Migrant children held in Texas facility need access to doctors, says attorney

Hundreds of children at a migrant detention center in Texas are being held in “inhumane” conditions that amount to an “emergency public health crisis” and should be allowed immediate access to doctors, according to an attorney who gained rare access to the facility.

Two weeks ago, the attorneys met with 60 children between the ages of five months and 17 years to interview them about the conditions in the facility, which is holding 350 children. Some had bodily fluids including breast milk, urine and mucus stained on their clothes and many were wearing the same clothes they had crossed the border in, days or weeks earlier.

A week before their visit to Clint, at a similar facility in McAllen, Texas, lawyers and a pediatrician had identified five detained babies who needed immediate hospitalization and were transferred to a local hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. CBP said in a statement it “leverages our limited resources to provide the best care possible to those in our custody, especially children. As DHS and CBP leadership have noted numerous times, our short-term holding facilities were not designed to hold vulnerable populations and we urgently need additional humanitarian funding to manage this crisis.”

Jennifer Nagda, policy director at the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, said that the issue stems from the Department of Homeland Security treating detention centers as part of enforcement instead of a site for protecting adults and children.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

This gov't should be ashamed at house these human beings are being treated

Help these people!

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Another example of how this admin is cruel and without the capacity for human dignity and empathy for the disadvantaged. How anyone can support this atrocity is beyond me. 2020 bring it on. A change is blowing in the wind.

If they go home they can get the medical attention they so desperately need..

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