Immigrant children describe hunger and cold in detention
Source: AP
By AMY TAXIN Today
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) Wet and muddy from their trek across the Mexican border, immigrant children say they sat or lay on the cold, concrete floor of the immigration holding centers where they were taken.
It was hard to sleep with lights shining all night and guards kicking their feet, they say. They were hungry, after being given what they say were frozen sandwiches and smelly food.
Younger children cried in caged areas where they were crammed in with teens, and they clamored for their parents. Toilets were filthy, and running water was scarce, they say. They waited, unsure and frightened of what the future might bring.
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The childrens descriptions of various facilities are part of a voluminous and at times scathing report filed in federal court this week in Los Angeles in a case over whether the Trump administration is meeting its obligations under a long-standing settlement governing how young immigrants should be treated in custody.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/1a8db84a88a940049558b4c450dccc8a/Immigrant-children-describe-hunger-and-cold-in-detention
Please keep the horrible story of these kids in the forefront.
Hekate
(90,645 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Donald calls them animals anyway.
"frozen sandwiches and smelly food" for $700 a day?
Human trafficking for profit.
cate94
(2,810 posts)Poor kids! 😡
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)KT2000
(20,576 posts)we have to keep this front and center.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)My guess is,there are ugly stories that are much worse. Did Kiddies Die while in the Cages? Were Kiddies beaten or abused by so called Cage Guards?
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)A detention center does make it easier for Trumps best people to molest them.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/06/17/texas-deputy-accused-sexually-assaulting-4-year-old-threatened-mom-deportation-sheriff-says
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Have a bad feeling,that the smell is starting to permeate across the US.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)How about the years of therapy these children are going to need to EVER feel safe in this world again ?
How can the republicans sleep at night ? They KNEW this was going on. These are children for heaven's sake. CHILDREN !!!
This sickens me.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)and young adults needing mental heath care.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)... and the party of the "right" or "conservatives" do not deserve such neutral political terms. After this detention camp horror, Trump and his Republican enablers are most accurately described as the party of evil. We must not call them conservatives. There is nothing traditional about torturing, and profiting off of, children.
It is fitting, therefore, that the leader of the Party of Evil took the side of one of the most evil men on Earth Putin, who jails and kills his adversaries. He has soundly rejected our traditional allies in Europe.
Any journalist calling these evil, mentally twisted people "conservative" or "traditional" need to go back to school.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)I might add that I understand the credo of every good journalist is to be fair and unbiased. But it is neither fair nor unbiased to give that sick and dying institution a false front.
Try "extremists" if you can't swallow the more apt term "evil." i.e. "Extremists associated with the Republican party have spent $600/day per child in detention centers which have left many of the children cold, hungry and bereft of the traditional comfort of their parents."