Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids (https://apnews.com/46da2dbe04f54adbb875cfbc06bbc615?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter)
βLawyers warn that kids are taking care of kids, and thereβs inadequate food, water and sanitation for the 250 infants, children and teens at the Border Patrol station.β
βThree girls told attorneys they were trying to take care of the 2-year-old boy, who had wet his pants and had no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt when the legal team encountered him.β
Lawyers claim infants, children are in dangerous situation at border detention site (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/lawyers-claim-infants-children-are-dangerous-situation-border-detention-site-n1020016)
Trump Administration Argues Migrant Children Donβt Need SoapΒ (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/safe-sanitary-no-soap-beds-court-migrants-trump-850744/)
Court Video: Justice Department Argues Against Providing Soap, Toothbrushes, Beds To Detained Kids (Feat.Β Sarah Fabian of the Justice Departmentβs Office of Immigration Litigation)Β
βThere Is a Stenchβ: No Soap and Overcrowding in Detention Centers for Migrant Children (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/migrant-children-border-soap.html)
βA chaotic scene of sickness and filth is unfolding in an overcrowded border station in Clint, Tex., where hundreds of young people who have recently crossed the border are being held, according to lawyers who visited the facility this week. Some of the children have been there for nearly a month.β
βChildren as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants theyβve just met, the lawyers said. Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk.β
βMost of the young detainees have not been able to shower or wash their clothes since they arrived at the facility, those who visited said. They have no access to toothbrushes, toothpaste or soap.β
βIn May, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security warned of βdangerous overcrowdingβ among adult migrants housed at the border processing center in El Paso, with up to 900 migrants being held at a facility designed for 125. In some cases, cells designed for 35 people were holding 155 people.β
ββBorder Patrol agents told us some of the detainees had been held in standing-room-only conditions for days or weeks,β the inspector generalβs office said in its report, which noted that some detainees were observed standing on toilets in the cells βto make room and gain breathing space, thus limiting access to the toilets.ββ
In El Paso, Border Patrol Is Detaining Migrants in βa Human Dog Poundβ (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/border-patrol-outdoor-detention-migrants-el-paso/)
ββ¦migrants who said theyβd been held outdoors for weeks as temperatures rose to nearly 100 degrees.β
Nearly 900 migrants found at Texas facility with 125-person capacity: DHS watchdog (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/900-migrants-found-texas-facility-125-person-capacity/story?id=63404988)
Trump administration cancels English classes, soccer, legal aid for detained migrant children (https://www.texastribune.org/2019/06/05/english-classes-soccer-legal-aid-cancelled-detained-migrant-children/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1561047748&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)Β
NO HUMAN BEING DESERVES TO BE TREATED THIS WAYββESPECIALLY CHILDREN.
