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"It Was Cold, Very Cold": Migrant Children Endure Border Patrol "Ice Boxes"

Carla's recollections are all too familiar to immigration lawyers and advocacy groups who have long complained about the brutal 
conditions in temporary holding cells for undocumented border crossers of all ages. But of all the stories that have been 
recounted, those involving children are the most visceral

Ed Pilkington in Bay Shore, New York
@edpilkington

Mon 26 Jan 2015 07.00 EST

WHO was President, and for 6 years?

Why, none other than Barack Obama.

'The lights were on all the time, and the floor was hard,' says Carla of her time in a Texas border facility. 'I couldn't sleep.'

Imagine being taken into a room. It is cold - very, very cold - and you shiver under the single layer of clothes that is all you 
are allowed to wear. The room is concrete and entirely bare: nothing on the walls, no furniture, no bedding of any sort other 
than the thin sheet you have been given. The only window allows guards to look in at you, but gives you no view of the world 
outside.

You sit in the room, huddled on the cold, hard floor, seeking warmth under the sheet. The room is lit by neon lights that are 
kept on 24 hours a day, and after a while you lose track of time. Is it day, is it night - you no longer know. Though there are 
many other people in the room with you, they are all strangers and no one speaks to you. You are utterly alone.

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was 
a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people 
in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."