Young migrant children are being forced to care for toddlers and infants in detention camps, kids are being fed un-defrosted meals, and infants don't have diapers
A team of lawyers conducted 60 interviews with migrant children being held in an El Paso, Texas, detention camp and found conditions to be dismal, with minors being tasked with caring for other children, and lack of proper sanitation and food.
"A Border Patrol agent came in our room with a 2-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 teenaged girl told the lawyers in an interview. The lawyers saw the boy and reported that he was not wearing a diaper, had wet his pants and his shirt was covered in mucus.
Children told the lawyers that they were often fed un-defrosted frozen food or plain rice, and were not given changes of clothing or allowed to shower on a regular basis. Some of the children held in the facility had arrived at the U.S. southern border without their guardians and others had been separated from their families by the government.
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