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"Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants they’ve just met. Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk." nyti.ms/2WTDElb
"The reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions at Clint and elsewhere came days after government lawyers in court argued that they should not have to provide soap or toothbrushes to children" nyti.ms/2WTDElb
"60,000 child migrants detained by US in last 40 days" bbc.in/2ZBYDuH
"Four toddlers were so severely ill and neglected at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, that lawyers forced the government to hospitalize them last week. The kids were unresponsive, feverish and vomiting, yet receiving no medical care" bit.ly/2KAPVJE
"What we saw are dirty children who are malnourished, who are being severely neglected. They are being kept in inhumane conditions. They are essentially being warehoused, as many as 300 children in a cell, with almost no adult supervision." to.pbs.org/2IUcNAo
"Detained migrant children got no toothbrush, no soap, no sleep. It’s no problem, government argues" wapo.st/2J1ucaE
Lawyers Say Migrant Children Are Living in 'Traumatic and Dangerous' Conditions at Border Detention Site bit.ly/2Y5JJwn
How to Protest Human Rights Abuses at U.S. Detention Centers bit.ly/2ZHyFWB
#CloseTheCamps: Children have died. Children have been put in cages. Children have been denied basic hygiene supplies, food and beds. Children have been sexually assaulted. Children have been traumatized. Children have been separated from their families.
