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Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three tender age shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.
Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis. The government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where city leaders denounced the move Tuesday.
Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, resulting in a new influx of young children requiring government care. The government has faced withering critiques over images of some of the children in cages inside U.S. Border Patrol processing stations.
Decades after the nations child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents.
The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it, said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which provides foster care and other child welfare services to migrant children. Toddlers are being detained.
Bellor said shelters follow strict procedures surrounding who can gain access to the children in order to protect their safety, but that means information about their welfare can be limited.
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IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)PCIntern
(25,595 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)they are even separated from their siblings!!
Trek4Truth
(515 posts)buildings full will do.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)What the fuck?
kskiska
(27,048 posts)wanted to bring orphanages back.
mucifer
(23,572 posts)kskiska
(27,048 posts)Guantanamo?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Means more children will be kidnapped and held hostage.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210756928
oasis
(49,410 posts)RainCaster
(10,923 posts)Trek4Truth
(515 posts)blitzen
(4,572 posts)Reporters need to find this out. Just a guess, but I imagine it's some GOP privatizer.