigrant children taken from their parents. This would help explain why HUD is trying to evict the AFG from space the federal union occupies under the current federal employment contract, an agreement with the federal government that has months to go.
If you believe in the sanctity of contract, this would be a good time to say so. The claims and issues here keep on coming.
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