'Never before have we learned of 700 children being detained in a facility built for 104 or 106 adults. Never before have we had to directly intervene to get critically ill babies admitted to the hospital.'
Elora Mukherjee, the director of Columbia Law School's Immigrants' Rights Clinic, recently interviewed 70 detained migrant children in Clint, Texas. They were so dirty they had a stench, she says, and was unable to be near them without feeling ill.
Over the course of three days, Mukherjee said she witnessed inadequate bedding, clothing, and saw no hygiene tools like soap, toothbrushes and diapers. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar , Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Ayanna S. Pressley attend a House Oversight and Reform Committee holds a hearing on"The Trump Administration's Child Separation Policy: Substantiated Allegations of Mistreatment." July 12, 2019 in Washington, DC.She said there were several occasions where her team had to intervene to get children fed because they were too scared to ask guards for food.
"I spent nearly an hour with this child, first trying to interview him and then just letting him sit on my lap while I rubbed his back," she said."He wept almost inconsolably for most of the time." Later, she told Congress, a guard came and attempted to bribe him with a lollipop so that he would return to his cell.
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