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Children read testimonies given by young migrants detained in Customs and Border Protection

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/opinion/migrant-children-detention-border.html

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Title
Opinion | Hear the Words of Detained Migrant Children
Published
Jul 18 2019
Word count
228 words

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    cfabbro
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    Some context on where these testimonies appear to have come from: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clint-texas-border-patrol-facility-lawyers-use-kids-testimonies-to-seek-access/ And I think this is a...

    Some context on where these testimonies appear to have come from:
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clint-texas-border-patrol-facility-lawyers-use-kids-testimonies-to-seek-access/

    Peter Schey, the team's lead attorney, said in a statement to CBS News that interviews with children and parents reveal a "health crisis" in the Border Patrol stations.

    "The declarations of class members we have gathered over the past two weeks also disclose that they are detained in what they call 'hieleras,' or 'iceboxes,' or in cages, under appalling, overcrowded, and unsanitary conditions," Schey said.

    The filing includes a declaration from a pediatrician who the lawyers say was so concerned about the infants he examined that five were ultimately brought to a local hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.

    "The conditions within which [children] are held could be compared to torture facilities. That is, extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care, basic sanitation, water, or adequate food," wrote the doctor, Dolly Lucio Sevier.

    The filing also includes testimonials from children and parents who were interviewed at the Clint facility.

    "I'm hungry here at Clint all the time," a 12-year-old boy said, according to the lawyers. "I'm so hungry that I have woken up in the middle of the night with hunger....I'm too scared to ask the officials here for any more food."

    And I think this is a copy of the court filing:
    http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/06/26/motion.for.tro.and.pi.4145-0728-9629.14[1].pdf

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    1. gotfoundout
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      This all just so infuriating, and heartbreaking. It makes me feel ashamed and so, so angry. I just wish this would end for God's sake.

      This all just so infuriating, and heartbreaking. It makes me feel ashamed and so, so angry. I just wish this would end for God's sake.

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  2. Jonathan
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    I genuinely have no idea how so many people can be indifferent to the situation on the southern border especially after hearing the conditions in which the people are kept.

    I genuinely have no idea how so many people can be indifferent to the situation on the southern border especially after hearing the conditions in which the people are kept.

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