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Anonymous ID: 20d42c June 25, 2018, 8:55 a.m. No.1898833   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Recently, after being taken on a guided tour of the Southwest Key facility in Tucson, City Councilman Steve Kozachik, and members of his entourage described it as a “homey” place. The Arizona Department of Health Services recently conducted a cursory inspection of the facility as well and gave it a clean bill of health.

 

https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2015/12/14/southwest-key-workers/

Anonymous ID: 20d42c June 25, 2018, 9:04 a.m. No.1898920   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8941

Dr. Juan Sánchez - El Presidente/CEO

 

One whistleblower reported last week that the minors in the care of Southwest Key are allowed to call home once a week. During those calls to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, the minor children often encourage siblings and other family members to arrive at the U.S. Mexico border and specifically request placement in a Southwest Key facility. Federal policy dictates that minors are not turned away and are quickly processed to a limited extent and then delivered to the shelters across the southwest.

 

No one knows how many children have died after being lured into travelling north.

 

However, the “number of children who are caught trying to slip across the U.S.-Mexico border alone and illegally has quietly surged again more than a year after President Obama referred to the problem as an “urgent humanitarian situation,” according to a December 12, 2015 article by Elizabeth Chuck for NBC News.

 

“More than 10,000 undocumented children have been stopped in just the last two months, according to U.S. Border and Customs Protection,” reports Chuck.

 

Southwest Key sources report that the shelters are at capacity ensuring that El Presidente’s coffers will remain full.

 

While Southwest Key has found the pipeline to attract minors, employees are another matter. Without exception, all of the many whistleblowers with whom we met describe their initial excitement with the prospect of helping children who had fled from oppressive poverty, and the feelings of betrayal that led them to flee the oppressive Southwest Key.

 

One whistleblower explained how they came to understand the organization’s bottom line. “They brain wash us,” said the former employee with a Master’s Degree in Social Work. They believe that Southwest Key management engages in a systematic beating down of an employee’s self-esteem so that eventually they become more manageable and resistant to questionable practices. From forcing professional staff to clean toilets, to altering their case notes, staff confidence is slowly eroded. That lack of confidence leads to fear, and fear leads to silence.

 

“Maintenance people were involved in the same training,” they said. The whistleblower described learning how the program came about, and learned about the mission. “Like wow, they really dotted their I’s and crossed their T’s,” they said. “Whole different story once it started. Whole different story. The training started and no one got the training that they needed. … it was devastating. I hope I don’t have PTSD because I saw so much that I couldn’t take it anymore.” They added that other staff stories of mistreatment were “mind boggling.”

 

At one point, according to three whistleblowers, the entire medical staff at the Southwest Key facility in Tucson left. Because of the secretive and distrusting nature created by management, most employees did not know the medical team had left for weeks afterwards. With medical staff gone, a lice infestation grew and quarantine was put in place.

 

Those employees who do not break down and continue to question what they see become targets. Pointing to one whistleblower, another said, “They had her wash windows, do meals.” She asked, “Why did they force you to wash windows?” The targeted whistleblower responded, “I took care of the kids and I spoke up.”

 

One whistleblower recounts how they had reported a minor, who claimed allegiance to the Mexican Mafia and bragged that he was going to be delivered to a drug family in Phoenix, they were reprimanded. When they reported to management that the alleged minor was bullying other UACs and taking their meager meals, it was the employee who was reprimanded.

 

The feeling many employees had was that there was money in each and every client and they had to be processed as quickly as possible with few questions asked. Numbers of kids are kept high and costs are kept down. “You have children that are malnourished. There are some kids that need medical attention. They need eye glasses. Some are high risk. Some kids are disabled. They are sweeping it up – all under the rug. And the turnover ratio in the medical department alone is ridiculous – because they don’t have gloves,” stated one whistleblower.

 

https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2015/12/14/southwest-key-workers/