Inside the ICE-box: Migrant kids describe being brutalized by US officials in a frigid old Walmart

[KelleyKramer]

This is disgusting and is being done in our name. I think this is just scratching the surface of what is being done. There is a reason even elected members of congress are being denied access, hopefully the truth will come out

Unbelievable! ...........


Inside the ICE-box: Migrant kids describe being brutalized by U.S. officials in a frigid old Walmart


Nicknamed the "hielera" or icebox, Casa Padre is a hellscape of cruel guards, sickening food, and psychological torture.


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Children are sleeping on floors and being cussed out by guards, subsisting on meager rations of beans, crackers, and tortillas that leave them feeling ill, and passing the nights sleeping on floors under bright lights in a converted Walmart in south Texas.

The new reports of harsh physical conditions, humiliating psychological abuse, and basic deprivation at the so-called “Casa Padre” facility in Brownsville, Texas, come almost a month after President Donald Trump took symbolic steps to quash public outcry over his family separation policy aimed at punishing and deterring migrants.

The children and parents who swore out hundreds of affidavits to attorneys appealing the United States government’s treatment of migrants have mostly fled violence in Central America. The conditions in which they find themselves today in the world’s richest and most powerful country shock the conscience — and almost certainly violate the conditions of the legal settlement that’s bound American officials in treatment of minors in immigration detention for decades, lawyers say.

In many cases, the only bathroom the children are allowed to use is located inside their holding pen. “There is a security camera in the room which points to the bathroom” in the cell where a 17-year-old from Guatemala named Noe is being kept with a dozen other boys, he said. “There is no privacy. It is dirty and they don’t clean it,” reported a Guatemalan boy named Erick. “The room is always cold. The guards took my sweater. I sleep on the floor. There are 3 mattresses, but the boys from Honduras have taken them,” he said, adding that those other boys threaten to stab him if he falls asleep.


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[gademocrat7]

1. These children are being traumatized.

Chump and his soulless minions are committing human rights violations everyday. This evil must end.

[CozyMystery]

2. My fervent desire is that anyone that is involved in doing this is prosecuted and imprisoned.

I don't care if they were just following orders.

I know for a fact that I would not behave this way, even if my job were on the line, because it would be inhumane.

This sounds too similar to Nazi behavior to me.

[secondwind]

3. ....

[keithbvadu2]

4. Human trafficking for profit

Immigrant children describe hunger and cold in detention

https://apnews.com/1a8db84a88a940049558b4c450dccc8a/Immigrant-children-describe-hunger-and-cold-in-detention

"They were hungry, after being given what they say were frozen sandwiches and smelly food."

For $700 a day?

Human trafficking for profit

Trump called them animals anyway.

[Roland99]

5. Trump's AmeriKKKa

[Ilsa]

6. And where is Child Protective Services on this?

I know that Texas CFPS is beyond overworked and over their head in cases. But this deserves attention as well.

There is no reason to treat the kids so badly, to deprive them of fresh fruits (especially in the Texas Valley).

[Garrett78]

7. How horrifying that this is taking place and that it's fallen off the radar.

There are so many who need to go to prison over this, including one Donald J Trump.