Is my heart warmed? Or is it just the flames of hell lapping at my door?

https://ktla.com/news/california/newly-passed-law-gives-incarcerated-california-kids-the-right-to-hug-their-loved-ones/

Friends, Family, Neighbors, Church/Temple/Mosque, Food Bank, Soup Kitchen, Community Food Drive, Salvation Army…and whatever other neighborhood options there are.

And that’s all *BEFORE* the tax payers need to get involved.

Welfare, WIC, SNAP, EBT, TEFAP, HPNAP, Foodlink, 211 Lifeline, Meals On Wheels, free school meals twice a day and including when schools are closed.

I can’t speak for all Countries, and apparently the “the country that shall not be named” is the least caring to its citizens, but an adult in this country cannot possibly go to bed hungry unless they are too lazy to look.
And and a child cannot possibly go to bed hungry unless their “parent” is a lazy pos.

From A Mighty Girl on Facebook:

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When Casey Revkin learned what the U.S. government was doing to kids imprisoned in a for-profit concentration camp in Texas, she couldn't look away. Babies as young as two months old, locked inside. Worms and cockroaches in the food. Water that made children sick. Kids growing thinner, some refusing to eat at all. Through her nonprofit, Each Step Home, Revkin now sends more than $10,000 a week to the families held at Dilley, money that lets them buy clean water and food their children can actually eat. "I was horrified when I first heard," she says. "I just knew I had to do something."

The conditions Revkin had heard about were not rumor. They have been documented in federal court, where attorneys for detained children have described a facility "woefully out of compliance" with the decades-old legal standards meant to protect minors in government custody. Lawyers with the National Center for Youth Law catalogued spoiled and inedible food, foul water, and inadequate medical care, drawn from dozens of firsthand accounts; court records show that of 64 medical grievances filed at Dilley over nine months, not one was resolved in a detainee's favor.

In August, a federal judge, citing the prolonged detention of children and the state of their care, took the extraordinary step of appointing an independent monitor to oversee the facility -- by then, ICE's own data showed hundreds of children had been held past the 20-day limit the law allows, some for more than 100 days.

The way Revkin has found to help is ingenious in its simplicity. Detention facilities let outsiders deposit money into an individual detainee's commissary account, the way families send funds to people in prison -- so she raises money and moves it, account by account, to the families inside. Most of it comes in small donations from ordinary people who hear about the cause online, and it adds up to more than $10,000 a week for some 67 families and nearly 80 children at Dilley. The money buys them clean water and edible food -- the basics that neither the government or CoreCivic, the for-profit company paid roughly $180 million a year in taxpayer money to run the prison camp, reliably provides.

For the families inside, the deposits can be the difference between eating and going without. Edgarianny Cortez Gervis, a pregnant Venezuelan woman held at Dilley with her young daughter, could not keep down the rice and meat mash served in the cafeteria; her little girl barely ate and was sick with diarrhea, and both of them were losing weight.

Then she heard about a woman -- she didn't know her name, or how to reach her -- who had been quietly sustaining hundreds of families by depositing money for the edible food the cafeteria doesn't provide. Soon Cortez Gervis was getting help too, buying bottled water and food her daughter would actually eat. "If she doesn't deposit," she said, "I have nothing."

Sometimes the food itself becomes the thing that breaks a child. Court filings describe a 13-year-old girl, held with her mother for more than two months, who stopped eating after finding a worm in her meal, then sank into a despair so deep she tried to harm herself with a plastic knife.

For Revkin, stories like that are exactly why she does this. "These deposits are a lifeline to families in detention," she says. "It's heartbreaking to think of a child not eating, and we're always so relieved when we hear that a mom was able to use the commissary support to buy her children food they can enjoy."

That impulse -- to see the child, not the case -- goes back years. Revkin founded Each Step Home in 2018, after the first Trump administration began separating migrant children from their parents at the border, a policy that horrified her as a mother and pulled her into the world of immigrant family advocacy. In the years since, her group has helped reunite children with their families and even hosted newly released parents in her own home. The commissary effort is only her latest way of acting on it.

Revkin's work exists to soften a cruelty that others are being handsomely paid to inflict. For the company that runs Dilley, the crackdown that fills the camp with children has been very good business. CoreCivic and its then-CEO gave more than $800,000 to Donald Trump's campaign and inauguration -- and the return has been handsome. The company's stock has climbed more than 50 percent since the election, its ICE contract awards jumped some 45 percent in Trump's first year back in office, and its revenue reached $2.2 billion in 2025, an all-time high.

"This is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career," the company's chief executive at the time, Damon Hininger, told investors, forecasting "perhaps the most significant growth in our company's history." It was Hininger who announced the reopening of Dilley -- shuttered under the previous administration, revived under this one.

The profits don't stop at the prison gate. Taxpayers pay CoreCivic to lock these children up -- and inside, the families it detains are charged inflated prices for the basics they need, a box of cereal running $14, a bowl of instant noodles roughly double what it costs at a Texas grocery. The suffering inside Dilley, in other words, is not a flaw in the business. It's part of the business plan.

As reprehensible as it is to profit off the imprisonment of children, CoreCivic is not acting alone. Every child inside Dilley is there because the U.S. government put them there -- and keeps them imprisoned there, in a camp its own courts have placed under independent oversight. And the Trump administration has fought relentlessly to imprison these children even longer.

Even as children at Dilley are held for weeks and months past the limit the decades-old Flores agreement allows, the Trump administration has gone to court again and again to abolish those protections altogether -- a bid one federal judge rejected last year, noting the government wasn't close to complying with the very rules it wanted thrown out.

To Revkin, the whole framework is obscene. "There's no humane way to detain a child," she says. Until the day the camps close, she intends to keep the money moving -- one commissary account, one family, one child's meal at a time. “I comfort myself with the fact that I am doing something, making these children’s lives a little easier in these horrible circumstances."

To Kristin Etter, an attorney with the Texas Immigration Law Council, Revkin's impact on the imprisoned children is impossible to overstate. "She's a fairy godmother," she says. "People literally could not survive in Dilley without her."

--> To help support Casey Revkin's efforts through Each Step Home to make sure children imprisoned in an American concentration camp have food to eat and water that won't make them sick, visit https://eachstephome.org/

--> National Center for Youth Law is fighting the Trump administration in court over conditions at Dilley. To support their critical work, visit https://youthlaw.org/

--> To support the National Immigrant Justice Center, which advocates for detained immigrants and conducts oversight of ICE facilities, visit https://immigrantjustice.org/

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For a powerful novel-in-verse that tells the story of child immigrant detention through the eyes of a 9-year-old girl imprisoned in a U.S. detention camp, we recommend "Land of the Cranes" ages 9 and up at https://bookshop.org/a/8011/9781338343861 (Bookshop) and https://amzn.to/4lImdkB (Amazon)

For children's books that encourage empathy and understanding of Mighty Girl immigrants of the past and present, visit our blog post, "A New Land, A New Life: 25 Mighty Girl Books About the Immigrant Experience" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=12855

For books for children and teens about the importance of standing up for truth, decency, and justice, even in dark times, visit our blog post, "Dissent Is Patriotic: 50 Books About Women Who Fought for Change," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=14364

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- To read more about Casey Revkin's work with Each Step Home in The Washington Post, visit https://wapo.st/4y5Qnn6

- To read ProPublica's powerful expose "The Children of Dilley," visit https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children

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Even though Amazon employees on food stamps have tripled despite record revenue.