Thread by @K8brannen

Just some of the statements children made to lawyers about the unsanitary conditions at the @CBP facilities (pulled from this week's Flores enforcement motion):

“We were allowed to shower together once, the day after we arrived, but I have not
showered since. That was 12 days ago."

“I was wet when I got here and was placed in the cage without being given dry clothes."

"A woman in my cell was here for twenty days and not allowed to shower.”

“In the 20 days my baby and I have been here, we have been permitted to shower only four times. We ask to shower more often, but we are told that we may not.”

“I have been here without bathing for 21 days.”

“I haven’t asked to shower or for a toothbrush because I have heard other people ask for a bathroom or toothbrush but officers get angry. They have said many things, including ‘you’re not in your country’ and ‘you’re being punished here, not to be asking for things.’”

"I wish we could change our clothes.”

"The officers told me to throw away the backpack that had my baby daughter’s clothes. The officers told me that I would be given clean clothes for my baby, but I have not received any.”

"My baby has only been wearing a T-shirt, and diaper since we arrived. They have not given her pants or socks and she is extremely cold."

"There are toilets near the cage but not inside. So we have to ask the guards to use the bathroom and they don’t always let us use them.”

"The older girls try to cover themselves with a blanket so we don’t see them when they go to the bathroom."

"Instead of letting the child use the bathroom a second time, the guards just close the door. When the door is closed, no child is permitted to open it. . . . They tell us it is the law.”

"There is water in the cell but it tastes like bleach."

A doctor reports that "nursing mothers at CPC-Ursula are experiencing an inadequate milk supply from lack of drinking water."

"We do not know what would happen if we asked for more food. We are too scared to ask."

"Since we arrived here my baby has lost a lot of weight. Her pants are very loose now."

"There is no baby food here."

"It’s very cold all the time and I have trouble sleeping at night because of the cold."

(To be continued ... need to go pick up my own kids.)

“The lights are very bright and on all the time and it is very noisy. I am not able to sleep."

"The lights are also on all the time which is very disturbing and makes my son not know when it is day or night which is confusing for his body.”

" The lights are always on.”

"The lights are on ALL the time and we can not sleep because every 15 to 20 minutes the guards are yelling something out. GET UP! COUNT TIME! GET UP.”

"We stay in a room with 45 other children. There are 10 bunkbeds. We sleep two children per mattress so four children sleep in each bed. The other children sleep on thin mats on the concrete floor."

"During the night when we’re trying to sleep they come in and wake us up, yelling and scaring us."

“Today a nurse got mad at us because a comb is missing [and] they came in
and took out all of the beds and all of the blankets in order to punish us."

“My [one-year-old] daughter and I have been sleeping on the floor with just a blanket, no mattress for two weeks.”

"We sleep literally stacked on top of each other should to shoulder. So many are sick."

"There are many sick children and they are not being taken to the doctor."

"No one was taking care of the kids with the flu."

"A Border Patrol Agent came in our room with a two-year-old boy and asked us, 'Who wants to take care of this little boy?’"

"The baby was swaddled in a dirty towel."

"The little boy that I am taking care of never speaks. He likes for me to hold him as much as possible."

“The immigration agents separated me from my father right away. I was very frightened and scared. I cried. I have not seen my father again."

“At 3 AM the next day the officers told us that our grandmother would be taken
away."

I have pulled these statements from this doc: justsecurity.org/wp-content/upl…

And this one: justsecurity.org/wp-content/upl…