The uber conservative website, Breitbart.com, was the first to report and show us the photos of thousands of immigrant children being stored in otherwise empty rooms. This was 10 days ago, and I’ve watched as the corporate media has been very slow to tell us more. This should shame the progressive and so called liberal media. Breitbart totally scooped the bleeding hearts. This storage of children is a gross humanitarian crisis - and the sort of thing we accuse 3rd world countries of doing. Yet our Obama administration is the guilty government here.

Top administration officials supposedly did not know of this until Brietbart exposed it. But that is an indictment of poor administration, not an excuse or explanation. Even after exposure, it took days for the feds to start pretending to care. Even as I write this we can only guess what the conditions are. The Border Patrol - the agency directly responsible for this inhumane and criminal imprisonment of children - has put a clamp down on talking to the news media by all its officers. The Border Patrol union is using Twitter to make fun of the children. The Border Patrol is often little more than bullies in uniforms with federal pay and protection.

Look at the photos. These are children and this has been happening for over half a year. We liberals should be ashamed of ourselves. Where is the outrage? There would be plenty of outrage if this were happening in another country. We might ask what the Border Patrol is doing in our own neck of the woods, in NW Washington and Whatcom County? We actually do not know. And for most of us, it is far more convenient not to ask. Has the Herald or Weekly asked the local Border Patrol to inspect their facilities locally? And reported to us if they are denied the opportunity? Not that I know of. Nothing to report here, folks.

Move along. They forget that we citizens depend on an informing free press to alert us to issues and inform us. Instead they report and hide what they feel will best serve their advertisers - and governments do advertise - and to carefully make themselves look like they are civic stalwarts. We have a right to expect more.

John Servais