“I looked at that baby and said ‘Who does this to babies?’” Frye said. “They were being sadistically ignored.”
The health of this newborn is still unknown, but Frye reported that an immigrant rights advocate who was with them in Texas told her the baby hadn’t cried in over five hours and was “weak and listless.” The attorneys and advocates reportedly did call 911 and local Child Protection services but they didn’t have jurisdiction over the facility and were unable to help.
According to federal law, kids under the age of 12 should not be kept in government custody longer than 72 hours, but because of the sheer number of asylum seekers, those timeframes are often much longer. “I don’t have any beds, because we’re meant to be short-term processing — not even holding,” . “I have stools and benches, but I have no beds. . . . Our facilities are not built for long-term holding, and they’re certainly not built to house children for very long at all.”
Lawyers did confirm that this family was finally transferred from this border location to a resettlement facility. The fact that a teen mother and her newborn child were kept for a week with almost no medical attention is abhorrent. These are human beings putting their lives at risk in search of a better life. They are being treated like animals. These are human rights violations and it seems, at least under this administration, nothing is being done to rectify the situation.
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