Disturbing video shows police rescuing kids from cages at Las Vegas hotel room after couple believed one had been beaten to death



A Las Vegas couple is accused of heinous crimes related to children who were found caged with signs of harrowing abuse.

Las Vegas Metro Police arrested 33-year-old Amanda Stamper and 31-year-old Travis Doss on June 11 after she called 911 from a Walgreens store that was near their residence at an extended stay hotel unit.

Court documents alleged that Stamper told police Doss had told her that he had kicked one of the children in the head and that he believed the child was dead. He allegedly told her he was going to place the child in a body bag.

Body camera video showed police arriving at the unit and asking for the children to open the door. When they refused, police had a maintenance worker convince them to let the officers inside.

The video shows police entering the unit and finding two children in what appear to be dog kennels. Four other children were in the unit. All showed signs of child abuse, and all were aged 11 or under.

The two caged children were aged 9 and 11 years old but had trouble walking after they were released, according to police.

One of the children allegedly had “two black eyes that were swollen shut, multiple marks and bruises all over his body, and he was emaciated." That boy told police he hadn't eaten in days and that his father would beat him with cords and belts.

Police said the child would have likely died if they had not taken him to the hospital.

Court documents alleged that all of the children had “marks from their neck down.”

A grand jury indicted Doss of 38 counts of felony child abuse and Stamper of 7 counts of felony child abuse. Doss was also indicted on charges of first-degree kidnapping, sex trafficking, and living off of the earnings of a prostitute.

Stamper later told KLAS-TV that she was a victim of abuse from Doss and that he had forced her into prostitution. She claimed that she had no control over Doss and that he would withhold food as a punishment. Stamper said that she had a biological child, a 2-year-old, but that she was a stepmother to the six children of Doss.

“I just wanted them to be safe in the end, like, and I wanted everybody out of it. I just wanted him incarcerated, I just knew if he was incarcerated that everybody will be safe,” she said.

Stamper also said that there were two other children beside the six involved in the case and that she was pregnant with another child.

Vegas police said it was one of the worst cases of abuse they had ever seen.

Here's the harrowing police camera video:

Video shows Las Vegas police rescuing children locked in cage, several others allegedly abused www.youtube.com

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Guatemalan president says Biden's confusing messaging encouraged smugglers to drop off children at the border



Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said that President Joe Biden's confusing messaging on immigration led to the migrant crisis by encouraging human smugglers to drop off children at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Giammattei made the comments in an interview with Ayman Mohyeldin of MSNBC.

"The president has been talking and speaking very compassionately about migration, certainly children migration," Mohyeldin said. "Do you believe that the president's message about compassion is making the situation worse or is indirectly encouraging migrants to informally migrate to the U.S.?"

"I am nobody to make a judgment here, but I believe in the first few weeks of the Biden administration, messages were confusing," responded Giammattei, translated into English by MSNBC.

"They were compassionate messages that were understood by people in our country, especially the coyotes, to tell families, 'we'll take the children, the children can go in and once the children are there they will call their parents.' And so those messages were confusing. Not because of the way they were communicated, but because of the way they were translated here," he explained.

Giammattei went on to say that the crisis was concerning because the unaccompanied minors were more likely to fall into the hands of cartels and the prostitution network as they tried to make their way into the U.S.

Mohyeldin also asked Giammattei to respond to the conditions in U.S. detention centers for those who were caught at the border. He said that the coyotes, the smugglers who lead the illegal migrants into the U.S., were far more inhumane. He also said that it would be difficult for any nation to provide the proper conditions for a massive wave of migrants.

"What I can say is that no government, no matter how large or strong, can have that gigantic apparatus that would be required to address 30 or 40 thousand people in detention centers and have all of them in a status where they're claiming refuge," Giammattei said.

The Biden administration is exploring the possibility of sending cash payments to countries, including Guatemala, in order to stabilize the governments and economies so that migrants feel less of a push to migrate northward.

Here's the interview with Guatemala's president:

Guatemalan President On Migrant Crisis | Ayman Mohyeldin | MSNBCwww.youtube.com

'Who built the cages?!': Trump pummels Biden at final debate over migrant children separated at the border



President Donald Trump was ready for the issue of caged children at the border to be brought up during the final debate, and he pummeled Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden with his response.

Kristen Welker asked the president to respond to a report that ICE was unable to find the parents of more than 500 children who had been separated from their families at the border.

"Children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels, and they're brought here, and they used to use them to get into our country. We now have as strong a border as we've ever had; we're over 400 miles of brand-new wall. You see the numbers, and we let people in, but they have to come in legally," responded Trump.

He went on to explain how he was falsely accused by the media over caged children photographed before his administration.

"Coyotes didn't bring them over; their parents were with them. They got separated from their parents. And it makes us a laughingstock and violates every notion of who we are as a nation," responded Biden.

"They did it; we changed the policy. They did it; we changed the policy," said Trump, who was interrupted by Biden and the moderator.

"Who built the cages, Joe?" Trump interrupted.

"Who built the cages, Joe?" he added again.

"Let's talk about what we were talking about," said Biden, who didn't respond to Trump's prodding.

The president went on to explain that the administration was working to reunite the children with their families.

Democrats used photographs of children caged at the border to excoriate the president's policies on illegal immigration, but the narrative was undermined when it was discovered that some of the photos came from Obama's presidency.

Here's the video of the heated exchange:

Trump Leaves Biden SPEECHLESS When He Asks: “Who Built the Cages, Joe?"www.youtube.com