Children at these damn "shelters" aren't allowed to touch each other -- EVEN SIBLINGS.
The rules are out of Charles Dickens -- worse, maybe, because those children weren't prevented from hugging each other.
They weren't allowed to write letters in their rooms and they could be drugged if they misbehaved.
But this isn't NEW and the problems won't go away when these children are reunited. The situation of the new refugees is simply making us aware of the rules these child care facilities have ALWAYS HAD.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/us/migrant-children-shelters.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Do not misbehave. Do not sit on the floor. Do not share your food. Do not use nicknames. Also, it is best not to cry. Doing so might hurt your case.
Lights out by 9 p.m. and lights on at dawn, after which make your bed according to the step-by-step instructions posted on the wall. Wash and mop the bathroom, scrubbing the sinks and toilets. Then it is time to form a line for the walk to breakfast.
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The facility’s list of no-no’s also included this: Do not touch another child, even if that child is your hermanito or hermanita — your little brother or sister.
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Apart from worrying about when he would see his mother again, Diego said that he was not afraid, because he always behaved. He knew to watch for a staff member “who was not a good guy.” He had seen what happened to Adonias, a small boy from Guatemala who had fits and threw things around.
“They applied injections because he was very agitated,” Diego said. “He would destroy things.”
A person he described as “the doctor” injected Adonias in the middle of a class, Diego said. “He would fall asleep.”
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It is so very sad. 
Save the children, please!