This is Elena's baby. She is 5 months old baby girl. I met her at my house when we hosted several migrant families who were released by CBP. Elena and her spent 10 days in the hielera with no diapers and no clean water. She came out really sick because the cell was freezing cold. 
More stories about the hieleras via @NILC_org: "Approximately 50 women and their children in the cell in AZ. There was not enough room for everyone to lie down and some kids had to sleep near the toilet. If you got up, you would not have a space to sit when you came back."
"The temperature in the cell was very, very cold…as hard as I tried I could not get warm. I now understand why dogs sleep in a little ball, to keep warm, but I couldn’t even keep warm by doing that. We did ask the guards to change the temperature but the guards didn’t change it"
"It was so cold [in the cell], I had a severe headache and backache … The CBP agents took my sweater from me, so all I was wearing was a short sleeve shirt, I tried to curl up on the floor and huddle with some of the other women…but I was not able to get warm..."
"There were no beds in the cell and we were not provided any real blankets, they only gave us an aluminum sheet. I had to try and sleep standing. I gave my place on the concrete floor to another man who was hurt…I did not sleep all night because I was standing."
This terrible, inhumane conditions must stop. Most of these families are running away from their country of origin because, as Elena said to me, "she rather make this journey, than see them be killed or drafted by a "mara" (a gang). Children should never suffer the consequences.
