One of the most shocking, if wholly unsurprising, cruelties of the Trump administration has been its treatment of children crossing the United States-Mexico border. Children have not only been separated from their families, they have been forced to live in conditions that are so dire that people from elected officials like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Japanese Americans detained by the U.S. government during World War II have taken to calling Customs and Border Protection (CBP) holding facilities “concentration camps.” And by simple definition, that is what they are—“a place,” as established by Merriam-Webster, “where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained under armed guard.”
holding facilities “concentration camps.” And by simple
, that is what they are—“a place,” as established by Merriam-Webster, “where large numbers of people are detained under armed guard.”custody since September of last year, four of them while being held by CBP. Earlier in June, advocates that CBP was holding a 17-year-old from Guatemala at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas along with her prematurely born baby, who advocates arguedon horrific conditions at a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, where a group of lawyers was astonished by the lack of food and poor sanitation.
Elora Mukherjee, the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, was part of the legal team that visited the Border Patrol facility in Clint. “In my 12 years years of doing this work I have repeatedly been heartbroken by what I’ve seen. But I have never seen conditions as degrading and inhumane as what I saw in Clint this week,” Mukherjee told Jezebel. “It is appalling, the conditions there. They are just unbelievable.
, other facilities not on the border [but] where children are in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement: so where unaccompanied minors are detained without their parents.In my 12 years years of doing this work I have repeatedly been heartbroken by what I’ve seen. But I have never seen conditions as degrading and inhumane as what I saw in Clint this week. And it is appalling, the conditions there. They are just unbelievable.
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