Sick Child Couldn't Walk After U.S. Took Him From His Mom

[DonViejo]

The case raises concerns about the medical care available to children held in custody of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement.

BETSY WOODRUFF
07.03.18 8:20 PM ET

The boy was already in pain, just 6 years old and suffering from a debilitating bone condition. Then U.S. authorities separated him from his mom as they crossed over the border. Health and Human Services officials placed him with a foster family who denied him medical care for a month and a half. The boy experienced so much pain in his legs that he couldn’t walk, his mother’s attorney, Laura Lunn, told The Daily Beast.

The case raises concerns about the medical care available to children held in custody of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). After President Donald Trump’s Justice Department rolled out a zero tolerance policy for migrants crossing the border without authorization, thousands of parents were separated from their children. The parents went into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while the children were handed off to ORR.

Though Trump changed the policy that required the separation of parents from their children, his government has yet to reunite all the families that were separated. More than 2,000 families are still separated, according to the most recent numbers from the Department of Health and Human Services.

That includes the mother and son whose story is detailed here. A spokesperson for ORR said the agency does not comment on the cases of individual children in its custody.

The two traveled to the United States from Guatemala, fleeing violence in the tiny Central American country. They are afraid of returning to their home country, Lunn said. When they arrived in the United States in mid-May, the pair were separated—the mother, who remains anonymous because of potential retaliation in immigration proceedings, went to an immigrant detention center in Colorado, and her son went to foster care in Texas.

The boy’s mother told Lunn that her son has osteoporosis, which sometimes causes him significant pain.

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[gtar100]

1. So what kind of "foster parents" are these people?

Ignoring the pain of a child for over a month is cruel and speaks of ill intent. What is the criteria for being a foster parent to these immigrant children? Love of Jeff Sessions?

[LiberalArkie]

2. Just warehousing the kids for the check... Just like a lot of the normal foster kids.

[dewsgirl]

3. Religious nutjobs.