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'Tragic conditions': Migrant kids at Texas border facility neglected and lack food, water and sanitation
Acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner urges Congress to pass $4.6B emergency funding
A two-year-old boy locked in detention in Texas wants to be held all the time. A few girls, ages 10 to 15, say they've been doing their best to feed and soothe the clingy toddler who was handed to them by a guard days ago. Lawyers warn that kids are taking care of kids, and there's inadequate food, water and sanitation for the 250 infants, children and teens at the Border Patrol station.
The bleak portrait emerged Thursday after a legal team interviewed 60 children at the facility near El Paso that has become the latest place where attorneys say young migrants are describing neglect and mistreatment at the hands of the U.S. government.
Data obtained by The Associated Press showed that on Wednesday there were three infants in the station, all with their teen mothers, along with a one-year-old, two two-year-olds and a three-year-old. There are dozens more under 12. Fifteen have the flu, and 10 more are quarantined.
Three girls told attorneys they were trying to take care of the two-year-old boy, who had wet his pants and had no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt when the legal team encountered him.
"A Border Patrol agent came in our room with a two-year-old boy and asked us, 'Who wants to take care of this little boy?' Another girl said she would take care of him, but she lost interest after a few hours, and so I started taking care of him yesterday," one of the girls said in an interview with attorneys.
Law professor Warren Binford, who is helping interview the children, said she could not learn anything about the toddler — not even where he's from or who his family is. He is not speaking.
Binford described that during interviews with children in a conference room at the facility, "little kids are so tired they have been falling asleep on chairs and at the conference table."
She said an eight-year-old taking care of a very small four-year-old with matted hair couldn't convince the little one to take a shower.
More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/texas-el-paso-migrant-children-neglect-1.5185329
Concentration camp conditions...
Acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner urges Congress to pass $4.6B emergency funding
A two-year-old boy locked in detention in Texas wants to be held all the time. A few girls, ages 10 to 15, say they've been doing their best to feed and soothe the clingy toddler who was handed to them by a guard days ago. Lawyers warn that kids are taking care of kids, and there's inadequate food, water and sanitation for the 250 infants, children and teens at the Border Patrol station.
The bleak portrait emerged Thursday after a legal team interviewed 60 children at the facility near El Paso that has become the latest place where attorneys say young migrants are describing neglect and mistreatment at the hands of the U.S. government.
Data obtained by The Associated Press showed that on Wednesday there were three infants in the station, all with their teen mothers, along with a one-year-old, two two-year-olds and a three-year-old. There are dozens more under 12. Fifteen have the flu, and 10 more are quarantined.
Three girls told attorneys they were trying to take care of the two-year-old boy, who had wet his pants and had no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt when the legal team encountered him.
"A Border Patrol agent came in our room with a two-year-old boy and asked us, 'Who wants to take care of this little boy?' Another girl said she would take care of him, but she lost interest after a few hours, and so I started taking care of him yesterday," one of the girls said in an interview with attorneys.
Law professor Warren Binford, who is helping interview the children, said she could not learn anything about the toddler — not even where he's from or who his family is. He is not speaking.
Binford described that during interviews with children in a conference room at the facility, "little kids are so tired they have been falling asleep on chairs and at the conference table."
She said an eight-year-old taking care of a very small four-year-old with matted hair couldn't convince the little one to take a shower.
More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/texas-el-paso-migrant-children-neglect-1.5185329
Concentration camp conditions...
4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized After Lawyers Visit Border Patrol Facility
The kids were unresponsive, feverish and vomiting, yet receiving no medical care, according to lawyers.
Four toddlers were so severely ill and neglected at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, that lawyers forced the government to hospitalize them last week.
The children, all under age 3 with teenage mothers or guardians, were feverish, coughing, vomiting and had diarrhea, immigration attorneys told HuffPost on Friday. Some of the toddlers and infants were refusing to eat or drink. One 2-year-old’s eyes were rolled back in her head, and she was “completely unresponsive” and limp, according to Toby Gialluca, a Florida-based attorney.
She described seeing terror in the children’s eyes.
“It’s just a cold, fearful look that you should never see in a child of that age,” Gialluca said. “You look at them and you think, ‘What have you seen?’”
Another mother at the same facility had a premature baby, who was “listless” and wrapped in a dirty towel, as HuffPost previously reported.
The lawyers feared that if they had not shown up at the facility, the sick kids would have received zero medical attention and potentially died. The Trump administration has come under fire for its treatment ― and its alleged neglect ― of migrants who have been crossing the southern border in record numbers. The result is overcrowded facilities, slow medical care and in some instances, deaths.
More: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry...er-patrol-facility_n_5d0d3bbce4b07ae90d9cfe4f
The kids were unresponsive, feverish and vomiting, yet receiving no medical care, according to lawyers.
Four toddlers were so severely ill and neglected at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, that lawyers forced the government to hospitalize them last week.
The children, all under age 3 with teenage mothers or guardians, were feverish, coughing, vomiting and had diarrhea, immigration attorneys told HuffPost on Friday. Some of the toddlers and infants were refusing to eat or drink. One 2-year-old’s eyes were rolled back in her head, and she was “completely unresponsive” and limp, according to Toby Gialluca, a Florida-based attorney.
She described seeing terror in the children’s eyes.
“It’s just a cold, fearful look that you should never see in a child of that age,” Gialluca said. “You look at them and you think, ‘What have you seen?’”
Another mother at the same facility had a premature baby, who was “listless” and wrapped in a dirty towel, as HuffPost previously reported.
The lawyers feared that if they had not shown up at the facility, the sick kids would have received zero medical attention and potentially died. The Trump administration has come under fire for its treatment ― and its alleged neglect ― of migrants who have been crossing the southern border in record numbers. The result is overcrowded facilities, slow medical care and in some instances, deaths.
More: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry...er-patrol-facility_n_5d0d3bbce4b07ae90d9cfe4f
That is a good example, but were they not treated as prisoners of war? If I remember American history didn't the Cherokee break the treaty and attacked homesteaders mercilessly? I know T-bones will come in and set me straight
Yeah, just like the Poles mercilessly attacked those nice German homesteaders in 1939.That is a good example, but were they not treated as prisoners of war? If I remember American history didn't the Cherokee break the treaty and attacked homesteaders mercilessly? I know T-bones will come in and set me straight
Compare that term (mercilessly) to the Donner Party on a scale of 1/10.
Compare that term (mercilessly) to the Muslim wedding that gets wiped out by a drone on a scale of 1/10.
Compare that term (mercilessly) to the Muslim wedding that gets wiped out by a drone on a scale of 1/10.
They should be taking them to the Congo?
Where would you take YOUR sick children if you were in their shoes and desparate? Something, right? North America to get away from the Soviets?
About using sick children to enter a country? No I don't, if I was desperate I would going to the closest good care center possible
Meh, Moosie's already demonstrated he hasn't the faintest clue what he's talking about. He's just parroting right-wing propaganda.
