.ed_kilgore writes that 'it’s remarkable how erratic and politically insensitive Team Trump has been in dealing with the lethal impression that it is deliberately mistreating children as sort of an extreme version of a deterrent to future migrants'
This is no way to treat children, regardless of what their parents have done. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Basic decency aside, there’s no question that one of the president’s really sore spots politically is his administration’s handling of migrant children at or near the southern border. The original policy of separating migrant families drew global condemnation and was also blasted by Trump’s conservative religious allies here at home.
[T]his week, a lawyer representing the Department of Justice argued before Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that the administration was not required to provide detained children with soap, toothbrushes, and blankets, despite a 1997 settlement establishing that migrant minors in federal custody be kept in “safe and sanitary” conditions. Judge A.
The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.Just 30 children remained at the facility near El Paso Monday, said Rep. Veronica Escobar after her office was briefed on the situation by an official with Customs and Border Protection.
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