The cruelty is the point.
The nurses have treated sick immigrant children at the hospital where they work, located in the Rio Grande Valley. They say they’ve seen young patients arriving in such a poor state of health, they’re on the “borderline” of going into respiratory or cardiac arrest. They say the Border Patrol agents are delaying taking the sick kids who are in “dire conditions” to a hospital, which puts the kids at risk of severe health issues — and death.
In some cases they should’ve been here a week ago and they decided to wait until the last minute,” one nurse tells Buzzfeed. “It makes me wonder what Border Patrol is doing. Why is it taking them so long to realize they need to take them to the hospital?” It’s likely that many migrant children are already ill by the time they get taken into custody . But the nurses say illness is spreading because the children aren’t being given access to clean water, clothes, soap, etc.that children in the McAllen detention center faced “extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care, basic sanitation, water, or adequate food.
She said the youngest child there was two and a half months old and of the 39 children she assessed, all showed signs of trauma. Some teenagers even told her that they hadn’t been given access to wash their hands once since entering the facility and teen mothers weren’t able to wash their children’s bottles. There was reportedly no developmentally appropriate pureed food for infants either.
“The conditions within which they are held could be compared to torture facilities,” Sevier wrote in the declaration.
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