Migrant Children in Border Custody Illustrate Cage Drawings
Pediatricians recently released heartbreaking drawings, completed by children under the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, that show the grim realities of what these young migrants are facing as they’re being separated from their parents.
Three of those illustrations — drawn by a 10-year-old boy from Guatemala, an 11-year-old from Guatemala, and another 10-year-old child — were then brought to the attention of the AAP due to their particularly alarming content. They were later released to CNN. RELATED VIDEO: U.S. Agents Spray Migrants with Tear Gas Before Trump Threatens to Close Border ‘Permanently’
RELATED: Families, Fear and Clashes with the Military: The Most Powerful Photos from the Struggle Over ImmigrationIn a thread on Twitter on Wednesday, Trump, 73, claimed that the facilities are nicer than many of the migrants’ homelands and said if they were unhappy with the conditions, that they should return to their native countries.
— Donald J. Trump July 3, 2019 .....Now, if you really want to fix the Crisis at the Southern Border, both humanitarian and otherwise, tell migrants not to come into our country unless they are willing to do so legally, and hopefully through a system based on Merit. This way we have no problems at all!
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