Tag: migrant children

"Please remember there are 13,000 migrant children in detention. We can't forget about them."

“It’s not a response to say we can’t shut down the facilities when there are reports of abuse taking place. It’s really not the kids in these facilities that should be suffering.”

Confidential records reveal details about struggles to find parents and traumatic experiences during the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance crackdown.

Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors.

“These mental health services cannot be provided in the same slipshod manner as the government implemented its initial trauma inducing policy.”

Authorities appear to have reseparated the parents and sons as retaliation for organizing a nonviolent protest.

I believe that for the families that remain separated, the likelihood of reunification may grow remote.

“I need to appoint an independent monitor to give me an objective viewpoint about what is going on at the facilities.”

The depth and breadth of outrage against the brutal treatment of migrant and refugee families by ICE has even extended into the agency itself.

This comes as advocates say some migrant children have been released from federally contracted shelters with scabies and lice.